Eastern Europe Institute (Breslau)

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The German Eastern European Institute in Breslau was founded in 1918 and destroyed in 1945 .

Weimar Republic (1918–1933)

The Eastern European Institute in Breslau was the most important interdisciplinary, non-university research center on Eastern Europe with a focus on law and economics in the Weimar Republic . At the end of the Weimar Republic, the focus of his activities shifted from the disciplinary focus on law and economics in Eastern Europe (1924–1929) to the new focus of research into Russia and the Soviet Union under the direction of Otto Auhagens (1930–1933).

From April 1927 to March 1934, the “Eastern Europe Institute” together with the “German Society for the Study of Eastern Europe” published the “ Journal for Eastern Law ”.

National Socialist dictatorship (1933–1945)

After harmonization (1933–1937), the National Socialist Reich Ministry of the Interior determined the new tasks of the institute in 1937 . The research now concentrated on the folkish East Central Europe and Ukraine research under its director Hans Koch (1938-1940). During the Second World War there was a focus on economic policy.

As the successor to the "Zeitschrift für Ostrecht", the Eastern European Institute published the "Zeitschrift für Osturopäisches Recht " from 1934/1935 until probably November 1944. Axel von Freytagh-Loringhoven (1938), the lawyers Heinz Meyer (1941) and Ernst Heymann (1943) were among its editors or editors at various times . The magazine regularly talked about "Legislation and State Treaties" and the like. a. in the “ Generalgouvernement ”, in the “Occupied Eastern Territories” and the “ Reichskommissariat Ostland ”. Hans Globke was one of the authors of articles during the war .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ According to Thomas Ditt, Heinz Meyer was born in Breslau in 1906 and "died at the end of the war". In 1932 he received his doctorate in Breslau with a paper on the situation of religious minorities in Poland, presumably by Ludwig Waldecker ; see: Thomas Ditt: “Shock Troop Faculty Breslau”: Law in the “Grenzland Schlesien” 1933–1945, Mohr Siebeck, 2011, p. 173 f.
  2. ↑ As examples: “Ministerialrat Dr. Hans Globke (Berlin) “, The Supplementary Contract to the German-Slovak Citizenship Contract , in: Zeitschrift für Osteuropäisches Recht , November / December 1941, pp. 278–283; ders .: The citizenship of ethnic German resettlers from Eastern and Southeastern Europe, in: Journal for Eastern European Law , January 1943, pp. 1–26

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg: Eastern Europe Institute (OEI), Breslau. In: Online encyclopedia on the culture and history of Germans in Eastern Europe, 2014. URL: ome-lexikon.uni-oldenburg.de/p32794 (as of August 28, 2014)
  2. ↑ http://d-nb.info/012856959
  3. ↑ http://d-nb.info/012856932