Martin Wutte

Martin Wutte (born December 15, 1876 in Obermühlbach ; † January 30, 1948 ibid) was an Austrian, initially German national and later National Socialist Carinthian regional historian.

Life

In 1896 Martin Wutte passed his Matura with distinction at the State High School in Villach . After studying history and geography at the University of Graz , he obtained his doctorate in 1901. phil. He then taught in Graz , Marburg an der Drau and at the State High School in Klagenfurt . Wutte was secretary of the Carinthian History Association from 1907 to 1938, editor of the Carinthia magazine (1913-1939), director of the Carinthian State Archives from 1923 to 1939 and author of numerous publications. In addition, he was a clerk for Carinthia in the Austrian delegation in Saint Germain (1919) in preparation for the Carinthian referendum .

Critics of his views primarily criticize his so-called Windisch theory . Supporters use Wutte as a source for the pro-Carinthian voting behavior and the “home loyalty” of the Windischen in the Carinthian referendum of 1920 or for the reverse conclusion on the voting behavior of the Carinthian Slovenes .

In 1942 Wutte joined the NSDAP . During the same period, Wutte revised and expanded his second edition, the most important publication Carinthian Freedom Struggle 1918–1920, in such a way that there is no doubt about his anti-Semitic resentment, his fundamentalist rejection of pacifism and ardent enthusiasm for Adolf Hitler's aggressive foreign policy .

Awards and honors

• 1928: Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 1942: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Prize of the FVS Foundation, awarded by the University of Graz

Publications

• The linguistic conditions in Carinthia based on the census of 1900 and its changes in the 19th century , in: Carinthia I., 96 , 1906.
• The linguistic conditions in Krain , in: Deutsche Erde, Vol. 8 , 1909.
• Germans and Slovenes in Carinthia , in: Carinthia I., 109 , 1919.
• Carinthian freedom fight 1918–1920 , Klagenfurt, 1922 (new edition R. Habelt 1985, ISBN 3-7749-2251-9 ).
• Regional studies of Carinthia . 1923 (together with Franz Lex and Viktor Paschinger).
• The linguistic conditions in Carinthia after the census of 1923 , in: Carinthia I., 114 , 1924.
• The fight for South Carinthia . 1925.
• The situation of the minorities in Carinthia and Slovenia . Klagenfurt, 1926 (together with Oskar Lobmeyr).
• German-Windisch-Slovenian . Klagenfurt, 1927.
• The situation of the Slovenes in Carinthia , in: Nation und Staat 5 , 1931/32.
• History of the German settlement in Carniola , in: Concise dictionary of border and foreign Germanism, vol. 3 , Breslau, 1938.
• On the history of the settlement. An overview , in: Oberkrain , Krainburg, 1942. (Together with Viktor Paschinger and Georg Graber ).
• Carinthia's struggle for freedom . 2., reworked. u. Probably ed., Klagenfurt, 1943.
• Carinthia's ways to the sea in old and new times , in: Carinthia I. 133 , 1943.

literature

• Fritz Fellner , Doris A. Corradini: Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon. Böhlau, Wien et al. 2006, ISBN 3-205-77476-0 , p. 465 ( Publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria. Vol. 99).
• Martin Fritzl: The "Carinthian Science", National Socialism and the Slovenes. Scientific services for the Nazi regime using the example of Martin Wuttes and the “Institute for Carinthian State Research”. Diss. Vienna 1991.
• Hellwig Valentin: The idea of ​​a “Carinthian Republic” in 1918/19. A contribution to the history of Austrian regional particularism. Klagenfurt 1992.
• Wilhelm Neumann : Martin Wutte and his judgment on the National Socialist Slovenian policy in Carinthia and Carniola based on his memorandum of September 19, 1943. In: Carinthia I 176 (1986). Pp. 9-40.
• Wilhelm Neumann: Martin Wutte (1867–1948) in memory. Festschrift for the installation of the memorial plaques in Klagenfurt and Obermühlbach . History Association for Carinthia. Klagenfurt 1988.
• Peter Tosoni: Martin Wutte - life and work of a Carinthian historian. With summarium. Diss. Graz 1966.
• Jan Zimmermann: The FVS Foundation's Culture Awards 1935–1945. Presentation and documentation. Edited by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS Hamburg 2000.

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Wutte in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Martin Wutte in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Literature for / about Martin Wutte (selection) on the website of the Historical Commission for Styria