Wilhelm Junkmann

Wilhelm Junkmann

Wilhelm Junkmann (actually Johann Bernhard Wilhelm ) (born July 2, 1811 in Münster , † November 23, 1886 in Breslau ) was a German (university) teacher, historian, writer and politician.

family

His father Philipp was a master shoemaker in Münster. Junkmann himself married Maria Theresia (née Schlueter) in 1855. She was a daughter of the lawyer Clemens August Schlueter and a sister of the philosopher Christoph Bernhard Schlueter .

education and profession

Junkmann studied philology and history in Münster and Bonn since 1829 (there, among others, with Ernst Moritz Arndt and Joseph Görres ). In 1833 he had passed the state examination in Münster. Although he received the license to teach the lower classes in Greek, German, history, mathematics and religion. However, his certificate was not sufficient for a position as a senior teacher. With the aim of obtaining a doctorate, he went to Berlin to continue his studies. He had been a member of the Populonia Bonn fraternity since 1830 and was therefore sentenced to six years imprisonment in a fortress in 1835 . This was connected with the ban on entering the Prussian civil service. After four months, however, Junkmann was already pardoned. From 1835 to 1837 he was a writer and private scholar in Münster. In 1837 he was sent a private tutor in the house of Baron Droste . In the same year Junkmann became a candidate (in school service), in 1838 he was an assistant teacher at the Paulinum grammar school in Münster, before moving to Coesfeld a year later . However, Junkmann gave up this position after a dispute with the school principal there and returned to his parents' house in Münster in 1844 with no prospect of further employment. In the same year he received a state scholarship and continued his history studies in Bonn. There he heard from Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, among others . In 1847 he also received his doctorate in Bonn. The habilitation followed in 1851. In the years 1847-1851 he was again a writer in Münster and had to hide for a while in a village in the Lippstadt district because of his political views . From 1851 to 1854 he was a private lecturer in history at the academy in Münster, at the same time he was employed by the provincial archives of the province of Westphalia in Münster. In 1854 he became an associate professor of history at the Lyceum Hosianum in Braunsberg , where he initiated the establishment of the Historical Association for Warmia , and from 1855 a full professor in Breslau.

Scientific and journalistic activity

Junkmann was an employee and co-editor of the “Catholic magazine for science and life” (Münster), as well as an employee of the “Munster Sunday newspaper for Catholic Christians,” the “General Church Lexicon” and the “General Real Encyclopedia for Catholic Germany” (1847-1851). He was also an employee of the Regesta Historiae Westfaliae and founder of the Westfalia Sacra . In addition, Junkmann wrote other historical works. There were also numerous fiction and lyric works. He was friends with Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, among others . This attested to his great talent for his poetry, haunting language, brilliant imagination and a deep truth of feeling. However, he could not shed a certain Westphalian stiffness. With the beginning of his political activity, he gave up his lyrical attempts. Junkmann was a member of various scientific associations, including the Society for History and Archeology of Westphalia . He was also a member of Gottfried Kinkel's literary cockchafer association in Bonn . He was also in contact with Levin Schücking , Willibald Alexis and Gustav Kolb .

Political mandates

Junkmann was a member of the German National Assembly for the constituency of Recklinghausen in 1848 . There he was a member of the Catholic Club as well as the casino faction and later switched to the Pariser Hof faction . In 1850 he was a member of the Erfurt Union Parliament and in the years 1849-1852 a member of Chamber II of the Prussian Landtag for the Münster constituency. There he was a member of the left parliamentary group (von Auerswald-Beckerath). Junkmann was later Catholic-conservative and oriented towards Greater German . He became a staunch opponent of liberalism and socialism .

See also

• Eduard Michelis

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 43-44.
• Jochen Lengemann: The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups . Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , pp. 177-178.
• Josefine Nettesheim : Wilhelm Junkmann: poet, teacher, politician, historian. 1811-1886. Edited from new sources . Munster 1969.
• Josefine Nettesheim:  Junkmann, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 697 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Works by and about Wilhelm Junkmann  in the German Digital Library
• Annette von Droste Hülshoff: Greetings to Wilhelm Junkmann
• Wilhelm Junkmann in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors

Footnotes

1. ^ Franz Buchholz: 75 years of the historical association for Warmia . In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte und Altertumskunde Ermlands (ZGAE), Vol. 24 (1932), pp. 461–522, here p. 467.