Richard Frankenberg (historian)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Richard Frankenberg (born September 29, 1902 in Altona , † July 24, 1988 in Hamburg ) was a German historian and employee of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA).

Frankenberg was the son of a city gymnastics council in Dortmund and graduated from high school there in 1921. As early as 1920 he took part in the fighting against the Red Ruhr Army as an orderly in the Epp Freikorps . In his youth he belonged to the Wandervogel movement and founded national youth organizations in 1919. From 1921 to 1925 he studied German and history, most recently in Münster . 1927 Frankenberg was in Munster with a dissertation at Hermann Wätjen about the German-Russian Reinsurance Treaty doctorate , which he wanted to counteract the alleged legend of the "war and conquest will of the German policy." During his student days he took part in propaganda measures against the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923 and as head of the Rhine battle in the German University Ring . In 1930 a didactic publication on the treatment of border and foreign Germanism in grammar school history lessons followed. Frankenberg completed his legal clerkship in Flensburg and Kiel from 1926 to 1928 and worked in Kiel and at the German grammar school in Aabenraa . There he was involved in border policy in the federal state Schleswig-Holstein . He traveled to several European countries to get to know German politics. Scientifically, he has dealt with the writer and fraternity member Harro Harring since 1926 and sparked a controversy with the librarian Rudolf Bülck around 1931 about these authors, whether he should be co-opted for Frisian Scandinavianism or for the German national movement. The background was the dispute over North Schleswig . Frankenberg had been a member of the NSDAP since May 1, 1933 , an SS member since March 15, 1934 and a member of the NS teachers' association .

On September 16, 1934, Frankenberg was appointed acting lecturer at the College for Teacher Education in Kiel, and in 1937 appointed professor by “Führer's order”. In 1939 the HfL was closed, Frankenberg was given leave of absence as SS- Hauptscharführer at the Reich Security Main Office . Since 1940 in the "scientific war effort", Frankenberg allegedly taught as a lecturer at the Berlin Humboldt University. As SS-Obersturmführer , employee of the SD and "Norwayreferent" he worked in the RSHA as head of department for the Nordic countries under SS-Obersturmbannführer Eberhard von und zu Steinfurth . Shortly before the end of the war, he was drafted into the flak reserve , stationed in Norway until the end of the war, then until 1947 as a British prisoner of war. After his denazification he worked from 1949 until his retirement in 1968 as a senior teacher at the Bismarck School (Elmshorn) .

Fonts (selection)

  • Border and foreign Germanism in history lessons in secondary schools , Leipzig, Berlin 1930
  • Harro Harring in Schleswig-Holstein 1848/49 , in: Journal of the Schleswig-Holstein History Society, Vol. 60, 1931

literature

  • Robert Bohn : Reichskommissariat Norway: “National Socialist Reorganization” and the War Economy. Oldenbourg, Munich 2000.
  • Christian Ingrao : Hitler's Elite. The pioneers of the National Socialist mass murder . Translated by Enrico Heinemann & Ursel Schäfer. Propylaea, Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-549-07420-6 ; again Federal Agency for Civic Education BpB, Bonn 2012 ISBN 978-3-8389-0257-9
  • Hans-Christian Harten: Himmler's teacher: The ideological training in the SS 1933 - 1945 , Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, p. 537 ISBN 978-3-65776644-4 online
  • Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) , 1995, p. 287f

Web links
personal data
SURNAME Frankenberg, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and employee of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1988
Place of death Hamburg