You are bidding on one typed letter i.eitGermanists and specialists in Old Norse languages Bernhard Kummer (1897-1962).

Dated Klingenberg, 28. Aug 1949.

addressed to Hella von Oeynhausen, b. by Oven (* 15. December 1905 in Görlitz) on Gut Reelsen (Bad Driburg).

condolence letteron the death of her husband, the forest assessor and lieutenant Falk-Arnd von Oeynhausen (* 17. February 1914 in Berlin as the son of the landowner, major and forest assessor Falk-Arnd von Oeynhausen, 1883-1954, and Louise, b. Jackstein, 1883-1959, d. on the 31st July 1949 in Detmold after a riding accident). The marriage took place on the 16th. January 1943 in Berlin.

Very touching and personally written.

It is not clear to me whether the red signature "Kummer" on the edge of the page is the handwritten signature, since I have not found any comparable signature; but it can be assumed that the recipient had already noted the author's name on the front with red pencil and in a different typeface.

Scope:two A4 pages; without envelope.

Condition: Paper slightly browned. BPlease note also the pictures!

Internal note: Oeynbeige, condolence

About Bernhard Kummer (source: wikipedia):

Bernhard Kummer, called Germanen Bernhard, (* 21. January 1897 in Leipzig; † 1. December 1962 in Klingberg) was a Germanist and specialist in Old Norse languages.

Biography: Bernhard Kummer came from a merchant family and grew up in Leipzig, where he attended the Queen Carola High School from 1907 to 1916. Shortly after graduating from high school, he volunteered for the Western Front during World War I, where he was taken prisoner by the French from 1918 to 1920. After returning to Leipzig in 1920, Kummer began studying German, history, philosophy and journalism at the university there. After a break of four semesters, during which he worked as a bookseller, Kummer studied Religious and Old Norse Studies. He became Midgard's Downfall in 1927 with his dissertation. Germanic cult and belief in the last pagan centuries with the Nordist Eugen Mogk and the religious scholar Hans Haas in Leipzig.

From 1930 to 1935, Kummer was an assistant to Gustav Neckel in Berlin, with whom he had some disagreements over the years. Kummer wrote numerous articles for the dictionary of German superstitions.

In 1933 Kummer became involved in Jakob Wilhelm Hauer's German Faith Movement. In 1935 he received a teaching position at the University of Politics in Berlin. In 1936, at the suggestion of Gauleiter Fritz Sauckel, Kummer was appointed lecturer for Old Norse language and culture at the University of Jena and head of the Old Norse seminar there. Kummer's image of the Germans was controversial within the Nazi regime. In particular, the Germanist Otto Höfler criticized his theories in sharp words. As a result, Kummer's appointment to a chair was delayed for several years. From 1942 to 1945 Kummer was full professor for Nordic language and culture and Germanic religious history at the University of Jena. Kummer belonged, among other things, to the group "Life forces and essence of Indo-European culture in the war effort of the humanities".

After the end of the war, Kummer found himself in French internment as a prisoner of war, from which he was released in 1946. In 1946, the writings he wrote and edited from 1933 to 1939 were put on the list of literature to be discarded in the Soviet occupation zone. From 1949 he worked at the adult education center in Lübeck and also received a professorship for Wv. a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. From 1950 he worked for Jakob Wilhelm Hauer in the working group for free religious research and philosophy. Kummer was also the editor of the monthly journal Research Questions of Our Time.

factories

Midgard's fall. Germanic cult and belief in the last pagan centuries. Leipzig 1927

personality and community. (Volume 1 of: Hearth and Altar - Changes in Old Norse morality in the change of faith). Leipzig 1934

The power struggle between people, king and church in the old north. (Volume 2 of: Hearth and Altar - Changes in Old Norse morality in the change of faith). Leipzig 1939

Brunhild and Ragnarok. The formation of the Icelandic Brünhild poetry from the experience of the change of faith. Luebeck 1950

Struggle for a sanctuary. The Irminsul idea and the religious-historical significance of the Externsteine. Hohe Warte – from Bebenburg, Pähl 1953

The Royal Road of Sverrir Unasson. Hohe Warte, Pähl 1953

The Songs of the Codex Regius (Edda) and Related Monuments

Volume 1: Mythical Poetry. Part One: The Vision of the Seer (Voluspa). Text, translation and religious-historical additions. Zeven 1961

Volume 2: heroic poetry. Part One: The Poetry of Helgi and the Valkyrie. Text, translation, explanation. Zeven 1959