Wilhelm Bodens

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Wilhelm Bodens (born August 24, 1910 in Breberen ; † October 12, 2005 in Bonn ) was a German civil servant and saga collector.

Life

Wilhelm Bodens studied German, theology, history and folklore in Bonn. He then worked as an assistant at the University of Bonn on archaeological and folklore research as well as at its institute for historical regional studies of the Rhineland . He collected about 5000 sagas from the Lower Rhine . In 1939 he was a scientific advisor to the governor of the Rhine province, Heinrich Haake .

During the Second World War he had been a non-commissioned officer since October 1939, and later an Abwehr officer . After the attack on the Netherlands in May 1940 he was employed as a “Scientific Council” in the Reich Commissioner for the Netherlands , first for the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle , then in the “People and Space” research center headed by SS-Sturmbannführer Wolfgang Ispert . From 1942 he worked again for the Abwehr, first in Belgium and from 1943 in the Netherlands. There he was taken prisoner by the British, from which he was released in 1948.

In 1948/49 he was employed in the German Office for Peace Issues in Stuttgart, then in the "Grenzlandreferat" of the North Rhine-Westphalian state government. From 1950 to 1955 he was Saar consultant in the Federal Ministry for all-German issues . From 1957 until his retirement in 1972 he worked in the State Chancellery in Saarbrücken, in the federal office of the CDU and in the representation of Saarland at the federal level.

In 1962 he joined the German-Brazilian Society and was later a member of its board of directors and board of trustees.

Honors

Works

  • From the Rhine to the Meuse . Röhrscheid, Bonn 1936 (= German border people told in a Western , vol. 1).
  • Legends, fairy tales and Schwank on the Lower Rhine . Röhrscheid, Bonn 1937 (= German people on the Rhine , vol. 3).

literature

  • Nanno Klaas Charles Arie in 't Veld (ed.): De SS en Nederland. Documents uit SS-archieven 1935–1945 (= Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie. Documenten , Vol. 2). Nijhoff, 's-Gravenhage 1976, ISBN 90-247-1671-3 , p. 476, footnote 18, paragraph (2) ( online ).
  • Herbert Elzer: The German reunification on the Saar. The Federal Ministry for All-German Issues and the network of the pro-German opposition 1949 to 1955 . Röhrig, Sankt Ingbert 2007, ISBN 978-3-86110-429-2 ; therein the chapter The leave of absence of Wilhelm Bodens (p. 770–794) and p. 42f.
  • Thomas Müller: The formation of the "border area". The "Department G" of the Reich Inspector and Governor Haake . In: Burkhard Dietz, Helmut Gabel, Ulrich Tiedau (eds.): Reach for the West. The "West Research" of the ethnic-national sciences on the north-western European area (1919–1960) . Waxmann, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8309-1144-0 , Vol. 2, pp. 763-790, here p. 772.
  • Thomas Müller: Imagined West. The concept of the “German western area” in the national discourse between political romanticism and National Socialism . Transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1112-0 , therein the chapter The Ispert Circle as an Exemplary Actor between “Youth Border Work” and National Socialism , p. 296 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary of Wilhelm Boden . In: Tópicos , vol. 51 (2006), issue 2, p. 60.
  2. ↑ Helmut Fischer: Tell - Write - Interpret. Contributions to narrative research . Waxmann Münster 2001, ISBN 3-8309-1036-3 , p. 17.
  3. ↑ Klaus Pabst: "Blood and Soil" in the Rhenish way. Gerhard Kallen, National Socialism and the "West Area" . In: Burkhard Dietz, Helmut Gabel, Ulrich Tiedau (eds.): Reach for the West. The "West Research" of the ethnic-national sciences on the north-western European area (1919–1960) . Waxmann, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8309-1144-0 , Vol. 2, pp. 945-978, here p. 974.
  4. ↑ a b c De SS en Nederland. Documents uit SS-archieven 1935–1945 . 's-Gravenhage 1976, p. 476.
  5. ↑ Benoît Majerus: Concepts of the occupation of Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands (1933–1944) . In: Jörg Echternkamp, ​​Stefan Martens (ed.): The Second World War in Europe . Schöningh, Paderborn 2007, pp. 35–43, here p. 42.
  6. ^ A b c Herbert Elzer: The German reunification on the Saar. The Federal Ministry for All-German Issues and the network of the pro-German opposition 1949 to 1955 . Röhrig, Sankt Ingbert 2007, p. 43.
  7. ^ Herbert Elzer: The German reunification on the Saar. The Federal Ministry for All-German Issues and the network of the pro-German opposition 1949 to 1955 . Röhrig, Sankt Ingbert 2007, pp. 770–794 (chapter Wilhelm Bodens' leave of absence ).
  8. ^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 4 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken January 28, 1976, p. 67 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; accessed on May 25, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Bodens, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant and collector of sagas
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Breberen
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 2005
Place of death Bonn