Kurt Oberdorffer

Kurt Oberdorffer (born April 28, 1900 in Schluckenau , Austria-Hungary , † November 10, 1980 in Traunreut ) was a National Socialist , historian , archivist and administrative specialist from the Sudetenland .

biography

Kurt Oberdorffer, a son of the lawyer Leonhard Oberdorffer (* 1875 in Prague, died 1956 Korneuburg / Lower Austria), tax officer in Leitmeritz, Schluckenau, Gablonz and Prague, 1918 in the Ministry of Finance in Vienna, legal consultant of the coal trading company I. Petschek and Aussig, 1918/1919 significantly involved in the expansion of the negotiation documents for the Bohemian countries in the peace negotiations, was a student at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague, received his doctorate there with the dissertation The Chronicle of Benesch von Weitmühl as a doctor of philosophy and expanded the study in Vienna at the institute for Austrian history with a state examination for the higher administrative service and archives.

In the period between World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), at the time of the first Czechoslovakia founded in 1919, Kurt Oberdorffer was active for the Sudeten German Party after 1933 and worked as an archivist. For Konrad Henlein , he kept in touch with the leading folk scholars in the German Reich from 1933 to 1945 and was a liaison to the Reichsführer SS security service until the Munich Agreement and the annexation of the Sudeten areas to the German Reich in 1938.

During the Second World War , Kurt Oberdorffer was the main force in the management of the Sudeten German Institute for Regional and Folk Research in Liberec (Reichenberg) in northern Bohemia , the capital of the Reichsgau Sudetenland . With Rudolf Schreiber he was editor of the magazine for Sudeten German history .

For Oberdorffer, archivist and museum director in Brüx, today's Most in the Czech Republic , from 1924 to 1938 , a career as an SS Sturmbannführer began in 1939. The National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) counted him among its members since 1939. From 1940 until the end of the war in May 1945 he headed the department for culture and science of the district administration of the Reichsgau Sudetenland , was SS-Oberführer in the training office of the SS main office in Berlin in 1942 and became the deputy of the district leader in the Reichsgau Sudetenland in 1943. In 1945 he was called up for military service and was taken prisoner by the United States until 1948. After his release, Oberdorffer joined the Johann Gottfried Herder Research Council in Marburg from 1950 .

From 1953 to 1963 Kurt Oberdorffer was museum director and city archivist in Ludwigshafen . Since 1950 he has been exchanging information about research on the East with Bruno Schier , Eugen Lemberg , Hermann Aubin , Josef Hanika and Wilhelm Weizsäcker and others . At the end of the fifties, Kurt Oberdorffer founded the Collegium Carolinum eV, a research center for the history of the Bohemian countries in Munich , which was connected to the Gottfried Herder Research Council in Marburg, and became its chairman. The aim of the facility was to continue the Sudeten German scientific facilities in a new institution. The association was promoted as a non-profit with public funds.

Oberdorffer was elected chairman of the Historical Commission of the Sudetenland in 1955 . During his tenure until 1968, his life and work was not a topic for historical research.

Fonts

• The old Brüx canton ; 1924
• Studies on the privileges of the Cistercians in Bohemia and Moravia ; 1924
• with Helmut Preidel: guide through the prehistoric department of the city museum in Brüx ; Brux 1927
• A Brüx solution register from 1825 ; 1934
• The pledge of north-west Bohemia to Sachsen-Meissen in 1425 ; 1939
• The Sudetenland in German History ; 1938
• Ludwigshafen and its honorary mayors 1863–1896 ; 1964
• Ludwigshafen chemist , Düsseldorf 1958, vol. II Düsseldorf 1960
• Writer and editor directory , in: Sudetendeutscher Kulturalmanach (SDKA) 6; 1967

Other extensions

• Kurt Oberdorffer: Thoughts on the question of scientific ethnicity research in the Sudetenland. December 20, 1938, in: Science Policy under National Socialism and the University of Prague. Documents introduced and edited by Gerd Simon, Tübingen 2001, pp. 44–49, (publications of the Society for Interdisciplinary Research 2).
• Kurt Oberdorffer: The Sudeten Germany in German history. Jena 1938.

literature

• Ferdinand Seibt , Hans Lemberg , Helmut Slapnicka: Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , Vol. III, R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-55973-7 , p. 81 Oberdorffer, Kurt; P. 82 Oberdorffer, Leonhard, his father
• Brüxer Heimatzeitung 24, 1980, Helmut Preußler Verlag
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 1970
• Sudetendeutscher Kulturalmanach (SDKA), 1967, pp. 176-179
• Prager Nachrichten 1 (1950 ff.), 31, 1980 F.2
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. 2nd Edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Ingo Haar (Hrsg.): Handbook of the national sciences. Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-11778-7 , pp. 444-448.

Web links

• Christiane Brenner : The "Sudeten German Historiography" 1918–1960. on geschichte.hu-berlin.de
• Hans Henning Hahn : Professors in the popular struggle. On: bohemistik.de.