Ralf G. Jahn

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Ralf G. Jahn (born September 5, 1965 in Geldern ) is a German historian and genealogist .

Life

After studying ancient history , classical archeology and philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , he did his Magister Artium (MA) in 1993 with a thesis on “The Descendence of Augustus . Genealogical studies on the history of the Principate ”. In it he put forward the thesis that the biological continuity in the Roman senatorial class between the republic and late antiquity was greater than generally assumed. In 2001, Jahn was awarded a doctorate by Klaus Rosen on the subject of "The Roman-Germanic War 9–16 AD". phil. PhD . The task of this work was to analyze the written sources and archaeological remains as well as the associated decisive research and the further description of the Augustan-Tiberian bellum Germanicum, i.e. about the war of Arminius against the Roman Empire ( Varus battle , campaigns of Germanicus ).

Jahn also studied historical auxiliary sciences / archival studies , Rhenish regional studies , prehistory and early history as well as political science and Polish . His specialties include nobility , genealogy , the history of the Lower Rhine , elite research, military history and antiquity . Ralf G. Jahn worked at the Kleve district archive and is now a freelance historian and academic genealogist. He is a historical advisor to the Genealogical-Etymological Lexicon of Johann Heinrich Barth. As a historical service provider, he conducts genealogical research, writes and publishes family and company histories, local chronicles and works as a ghostwriter. Among other things, Jahn found out how Paris Hilton of Charlemagne descended (ancestor in the 44th generation, Kekule no. 13.307.362.148.216). The genealogist traced Paris Hilton's family tree back to the 8th century and tracked down more than 1,400 relatives, including US President Theodore Roosevelt . The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung FAZ published a large portrait of the " Sherlock Holmes of genealogy".

Jahn is a historical consultant at the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (“The Friedrich Schiller Code”, “Schiller's Skull Fate”, “Dark Countess of Hildburghausen”, “News from the Dark Countess of Hildburghausen”). In front of the Harvard -Club Rhein-Main, Jahn gave a lecture on the topic “Is the United States Still a Republic? The Family and Power Networks of the Political Dynasties in the USA ”. Jahn also wrote the reports on the oldest mentions of the municipality of Weeze and the district of Geldern- Veert .

In the international joint project 'Laat vriendschap helen, wat border delen. The Duchy of Geldern as a bridge between the Netherlands and Germany '(2000–2001), Jahn was responsible for the organization and implementation of the scientific colloquium, the (co-) editing of the conference proceedings, the writing of exhibition texts, and expert advice on the preparation of the teacher and School volume "The Duchy of Geldern. A cross-border history book for schools, museums and archives", as well as the writing of several scientific articles. The Historical Association for Money and the Surrounding Area received the “Active Citizenship” award from the “Active Citizenship Foundation ” in 2002 for this project .

Solve historical puzzles

Schiller case

"The bones of no other historical personality have aroused such great interest and led to such a large number of specialist publications with controversial results and opinions as those of Friedrich Schiller. He is ascribed not only two skulls, but also two skeletons," he said Anthropologist Herbert Ullrich .

In 1826 the Mayor of Weimar Carl Leberecht Schwabe (1778–1851) recovered a skull from the Schiller vault in the vault of the Jakobskirchhof , which Ludwig Friedrich von Froriep (1779–1847) referred to as the Schillers and had it buried in the princely vault next to Goethe . Since then, this skull has been called the "Schwabe skull" (by Germanists and literary scholars) or "Fürstengruft skull" (by natural scientists).

The Fürstengruft skull was in Goethe's house from September 24, 1826 until the end of 1826 . On 25/26 In September 1826, Goethe wrote the terzines " On viewing Schiller's skull ". When Goethe wrote this, he had a skull in front of him, which he took to be Friedrich Schiller's. However, this did not happen in the ossuary (the poem begins with the verse "In the serious ossuary it was where I looked"), but in Goethe's house, where the skull lay on a blue velvet cushion under a glass lintel. Shortly before the supposed bones and Schiller's skull were embedded in the sarcophagus on November 16, 1827, the prince's crypt skull was cast on Goethe's behalf. The cast is now in Goethe's house on Frauenplan.

