Wilhelm Lampeter

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Wilhelm Lampeter, December 1941

Wilhelm Lampeter (born January 22, 1916 in Grafenfeld bei Gottschee ; † January 1, 2003 in Leipzig ) was a German agricultural scientist and long-time professor at the universities in Leipzig and Halle (Saale) . His areas of interest included field forage cultivation , grassland farming and seed research . During the Second World War , as head of the Nazi -oriented “Gottscheer team”, he was one of the main organizers of the resettlement of his compatriots, the Gottscheers , from their old homeland in 1941 “ home to the Reich ”. In the SS he was SS-Sturmbannführer from 1941 until his demotion in early 1942 .

Life path

Wilhelm Lampeter attended the elementary school in Mittenwald in the Gottscheer Land from 1928 to 1936 and then - like all grammar schools in the Drau-Banovina - the Slovenian-language grammar school in Gottschee. Here he stood out as an advocate of German interests and was therefore expelled from the grammar school. With the support of the Volksbund für das Deutschtum Abroad he attended the Lessing-Gymnasium in Berlin from 1936 , where he passed the Abitur. From 1936 to 1939, Lampeter studied agriculture at the Hohenheim Agricultural University , where he successfully passed the diploma examination.

In 1939 he returned to Yugoslavia. After the clerical leadership of the Swabian-German Kulturbund was dismissed by the National Socialist “ innovators ” in May 1939, he became head of the “Volksdeutsche Team” in the Kulturbund, where he organized all male members in the Gottschee in so-called “storms” and one in each Village-wide National Socialist organization established. After the collapse of the Yugoslav army in the course of the Balkan campaign of the Axis powers , he appointed himself district captain of Gottschee and moved into the Auersperger castle in the city center of Gottschee on April 13, 1941 . After ten days, however, the Italian army moved into Gottschee and deposed him.

As the “ ethnic group leader ”, Lampeter and the “ethnic German team” lead the evacuation of the Gottscheers to the “Ranner Triangle”, from which the local Slovenian population was deported . As early as October 1941, the Reichsführer SS , Heinrich Himmler , awarded him the title of SS storm leader in recognition of his achievements . The trains with the Gottscheer emigrants ran from November 14, 1941 to January 26, 1942. The circumstances of the resettlement in the middle of winter and the living conditions in the previously forcibly cleared new dwellings turned out to be catastrophic, so that there were protests by resettlers. On December 29, 1941, Lampeter sent his deputy, youth leader Richard Lackner , to Berlin to lodge a complaint with Heinrich Himmler. When Lackner returned in early January 1942 without success, Lampeter wrote his own complaint to Himmler. These complaints prompted the SS leadership to remove the leadership of the "Gottscheer Team" and to demote SS-Sturmbannführer Lampeter.

Correspondence from the SS main office from 1944 on the use of the "former ethnic group leader of the Gottscheer settlement area" Lampeter.

Lampeter then served in the Waffen SS . On June 30, 1942 he was called up to the SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 4 "Der Führer" in Stralsund and on October 7, 1942 he was transferred to the 11th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division "Nordland" . While working on the Eastern Front , he was wounded on January 15, 1943 in the Kalmyk steppe . On May 17, 1943, he came to the SS convalescence company in Ellwangen (Jagst) in Württemberg and on May 1, 1944 to the SS Junker School in Bad Tölz . On August 30, 1944 he was promoted to SS-Untersturmführer of the reserve. On September 1, 1944, Lampeter joined the SS motor vehicle training and replacement regiment in Weimar-Buchenwald (not to be confused with the Buchenwald concentration camp ). On January 1, 1945 he was transferred to the SS main office , office CI and assigned by SS-Obergruppenführer Gottlob Berger to build the Volkssturm in Rann in the Gottscheer settlement area, where he had lived since the end of 1941.

In 1945, Lampeter took over the “Forage Plant Breeding and Forage Plant Seed Production” department at Gompper-Futtersaaten, a leading company in Germany at the time, in Hainichen . There he carried out successful breeding work on timothy grass and white clover and passed the self-employment test in 1949. As a department head, he advised seed growers.

