Willy Gierlichs

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Willy Gierlichs (born February 4, 1900 in Cologne ; † June 1945 ) was a German sociologist .

academic career

Gierlichs acquired the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the age of 22, but initially for financial reasons renounced an academic career and worked for a bank and a commercial private school. In 1924 he took up further studies at the University of Cologne , which he finished in 1928 with a degree in business administration with an elective in sociology. After working at the Reich Museum for Social and Economic Studies in Düsseldorf, he worked for one year as a “clerk for police sociology” at the Charlottenburg Police Institute . After completing his habilitation under Leopold von Wiese , Gierlichs became a lecturer in sociology at the University of Cologne in 1931. This was followed by a stay in the USA as a Social Science Research Fellow in 1932/33 . After his return, the NSDAP admission freeze delayed entry into the party, which took place in 1937. In contrast, he was accepted into the Nazi lecturers' association as early as 1935.

During von Wieses leave of absence in 1934/35 (research stay in the USA), Gierlichs headed the sociological seminar at the University of Cologne. In 1939 he was appointed a permanent professor with a teaching position for political and anthropological sociology. Although he took on a large number of functions for National Socialist institutions, for example he was a Reich speaker for the High Command of the Wehrmacht and the Reich Air Protection Association , he was not promoted to either extraordinary or full professor. The promotion failed because of the resistance of the faculty, which missed a major scientific publication. Carsten Klingemann sees this as an indication "that the omnipotence of the lecturers' association, which was later invoked as an alibi for overzealous political-ideological conformity, was limited."

In June 1945, the Willy Gierlichs committed suicide in a prison camp.

Fonts (selection)

  • 1932: Problems of Criminal Sociology, KVS 10: 464-478. ( Cologne quarterly for sociology )
  • 1934: Landjägerei und Population , KVS 12: 238-289 (the subject of his habilitation from 1931)
  • 1932: Interpersonal problems of the ghetto (continuation of studies on settlement structures using relational theory), KVS 10: 364-386
  • 1939: On the sociology of "Umvolkung" as a contemporary problem , in: "Volksforschung", vol. 3, issue 1, pp. 1–7.
  • Crime, Police and Punishment in the USA , in: Culture in USA. The reality of a mass madness . By Friedrich Schönemann , Adolf Halfeld , Friedrich Kegel, Otto Koischwitz , Willy Gierlichs, Eduard Ahlswede, KF Hermann, Alexander Jason, Th. Von Bippen (eds.), Junker and Dünnhaupt Verlag, Berlin 1943.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information according to: Carsten Klingemann , Sociology in the Third Reich . Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden 1996, ISBN 3-7890-4298-6 , p. 61 ff.
  2. ^ Carsten Klingemann: Sociology in the Third Reich . Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden 1996, ISBN 3-7890-4298-6 , p. 63.
  3. ↑ Leo Haupts, Lebensraum im Westen. The contribution of the University of Cologne specifically in the " University Working Group for Spatial Research " , in: Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann (Hrsg.), History of Science in the Rhineland with special consideration of spatial concepts . kassel university press, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-89958-407-3 , pp. 75–106, here p. 83, note 48.

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personal data
SURNAME Greedy, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH June 1945