Klaus Ziegler (philologist)

Klaus Ziegler (born October 21, 1908 in Magdeburg , † October 31, 1978 in Göttingen ) was a German philologist and Germanist.

Life

Ziegler studied in Göttingen in 1933 and was chairman of the “Socialist Student Union” and an active SPD member. After the seizure of 30 January 1933, he was from college relegated . Ziegler joined the SA in 1933 and the NSDAP in 1937 . On February 8, 1938, Ziegler received his doctorate with the dissertation Man and World in the Tragedy of Friedrich Hebbel . Ziegler was from 1942 assistant and from 1944 lecturer for German language and literature at the University of Strasbourg . Through Adam von Trott zu Solz , who had been friends with him since his student days , Ziegler was in contact with the resistance against National Socialism. In the final phase of the war he was denounced in Strasbourg for expressions critical of the regime.

After the liberation of Alsace in 1944, he went to teach at the Georg-August University in Göttingen in 1945 . There he was appointed adjunct professor in 1950. From 1955 to 1974 he was full professor for German language and literature at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen.

literature

Eckehard Catholy , Winfried Hellmann (Ed.): Festschrift for Klaus Ziegler . Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 1968 (bibliography p. 469–473)
Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1976. 12th edition, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1976, ISBN 3-11-004470-6 , p. 3613; 13th edition, 1980, ISBN 3-11-007434-6 , p. 4485 (in the Nekrolog)
Hanna Weischedel: Klaus Ziegler in memory of October 21, 1908 to October 31, 1978 . In: Attempto , 63. – 65. 1978-1979, pp. 250-252.

Web links

Gerd Simon: On the history of the> German Seminar <at the University of Tübingen

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. Jens Thiel : Academic “Tin Soldiers”? Careers of German humanities scholars between occupation and calling (1933/1945). In: Rüdiger vom Bruch , Uta Gerhardt , Aleksandra Pawliczek (eds.): Continuities and discontinuities in the history of science in the 20th century. Steiner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-515-08965-4 , p. 171.
^ Triltsch & Huther, Berlin 1938.
↑ Cf. Jens Thiel: Academic “Tin Soldiers”? Careers of German humanities scholars between occupation and calling (1933/1945). In: Rüdiger vom Bruch u. a. (Ed.): Continuities and discontinuities in the history of science in the 20th century. Stuttgart 2006, p. 171.

personal data
SURNAME	Ziegler, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philologist and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 21, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH	October 31, 1978
Place of death	Goettingen

[1] Cf. Jens Thiel : Academic “Tin Soldiers”? Careers of German humanities scholars between occupation and calling (1933/1945). In: Rüdiger vom Bruch , Uta Gerhardt , Aleksandra Pawliczek (eds.): Continuities and discontinuities in the history of science in the 20th century. Steiner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-515-08965-4 , p. 171.

[2] Triltsch & Huther, Berlin 1938.

[3] Cf. Jens Thiel: Academic “Tin Soldiers”? Careers of German humanities scholars between occupation and calling (1933/1945). In: Rüdiger vom Bruch u. a. (Ed.): Continuities and discontinuities in the history of science in the 20th century. Stuttgart 2006, p. 171.