Raymond Schmittlein

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Raymond Schmittlein (born June 19, 1904 in Roubaix , North Department , † September 24, 1974 in Colmar , Haut-Rhin department ) was a French general and politician.

Life

Schmittlein's father came from Alsace and grew up in Mainz , later he was an engineer, including in Berlin . He was with Louise, geb. Schérer, also from Alsace, married. Both parents died in 1915 when the Germans had conquered Roubaix, but without any direct involvement in the war.

Raymond Schmittlein grew up in Roubaix and studied literature in Paris and Berlin ; as a Germanist , he taught German, but also Finnish, Russian and English. In March 1932 he married the German Gerta Eichholz.

Before 1939 he was an inspector for French teaching abroad. He has taught in Kaunas , Stockholm and Riga . During World War II he took part in the Battle of Narvik and then joined the Free French Armed Forces in Egypt.

In 1945 he founded the Lehrmittel-Verlag Offenburg-Mainz , today Mildenberger Verlag . From 1945 to 1951, as head of the Education Publique in Baden-Baden, he was general director for cultural affairs in the French zone of occupation in Germany: On his initiative, a number of institutions were founded that still exist today, including the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz with its today designated the Department of Translation, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, FTSK, in Germersheim , at that time the "State University of Interpreters", as well as the German University for Administrative Sciences Speyer and the Institute for European History in Mainz.

In 1948 , according to the journalist Peter Köpf, through the exhibition in the name of a trusted straw woman against the resistance of many other French officers , he was supposed to have given the publisher Franz Burda II the license to publish Das Ufer , the forerunner of the illustrated Bunte (from 1954 ).

In 1951 Schmittlein published the book Circumstances and Cause of Jesus 'Death in Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag , in which he suspected the clinical picture of traumatic shock as the cause of Jesus' death. Catholic reviewers such as Otto B. Roegele recognized this as a contribution to the life of Jesus research .

Represented by General Schmittlein, the French government donated valuable paintings to the Mainz State Museum in 1952 , including Pablo Picasso's woman 's head from 1908 , from the early phase of Cubism .

In the 1950s and 1960s Schmittlein acted as Gaullist deputy electoral district Territoire de Belfort in the French National Assembly , the Vice President, he in 1962 was. In 1955 he was Minister for Merchant Shipping; since 1949 honorary member of the catholic student association "KDSt.V. Rhenania-Moguntia Mainz".

Works

  • 1951: Un Recit de Guerre de Goethe le Siege de Mayence II. Editions Art et Science , Mayence
  • 1970: Avec César en Gaule , Paris, Ed. Artrey

literature

  • Corine Defrance : Raymond Schmittlein (1904-1974), a cultural mediator between Germany and France? In: François Beilecke, Katja Marmetschke (ed.): The intellectual and the mandarin. For Hans Manfred Bock. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2005 (= Intervalle, 8) ISBN 3-89958-134-2 online , pp. 481-502
    • again in: Raymond Schmittlein (1904-1974). Life and work of a founding father of the University of Mainz. In: Michael Kißener , Helmut Mathy (Eds.): Ut omnes unum sint: Founding personalities of the Johannes Gutenberg University , Part 1, Steiner, Stuttgart 2005 (= contributions to the history of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, NF, Vol. 2) ISBN 3-515-08650-1 pp. 11-30
  • Peter Manns : Very personal memories of a great Frenchman and the eventful years of the re-establishment of an old university. In memoriam Raymond Schmittlein. Publishing house Dr. Hanns Krach, Mainz 1978, ISBN 3-87439-054-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Köpf: The wonderful Franz . In: the daily newspaper , February 22, 2003, accessed on June 10, 2010.
  2. ↑ landesmuseum-mainz.de: Modern Art (June 25, 2016)
  3. ↑ rhenania-moguntia.de (June 25, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Schmittlein, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Roubaix
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1974
Place of death Colmar