Johannes Benzing

Johannes Benzing (born January 13, 1913 in Schwenningen a. N .; died March 16, 2001 in Erdmannsweiler ) was a German Turkologist and diplomat during the period of National Socialism and in the Federal Republic.

Life

The son of master craftsman Johannes Benzing attended secondary school in Schwenningen. After a commercial apprenticeship and employment as an employee, he studied oriental studies in Berlin from 1936 to 1939 and completed his studies with a doctorate (dissertation: About the verb forms in Turkmen ) and language tests in Turkish and Persian . In 1942 he completed his habilitation with the work Tschuwaschische Forschungen IV. The cases .

In June 1936 he became a member of the SA and joined the NSDAP on October 1, 1940 . From 1937 he held various functions in the party organization of the NSDAP. On July 20, 1937, he joined the Foreign Service , where he worked as a government councilor in the encryption service. In 1944 he was appointed as the responsible representative of the German Oriental Society in a "Working Group Turkestan" planned in the Reich Security Main Office in the German Oriental Society (President Martin Schede ); the plan was no longer implemented due to the war.

After the war ended, he was interned in 1945/46 and then worked as a freelance translator and Turkish teacher at the University of Tübingen . A document dated September 3, 1948 confirms his denazification . From 1955 he was a private lecturer at the University of Mainz . In the same year he returned to the Foreign Service and was there until 1963 as consul at the Consulate General in Istanbul and lecturer at the university there. As early as 1959 he had become an adjunct professor in Mainz and in 1963 was appointed full professor for Islamic Philology and Islamic Studies at the Department of Orient Studies at the University of Mainz, where he retired in 1981 .

Fonts (selection)

• Bolgarian-Chuvash studies. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1988
• Critical contributions to Altaic and Turkic Studies , Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1988
• Kalmyk grammar to look up , Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1985
• Chwaresmischer Wortindex , Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1983
• Islamic legal opinion as a folklore source , Academy of Sciences. ud literature, Mainz 1977
• The Tungusic languages. Try a comparative grammar. Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz 1955 (= treatises of the humanities and social sciences class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born in 1955, No. 11).
• Lamutic grammar: With bibliography, language samples, etc. Glossary. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1955
• Introduction to the study of Altai Philology and Turkic Studies. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1953
• German-Chuvash dictionary with a short Chuvash phrasebook. O. Stollberg, Berlin 1943
• Turkestan , Die Bücherei des Ostraumes: Special publication, ibid. 1943
• About the verb forms in Turkmen , Berlin, Diss. Phil. 1939
• The chwaresmic language material of a manuscript of the "Muqaddimat al-Adab" , Steiner, Wiesbaden 1968

literature

• Johannes Hürter , Martin Kröger, Rolf Messerschmidt, Christiane Scheidemann (editor): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945, Volume 1 A – F (= Foreign Office - Historical Service - Maria Keipert, Peter Grupp [Ed.]: Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945 ). Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn Munich Vienna Zurich 2000, ISBN 978-3-506-71840-2 , p. 107-108 , section Benzing, Johannes (Hans) (with picture) .

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Benzing in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Johannes Benzing in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Oriental Studies Seminar: History . Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, section Johannes Benzing ( Seminar for Orient Studies [accessed on November 4, 2016]).
• Johannes Benzing . Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz ( directory of professors at the University of Mainz [accessed on November 9, 2016]).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See here .
2. ^ Seminar for Orient Studies: History . Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, section Johannes Benzing ( Seminar for Orient Studies [accessed on November 4, 2016]). Seminar for Orient Studies ( Memento from November 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld: The Trainings of Imams by the Third Reich . Appendix: Federal Archives Department III Berlin-Zehlendorf Branch, Document No. A 54.7 R.920 (Extract of the passages relevant to the Imam Courses of the Third Reich). In: Willem B. Drees, Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld (Ed.): The Study of Religion and the Training of Muslim Clergy in Europe . Academic and Religious Freedom in the 21st Century. Leiden University Press, Leiden 2008, ISBN 978-90-8728-025-3 , pp. 349, 350 (English, oapen.org [accessed November 4, 2016]).
4. ↑ See four-page denazification document .