Karl Ruprecht

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Karl Theodorich Arnulf Ruprecht (born June 19, 1910 in Kirchenviertel , Styria , † November 3, 1986 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian National Socialist folklorist .

Life

Karl Ruprecht was born in Kirchenviertel near Graz and grew up there. He began studying the German language , English language and literature and folklore at the University of Graz , moved to the University of Vienna and finally in 1934 to the University of Königsberg , where he in 1936 Walther Ziesemer with a thesis on Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl doctorate was. Then he became an employee of Hans Hagemeyer in the Office of Document Maintenance , which belonged to the Office Rosenberg . Then worked Ruprecht in office folklore and public design by Hans Strobel and evaluated the writings of Adolf Bach , where he one accused him of insufficient consideration of the racial factor. For the Institute for German Folklore , which was set up as part of the so-called High School of the NSDAP , Ruprecht was entrusted with the development and management of the research center for rural lifestyles . This research center was founded in Salzburg in 1938 . The fact that the research center “ Spiel und Spruch” was set up in the Cistercian monastery Stift Rein near Graz was probably based on a suggestion by Karl Ruprecht.

In a radio broadcast in April 1939, Ruprecht announced that Easter and Christmas should be freed from the artificial Christian interpretation in order to return to their Nordic character, since the church had adopted the earlier Germanic customs.

During the war, Karl Ruprecht came into conflict with the SS Research Association for German Ahnenerbe . Richard Wolfram , the head of the SS “Teaching and Research Center for Germanic-German Folklore”, suggested to Wolfram Sievers “extreme caution” with regard to Ruprecht.

Ruprecht published a. a. in the National Socialist monthly books and in the magazines Deutsche Volkskunde and idee and Tat .

Publications

  • Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl's "Kulturgeschichtliche Novellen" with consideration of their relation to the source , dissertation, Verlag Paul Escher, Königsberg 1936 (with curriculum vitae).
  • National Socialist or Liberal Folklore? In: National Socialist monthly issue 8, 88, 1937, pp. 632–634.
  • German Volkstum and Denominational Folklore . In: National Socialist monthly books 8, 92, 1937, pp. 962–979.
  • Bolshevism and Popular Culture. In: National Socialist monthly books 14, 158, 1943, pp. 370–376.

literature

  • Hannjost Lixfeld: Folklore and Fascism. The Reich Institute for German Folklore. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1994, ISBN 978-0-253-33512-8 .
  • Christiaan Janssen: Demarcation and Adaptation. German culture between 1930 and 1945 as reflected in the reference organs Het Duitsche Boek and De Weegschaal , Waxmann, Münster 2003, pp. 186–187.
  • James R. Dow, Hannjost Lixfeld: The Nazification of an Academic Discipline: Folklore in the Third Reich , Indiana University Press, 1994, pp. 150, 177.
  • James Dow, Ulrike Kammerhofer-Aggermann: Austrian Volkskunde and National Socialism. In: The Folkore Historian. Journal of the Folklore and History Section of the American Folklore Society , Volume 22, 2005, pp. 40, 54, 57.
  • James R. Dow, Olaf Bockhorn : The Study of European Ethnology in Austria , Ashgate Publishing Company, 2004, ISBN 0754617475 , pp. 123, 128, 157, 162, 263.
  • Mitchell Ash , Wolfram Nieß, Ramon Pils (eds.): Humanities in National Socialism. The example of the University of Vienna , Vienna University Press, Göttingen 2010, p. 219. 221.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the Salzburg registry office No. 1952/1986.
  2. ^ Los Nazis y la Iglesia católica , by Gonzalo Casanova Ferro; Sacred Heart Missionaries in Peru
personal data
SURNAME Ruprecht, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruprecht, Karl Theodorich Arnulf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian National Socialist folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Church district , Styria
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 1986
Place of death Salzburg