Wilhelm Klumberg

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Wilhelm Klumberg (born July 30, 1886 in Riga , † December 20, 1942 in Berlin ) was a Baltic German political scientist and economist.

Life

As the son of a businessman, Wilhelm Klumberg attended the Riga commercial school . From 1906 to 1910 he graduated from the Riga Technical University . From 1911 to 1913 he continued his studies in Zurich . From the University of Zurich , he was with a dissertation about the colonization of Russia in Siberia doctorate . He then taught political science subjects at a commercial school in Samara (Russia) and returned to Riga in 1917. After the turmoil of the war and the post-war period and the founding of the Republic of Latvia , his endeavors were directed towards maintaining the German education system there. For example, through his initiative through the scientific “ Herder Society ”, the Herder Institute in Riga was founded in 1920 , which ran German university courses. The expansion of this university represented his life's work. He worked there (from 1926 as rector) until its dissolution in 1939. In the course of the resettlement of the Baltic Germans , he was appointed full professor at the chair for Eastern European economics and head of the Institute for Eastern Research (1940) at the University of Königsberg . His scientific authority as an expert on Eastern Europe was recognized by being awarded an honorary doctorate from the universities of Jena (1926) and Leipzig (1937) and the " Johann Gottfried von Herder Prize " (1940). For a time he was a member of the Presidium of the " German National Community in Latvia ".

In January 1941 he applied for admission to the NSDAP , of which he became a member in April of that year ( membership number 8.484.902).

He died during a visit to Berlin and was laid to rest in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Fonts

  • The colonization of Russia in Siberia , Zurich 1914.
  • The effects of the continental barrier on Riga , Riga 1926.
  • A contribution to cultural policy in the northeast region - a review 1919–1939 , Königsberg 1939.

literature

  • Folklore and research. Festschrift of the Baltic Monthly Books and the Riga Legal Journal for Wilhelm Klumberg, Professor of Political Science and Rector of the Herder Institute . Riga 1936.
  • Walther von Ungern-Sternberg: Life and work of the Baltic German scholar Wilhelm Klumberg . In: Yearbook of the Albertus University of Königsberg / Pr. 6: 5-28 (1956).
  • Erik Thomson: Baltic Memorial Days. Wilhelm Klumberg . In: Yearbook of Baltic Germanism 1986 , Lüneburg-Munich 1985, pp. 177–181.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS (ed.), Jan Zimmermann: The FVS Foundation's cultural awards 1935–1945 . Christians, Hamburg 2000, p. 455.
personal data
SURNAME Klumberg, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German political scientist and economist
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1942
Place of death Berlin