Karl Wührer

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Karl Wührer , (born January 12, 1903 in Vienna ; † October 3, 1973 there ) was an Austrian historian .

Life

After attending the humanistic grammar school and briefly working in agriculture , he studied history , philosophy , German literature and geography at the University of Vienna from 1922 , with Rudolf Much and Othmar Spann , among others . From 1926 he worked as a librarian for economic and cultural history and a doctorate in 1927 about "Romantic traits in natural feeling of the Middle Ages" for Dr. phil. .

The death of his father shortly after his doctorate in 1927 forced Wührer to take the teaching examination for high schools and until 1929 he taught history, geography, Latin and English . In 1932 Wührer qualified as a professor for "History of the Germanic Early Period and the History of Scandinavia". On October 21, 1939 he was appointed lecturer of the new order at the University of Vienna. He was welcome and helpful to the National Socialists : He was an illegal member of the NSDAP at an early age and officially joined it after Austria was annexed in 1938. Since 1940 he was a member of the National Socialist Teachers' Association (NSLB), where he was a lecturer for history and active in the district student council. "The Nordic idea in the curriculum of the secondary school" occupied Wührer in 1939 in the Reichszeitung of the National Socialist teachers' association . He was also a member of the Vienna office of the völkisch-racist Nordic Society . He was also active in the SS Ahnenerbe .

According to his own statement, Wuehrer's book Germanic Togetherness from 1940 "should contribute to today's intellectual war by giving our present control of Russia its historical justification and support by showing this German and Germanic life and culture."

In 1941 Wührer was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Vienna. 1943–1945 he was a soldier in World War II . Since Wührer was a National Socialist, he lost his Venia Legendi after the Nazi regime and worked as a high school teacher . However, he was still scientifically active. The license to teach was granted to him again in 1953, and from then until 1960 he held courses in Nordic history, especially on Germania des Tacitus. 1954-1967 he was invited to lectures at the universities of Lund , Copenhagen and Aarhus . From 1961 to 1970 Wührer taught at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts . In 1969, at the request of Otto Höfler, the Austrian Minister of Education awarded him the title of Associate Professor .

Works

  • Wührer, Karl (1932). The German state of the Middle Ages. A selection of the sources, Latin and German, translated and explained . Jena: Fischer.
  • Wührer, Karl (1935). Contributions to the oldest agricultural history of the Germanic north . Jena: Fischer.
  • Wührer, Karl (1939). “The Nordic Thought in the High School Curriculum”. In: The German educator. Reichszeitung of the National Socialist Teachers Association . Edition Gau Berlin. Volume 12. Issue 12. pp. 265–266.
  • Wührer, Karl (1940). Germanic togetherness . Jena: G. Fischer.
  • Wührer, Karl (1957). The Scandinavian place and person names . (Series of publications of the association 'Mutterssprache' Vienna 5) Vienna: Notring publishing house of the Austrian scientific associations.
  • Wührer, Karl (1964). The Swedish village of the Middle Ages - an area of ​​peace and law? Stockholm: Norstedt.

Secondary literature

  • Birkhan, Helmut (2003). "'Old German Studies' and German Linguistics". In: Acham, Karl (ed.). History of the Austrian Human Sciences. Volume 5: Language, Literature and Art . Vienna: Passagen-Verlag. Pp. 115-192.
  • Ditt, Thomas (2011). "Shock Troop Faculty Wroclaw". Law in the "Frontier Silesia" 1933-1945 . (Contributions to the legal history of the 20th century 67.) Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. P. 193 f.
  • Harten, Hans-Christian & Neirich, Uwe & Schwerendt, Matthias (2006). Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual . (Edition Education and Science 10.) Berlin: Akademie-Verlag. P. 495.
  • Strauch, Dieter (1974). "Karl Wührer". Obituary. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department . 91/1. Pp. 425-427.
  • Wiesinger, Peter & Steinbach, Daniel (2001). 150 years of German studies in Vienna. Non-university early German studies and university German studies . Vienna: Praesens. P. 125 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Harten, Hans-Christian & Neirich, Uwe & Schwerendt, Matthias (2006). Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual . (Edition Education and Science 10.) Berlin: Akademie-Verlag. P. 495.
  2. ^ Ditt, Thomas (2011). "Shock Troop Faculty Wroclaw". Law in the "Frontier Silesia" 1933-1945 . (Contributions to the legal history of the 20th century 67.) Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. P. 193 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Wuehrer, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 1973
Place of death Vienna