Annemarie von Gabain
Anne Marie of Gabain ( born July 4, 1901 in Mörchingen, Lorraine; † January 15, 1993 in Berlin) was a German Turkologin and sinologist. They made important contributions to the study of the German Turfan collection.
Life
Her father Arthur of Gabain came from a Huguenot family, was the general. Nevertheless, her mother raised her Catholic. Anne Marie of Gabain spent her school years, first in Mainz, where her father on the 1st Nassau Infantry Regiment No. 87, and later served in Brandenburg, where she received her high school diploma on 13 February 1920. Then she went to Berlin to attend a university education. She enrolled in a mathematics, Chinese and Turkish Studies. Her dissertation she wrote in Chinese Studies. From Gabain studied Turkish Studies at the Turcologists Wilhelm Bang - Kaup.
From 1935 to 1937 Gabain taught as a visiting professor in Ankara for the purpose of starting a Sinology Institute. From the summer semester 1938 and winter semester 1944/45, she lectured at the University of Berlin. In December 1939 Gabain entered ( Mitglieds-Nr. 7,311,591 ) in the NSDAP. It supported the bailout of the Polish scholar of Islam and Turkish studies Tadeusz Kowalski, who had been deported in the course of the promotion Krakow. In the early 1940s she was with Gerhard von Mende and Olaf Hansen to a group of scientific advisers for the SS - study nations, ethnic groups and tribes on the former territory of the Soviet Union. History, distribution, race, creed ( published by the Reichsführer, Race Office and the Department of Border and International Studies ). The aim of this study was the basis for a " volkliche redesign ", " one of the most serious and first problems in the reorganization of Ostraumes " (see General Plan East ) be, " without whose solution the Bolshevik radicals from him never will be rectified "; the " majority of ethnical communities" was certified " for the sake of their inadequate racial heritage and the conditions for achieving a truly national 's development level " to go off. "From fate seems to be determined them biologically extinct after intensive contact with modern civilization, dissolved or to be melted down into real people. "
End of the war Gabain was as Head of literature on the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Turkestan " the DMG, which was founded in late 1944 at the instigation of the SS First Lieutenant Reiner Olzscha. As a research assistant Gabain was busy at the Prussian Academy of Sciences, where she published the 1945 Özbekische grammar with the help of Uzbek members of the Turkistan Stani 's Legion.
From 1946 to 1949 Gabain worked at the local history museum in Bad Reichenhall. From 1949/50, until her retirement in 1966 she was unplanned Professor of Turkish Studies at the University of Hamburg. In 1959 she became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, in 1969 foreign member in 1990 a full member.