Karl Dinklage

Karl Dinklage (born October 10, 1907 in Dresden , † August 29, 1987 in Klagenfurt ) was a German archivist , historian and non-fiction book author.

Life

Dinklage studied history in Munich and after his doctorate in 1935 worked for seven years at the Southeast Institute of the University of Munich . In 1942 he went to Klagenfurt , where an institute for Carinthian regional research at the University of Graz was founded. After the Second World War, the National Socialist institution was closed and Dinklage and his large family were left without an income. For many years he worked as a freelance scientist and devoted himself to economic and social history topics, which became part of his scientific life's work. This commissioned work included rural farm, company and local histories. Dinklage wrote the history of the Carinthian economy, agriculture and the working class for the chamber organizations.

In 1958, at the age of 51, Dinklage was employed as an archivist in the Carinthian State Archives . At that time he was in many cases the only scientific person available to archive users. After 14 years of service, he retired when he reached the age limit in 1972. In 1975 he became professor for economic and social history at the University of Vienna . In addition, Dinklage had made it his life's mission to erect a special kind of memorial to the writer Robert Musil in the house he was born in Klagenfurt on Bahnhofstrasse. A book on the life story and work of Musil was published as early as 1960 from a historical, literary-historical and contemporary exhibition, the Musil Archive Association was founded in 1961, and the climax of his efforts was the opening of the Musil Museum in 1980.

Karl Dinklage belonged to the religious community of Jehovah's Witnesses and was buried in the Krumpendorfer Friedhof in Pirk.

Publications (selection)

• History of Carinthian agriculture . In: History of Carinthian agriculture and rural folklore . Klagenfurt 1966. (Together with Helmut Prasch, Konrad Erker and Franz Koschier). (without ISBN)
• Carinthia around 1620 - The pictures from the Khevenhüller Chronicle . Edition Tusch Buch- und Kunstverlag Ges.mbH Vienna, Vienna 1980. (without ISBN)
• History of the Carinthian Workers, Volume 1 . Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 1976. (without ISBN)
• History of the Carinthian Workers, Volume 2 . Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 1982. (without ISBN)

literature

• Carinthia I 1987, p. 515 ff.
• Kleine Zeitung , Klagenfurt, September 1, 1987