Michael Achmeteli

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Michael Akhmeteli ( Georgian : მიხეილ ახმეტელი, Mikheil Akhmeteli) (born April 27, 1895 in Borjomi ; † 1963 ) was a Georgian scholar, an expert on Soviet agriculture and later head of the Wannsee Institute , an SS-controlled research institute for Soviet studies in Berlin during the Third Reich .

He was born in Borjomi in south-central Georgia in 1895, then part of the Russian Empire . After attending the humanistic aristocratic high school in Tbilisi , Akhmeteli studied at the University of Kharkov (between 1915 and 1917) and received a scholarship from the government of the newly independent Georgia to study at the University of Jena in 1919. The Soviet takeover of Georgia prevented his return to his home. Akhmeteli doctorate in Jena in 1924 to Dr. rer. pole. From 1927 he worked as a scientific employee and later (senior) assistant at the Eastern European Institute in Breslau . In 1930 he completed his agricultural studies in Breslau and obtained his doctorate. phil. In 1934 he worked there as a lecturer in Russian studies and Russian economics. In the following year he was a substitute professor for economics at the TH Breslau . In 1936 he completed his habilitation.

In 1937 Achmeteli moved to the newly created Wannsee Institute in Berlin and became its director. He was initially on friendly terms with Alfred Rosenberg and the authorities expected him to expand his knowledge of the Soviet economy. Under the pseudonym Konstantin Michael , he published a book on Soviet agriculture and forced collectivization . In 1940, in the middle of World War II, he was dismissed as head of the Wannsee Institute in order to head the Berlin Georgian National Committee. This recruited Soviet prisoners of war of Georgian origin to work in the so-called Georgian Legion . Achmeteli also taught from 1937 as an associate professor and from 1941 as a full professor of folklore and regional studies of the Soviet Union at the " University of Applied Sciences Abroad" and "Faculty of Foreign Studies" of the University of Berlin (former seminar for oriental languages ). He also headed the Russian Institute at the University of Berlin.

After the war, Achmeteli settled in Munich and worked as a professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University . He remained an opponent of Soviet rule in Georgia and participated in the anti-Bolshevik bloc of nations .

Achmeteli was with Ruth Frieda Johanna, geb. Göhring, married. The marriage resulted in a child.

Publications

  • The economic importance of Transcaucasia with a special focus on Georgia. Dissertation, University of Jena , 1924.
  • The Law of Decreasing Income Accrual and Its Present Assessment. Dissertation, University of Wroclaw , 1932.
  • Cross-section through the industry of Soviet Russia. In: Oskar Eugen Günther: Ostraum reports. No. 1, Osteuropa-Institut Breslau, 1935, pp. 70-128.
  • The qualitative achievements and the operating conditions of the Soviet Russian industry. In: Oskar Eugen Günther: Ostraum reports. No. 2, Eastern European Institute Breslau, 1935, p. 80 ff.
  • The agricultural policy of the Soviet Union and its results. Nibelungen-Verlag , Berlin 1936.
  • Peasants under the Soviet star. Blood and soil publishing house, Goslar 1938.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Laqueur, Walter (1990), Russia and Germany: A Century of Conflict , p. 194. Transaction Publishers, ISBN 0-88738-349-1 .
  2. ↑ Michael Grüttner , Heinz-Elmar Tenorth (ed.): History of the University of Unter den Linden. Volume 2, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-05-004667-9 , p. 483.
  3. ↑ Achmeteli, Michael. In: Erich Stockhorst: 5000 heads: Who was what in the 3rd Reich. VMA-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1967.
  4. ↑ Mikaberidze, Alexander (ed., 2006), Akhmeteli, Mikheil. Georgian National Dictionary of Biography . Accessed May 6, 2008
  5. ↑ Bakradze, Lasha, ქართველები გერმანელების მხარეზე მეორე მსოფლიო ომში, Georgians on the German side in World War II . National Parliamentary Library of Georgia. Accessed May 6, 2008.
  6. ↑ Achmeteli, Michael. In: Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? 12th edition of Degener's Who's It ?. Arani, Berlin 1955.
personal data
SURNAME Achmeteli, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES მიხეილ ახმეტელი; Akhmeteli, Mikheil; Michael, Konstantin (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian scholar, expert on Soviet agriculture
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Borjomi , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 1963