Karl Baumgarten

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Karl Max Hermann Klaus Baumgarten (born February 5, 1910 in Wismar ; † October 16, 1989 in Rostock ) was a German pedagogue, cantor and local researcher.

Life

Karl Baumgarten was born as the son of the engine driver Adolf Joachim Ludwig Baumgarten. He attended the community school from 1916 to 1919 and the grammar school in Waren (Müritz) from 1919 to 1921 , where Richard Wossidlo was his Latin teacher. Then he was from 1921 to 1928 at the large city school in Rostock. From 1928 to 1930 he studied to be a primary school teacher at the Pedagogical Institute Rostock a. a. with Johann Ulrich Folkers . After that he was a teacher at the Poppentin village school from 1930 to 1933 and at the Federow village school near Waren until 1943 , where he also worked as a cantor. Drafted into military service in 1943, he returned from American captivity in 1946 and settled in Rostock. Initially engaged in unskilled labor , he returned to teaching from 1950, after a year in Kröpelin he came to the Rostock St. Georg School in 1951, where he became director.

Even during his studies at Folkers he was concerned with Mecklenburg folklore , research into rural architecture, settlement and house research. His first publications appeared in the 1940s. In 1955 he published the text "Problems of Mecklenburg Lower Saxony House Research" and his first book "The Land of Black Farmers". As a result, he was appointed to the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (DAW) in 1957 . In 1958 he was appointed head of the Wossidlo research center in Rostock, a branch of the Institute for German Folklore of the DAW. He held this position until his retirement in 1975. With the book "Zimmermannswerk in Mecklenburg - Die Scheune" Baumgarten was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. He was one of the initiators of the community of interest (IG) “Monuments of rural folk building”, which was part of the Kulturbund , and was a supporter of the establishment and construction of the open-air museums Klockenhagen , Schwerin-Mueß and Alt Schwerin . The present-day monumental character of the village of Lichtenhagen near Rostock with its Low German hall houses is also due to his initiative. In 1982 he was awarded the Leibniz Medal of the Academy and in 1983 he received the Rostock District Culture Prize .

estate

Baumgarten's estate has been kept by the Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences since 2007 .

Works (selection)

  • The Maltzangraben , 1941 in Mecklenburgische Monatshefte
  • Mecklenburgisches Schicksal - a village is laid , 1942 in: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte
  • Problems of Lower Saxony House Research in Mecklenburg , 1955
  • The land of the black farmers, local history chats about the Hägerort . Illustrated by Erika Schumm. Overview map by Willi Süss, Petermänken, Schwerin 1956, DNB 450275213 .
  • Rügen's "Sugar Loafs" , 1959 in: German Yearbook for Folklore
  • Mecklenburgisches Zimmermannswerk: die Scheune , [together with the plant], o. O. [1960], DNB 480922462 , (Dissertation Humboldt University, Philosophical Faculty Berlin, May 4, 1960, 182, 41 drawn sheets, 49 plates, 4 [typescript] , a corresponding volume of illustrations is in the University Library Berlin).
  • Carpentry in Mecklenburg. The Barn , 1960, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1961, OCLC 459486684 .
  • Farm and economy of the Ribnitz farmers , 1963, with Ulrich Bentzien
  • The table arrangement in the old Mecklenburg farmhouse , 1965 in: Deutsches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde
  • The Mecklenburg farmhouse , 1965
  • The farmhouse in Mecklenburg. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1965, 1970 (new edition and title Hallenhäuser in Mecklenburg .)
  • Hall houses in Mecklenburg , 1970
  • The German farmhouse, an introduction to its history from the 9th to the 19th century. Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-529-02652-2
  • Small Mecklenburg Farmhouse Primer , 1981 (three editions until 1990)
  • The German farmhouse. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1985, (also publications on folklore and cultural history , vol. 63)
  • Landscape and farmhouse in Mecklenburg. Berlin (1987) 1995, ISBN 3-345-00051-2

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 620 f .
  • Melanie Brungs: On the importance of Dr. Karl Baumgartens and his legacy for village renewal and landscape planning in the Rostock area. Diploma thesis, University of Neubrandenburg 2008 ( full text )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detlef Hamer: A village as a monument: Lichtenhagen near Rostock - visit to the folklorist Dr. Baumgarten. In: North German lighthouse. 1987, 1761, p. 1
personal data
SURNAME Baumgarten, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baumgarten, Karl Max Hermann Klaus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, cantor and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Wismar
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1989
Place of death Rostock