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Karlheinz Hengst (2013)

Karlheinz Hengst (born March 2, 1934 in Marienberg ) is a German onomastic and politician . From 1971 to 1990 he was a member of the Volkskammer for the NDPD . From 1993 until his retirement in 1999, Hengst headed the German-Slavic Name Research department of the Institute for Slavic Studies at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig .

Life

Hengst was born as the son of an employee in the Erzgebirge mountain town of Marienberg, but spent his childhood and youth from 1938 to 1967 in Oberlungwitz , where his parents had moved. He passed his Abitur at the Karl-Marx-Oberschule in Chemnitz . After completing his studies in Slavic Studies , Lituanic Studies , Pedagogy and Psychology at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig in 1956 , Hengst began working as a foreign language teacher at the Extended High School in Stollberg / Erzgeb. on. In 1959 he switched to teaching foreign languages ​​at the Karl-Marx-Stadt Pedagogical Institute , which was moved to Zwickau that same year . From 1961 to 1963 he worked as a research assistant with a research stay at the University of Leipzig with his doctorate on the subject of the place names of the districts of Glauchau, Hohenstein-Ernstthal and Stollberg . From 1963 to 1993 he was head of the foreign languages ​​department (later the Institute for Foreign Languages) at the Ernst Schneller University of Education in Zwickau. With a thesis on German-Slavic language contact linguistics, he completed his doctorate B to Dr. sc. phil. from. In the following year he was appointed associate professor for applied linguistics , and in 1985 he took over a full professorship. From 1962 to 1969 he already acted as deputy director and then until 1973 as 1st prorector of the university.

Hengst belonged to numerous organizations in the GDR . In 1950 he joined the FDJ and in 1956 the FDGB . Since 1959 he was a member of the block party NDPD and from 1964 a member of the Hohenstein-Ernstthal and Zwickau district executive of the party. During the 6th to 9th electoral term he was a member of the People's Chamber from 1971 to March 1990 . In addition, from 1971 to 1990 he was chairman of the central commission for technical language training in teacher training at the Ministry of National Education and from 1973 to 1990 a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Foreign Languages ​​at the Ministry of Higher and Technical Education . Furthermore, from 1974 he was a member of the Peace Council of the GDR and from 1976 a member of the presidium of the Society New Home of the League for Friendship of Nations . On October 19, 1988 he was appointed director of the newly founded Institute for Foreign Languages ​​at the Ernst Schneller University of Education in Zwickau .

For his services he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and bronze.

Despite his many years of political and ideological commitment in the GDR, Hengst managed to remain active as a scientist after the political change . From 1990 to 1992 he was the dean of the newly founded Philosophical Faculty at the University of Education in Zwickau. In this he was involved in the development of English and Romance studies , which were transferred to the TU Chemnitz-Zwickau in 1992 . In 1992/93 he was professor for applied linguistics at the university, before he was appointed to the C3 professorship for onomastics at the University of Leipzig in 1993. He held this chair until his retirement in 1999. Since 2000, however, he has continued to hold a teaching position to secure the position of the professor. In 1994 he founded a personal name advice center at Leipzig University . In Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , he was involved in the series "Names on the Track".

Stallion is u. a. Member of the German University Association , the Association of University Lecturers for Slavic Studies , the Society for onomastics e. V. , the Magister-George-Körner-Gesellschaft and in the historical commission of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . He is a member of the editorial board of the journals Filologiceskie nauki and Voprosy onomastiki and, since 1994, has been co-editor of the journal onenological information .

He lives in Chemnitz-Adelsberg .

Works (selection)

  • Foreign language training in the past and present. Berlin: Main Department of Teacher Education of the Ministry of National Education, 1986
  • Russian word formation tools: a compendium. Berlin: Main Department of Teacher Education of the Ministry of Popular Education, 1987
  • Terminological minimum musicology: Russian-German, German-Russian. Berlin: Main Department of Teacher Education of the Ministry of Popular Education, 1988
  • Word and name in German-Slavic language contact: Ernst Eichler , from his students and friends. Böhlau, 1997 ISBN 3-412-06196-4
  • Place names of Southwest Saxony: the place names of the districts of Chemnitzer Land and Stollberg. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 2003 ISBN 3-05-003684-2
  • Festschrift in honor of Prof. Dr. Ernst Eichler. Leipzig University Publishing House, 2005
  • Family names in German: research and reference works; German surnames in the German-speaking area; Jürgen Udolph on his 65th birthday. Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, 2009 ISBN 978-3-86583-392-1

literature

  • Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 9th electoral period, Staatsverlag der DDR Berlin, 1987
  • Dietlind Kremer: Karlheinz Hengst on his 80th birthday. In: onenological information 103/104 (2014), pp. 547–553. ISSN  0943-0849 ( PDF )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stadtanzeiger Oberlungwitz, March 2009 issue, p. 9.
  2. ↑ a b c d biography on the homepage of the Gesellschaft für Namenkunde e. V. Archived from the original on February 13, 2013 ; accessed on February 16, 2020 .
  3. ^ Ernst Eichler: On the 65th birthday of Karlheinz Hengst. In: Universitäts-Journal Leipzig, issue 2/1999, p. 35. ISSN  0947-1049
  4. ^ New institute at the PH Zwickau . In: National-Zeitung of October 20, 1988.
  5. ↑ Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 300.
  6. ↑ Names are like ancient tins ( memento from April 29, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on April 6, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Stallion, Karlheinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German onomastics and politicians (NDPD)
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienberg