Bernhard Schweitzer Explained

Bernhard Schweitzer (3 October 1892, in Wesel – 16 July 1966, in Tübingen) was a German classical archeologist.

Life

From 1911-1917, he studied classical archaeology and philology in Heidelberg and Berlin. He received his doctorate in 1917 in Heidelberg under Friedrich von Duhn with a thesis on "Studies on the chronology of the geometric styles in Greece I".[1] In 1921, Bernhard Schweitzer studied in Heidelberg and in 1925 became a professor. He succeeded Herbert Koch in Leipzig.

In November 1933, he was one of the signers of the at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state. Schweitzer was not a member of the Nazi party, but only joined its affiliated social welfare organization, the National Socialist People's Welfare (Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt), in 1937.[2] In 1945, he became the first rector of the University of Leipzig to the end of the war. In 1948, he was the successor of Carl Watzinger at Tübingen, where he retired in 1960.

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References

  1. Web site: Bernhard Schweitzer - Dictionary of Art Historians. arthistorians.info. 2016-01-06.
  2. Helga A. Welsh: Entnazifizierung und Wiedereröffnung der Universität Leipzig 1945-1946. Ein Bericht des damaligen Rektors Professor Bernhard Schweitzer, In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, Jahrgang 33, 1985, Heft 2, S. 339-372: hier S. 339

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