Reinhold Trautmann

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Reinhold Trautmann (born January 16, 1883 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † October 4, 1951 in Jena ) was a German Slavist . As such, he conducted research on the language, literature and culture of the Slavs . He made significant contributions to the translation of Slavic literature. In 1931 he translated the Old Russian Nestor Chronicle into German. In addition, he researched Slavic language islands in German-speaking countries, including Sorbian .

Life

Trautmann worked since 1910 at the Karl Ferdinands University , the Albertus University in Königsberg , the University of Leipzig and (from 1948) at the Friedrich Schiller University . He became known for his work on Baltic Philology and Slavic folk poetry. From 1928 to 1931 he was a member of the German Democratic Party (from 1930 German State Party ).

In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . Since 1937 he was a member of the NSDAP . In 1939, his work, The Wendish place names of Ostholstein, Lübeck, Lauenburg and Mecklenburg, which was already in print , was banned for political reasons, because at that time it was no longer desirable to deal with Sorbian topics. In April 1937, Trautmann was present in addition to Otto Reche and Rudolf Kötzschke himself when the "Theses on the Wendefrage" underlying the ban were adopted .

From 1940 until his death, Trautmann was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. In 1947 he was elected a corresponding member and in 1949 a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin .

After 1945 he supported the cultural alignment of the Soviet occupation zone and the German Democratic Republic with the Soviet Union .

Fonts (selection)

  • The old Prussian language monuments. Introduction, texts, grammar, dictionary. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1910, ( digitized version ).
  • Baltic-Slavic dictionary. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1923, ( digitized ).
  • with Heinrich F. Schmid: Nature and tasks of German Slavic studies. A program (= Slavic-Baltic sources and research. 1, ZDB -ID 515276-8 ). Haessel, Leipzig 1927.
  • as editor: The Old Russian Nestor Chronicle. Povestʹ vremennych let. Edited in translation. Markert & Petters, Leipzig 1931.
  • The Slavic peoples and languages. An introduction to Slavic studies. Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1948.
  • The Elbe and Baltic Sea Slavic place names. 3 volumes. Akademie-Verlag, (East) Berlin 1948–1956;
    • 1 (= treatises of the German Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class. 1947, 4, ZDB -ID 210010-1 ). 1948;
    • 2 (= treatises of the German Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class. 1947, 7). 1949;
    • 3: Register (= treatises of the German Academy of Sciences. Class for Languages, Literature and Art. 1953, 7, ZDB -ID 210007-1 ). 1956.

literature

  • Ernst Eichler : Reinhold Trautmann and the German Slavic Studies ( session reports of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Philological-historical class. Vol. 125, no . 1, ISSN  0138-3957 ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1984.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 343.
  2. ^ Michael Burleigh: Germany turns Eastwards. A study of Ostforschung in the Third Reich. Cambridge 1988, pp. 121-126.
personal data
SURNAME Trautmann, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Slavist
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1951
Place of death Jena