The authenticity of the skull has been hotly debated in the professional world since 1883 - especially among anatomists and anthropologists. In 1911 August von Froriep (1849–1917), the grandson of Ludwig Friedrich, excavated in the area of ​​the crypt of the former cashier's vault and brought 63 adult skulls to light. He diagnosed skull number 34 as that of Schiller. In 1912 August von Froriep presented this as the second Schiller skull, which is therefore also called the "Froriep skull".

In the interdisciplinary research project "The Friedrich Schiller Code" of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) and the Klassik-Stiftung Weimar , which wanted to solve the riddle about the authenticity of Schiller's skull, Ralf G. Jahn was significantly involved as a historian and genealogist. The director was Ute Gebhardt . Jahn, the “man in the background”, as he is called in the film, first checked and expanded the family trees of the Schiller's family and looked for descendants who were still alive. In total, Jahn identified 3798 ancestors and relatives of Schiller by name. Living descendants from the mother line would have simplified the investigation considerably. Jahn examined Schiller's dam line for the first time and came to the conclusion that there are no living offspring in a direct female line.

After it had been proven that the Fürstengruft skull did not genetically match a brother of Schiller's sister Christophine Reinwald (1757–1847), the project had to be expanded. In this context, Ralf G. Jahn researched the more precise circumstances at the Württemberg court in the period around Schiller's birth. The evidence obtained spoke hypothetically for a paternity of Duke Carl Eugen von Württemberg zu Schiller. The House of Württemberg made genetic comparison material available. But the comparison of the Y chromosomes showed no relationship in the paternal line.

The DNA analyzes were carried out by well-known molecular biologists ( Walther Parson , Odile Loreille , Michael Coble ) in Europe (Institute for Forensic Medicine of the Medical University of Innsbruck) and USA (Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, Rockville / Maryland) and came to the conclusion that that the "Fürstengruft skull" cannot be Schiller's skull. The DNA analyzes of the relatives, the sisters and the descendants of Schiller clearly showed similarities with regard to the mtDNA and the Y chromosomes, but by no means with the "Fürstengruft skull". In contrast, the findings of the morphological-metric methods come to the conclusion that the "princely crypt skull" is the real Schiller skull.

The anthropologist Herbert Ullrich came to the conclusion that the Fürstengruft skull was "with the greatest probability" the real Schiller skull, the geneticist and molecular biologist Walther Parson excludes exactly this 100%. "If the princely crypt skull should be from Schiller, Schiller could not have been his mother's son. In addition, his sons Carl and Ernst would be cuckoo children from the same lover of their mother. This one, however," concludes Jahn, "should be the son of a relative first Degree from Schiller's sister Christophine. " As an answer (synthesis) to the contradicting results of anthropological (thesis) and DNA studies (antithesis), Ralf G. Jahn brings the hypothesis of Schiller's double skull into play.

Jahn suspects that the original of Schiller's skull was "stolen by a contemporary skull hunter" sometime between 1805 and 1826 and was replaced by a similar skull adapted to the poet's teeth.

After meticulously evaluating a large number of publications, writings and files, Ralf G. Jahn created the hypothesis that no one other than Ludwig Friedrich von Froriep would have had the opportunity, the expertise and the motivation to intentionally exchange the real Schiller skull. He was not only a staunch supporter of the teachings of the phrenologist Franz Joseph Gall , but also owned one of the most extensive collections of skulls and bones of his time, which was kept very close to the box vault, Schiller's burial place.

Based on this “strong hypothesis” ( Hellmut Seemann , President of the Klassik Weimar Foundation) by Ralf G. Jahn, Ursula Wittwer-Ofen looked for the real Schiller skull on behalf of the MDR in the skull collections of Tübingen and Halle. She is also convinced that the princely crypt skull is a double skull of Schiller. The result was broadcast by the MDR on November 15, 2009 under the title "Schiller's skull fate". Jahn has written three books on the subject.

