Karl Theodor Weigel
Karl Theodor Weigel (born June 3, 1892 in Ohrdruf ; † December 15, 1953 in Detmold ) was a German researcher of symbols .
Life
He was the son of the medical councilor Otto Weigel from Ohrdruf in Thuringia and began training as an architect at the construction school in Suhl after graduating from high school . His interest in symbols and runes was aroused at an early stage, which soon made him open to the ideas of National Socialism . In 1930 he became a newspaper editor in Bad Harzburg . In 1934 he published one of his main works under the title Lebendige Vorzeit right and left of the country road . Later he took over the management of the main office for symbol research in Horn-Bad Meinberg . At the Externsteine he led groups of senior SS and Wehrmacht members at regular intervals. The main office for symbol research was relocated to Göttingen in 1943 and merged with the central office for rune research there under the direction of Wolfgang Krause . In the course of this transfer to the Research Association of German Ahnenerbe , the institution was named after the merger as a teaching and research center for rune and symbolism of the SS Ahnenerbes , where Weigel worked as a department head for symbolism.
Weigel became a member of the NSDAP ( No. 587,696) and an SS member (No. 273,759). He was part of the personal staff of the SS-Reichsführer and was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer on September 10, 1939 immediately after the start of the Second World War .
In April 1945 Weigel was arrested in Göttingen and interned for two years. He died on December 15, 1953 as a freelancer for the Lippische Landeszeitung in Detmold of a serious illness.
Publications
- Living prehistory to the right and left of Landstrasse , Berlin 1934; Berlin 1936; Berlin 1942
- Goslar. Old residential buildings and symbols , Goslar 1935
- Quedlinburg, Heinrichs I. Stadt , Berlin 1936
- Runes and symbols , Berlin 1937
- Landscape and symbols. A reflection on the question of symbols , 1938
- Germanic beliefs in runes and symbols (= Deutsches Volkstum. A series of publications on German folklore for the training and education work of the NSDAP), Munich: Hoheneichen-Verlag 1939.
- Symbols as Germanic inheritance . In: Ernst Otto Thiele (arrangement): The Germanic heritage in German folk culture. The lectures of the 1st German Folklore Day in Braunschweig , autumn 1938, Munich: Hoheneichen 1939, pp. 103–111.
- Symbols in Lower Saxony , Hildesheim 1941
- Incised drawings in threshing paces in the Black Forest , Heidelberg 1942
- Contributions to symbol research , Berlin 1943
literature
- Ulrich Nussbeck: Karl Theodor Weigel and the Göttingen symbol archive . A career in the Third Reich. (= Contributions to folklore in Lower Saxony: series of the folklore commission for Lower Saxony eV, volume 7). Göttingen 1993.
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weigel, Karl Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German symbol researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ohrdruf |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 1953 |
| Place of death | Detmold |