War lectures University of Bonn
The War Lectures of the University of Bonn (official name of the War Lectures of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn a. Rh. ) Were given in public lectures on topics from a wide range of different subject areas during the Second World War , and most of them were published in a specially published series.
Lecture series and booklets
The majority of the lectures were given in the context of a special series of lectures from the first three-semester in 1939 until the university closed in 1944 with a common main topic. The authors were professors and lecturers from the University of Bonn, some came as guest lecturers from other universities (e.g. Leipzig, Groningen) as well as from NSDAP organizations and the Wehrmacht .
The publisher of the series of the same name was the Gaudozentenführer Karl F. Chudoba , who was also rector of the University of Bonn. The booklets were published by the Bonn University Book Printing Company Gebr. Scheur, GmbH .
In 1942, in a foreword in Volume 100, Chudoba explains the background to the lectures: ... at the same time the decisive intellectual and ideological debate about the new meaning of history ... and the new order of Europe should be arranged. Similar in tone to 1943: The war lectures ... are not just a joint effort , but also a war effort by the lecturers at the Bonn Alma mater; they were taken up at the beginning of the current world war, which determined our people's size or destruction, ... when the universities ... were shut down for military-political reasons in their lectures ...
The lecture topics and contents show the clear influence of the National Socialist ideology on the scientific image of the time. However, not all authors were members of the NSDAP or one of its organizations, for example Zycha (lecture 1940: The struggle of the Germans for their rights in Böhmen, issue 9) was replaced as rector of the university in 1933 because of his critical attitude. Kern (2 lectures, 11, 39) joined a resistance group in 1944 . Others, such as Chudoba, Feldmann , Obenauer , Tackenberg or Schiedermair, were staunch National Socialists.
The order of the lecture books is not strictly chronological. Some issues, including those from the lecture series, appeared later than other issues in the series. There is no evidence today for issues 48, 50–53, 111–114, 121–128, 137–150: they are probably no longer in print.
A total of 129 lecture booklets were published: 29 booklets appeared in 1940, 21 in 1941, 31 in 1942, 26 in 1943 and 22 in 1944. In 1943 an anthology of all the lectures in the series Der Kampf um den Rhein was published .
Subject of the series | Issue numbers | Year of publication |
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What should we know about the enemy? | 1-9 | 1940 |
General lectures | 10-20a, 90 | 1940-1942 |
Science in the fight for Germany | 21-29,37,41,44 | 1940-1941, 1944 |
The battle for the Rhine | 31-40 | 1940-1941 |
Europe and the colonies | 45-47.49.54 | 1941-1942 |
Greece | 55-64 | 1941-1942 |
Holland and Flanders | 65-72 | 1942 |
Art and science | 81-86.89 | 1942-1944 |
Forms of leadership of the peoples | 91-97 | 1942 |
The Mediterranean as a European fate | 101-108 | 1942 |
Europe's northern country | 115-120 | 1943 |
Famous professors from Bonn | 129-136 | 1944 |
European spirit - European culture | 151-159 | 1944 |
Lecturers (selection)
- Andreas von Antropoff (see Neutronium and others) issue 28
- Oskar Becker issue 60, 97, 157
- Erwin von Beckerath issue 135
- Erich Bickel issue 32, 58/59, 105
- Hans Blunck issue 14
- Karl F. Chudoba issue 25, 83, 84, 100
- Gerhard Deeters issue 56
- Erich Feldmann issue 7, 38
- Johannes Frießner volume 43
- Josef Grohé issue 40
- Robert Heidenreich issue 102
- Hans Herter issue 57, 92, 152
- Anton Jirku issue 101
- Leo Just issue 2, 19, 36
- Hans Kauffmann issue 86
- Fritz Kern issue 39
- Willibald Kirfel issue 133
- Theodor Klauser issue 62
- Max Koernicke issue 18, 47, 132
- Ernst Langlotz issue 61, 151
- Rudolf Lochner issue 99
- Gustav Mensching issue 31, 93
- Hans Naumann issue 65, 96, 100, 103, 116, 118, 129
- Karl Justus Obenauer Volume 35, 78
- Friedrich Oertel issue 55, 107
- Helmuth Osthoff issue 81
- Fritz Theodor Overbeck issue 115
- Friedrich Panse issue 30
- Gottfried Pfeifer issue 49
- Kurt Pohlisch issue 29
- Erich Rothacker issue 34, 83
- Vinzenz Rüfner issue 94, 106
- Ludwig Schiedermair issue 41
- Joseph Schmidt-Görg issue 66, 155
- Alfred Stange booklet 67, 82, 117, 153
- Franz Steinbach issue 20
- Kurt Tackenberg issue 12, 32
- Hermann Trimborn issue 45, 54
- Georg Tröscher issue 136, 156
- Wilhelm Vleugel's booklet 5
- Johannes Wanner issue 70
- Hellmuth von Weber issue 159
- Karl Weisenberger Volume 42
- Hermann Wurmbach issue 26
- Matthias Zender issue 69
- Adolf Zycha issue 9
literature
- Ralf Forsbach: The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the "Third Reich" . Ouldenburg, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57989-4 , pp. 675 .
- Michael F. Feldkamp : Reich church historiography and borderland research. On the scientific and journalistic work of the Bonn historian Leo Just (1901–1964) . In: B. Dietz, H. Gabel, U. Tiedau (Eds.): Reach for the West: The "West Research" of the ethnic-national sciences on the north-west European area (1919-1960) Volume II (= studies on the history and culture of north-west Europe ). tape 6 . Waxmann, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8309-1144-0 , p. 1027 ff .
- Fabian Sösemann: Richard Thoma . In: Mathias Schmoeckel (Ed.): The lawyers of the University of Bonn in the "Third Reich" (= legal historical writings ). tape 18 . Böhlau, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-412-12903-8 , pp. 576 .
- Thomas Mittmann: From 'favorite' to 'primary enemy' of the Jews . K + N, Würzburg 2006, ISBN 3-8260-3273-X , p. 111 f .
- Eckart Mentzler-Trott: Gentzens Problem: Mathematical Logic in National Socialist Germany . Birkhäuser, Basel 2001, ISBN 3-7643-6574-9 , p. 166 ff .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Naumann: The Nibelungenlied . In: Karl F. Chudoba (ed.): War Lectures at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Bonn a.Rh . tape 100 . Gebr Scheur - Bonn University Printing House , Bonn 1942, DNB 361933223 .
- ^ Foreword by the editor . In: Karl F. Chudoba (ed.): War Lectures at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Bonn a.Rh . Gebr Scheur - University Printing House Bonn, Bonn 1943, DNB 580331385 .