Conclusion: The Schiller DNA could be reconstructed, his remains are lost, but could be clearly identified in the event of emergence, the second Schiller skull ("Froriep skull") comes from the court lady Luise von Göchhausen (1752-1807) and the third Schiller skull (see below) comes from Duke Ernst August I of Saxe-Weimar. When Goethe wrote the Terzinen "On contemplation of Schiller's skull", he had the princely crypt skull in front of him. He also had a plaster cast of this.

Malte Herwig from SPIEGEL described the film “The Friedrich Schiller Code”, in which Jahn played a “key role” (Walther Parson), as a “master class in research”, an “exciting teaching piece about science”.

In the Schiller Museum ( Schillerhaus Weimar ) from September 24, 2009 to January 31, 2010, an exhibition on the subject of "Schiller's skull. Physiognomy of an obsession" took place, which was based in part on the results of the joint project "The Friedrich Schiller Code" of the MDR and the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. A comprehensive publication has been published by Wallstein-Verlag to accompany the exhibition.

The Classic Weimar Foundation removed the false Schiller skeleton from the crypt, leaving a single empty Schiller coffin. The bones once attributed to Schiller were reburied in an anonymous grave in the neighboring cemetery. Schiller's coffin has been empty since then. The two "Schiller skulls" are kept by the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology for possible further analysis. The Göchhausen skull ("Froriep skull") is to be buried again. According to the President of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar (2017), the right place would be the cash vault on the Jakobskirchhof , where Göchhausen and Schiller were once buried. The prince's crypt skull, on the other hand, should not be buried because it is of greater cultural and historical importance. It is conceivable that it will be placed in the Museum of Pre- and Early History of Thuringia , in the natural history collections in the Goethehaus or again in the princely crypt at the historical cemetery .

Romanov case

In the case of the “Friedrich Schiller Code”, instead of the second Schiller skull (“Froriep skull”) an unknown skull was found in the Weimar Princely Crypt, which the researchers called “RZ” (pure coincidence), the third Schiller skull, so to speak . But it had nothing to do with Schiller's DNA line. Using a Y- STR analysis , the researchers were able to prove that the data center belonged to the Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach line . Walther Parson noticed that the mtDNA sequence from RZ matched the mtDNA sequence that he (Parson) and Peter Gill had analyzed at Tsarina Alexandra . That meant: The skull RZ belonged to a person who was related to Tsarina Alexandra of Russia through the purely maternal line. The geneticists couldn't find out more. Ralf G. Jahn solved the riddle of the Tsarina's relative by identifying the only one who could fit both the Y-STR profile and the mtDNA: Duke Ernst August I of Saxony-Weimar (1688–1748), by reconstructing the mother line of the last Russian empress. Of the carriers of the gene combination - Romanov kinship on the mother's side, Wettiner on the father's side - only one had died at the age of 60 and was buried in the Weimar ducal crypt: Duke Ernst August I of Saxony-Weimar. Through his great-grandmother, Duchess Maria Elisabeth of Saxony (1610–1684), he was directly related to the last Tsarina of Russia through the maternal line. The previously controversial DNA of the Romanovs in Russia was confirmed by this reverse conclusion, and the last two children of the Tsar were identified.

Fall of Hitler

Ralf G. Jahn, who wrote a chronicle about the Hitler family ("Hitler's family secret - history and genealogy of the ancestors and relatives of Adolf Hitler "), is the protagonist of the TV documentary "Adolf Hitler - my grandfather?" By Ute Gebhardt. Historical and genetic research has clearly shown that Jean-Marie Loret could not have been Hitler's illegitimate son.

In the film, Jahn puts forward a hypothesis about the connection between Hitler's racial policy and his family secret. Hitler's relatively moderate phase between 1930 and 1937 was due, among other things, to the fact that Hitler had to reckon with being a quarter Jew during this time window. This internally unsettled the obsessed anti-Semite. After the genealogist Adolf Koppensteiner gave the all-clear in 1937, Hitler radicalized himself considerably. There is a connection between Hitler's own family history and the " dictatorship of the genealogical table " of National Socialism .

