Ulrich Gmelin

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Ulrich Wilhelm Oskar Gmelin (born October 6, 1912 in Tübingen , † June 30, 1944 at Mogiljow ) was a German historian and Germanist . He was the brother of the lawyer Hans Gmelin .

Life

As the son of the district court director Oskar Gmelin and his wife Martha Gauger, he attended a preschool and a humanistic grammar school in Tübingen from autumn 1919 to Easter 1931. He then began studying German , history, classical philology and Latin. He first studied four semesters in Tübingen and then six semesters in Berlin from 1931 to 1936. In the first year of his studies he became a member of the Normannia Tübingen fraternity . A year later he took the position of a platoon leader of the university group of the Stahlhelm . On October 15, 1933, he joined the SA . From 1934 to 1937 he worked as an assistant at the historical seminar in Berlin. On May 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP as member No. 3,972,654 .

In the years 1935/36 and 1937/38 he emerged as a so-called Reich winner in the respective Reich professional competitions. In October 1936, he became in Berlin Promotion Dr. phil. with the work of Auctoritas. Roman princeps and papal primacy . The speakers for this work were Erich Caspar and, after his death, Robert Holtzmann . The ancient historian Wilhelm Weber was also able to give him tips on the subject. 80 years after the publication of the work, the medievalist Harald Müller called it “fundamental” with regard to research into the historical use of the term auctoritas .

In 1937 Gmelin returned to the University of Tübingen and worked there until 1939 at the university's historical seminar. With the approval of the Reichsstudentenführer Gustav Adolf Scheel , he was appointed in 1938 as the representative for preparatory training . From September 1, 1938, he was also head of the Langemarck course . In 1939 Gmelin became the z. V.-Leader of the Supreme SA Leadership (OSAF) ​​appointed.

In 1940 he was entrusted with the management of the liaison office for the Reich student leadership. At the same time he worked in the education office of the Supreme SA leadership . From April 1941 he became a part-time consultant in the Science Office in the Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education . In this position, too, he performed tasks for the Langemarck studies . In May 1941 he was appointed representative of the Reichsstudentenführer in the war. This also included a position as Reichsamtsleiter.

In August 1943 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and used in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union . On June 30, 1944, he died as a senior ensign near the town of Mogiljow (now Belarus ).

Fonts

  • Auctoritas. Roman princeps and papal primacy . Stuttgart 1936.
  • Roman idea of ​​rulers and papal authority . Stuttgart 1937.
  • Spiritual foundations of Roman church politics . Stuttgart 1937.
  • Papacy and the Germanic world in the early Middle Ages: claim and method of St. Peter . 1937/1938 Tübingen (work in the professional competition of the German students 1937/38 at the University of Tübingen, department of cultural studies, department of history).
  • The emergence of the idea of ​​the papacy . In: German Archive for the History of the Middle Ages, 2 (1938), p. 509.
  • The Langemark study of imperial student leadership . Munich 1939.
  • Promotion of talented students through Langemarck studies . In: Der Altherrenbund, 3rd year 1940/41, episode 7/8 (January / February).
  • The Langemarck Study of Reich Student Leadership: Reports from Working During the War with Hans Bernhard von Grünberg, Dresden 1941.
  • The right to living space . Prague 1944 (documents for ideological education in the SA standard Feldherrnhalle).
  • State and national comrade . Prague 1944 (documents for ideological education in the SA standard Feldherrnhalle).
  • Greater Germany, the empire of all Germans . Prague 1944 (documents for ideological education in the SA standard Feldherrnhalle).
  • The right to education in the national welfare state . Prague 1944 (documents for ideological education in the SA standard Feldherrnhalle).
  • Directory of Erich Caspar's writings . In: Erich Ludwig Eduard Caspar, The papacy under Frankish rule, 1956, p. 180.

membership

Ranks in the SA

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 147-148.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon for National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 61.
  2. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , p. 147.
  3. ↑ Harald Müller : Authority and Crisis. The loss of clarity and its consequences using the example of the medieval antipopes - introductory thoughts. In: ders. (Ed.): The loss of uniqueness. On the crisis of papal authority in the struggle for the Cathedra Petri. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Munich 2017, pp. 1–18, here 8.
  4. ↑ Andreas Schulz, Dieter Zinke: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police . Volume 4, Bissendorf 2009, p. 448.
  5. ↑ In the so-called Langemarck-Studium, selected applicants for a degree from the class of workers, craftsmen and farmers who did not have a high school diploma were prepared for university studies through an 18-month preparatory course. The prerequisites for the candidates were an excellent demeanor and good talent in terms of the Nazi regime.
  6. ↑ for special use according to the statement of Max Jüttner (OSAF) ​​as a witness in the Nuremberg trial of the main war criminals on August 13, 1946.
personal data
SURNAME Gmelin, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gmelin, Ulrich Wilhelm Oskar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1944
Place of death at Mogilev