Karl Gottfried Hugelmann

Karl Gottfried Hugelmann (born September 26, 1879 in Vienna , † October 1, 1959 in Göttingen ) was an Austro-German lawyer and university professor of the Catholic national direction.

Life

Hugelmann was the son of the lawyer and statistician Karl Heinrich Hugelmann . He graduated from the Schottengymnasium in Vienna in 1899 and studied law at the University of Vienna and the University of Tübingen . In 1905 he received his doctorate in law in Vienna . He then entered the court service. He was also scientifically and politically active. From 1918 he worked as ministerial secretary in the Federal Ministry for Social Administration until 1924, in 1924 he became professor of German legal and constitutional history , constitutional law and canon law at the University of Vienna, further senator of the law and political science faculty of the University of Vienna 1925-1926 and dean of the law and political science faculty of the University of Vienna 1926–1927. From 1921 to 1932 he was a member of the Christian Social Group on the Federal Council . Here Hugelmann was from December 14, 1923 to June 3, 1932 the deputy chairman of the Federal Council. In 1932 he resigned from the Christian Social Party, to whose Catholic national wing he had belonged.

In 1934, after the assassination of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss by the National Socialists , Hugelmann, who always thought in Greater German, was imprisoned for 9 weeks as a supporter of the connection to the National Socialist German Reich and then retired as a civil servant. Hugelmann then went to Germany and in November 1934 - against the will of the Faculty of Law - received a call to the University of Münster , of which Hugelmann was Rector from April 1935 to March 1937. In 1944, Hugelmann was appointed a corresponding member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences. After his retirement in Münster, Hugelmann moved to Göttingen in 1944, where he continued to teach at the university until 1947.

His research work during the time of National Socialism is now valued in such a way that he assumed a greater German National Socialism and his legal historical investigations increasingly became a legal theoretical legitimation of the Nazi state. He justified the annexation of the Czech Republic as a “ Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ” as justified, meaningful and plausible in terms of the concept of the Reich, or he spoke out in favor of “ethnic land consolidations”.

Hugelmann had been a member of the Catholic student association KÖStV Austria Vienna since 1902 and later became a member of the KHV Welfia Klosterneuburg, the KÖStV Rudolfina Vienna and the KÖHV Nordgau Vienna. Due to his work as a political affiliate, he was excluded from these in 1933.

As a student in Tübingen, Hugelmann had become an active member of the Catholic student association KStV Alamannia Tübingen in the KV , later also an honorary philistine of the KV associations Deutschmeister Vienna, Greifenstein Vienna and KStV Winfridia Göttingen . On April 1, 1935, Hugelmann became the last head of the old rule of the KV until its forced dissolution in November 1935.

After the end of the Second World War, Hugelmann, who had not become a member of the NSDAP but clearly supported the goals of National Socialism at least after 1933, was classified in the denazification process as "exonerated". In 1947 he retired. His writings People and State in the Change of German Fate ( Essener Verlagsanstalt , Essen 1940) and The Integration of the Sudetenland (Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1941) were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone .

Honors

In 1940 Hugelmann became an honorary senator of the University of Vienna. In 1959 a commemorative publication was published in his honor .

literature

• Sebastian Felz: In the spirit of truth? Between science and politics: The Münster jurists from the Weimar Republic to the early Federal Republic. In: Hans-Ulrich Thamer , Daniel Droste, Sabine Happ (eds.): The University of Münster in National Socialism: Continuities and breaks between 1920 and 1960. (= publications of the Münster University Archives . Volume 5). Aschendorff, Münster 2012, Vol. 1, pp. 347-412.
• Michael Grüttner : Biographical lexicon on National Socialist science policy . (Studies on the history of science and universities; Volume 6), 2004, p. 80. ISBN 3-935025-68-8
• Liselotte Steveling: Lawyers in Münster. A contribution to the history of the law and political science faculty of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster / Westf. , Münster 1999. ISBN 3-8258-4084-0
• Wilhelm Wegener:  Hugelmann, Karl Gottfried. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 9 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Siegfried Koß in Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 7th part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 9). Akadpress, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-939413-12-7 , p. 65 ff.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Gottfried Hugelmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Karl Gottfried Hugelmann on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• “ Coming to terms with the Nazi past: University presents interim balance sheet ”, echo-muenster.de
• Estate in the NRW state archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dealing with the Nazi past: University presents interim balance sheet , online city magazine from January 10, 2010 ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ The shadows of the past: New studies on the WWU in the Nazi era , Münsters Universitäts-Zeitung of December 16, 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Heinrich August Winkler , Germany, a question of the century , Der Spiegel issue 8/2007 of February 17, 2007.
4. ^ Michael Billig, researchers willingly served the Nazi regime , Münstersche Zeitung Online from January 12, 2010
5. ↑ see Academic Monthly Gazette June 1935
6. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet zone of occupation: List of literature to be sorted out , Berlin: Zentralverlag, 1946

predecessor	Office	successor
Hubert Naendrup	Rector of the University of Münster 1935–1937	Walter Mevius