Jahn advised Channel 4 on the TV documentary "Dead Famous DNA 3of3 Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun" (Mark Evans). In this context, Eva Braun's DNA was analyzed.

Fall of the Dark Countess / Louis XVII.

Ralf G. Jahn has once again taken on the role of historian and genealogist for the research project " Dark Countess von Hildburghausen " of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR). The result is that the woman who was buried as the Dark Countess could not have been the Madame Royale (daughter of Queen Marie Antoinette of France ). Conversely, however, the until then controversial mtDNA of Madame Royale and thus that of her brother Louis XVII. beeing confirmed. This finally proves that he died in the Temple in 1795 . The film "News from the Dark Countess of Hildburghausen" followed in 2018. The question of whether the real Madame Royale was exchanged or not has not yet been answered. It was only proven that the "Dark Countess" had nothing to do with this hypothetical exchange.

Works

Publications (in selection)

  • The battle near Linnich 1444. Jülich 1994 (Jülich research no. 2).
  • The Roman-Germanic War (9-16 AD). Diss. Bonn 2001.
  • Article “ Lauritz Lauritzen ” in: Udo Kempf and Hans-Georg Merz (eds.): Chancellor and Minister 1949–1998. Biographical Lexicon of the German Federal Governments. Wiesbaden 2001, pp. 409-413.
  • The genealogy, the bailiffs, counts and dukes of Geldern. In: Johannes Stinner and Karl-Heinz Tekath (eds.): Gelre - Geldern - Gelderland. History and culture of the Duchy of Geldern. Geldern 2001, pp. 29–50 (publications by the State Archives of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Series D, Volume 30).
  • Geldern and Brabant. In: Johannes Stinner and Karl-Heinz Tekath (eds.): Gelre - Geldern - Gelderland. History and culture of the Duchy of Geldern. Geldern 2001, pp. 117–122 (Publications of the State Archives of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Series D, Volume 30).
  • Geldern and France. In: Johannes Stinner and Karl-Heinz Tekath (eds.): Gelre - Geldern - Gelderland. History and culture of the Duchy of Geldern. Geldern 2001, pp. 129–134 (Publications of the State Archives of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Series D, Volume 30).
  • The "Herald Gelre", the medieval heraldry and the Gelders nobility in the "Codex Gelre". In: Johannes Stinner and Karl-Heinz Tekath (eds.): Gelre - Geldern - Gelderland. History and culture of the Duchy of Geldern. Geldern 2001, pp. 395–402 (Publications of the State Archives of North Rhine-Westphalia, Series D, Volume 30).
  • Chronicle of the county and the duchy of Geldern. In: Johannes Stinner and Karl-Heinz Tekath (eds.): Gelre - Geldern - Gelderland. History and culture of the Duchy of Geldern. Geldern 2001, pp. 489-517 (Publications of the State Archives of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Series D, Volume 30).
  • The bailiffs, counts and dukes of Geldern until 1581. In: Johannes Stinner and Karl-Heinz Tekath (eds.): Gelre - Geldern - Gelderland. History and culture of the Duchy of Geldern. Geldern 2001, pp. 518-519 (Publications of the State Archives of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Series D, Volume 30).
  • Exhibition texts. In: Robert Plötz (ed.): The golden age of the Duchy of Geldern. History, art and culture in the 15th and 16th centuries. Geldern 2001 (Publications of the State Archives of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Series D, Volume 30).
  • De genealogie van de graven en hertogen van Gelre. In: Het hertogdom Gelre. Geschiedenis, kunst en cultuur tussen Maas, Rijn en IJssel. Utrecht 2003, pp. 33-47. Notes and literature: pp. 516-518.
