Walther Ziesemer

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Walther Ziesemer

Walther Ziesemer (born June 7, 1882 in Löbau in West Prussia , † September 14, 1951 in Marburg ) was a German scholar, diplomat and linguist.

Life

Ziesemer studied German at the University of Leipzig from 1900 and heard from Eduard Sievers . In 1901 he moved to the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . There he was shaped by Gustav Roethe , Andreas Heusler and Erich Schmidt . In 1906 he became Dr. phil. PhD. The following year he passed the state examination. As a seminar candidate he went to his native Marienburg . There he began to deal with the documents of the Teutonic Order . Then he was a high school teacher in Gdansk . In 1911, he came as a senior teacher of Konigsberg. Pr. In the same year he completed his habilitation at the Albertus University for German Philology . In 1918 he was appointed adjunct professor and in 1922 full professor of German Philology, German Folklore and Local Studies of the German East . “Although he was always in the shadow of more outward-looking colleagues in Koenigsberg, he turned down honorable offers from other universities; because he probably knew best himself how deeply he was rooted in the East Prussian homeland, in the spiritual world of this landscape and its tradition, its idiosyncratic humanity and its language. ”He stayed in Königsberg until the end of the Second World War .

In 1933 he became a member of the National Socialist Teachers' Association . In 1934 he signed the election call for German scientists behind Adolf Hitler . On May 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP and the NSV . From 1938 he had connections to the German Ahnenerbe Research Foundation . After fleeing from East Prussia, he lived in Marburg. He died there after the death of his wife and friend Anton Kippenberg, lonely and unrooted at the age of 69. His grave in the Marburg main cemetery on Ockershäuser Allee has been preserved.

Act

Ziesemer was a member of the Königsberg learned society . In the year of the Königsberg Kant celebration (1924) he was involved in the first complete edition of Simon Dach's works. In many smaller contributions he dealt with Johann Georg Hamann and Johann Gottfried Herder . “Ziesemer penetrated the linguistic and literary history of East Germany ever further and deeper, always convinced, however, that this should never be viewed in isolation, but only in the lively context of the development of the whole of Germany. One of his main concerns was to fathom and highlight East Prussia's share in the history of the German language and poetry and in German intellectual life as a whole from the 14th century to the present. ”His work on German Romanticism , especially on Joseph von Eichendorff , as well as his edition the works of Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué were under the sign of the Marienburg . Its restoration was based on romanticism. It started with active sympathy and support from Eichendorff and Max von Schenkendorf . Ziesemer himself took part in the last construction phase in an advisory capacity. Ziesemer's students include Karl Ruprecht , Erhard Riemann and Helmut Motekat . Shortly before his death, he and Karl Helm completed the extended revision of Die Literatur des Deutschen Ritterordens (1928). It is also a small study of the historical significance of the Marienburg. In the end it says:

“But the hope that what German work has sown cannot be completely smothered in ruins, we shouldn't want to piss us off or rob us. Life goes on despite a thousandfold deaths; Green ivy over the ruins of bygone greatness preaches the truth of the poet every day anew: Over the rubble of time, time passes evergreen. "

- Walther Ziesemer

Works

  • The Prussian Dictionary . Koenigsberg 1914.
  • To the German text of the Elbinger Vocabulary. Contributions to the history of German language and literature 44 (1920), pp. 138–146.
  • To the vocabulary of the official language of the Teutonic Order . Contributions to the history of German language and literature 47 (1923), pp. 335–344.
  • The East Prussian dialects . Kiel 1924, reprint Wiesbaden 1970.
  • Friedrich Hebbel: Mother and Child - a poem in seven songs . Shepherd, Breslau 1925.
  • Studies in Medieval Bible Translation . Halle (Saale) 1928.
  • The literature of the Teutonic Order in Prussia . Wroclaw 1928.
  • with Walther Mitzka and Hermann Strunk: Heimatschutz und Volkstumforschung . Gräfe and Unzer , Königsberg 1928.
  • with Erich Maschke : Historical tendencies in the founding history of the Prussian monastic state . Gräfe and Unzer, Königsberg 1931.
  • Animals in the East Prussian popular belief . Helsinki 1934.
  • with Ernst Voss : Studies on Medieval Bible Translation (Halle 1928). The translation of the prophets by Claus Cranc . Hall 1930.
  • The translation of the prophets, with 13 plates . Koenigsberg 1930.
  • The cultural achievement of the Teutonic Order . 1931.
  • Field name research and history . 1938.
  • The Magus in the North - from the writings and letters of Johann Georg Hamann . Selection and afterword by Walther Ziesemer. Insel Verlag 1950.
  • with Karl Helm: The literature of the Teutonic Knight Order . Giessen 1951.
  • Johann Georg Hamann correspondence . Insel Verlag 1955.
  • with Anton Kippenberg and Hans-Joachim Weltz: Goethe's Faust . Insel Verlag 1959.

Sources of the religious period

  • the interest book of the House of Marienburg (1910)
  • the expenditure book of the Marienburger Hauskomtur (1911)
  • the Marienburg Convention Book (1913)
  • the Marienburger Ämterbuch (1916)
  • the Great Book of Offices of the Teutonic Order (1921)

See also

literature

  • Old Prussian biography
  • Helmut Motekat : Walther Ziesemer (1882–1951). On the occasion of the 100th birthday of the last professor of German and German Folklore at the Albertus University in Königsberg / Pr. Low German Yearbook / Yearbook of the Association for Low German Language Research, vol. 75 (1952). Printed in Zeitschrift für Ostforschung , Vol. 31 (1982), pp. 94-98.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5783, p. 162 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Nicolaus von Jeroschin and his source (Chapters I and II.) .
  3. ↑ obituary H. Motekat (1953/1982)
  4. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 683.
  5. ↑ Eichendorff and the Marienburg (lecture 1920)
  6. ↑ Series of publications by the Göttingen Working Group , No. 13 (1951)
personal data
SURNAME Ziesemer, Walther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ziesemer, Walther Wilhelm Kurt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, diplomat and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Löbau in West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1951
Place of death Marburg , Hesse