Emergency Association of Displaced University Lecturers

The Emergency Association of Displaced University Lecturers was an interest group of university professors based in Bonn .

history

→ Main article : Flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe 1945 to 1950 , expellees  and Göttingen working group

In 1944/45 the professors and lecturers were expelled from the universities in the eastern regions of the German Reich . In West Germany they were unemployed and unwelcome competitors of the emerging and established academics. Wilhelm Felgentraeger and Max Hildebert Boehm therefore invited their colleagues to Hamburg at the beginning of 1950 . On February 23, 1950, the 50 people who appeared founded the emergency association of ousted university teachers . In coordination with the emerging German University Association , it should represent the group of people. The Hamburg action program criticized the inadequate commitment of the West German Rectors' Conference . In 1952 the name was changed to the Emergency Association of Expelled University Lecturers . In the same year, Theodor Wessels warned at the Rectors' Conference in Kiel not to favor old National Socialists with new budget positions and research professorships . With the many Nazi ordinaries in West Germany , that was a transparent argument.

As honorary chairman of the NVH, Walter Hoffmann (1891–1972) worked with the Federal Compensation Office , an office affiliated with the Federal Ministry of the Interior with official headquarters in Cologne-Deutz . As recently as 1954, around 500 of the displaced university lecturers had not found employment. It was therefore considered, “this z. To summarize currently idle forces in a scientific academy ” . One thought primarily of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . In a letter to Erich Haslinger in 1954 , Hans Baatz referred to the worldwide connections and interests of Bremen, which, unlike Hamburg, had no university. Such a project would be facilitated by the legal status of the displaced university professors as 131 students . In his reply, Haslinger recommended two contact persons; the chances of success did not seem low to him:

"The people of Bremen have the quirk of building an international university here sooner or later, and since money is plentiful, I could imagine that, with skilful negotiations, the interests of the emergency association of expelled professors could possibly be brought in here."

- Erich Haslinger

literature

• Walter Hoffmann: Commitment to Science - List of publications of the publications of expelled professors since 1945 . 1953. GoogleBooks

Web links

• Forgotten Science (Bavarian Library Association)
• Christa Hempel-Küter: German Studies between 1925 and 1955 . Habilitation thesis Universität Hamburg 1997

Individual evidence

1. ^ Post-war problems : Consequences of the war and burdens of the past , in German University Association: History of the German University Association
2. ↑ 175 TU Dresden
3. ^ Anikó Szabó: Expulsion, return, reparation. Göttingen university professor in the shadow of National Socialism . Wallstein, Göttingen
4. ↑ German Literature Lexicon. The 20th Century , Vol. 3, Blaas - Braunfels
5. ↑ Baatz to Haslinger, March 10, 1954 (Corps Masovia archive)
6. ↑ Haslinger to Baatz, March 12, 1954 (Corps Masovia archive)