  • Gelre en Brabant. In: Het hertogdom Gelre. Geschiedenis, kunst en cultuur tussen Maas, Rijn en IJssel. Utrecht 2003, pp. 121-126. Notes and literature: pp. 516–517.
  • Gelre en Frankrijk. In: Het hertogdom Gelre. Geschiedenis, kunst en cultuur tussen Maas, Rijn en IJssel. Utrecht 2003, pp. 134-139. Notes and literature: pp. 527-528.
  • 'Heraut Gelre', de rol van de middeleeuwse heraut en de Gelderse ridderschap in de 'Codex Gelre . In: Het hertogdom Gelre. Geschiedenis, kunst en cultuur tussen Maas, Rijn en IJssel. Utrecht 2003, pp. 315-322. Notes and literature: pp. 559–560.
  • Ralf G. Jahn, Karl-Heinz Tekath † and Bernhard Keuck (eds.): A good neighbor is a noble gem. The Duchy of Geldern in the field of tension between alliance and competition on the Meuse, Rhine and IJssel. Lectures of the 10th Lower Rhine Conference of the Working Group of Lower Rhine Municipal Archivists for Regional History (March 16/17, 2000 in Kevelaer). Geldern 2005
  • Geldern and France. In: Ralf G. Jahn, Karl-Heinz Tekath † and Bernhard Keuck (eds.): The Duchy of Geldern in the field of tension between alliance and competition on the Meuse, Rhine and IJssel. Lectures of the 10th Lower Rhine Conference of the Working Group of Lower Rhine Municipal Archivists for Regional History (March 16/17, 2000 in Kevelaer). Geldern 2005, pp. 84–93.
  • Genealogy of the Counts of Geldern-Egmond (t). Ralf G. Jahn, Karl-Heinz Tekath † and Bernhard Keuck (eds.): The Duchy of Geldern in the field of tension between alliance and competition on the Maas, Rhine and IJssel. Lectures of the 10th Lower Rhine Conference of the Working Group of Lower Rhine Municipal Archivists for Regional History (March 16/17, 2000 in Kevelaer). Geldern 2005, pp. 153–162.
  • The titles of the Counts and Dukes of Geldern. Ralf G. Jahn, Karl-Heinz Tekath † and Bernhard Keuck (eds.): The Duchy of Geldern in the field of tension between alliance and competition on the Maas, Rhine and IJssel. Lectures of the 10th Lower Rhine Conference of the Working Group of Lower Rhine Municipal Archivists for Regional History (March 16/17, 2000 in Kevelaer). Geldern 2005, pp. 163–172.
  • The division of the Duchy of Geldern. Ralf G. Jahn, Karl-Heinz Tekath † and Bernhard Keuck (eds.): The Duchy of Geldern in the field of tension between alliance and competition on the Maas, Rhine and IJssel. Lectures of the 10th Lower Rhine Conference of the Working Group of Lower Rhine Municipal Archivists for Regional History (March 16/17, 2000 in Kevelaer). Geldern 2005, pp. 173–176.
  • Geldern regent lists. In: Ralf G. Jahn, Karl-Heinz Tekath † and Bernhard Keuck (eds.): The Duchy of Geldern in the field of tension between alliance and competition on the Meuse, Rhine and IJssel. Lectures of the 10th Lower Rhine Conference of the Working Group of Lower Rhine Municipal Archivists for Regional History (March 16/17, 2000 in Kevelaer). Geldern 2005, pp. 176–182.
  • 30 years of the Kleve district. Politics and administration 1975-2004 (series of publications by the district of Kleve, volume 9).
  • 700 years Veert - chronicle of a village. Funds 2007.
  • Weezer noble families. In: Weeze community archive (ed.): Weeze and the space at Niers and Kendel in the Middle Ages. In: Weezer Archive - Weeze Community Series of publications, Volume 3, Weeze 2008, pp. 23–43.
  • Freiherr von Vittinghoff-Schell and politics. In: Weeze community archive (ed.): Felix Freiherr von Vittinghoff called Schell 1910–1992. In: Weezer Archive - Series of publications by the Weeze community, Volume 5, Weeze 2010, pp. 97–174.

