Lothar Selke

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Lothar Selke (born January 14, 1909 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † January 24, 1980 in Munich ) was a German historian and journalist .

Life

Lothar Selke was a descendant of Salzburg exiles and the grandson of the Königsberg mayor Karl Selke . He attended the Potsdam Cadet Institute . After graduating from high school in March 1929, he studied law , economics , newspaper studies and history at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In the summer semester of 1929 he became a member of the Corps Littuania , which Gustav von Saltzwedel , his great-grandmother's brother, had founded 100 years earlier. Committed to university politics, he was elected chairman of the German student body at Albertus University in 1930 by the Königsberg corporation representatives. He held the office for several years. With a newspaper science theme doctorate he became Dr. phil.

During the Second World War he worked in the arms industry, first in Königsberg, then in Berlin . When Bonn became the seat of government of the newly formed Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 , Selke was a business journalist and member of the Federal Press Conference there . In addition, he was managing director of the Emergency Association of Expelled University Lecturers . In 1950 he received the ribbon from Albertina, Littuania's successor corps in Hamburg.

He moved to Munich in 1954 and became a co-founder and executive member of the board of the German Home Office for Scientists and Artists. V. He was involved in the research society for the world refugee problem . In Munich he was MC for Makaria , Littuania's cartel corps . He took an active part in the life of the Munich Seniors' Convention . In 1966 he also became a member of the Corps Frankonia Brünn, which was reconstituted in Salzburg in 1964 and has been a sponsor of the Münchner SC since 1968. Until 1972 Selke was chairman of Frankonia's old manor . The Corps awarded him honorary membership in 1976.

Selke was buried on January 29, 1980 in the Nordfriedhof (Munich) .

Works

  • with Gertrud Krallert: Dormitories and places of work for scientists and artists . Munich 1961.
  • The Brno University of Technology and its corporate structure . Europa Ethnica 2 (1975), pp. 50-82; also posthumously : Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 44 (1999), pp. 71–112.
  • History of the Corps Frankonia in Salzburg , 1975.
  • The now no longer Austrian universities of the monarchy and their corporations , Vol. 4. Vienna 1978
  • In memory of the 150th anniversary of the Federal Festival of Littuania, January 31, 1829 to January 31, 1979 . Munich 1979.
  • Littauer in the Paulskirche , 1979.
  • High schools as a legacy of the Danube Monarchy . Contributions to Austrian student history, Vol. 7. Vienna 1981.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: The journalistic struggle for labor service in the Königsberg daily press , 1941
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 85/908; 2/130; 41/182.
  3. ↑ Hans Passauer: Obituary for Dr. Lothar Selke Littuaniae, Albertinae, Frankoniae Brünn zu Salzburg . Albertus (Corps newspaper of the Albertina Hamburg), No. 39
personal data
SURNAME Selke, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1980
Place of death Munich