Julius Andree

Julius Andree (born April 2, 1889 in Berlin , † November 20, 1942 in Paris ) was a German professor of prehistory at the University of Halle and researcher at the Rosenberg Office of the National Socialists .

Life

Andree studied geology and palaeontology in Greifswald and Münster from 1910 to 1914 . During the First World War he was a volunteer and as an army geologist with the rank of non-commissioned officer. In 1917 he received his doctorate as Dr. rer. nat.

In 1919 he took up a position as a volunteer assistant at the Geological Institute in Münster. From 1919 to 1920 he was given a leave of absence to study prehistory with Gustaf Kossinna in Berlin. This was followed by an initially unscheduled assistant and from 1922 a scheduled assistant position in Münster. In 1924 his habilitation took place there .

In 1931 he was appointed to an extraordinary professorship for prehistory in Münster. In 1932 he joined the NSDAP . In 1933, the Münster director of the Geological Institute forced Andree to voluntarily resign due to his professional incompetence, but he immediately received a lectureship in prehistory in Berlin. A planned Umhabilitierung to Halle was first by the local professor of Prehistory Walther Schulz rejected in 1938 but then arranged. Andree taught “Racial Prehistory” in Halle and was given leave of absence in 1941 in order to sift through prehistoric finds in the occupied territories of Belgium and France.

In addition to his academic teaching activities and special research assignments, he worked for Heinrich Himmler's Ahnenerbe for excavations at the Externsteine in 1935 . Later he was part of the task force of Alfred Rosenberg and his " Office Rosenberg ". He died in Paris in 1942 as a result of an illness.

Andree postulated the existence of a high culture in Germany 250,000 years ago and its spread across the globe. Alfred Rust attacked these theses in 1942.

Works

Ice Age man in Germany and its cultures. 1939
The Externsteine: A Germanic cult site.

literature

Uta Halle : "The Externsteine are Germanic until further notice!" Prehistoric archeology in the Third Reich (= special publications of the Natural Science and Historical Association for the Land of Lippe. 68). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 3-89534-446-X (also: Berlin, Humboldt University, habilitation paper, 2001).
Henrik Eberle : The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism 1933–1945. mdv - Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 402.
Review of the Ice Age man in Germany and his cultures.

Web links

Wikisource: Julius Andree - Sources and full texts

Commons : Julius Andree - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Julius Andree in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry on Julius Andree in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis

Individual evidence

^ Halle: "The Externsteine are Germanic until further notice!" 2002, p. 86.
↑ Michael H. Kater : The "Ahnenerbe" of the SS, 1935-1945. A contribution to the cultural policy of the Third Reich (= studies on contemporary history. 6). 4th edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57950-9 , p. 300.

personal data
SURNAME	Andree, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German university professor and prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH	April 2, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	November 20, 1942
Place of death	Paris

[1] Halle: "The Externsteine are Germanic until further notice!" 2002, p. 86.

[2] Michael H. Kater : The "Ahnenerbe" of the SS, 1935-1945. A contribution to the cultural policy of the Third Reich (= studies on contemporary history. 6). 4th edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57950-9 , p. 300.