In 1953 Lampeter became an assistant to Professor Ottokar Heinisch at the Institute for Plant Breeding at the University of Leipzig and in 1955 he was awarded a Dr. agr. PhD. His dissertation was entitled “Causes of the most common types of damage to field forage seeds and their elimination, as well as ways to improve the trieur selection performance . A contribution to the processing of field fodder seeds ”. In 1957, DBV Verlag published his monograph “The preparation of seeds, in particular for fodder plants as well as carrot and linseed.” In 1960 he completed his habilitation at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig on the subject of “Mutual influence of higher plants with regard to shoot and root growth, mineral content and water consumption. Examined on some economically important forage plants. ”Between 1960 and 1962, Lampeter set up the biological department at the Institute for Grassland and Moor Research in Paulinenaue . From 1962 to 1969 he was a professor with a teaching position for grassland and field forage cultivation at the agricultural faculty of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. At the same time he was director of the Institute for Grassland and Forage Production. In addition, he was Vice Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences from 1965 to 1967 .

In 1969 Lampeter moved to the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , where he was professor for seed production until his retirement in 1981.

Lampeter did not belong to any party in the GDR .

family

Wilhelm Lampeter got married in Chemnitz before the Second World War , where his wife stayed during the war. Their son was born here in autumn 1942. After the end of the war, Lampeter first came to Chemnitz. The marriage also produced a daughter. In the early 1960s , his son Wolfgang Lampeter fled to the Federal Republic of Germany , where he studied veterinary medicine and settled in Bavaria. In the early 1980s, his daughter, an art photographer, tried to get to the West via Hungary together with her husband, a doctor . However, both were arrested and sent back to the GDR, where Lampeter's daughter was sentenced to two and his son-in-law to two and a half years in prison. Soon after, they were of the Federal Republic of Germany ransomed and lived from then on in the West.

Awards

  • 1978 Research Prize from the University of Halle-Wittenberg
  • 1981 Julius Kühn Medal from the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Halle-Wittenberg
  • 1996 Theodor Römer Prize of the Society of Friends of the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Halle-Wittenberg
  • 1996 Commemorative Medal of the Mendel University Brno
  • 1996 Awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Hohenheim

Scientific publications

  • Status and future tasks of seed quality research and its effects on the intensification of plant production. Seed Symposium, in: KTB of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Scientific Contributions 17/1976 (S6), pp. 9-27.
  • Yield increase in grass seed cultivation depending on the sowing rates and nitrogen fertilization. Quedlinburg 1965.
  • A new method for the serial investigation of digestibility in vitro by means of "artificial rumen", in: Internationale Zeitschrift der Landwirtschaft 6 (1970), pp. 644–668.
  • Friedrich Falke (1871-1948) . In: Important scholars in Leipzig, Vol. 2. For the 800th anniversary of the city of Leipzig on behalf of the Rector and Senate of the Karl Marx University, edited by Gerhard Harig. Leipzig 1965, pp. 159–164 (with picture).
  • The aging test and the conductivity test to determine the seed vitality, in: 2nd Seed Symposium, KTB of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Scientific Contributions 20/1980 (S23), pp. 129-139.

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literature

  • Hans Hermann Frensing: The resettlement of the Gottscheer Germans. The end of a south-east German ethnic group . (= Book series of the Southeast German Historical Commission; vol. 24). Oldenbourg, Munich 1970 (also dissertation, FU Berlin).

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Lampeter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Petschauer: Jahrhundertbuch der Gottscheer, 1980 ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.7 MB). Pp. 107-108. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at
  2. ↑ Erich Petschauer: Century Book of Gottscheer (1980). 109-121.
  3. ↑ Richard Lackner lists copies of original SS documents on the gottschee.de website .
  4. ↑ Prof. Dr. G. Schuster and Dr. agr. ing. E. Kreuz: Prof. Wilhelm Lampeter 50 years old. University newspaper. Organ of the SED party leadership at Karl Marx University. Leipzig, January 27, 1966, Volume 10, p. 2.
  5. ↑ Dr. Horst Pätzold in Kersten Krüger (2007): The University of Rostock between socialism and university renewal. Contemporary witnesses report. P. 136. (PDF; 2.5 MB)
  6. ^ Information from Richard Lackner on the Gottschee.de website .
personal data
SURNAME Lampeter, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Grafenfeld near Gottschee
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 2003
Place of death Leipzig