Werner Flechsig

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Werner Flechsig (born January 24, 1908 in Braunschweig ; † October 16, 1988 ibid) was a German linguist , dialect and name researcher , folklorist and musicologist .

Life

Werner Flechsig was one of three children of the art historian Eduard Flechsig , who worked at the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum , and his wife Else, nee. Walther.

After finishing school at the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Braunschweig , Werner Flechsig studied musicology, German , folklore, and prehistory in Leipzig, Munich and Göttingen . In 1931 he completed his studies with a doctorate on the Wolfenbüttel court conductor Thomas Mancinus . From 1931 to 1933 he completed a traineeship at the Braunschweig Municipal Museum with Otto Krone , who was in charge of the prehistoric collection there. As a result, Flechsig became an assistant and assistant professor at the newly founded Institute for Prehistory at the Technical University of Braunschweig . In 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP. From 1938 he was a leader in the cultural and homeland maintenance of the then state of Braunschweig and in 1942 became a civil servant state homeland nurse at the Braunschweigisches Landeskulturverband . The profanation of the Braunschweig Cathedral and its transformation into a "national holy place" in the spirit of National Socialism was promoted by Flechsig for propaganda purposes. From 1950 until his retirement in 1973 Flechsig was head of the folklore department of the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum .

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Werner Flechsig published around 200 scientific works on onomatology , linguistic history and customs of the Braunschweig region , trying to represent and delimit Ostfalen as an independent cultural area . He has also published on the music history of the city and country of Braunschweig.

Fonts (selection)

  • Thomas Mancinus, the predecessor of Praetorius in the Wolfenbütteler Kapellmeisteramt. With new contributions to the history of the Wolfenbüttel court orchestra in the 16th century. Dissertation, University of Göttingen, 1931.
  • with Wolfgang Bethge: Mascherode. Braunschweig district. In: Sound library of German dialects. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1958.
  • with Mechthild Wiswe : 400 years of musical life in the Braunschweiger Land. Special exhibition on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Braunschweigische Musikgesellschaft. Braunschweig 1974.
  • Main features of the East Westphalian folk costume and their spread in the 18th century. In: Braunschweigische Heimat. Born 1977, issues 1–3.
  • East Westphalian proverbs. Folk wisdom and popular humor from five centuries compiled from printed and unprinted sources, explained and introduced by Werner Flechsig with the assistance of Fritz Habekost † and Otto Rohkamm. Orphanage printing house and publishing house Braunschweig 1974.

literature

  • Mechthild Wiswe (ed.): Braunschweigisches and Ostfälisches. Commemorative letter for Werner Flechsig. Braunschweigischer Landesverein für Heimatschutz, Braunschweig 1992 (pp. 9–27 Bibliography Werner Flechsig).
  • Mechthild Wiswe: Werner Flechsig. In: Camerer, Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , pp. 72-73.
  • Mechthild Wiswe: Werner Flechsig. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Hrsg.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon . 19th and 20th centuries. Hahn, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , pp. 179-180.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Mechthild Wiswe: Werner Flechsig. In: Camerer, Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 72.
  2. Volker Böhnigk, Joachim Stamp: Die Moderne im Nationalozialismus , 2006, p. 100.
  3. Werner Flechsig: Article "Symbols of history, To Wilhelm Dohmes wall pictures in the Braunschweiger Dom", in: The art in the German Reich, 4th year, volume 3, March 1940, ed. by the Führer’s agent for the supervision of the entire intellectual and ideological training and education of the NSDAP, Munich 1940, pp. 86–93.