Historical advice at the Genealogical-Etymological Lexicon by Johann Heinrich Barth:

  • Volume 1 German. 27,400 keywords. 1182 pages. Released in 2006.
  • Volume 2 Latin and French. 15,000 keywords. 392 pages. Released in 2007.
  • Volume 3 - Orbis Latinus. A directory of the most important Latin place, river and country names by Dr. JG Th. Graesse. Revised by Johann Heinrich Barth. 27,000 keywords. 424 pages. Released in 2011.
  • Volume 4 - Abbreviations. 25,500 terms. 386 pages. Released in 2019.
  • Volume 5 - Measures, Coins and Weights. Over 5,400 European terms. 598 pages. Released in 2019.
  • Digital database. Over 250,000 keywords. Released in 2006.

TV documentaries

  • The Friedrich Schiller Code (MDR), 2008.
  • Schiller's Skull Fate (MDR), 2009.
  • The Dark Countess of Hildburghausen (MDR), 2014.
  • Adolf Hitler - my grandfather? (Pulse 4), 2016.
  • Death Famous DNA, Part 3 - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun (Channel 4), 2016.
  • News about the Dark Countess of Hildburghausen (MDR), 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ralf G. Jahn: The Roman-Germanic War (9-16 AD). Dissertation, University of Bonn 2001, p. 329.
  2. Ralf G. Jahn: The Roman-Germanic War (9-16 AD). Dissertation, University of Bonn 2001, p. 16.
  3. Monika Kriegel: Camilla explored. Geldern historian is an expert on the noble families. In: Rheinische Post from March 31, 2005 (local edition Geldern).
  4. Does Paris Hilton descend from Charlemagne? In: BILD of August 10, 2007. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  5. ^ Paris Hilton direct descendant of Charlemagne. Genealogy unearths exciting family stories. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  6. Mattias Hannemann: I am the Sherlock Holmes of genealogy. In: FAZ of August 8, 2007. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  7. Invitation. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  8. Ralf G. Jahn: First written mention of the "villa Geizefurt" in the year 855. In: Weezer history. Yearbook 2004, pp. 8-21.
  9. ^ Ralf G. Jahn: Veert is 700 years old. In: Geldrischer Heimatkalender (GHK) 2007, pp. 176–182.
  10. ^ Exhibition "The Golden Age of the Duchy of Geldern. History, art and culture in the 15th and 16th centuries / De gouden eeuw van Gelre. Art en cultuur in het oude hertogdom ”(March 24 to June 24, 2001 Niederrheinisches Museum für Volkskunde und Kulturgeschichte Kevelaer, September 8 to November 18, 2001 Museum Het Valkhof Nijmegen, December 1, 2001 to February 10, 2002 Stedelijk Museum Zutphen , March 2 to April 28, 2002 Stedelijk Museum Roermond).
  11. Herbert Ullrich: ... and the dispute over Schiller's skull goes on forever. Munich 2008, p. 85.
  12. Walter Hinderer : Schiller and no end. Metamorphoses and creative appropriations. Würzburg 2009, p. 50f.
  13. Herbert Ullrich: ... and the dispute over Schiller's skull goes on forever. Munich 2008, p. 128.
  14. Malte Herwig: "The exchanged heads". In: DER SPIEGEL 19/2008. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  15. Ute Gebhardt: The modern natural sciences in the service of Schiller skull research. In: Jonas Maatsch u. Christoph Schmälzle (Ed. On behalf of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar): Schiller's skull. Physiognomy of an obsession. Accompanying volume to the exhibition “Schiller's Skull - Physiognomy of an Idea”, Schiller Museum, Weimar, September 24, 2009 to January 31, 2010. pp. 177–201, esp. Pp. 178f.
  16. Ute Gebhardt: The modern natural sciences in the service of Schiller skull research. In: Jonas Maatsch u. Christoph Schmälzle (Ed. On behalf of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar): Schiller's skull. Physiognomy of an obsession. Accompanying volume to the exhibition “Schiller's Skull - Physiognomy of an Idea”, Schiller Museum, Weimar, September 24, 2009 to January 31, 2010. pp. 177–201, esp. P. 197.
  17. Walter Hinderer: Schiller and no end. Metamorphoses and creative appropriations. Würzburg 2009, p. 54f.
