Josef Rottenkolber

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Josef Rottenkolber (born May 3, 1890 in Röthenbach (Allgäu) , † June 11, 1970 in Kempten (Allgäu) ) was a German high school teacher and historian from Kempten. There he dealt with the Kempten prince monastery in numerous publications and formed a basis for later research in this area. The city of Kempten on the Reichelsberg in the area of the hospital , a road to the historian named (Rottenkolberstraße ⊙ ).

Life

education

Rottenkolber was the son of a railway official. After his father was transferred, Rottenkolber attended elementary school in Illereichen near Illertissen and from 1900 to 1904 a grammar school in Dillingen an der Donau . From 1904 he attended the Humanist Gymnasium in Kempten, which he graduated with a successful Abitur in 1910. He studied history and German at the LMU Munich . In 1913 he became a temporary intern in Wunsiedel , and in 1915 he was prefect in Landsberg am Lech . At the University of Würzburg he wrote his dissertation on Prince Abbot Heinrich von Ulm (1607–1616, Prince Kempten ). According to Wolfgang Haberl (long-time editor of the Heimatverein Kempten), the historian chose this prince abbot as a topic, but rather proof of “unbreakable affection for the Allgäu homeland” . After his internship, Rottenkolber came to Neu-Ulm as an assistant in October 1920. He became a teacher there in 1921. On May 1, 1938, he was transferred to the upper secondary school in Kempten (since 1956 Allgäu-Gymnasium Kempten ).

time of the nationalsocialism

On August 17, 1941, his son was killed during the Kessel Battle near Smolensk near Jelnja in western Russia , and he dedicated his work From Kempten's Past Days to him . Rottenkolber was also a member of the Heimatschutz movement Heimatdienst Allgäu (before that, from 1912 Historical Association for the Allgäu in Kempten , then from 1956 Heimatverein Kempten ), in which he became an honorary member. He was an honorary philistine with the Algovia Academic Holiday Association. He wrote several articles for the club magazine Allgäuer Geschichtsfreund and was also editor of the annual publication.

The last few years, deaths and honors

Rottenkolber was a member of the Swabian Research Association founded in 1948 . Josef Rottenkolber died on June 11, 1970. Posthumously a street was named after Rottenkolber in Kempten. In his lifetime he received a Federal Cross of Merit and an Allgäu Thaler. In the series Lebensbilder from Bavarian Swabia. was written in 1980 about the life of Josef Rottenkolber. His activities during the National Socialist period are not mentioned there.

plant

According to Wolfgang Haberl, Rottenkolber wrote about 160 publications between 1912 and 1960. He dealt in particular with the Kempten prince monastery, but also with the history of Ulm and Neu-Ulm.

Anti-Semitic remarks

1938 wrote Rottenkolber the fourth and last volume of Franz Ludwig Baumann imposed series history of the Allgäu . The historian Martina Steber dealt with the Heimat movement from the imperial to the Nazi era in Bavarian Swabia and wrote about this volume that some people “ sought to integrate the anti-Semitic interpretation into the regional narrative, such as Josef Rottenkolber prominently pre-exercised in the fourth volume of Baumann's 'History of the Allgäu' . “New editions or reprints from 1951 and 1973 contained the anti-Jewish statements, which the Jewish community assessed negatively.

Under Rottenkolber's pen there were also numerous anti-Semitic articles that appeared in newspapers in Gau Schwaben . The texts dealt in particular with the " Jewish question in Swabia": headlines in the Augsburger National-Zeitung of December 3, 1938 were, for example, Augsburg's Jews - hated since Roman times or in the Neue Augsburger Zeitung of December 17, 1938, A Centuries-Long Struggle before graduation: the Jews are no longer skilled . Articles also appeared in the Völkischer Beobachter . In 1939 a poem appeared in the magazine Das Schöne Allgäu : Jews .

Publications (selection)

  • From Kempten's past days Kösel, Kempten 1954.
  • History of the Allgäus Vol. 4, Munich 1938 and various new editions (1951, 1973)
  • Kemptner Wanderbuch Kösel, Kempten 1951
  • The district hospital [Verwaltg d. District Hospital], Kempten 1941
  • History of the city of Kempten in the 19th century Dannheimer, Kempten 1935
  • History of the Princely Kempten Kösel & Pustet Monastery , Munich 1933
  • The fates of Allgäu monastery libraries in the time of secularization In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen Vol. 49, 1932, pp. 431–438
  • History of the Neu-Ulm Realschule [Rectorate d. Realschule], Neu-Ulm 1930
  • History of the former women's monastery St. Anna in Lenzfried Histor. Allgäu Association , 1929

literature

  • Wolfgang Haberl: Life pictures from Bavarian Swabia. Vol. 12, Weißenhorn 1980, p. 368 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Wolfgang Haberl: Life pictures from Bavarian Swabia. Vol. 12, Weißenhorn 1980, p. 368 ff.
  2. ↑ Martina Steber: Ethnic certainties: The order of the regional in Bavarian Swabia from the Empire to the Nazi regime. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010, p. 382.
  3. ^ Martina Steber: Jewish history and bourgeois regional historiography in Bavarian Swabia between the German Empire and the Nazi regime. In: Juden in Schwaben Michael von Brenner, Sabine Ullmann (Ed.), De Gruyter, 2013, p. 218.
personal data
SURNAME Rottenkolber, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Röthenbach (Allgäu)
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1970
Place of death Kempten (Allgäu)