Wilhelm Wostry

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Wilhelm Wostry (born August 14, 1877 in Saaz , Austria-Hungary as Wilhelm Engelbert Wostrý; † April 8, 1951 in Helfta ) was a Bohemian historian from the German University of Prague .

Life

Wostry was born in Saaz in 1877 as the son of Engelbert Wostry and Aloisia Kaiser. His father was the city secretary in Saaz and the cousin of the Saaz mayor Karl Wostry. Wostry attended the Latin school in Saaz and from the winter semester 1896/97 studied geography and history at the German Charles University in Prague, where he joined the university singing association "Liedertafel der Deutschen Studenten in Prag" .

He was born on 12 July 1904 with a dissertation on "Albrecht II. (1437-1439) as the German-Czech and Hungarian king" at Anton Marty Dr. phil. PhD . After that he worked as a librarian. In 1905 Wostry married Friede Danzer, daughter of the hop trader Leonard Danzer from Sangerberg. In 1908 he trained as an archivist at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research . In 1912 he qualified as a professor for Austrian imperial history. Wostry's main research interest was Bohemian history and the history of the Germans in Bohemia in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern period. During his participation in the First World War he was imprisoned in Russia for six years and returned from Siberia in 1920 . In 1922 Wostry was appointed associate professor at the new chair for Czechoslovak history at the German Charles University, five years later as full professor. From 1933 to 1935 he was dean and vice dean of his faculty. Wostry supervised and reviewed 145 dissertations during his work.

When a commemorative publication was dedicated to him in 1937, he assumed the leading position among German-Bohemian historians, since he had taken over the editing of the communications of the Association for the History of Germans in Bohemia from 1922 and had been on its board from 1925 or 1927. Also in 1937 he was appointed editor of the magazine for Sudeten German history . He was also chairman of the German Society of Sciences and Arts for the Czechoslovak Republic, an extraordinary member of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences , and from 1939 a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and from 1942 of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Wostry joined the Sudeten German Party in April 1938 and the NSDAP a year later. Like a million other Germans, he was awarded the medal in memory of October 1, 1938 , for his behavior during the Sudeten crisis . He was a member of the Nazi Lecturer Association , the Nazi Reich Warrior Association and the NS Reich Colonial Association .

Wostry worked in the Reinhard Heydrich Foundation and in the National Socialist Sudeten German Institute for State and Folk Research in Reichenberg , where he headed the Commission for History. In the FVS Foundation he was chairman of the board of trustees for the award of the Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff Prize . In 1942 he received the "Ackermann Medal for Combating Science", but had to hold back in his work for the next few years due to illness.

After being expelled from Prague , Wostry settled in Helfta in Saxony-Anhalt , where he also died. He was considered a supporter of the concept of the German-Czech balance .

Quotes

"When I see you in front of me today, my fellow students, I see in you the same glow and the zeal that we showed as students in the monarchy to protect our most sacred things, always ready to stand up for it and never to reveal it: our Volkstum, our German Volkstum! Even today we may be separated from the Reich against all rights, we may long for the union with those who are like us German blood - we know, you know, one day the day will come when all Germans will be in one, great German Reich will stand together and where the call 'From the Meuse to the Memel, from the Adige to the Belt' will finally, finally become truth! And on this day one will say: The Prague student, the Prague corporations have not only preserved their Germanness, they fought for it and suffered like no other! "

- Wilhelm Wostry : Speech at a Festkommers of the Prague Student Union (1924)

Fonts

  • The Colonization Problem - A Review of Theories About the Origin of Germans in Bohemia. Association for the History of Germans in Bohemia, 1922.
  • Germania, Teutonia, Alemannia, Bohemia. Treatises of the German Academy of Sciences in Prague, 1943.
  • Articles in: The Bohemian and Moravian Book. People's struggle and realm. Volk-und-Reich-Verlag, 1943.
  • Saaz at the time of the farmer poet. With an afterword by Rudolf Schreiber . Lerche, Munich 1951.

literature

  • Karel Hruza: Scientific tools for current political questions. Critical comments on the work and work of the historians Wilhelm Weizsäcker and Wilhelm Wostry , In: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropaforschung 54 (2005), pp. 475–526, here pp. 494–521.
  • Karel Hruza: Wilhelm Wostry In: Ingo Haar , Michael Fahlbusch (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Völkischen Wissenschaften. People - institutions - research programs - foundations. Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-11778-7 , pp. 772-776.
  • Harald Lönnecker : From "Ghibellinia goes, Germania comes!" To "People want to people!" Mentalities, structures and organizations in the German student body in Prague 1866–1914 . In: Yearbook for Sudeten German Museums and Archives 1995–2001 ISSN  0944-0763 , pp. 34–77, online: PDF (210 KB)
  • Nina Lohmann: "Heimat und Volk" - the historian Wilhelm Wostry between German-Bohemian and Sudeten German historiography , In: Albrecht, Melville (ed.): Die Sudetendeutsche Geschistorschreibung, pp. 127-150.
  • Anton Ernstberger (Hrsg.): Heimat und Volk research contributions to the sudetendt. History ; Festschrift f. Univ. Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Wostry on his 60th birthday . Rohrer, Brno, Prague, Leipzig, Vienna 1937
  • Detlef Brandes : "Umvolkung, Umsiedlung, racial inventory": Nazi "Volkstumsppolitik" in the Bohemian countries . Oldenbourg, Munich, 2012 ISBN 978-3-486-71242-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Preface , in: Wilhelm Wostry: Saaz at the time of the Ackermanndichters . Munich: Lerche 1951, p. 7
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Karel Hruza: Wilhelm Wostry , in: Handbuch der Völkischen Wissenschaften. 2008, pp. 772-776
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Lönnecker (2001), p. 33
  4. ^ A b Rudolf Schreiber: Afterword , in: Wilhelm Wostry: Saaz at the time of the Ackermanndichters . Munich: Lerche 1951, pp. 131-138
  5. ^ Ota Konrad: The humanities at the University of Prague (1938 / 39-1945) . In: Karen Bayer / Frank Sparing / Wolfgang Woelk: (Hrsg.): Universities and colleges during National Socialism and in the early post-war period . Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08175-5 , pp. 219–248, here p. 242.
  6. ↑ different information on the years at which Ota Konrad joined: Die Geisteswissenschaften at the University of Prague (1938 / 39-1945) , 2004, p. 238.
  7. ^ Online encyclopedia on the culture and history of Germans in Eastern Europe from the University of Oldenburg
personal data
SURNAME Wostry, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian historian, folklore researcher, NSDAP member
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Žatec
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1951
Place of death Helfta