  18. Herbert Ullrich: ... and the dispute over Schiller's skull goes on forever. Munich 2008, p. 92: "Based on traditional methods according to the current state of research, the 'Fürstengruft' skull is most likely the real Schiller skull. Its size and proportions, its essential profile outlines and numerous morphological features match the Schiller's plaster death mask ('Weimar Mask 200'). Deviations can be explained by inadequacies in the death mask acceptance as well as in the production of the 'Weimar Mask 200'. "
  19. Walther Parson: At some point everything will come to light. Salzburg 2014, p. 227f .: "The DNA analysis results were confirmed by the American laboratory on the independent parallel samples. This also eliminated the possibility that we were wrong in the Innsbruck laboratory. With this double DNA test we were able to conclusively explain that the Schwabe skull did not belong to Friedrich von Schiller's family, and the rest of the Schwabe skeleton, at least those samples that produced DNA results, belonged neither to the Schiller family nor to the skull, but to other people. [...] The analyzes by the chemist Thomas Prohaska confirmed our findings. [...] Even if the results were painful for many Schiller relic friends, they were waterproof. "
  20. Malte Herwig: "The exchanged heads". In: DER SPIEGEL 19/2008. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  21. Herbert Ullrich: Goethe's skeleton and Schiller's skull. In: Mitteilungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, Vol. 31 (2010), pp. 159–178, esp. P. 172.
  22. Walter Hinderer: Schiller and no end. Metamorphoses and creative appropriations. Würzburg 2009, pp. 52, 54.
  23. ^ Herbert Ullrich: Schiller's sister Christophine and son Ernst - comparative skull considerations. In: New excavations and finds in Thuringia 7 (2012/2013), pp. 233–246, esp. P. 245.
  24. Walther Parson: At some point everything will come to light. Salzburg 2014, p. 228.
  25. Walter Hinderer: Schiller and no end. Metamorphoses and creative appropriations. Würzburg 2009, p. 55.
  26. ^ Herbert Ullrich: Schiller's sister Christophine and son Ernst - comparative skull considerations. In: New excavations and finds in Thuringia 7 (2012/2013), pp. 233–246, esp. P. 244.
  27. Walther Parson: At some point everything will come to light. Salzburg 2014, p. 216.
  28. Malte Herwig: "The exchanged heads". In: DER SPIEGEL 19/2008. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  29. Walther Parson: At some point everything will come to light. Salzburg 2014, p. 227.
  30. “Schiller's false skull should go back underground”. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, August 27, 2017. Accessed July 20, 2020 .
  31. What to do with Schiller's fake skull? Nordwestzeitung Online from August 28, 2017, accessed on August 21, 2020.
  32. Ute Gebhardt: The modern natural sciences in the service of Schiller skull research. In: Jonas Maatsch u. Christoph Schmälzle (Ed. On behalf of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar): Schiller's skull. Physiognomy of an obsession. Accompanying volume to the exhibition “Schiller's Skull - Physiognomy of an Idea”, Schiller Museum, Weimar, September 24, 2009 to January 31, 2010. pp. 177–201, esp. P. 192.
  33. Walther Parson: At some point everything will come to light. Salzburg 2014, p. 229f.
  34. Bettina Seipp: No children for the Hitler family. In: WELT from January 23, 2007. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  35. Adolf Hitler, my grandfather? A life in the shadow of history. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  36. Why did Hitler not have children? In: BILD of October 8, 2018. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  37. Dead Famous DNA 3of3 Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  38. ^ Adam Sherwin: Did Adolf Hitler marry a Jewish woman? DNA tests 'show Eva Braun associated with Ashkenazi Jews'. In: Independent of April 5, 2014. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  39. Madame Royale's interest group: The science project on the Dark Countess of Hildburghausen, p. 7. Accessed on July 20, 2020 .