Josef Hanika

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Josef Hanika (born October 30, 1900 in Mies ; † July 29, 1963 in Munich ) was a German folklorist . From 1943 he was Professor of Folklore at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague and from 1955 Professor of German and Comparative Folklore at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

Life

As a student at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague, Josef Hanika passed the teaching examination for higher education in German, Czech and gymnastics and was an assistant at the seminar for German philology in Prague from 1922 to 1927 . He was promoted to Dr. phil. with the dissertation wedding customs of Kremnica Sprachinsel doctorate . From 1927 to 1930 he taught at the state trade school in Reichenberg , from 1930 to 1938 at a German-speaking grammar school in Prague and then as a teacher until 1939 in Eger . Hanika completed her habilitation in 1938 for the subject of antiquity and folklore at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague. He set up a folklore branch in the museum of the city of Eger in western Bohemia and at the end of 1942 became associate professor and successor to Gustav Jungbauer at the German Charles University and the University of Prague .

Hanika, who became a member of the SdP in 1938 and after the dissolution of this party belonged to the NSDAP , led the Institute for Folklore of Bohemia of the Reinhard Heydrich Foundation together with the Slavist Edmund Schneeweis from August 1942 .

In May 1945, after the end of the Second World War , he was arrested by a Czech commando and in a prison in Prague he was an eyewitness to the death of the archivist Joachim Prochno († November 10, 1945). In a labor camp with difficult survival chances, Josef Hanika managed to be deported to Bavaria . In 1948 he became the managing director of the Bavarian State Association for Homeland Care in Munich and in 1950 founded the Institute for Cultural and Social Research. In 1951 he received a teaching post and in 1955 he became an associate professor and in 1959 a full professor for German and comparative folklore at the University of Munich . He published twelve books and over a hundred articles, was a member of numerous scientific associations, and from 1928 to 1938 he was the editor of “Carpathian Country - Journal for Carpathian German Literature, Culture and Folklore” in Munich. In 1938 he was honored with the Bavarian Order of Merit .

Publications

A complete list of his publications can be found in: Bohemia Jahrbuch des Collegium Carolinum , Volume 4, 1963, pp. 459–466.

literature

  • Biographical lexicon on the history of the Czech lands. Volume 1. Ed. Heribert Sturm on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum. Munich 1979, ISBN 3-486-49491-0 , p. 526f
  • Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1. Männedorf 1985, ISBN 3-922808-12-3 , p. 197
  • Kürschner's German Scholar's Calendar. Munich 1961, p.?.
  • Journal for East Research. 14, 1964, ISSN  0948-8294 , pp. 94-96
  • Marienbad-Tepler home letter; also bulletin of the home association of Marienbader - city and country. Bad Homburg vor der Höhe 1963, p.?.
  • Tobias Weger: 'Ethnic' science between Prague, Eger and Munich. The example of Josef Hanika. In: Christiane Brenner (Hrsg.): Historiography of the Bohemian countries in the 20th century: Scientific traditions - institutions - discourses; Lectures at the meetings of the Collegium Carolinum in Bad Wiessee from November 21 to 23, 2003 and from November 12 to 14, 2004 (= Bad Wiesseer Meetings of the Collegium Carolinum, vol. 28). Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, pp. 177-208.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Judith Schachtmann, Michael Strobel, Thomas Widera (Ed.): Politics and science in prehistoric archeology. (= Perspectives from Saxony, Bohemia and Silesia. Reports and Studies 56). V&R unipress, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 3899717414 , pp. 77-137, passim

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt 2007, p. 224
personal data
SURNAME Hanika, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Czech folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Stříbro
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1963
Place of death Munich