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Carl graph von clinkowowstrom (* August 26, 1884 in Potsdam as Carl Ludwig Friedrich Otto Von Clinckow Streams ; † August 29, 1969 in Munich) was a German cultural and technology historian who was one of the most important representatives of this research area in the first half of the 20th century in Germany. [first]

Carl von Klinckowstroem came from the count’s line of the noble family of Klinckowstroem. His father was Major General Karl Graf von Klinckowstroem (1848–1903) on Heiligenstein/East Prussia. His mother Freda (1865–1944) was the daughter of the Prussian district administrator Otto Rudolf Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt and the Helene Jenisch. He attended the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin, took off the Abitur there and then went to the Garde-Jäger-Battalon for a short time as a lieutenant. From 1906 to 1914 he studied literary history, philosophy and physics at the University of Munich and the University of Erlangen. The Germanist and folklorist Friedrich von der Leyen aroused the interest of Klinckowstroem for the history of physics. He primarily devoted to Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776–1810), the physicist of early romanticism.

Klinckowstroem has published work on the history of technology in various popular science periodica since 1911, but also on topics such as the problem of the wishing rod. Together with Franz Strunz, he gave the series from 1913 Classics of natural sciences and technology and with Franz Feldhaus from 1914 the History sheets for technology, industry and trade out that he continued until 1927. [2] In addition to Conrad Matschoss and Franz Feldhaus, he was one of the pioneers of technology history in Germany. Financially independent, he lived as a private scholar and publicist in Munich. There he joined a circle of intellectuals, which was particularly artistic and literarily interested, to which the writer Karl Wolfskehl and Germanist Carl Georg von Maassen belonged.

In 1916, during the First World War, he was wounded and used after recovery in the Berlin general staff. In Berlin he wrote a job about the Swedish mystic and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg. After the end of the war he returned to Munich.

Even before the war, he had started to invest in a GmbH founded by Feldhaus that offered research on patent questions and anniversary writings, but went bankrupt in 1930. The investment amount amounted to a total of 120,000 Reichsmarks. [3] He had already lost his financial independence in post -war inflation. [4]

In addition to the beginnings of physics -historical research, the technological in the files of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the history of technical thinking and the inventions, he has increasingly turned to occultism and magic since 1925. He gave lectures and published essays in the magazine for critical occultism on these topics.

Klinckowstroem joined the NSDAP relatively early. The German working front provided him in 1934 as head of the department History of work One that was already affiliated to the NSDAP party archive in October of the same year. After merging with the archive of the Reich training office as the main archive of the party, Klinckowstroem received a leader post in the Department of Cultural Policy and Cultural History. [first] In the 1940s, he sold his extensive private specialist library. [5]

After the Second World War he was an employee of several magazines, such as the New sciences and the Water management . Since 1951 he has worked primarily for that Börsenblatt for the German bookstore . During this time he published his two basic works: The magic and Knaurs History of technology . He wrote 37 contributions for the new German biography. In 1961 he was awarded the Rudolf-Diesel medal. [6]

Carl Graf von Klinckowstroem had been married to Charlotte Anders since 1953. The marriage remained childless.

The Klinckowstroem estate is located in the archive of the German Museum in Munich. [first] [6]

  • Johann Wilhelm Ritter and the wish rod. A historical study. Baumgärtner, Leipzig 1913.
  • Yogi skills (= The occult world. No. 99). Baum, Pfullingen 1922.
  • The wish rod as a scientific problem. Wittwer, Stuttgart 1922.
  • With Walter von Gulat-Wellenburg and Hans Rosenbusch: Physical mediumism. [from the row The occultism in documents ; ed. by Max Dessoir]; Ullstein, Berlin 1925. [1.-3. Ed.]
  • With Walter von Gulat-Wellenburg, Hans Rosenbusch and Harry Price: Alleged exposure of Frau Maria Silbert. Ullstein, Berlin 1925.
  • With Rudolf Freiherr von Maltzahn: Handbook of the wish rod. History, science, application. Oldenbourg, Munich 1931.
  • The magic . Heimeran, Munich 1954.
  • Knaur’s history of technology . Knaur, Munich 1959.
  • Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoss: Clinckowstrome, carl grave. In: New German biography (Ndb). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1, p. 74 ( Digitized ).
  • Volker Husberg: Technical stories as a culture history: Carl’s grave Von Clinckowowst. In: Burkhard Dietz, Michael Fessner, Helmut Maier (ed.): Technical intelligence and “cultural factor technology”. Cultural ideas of technicians and engineers between the Empire and former Federal Republic of Germany (= Cottbus studies on the history of technology, work and the environment. Bd. 2). Waxmann, Münster 1996, S. 133 f.
  • Hartmut Walravens (ed.): Carl Graf von Klinckowstroem (1884–1969). List of the technical historian, desirable rod expert, occultism critic and bibliophilic. Bod, Norderstedt, 2015, 332 p.
  1. ↑ a b c Wilhelm Füßl: Folding even carl’s graph von clinclock stream. In: German Museum (ed.): Archive-Info. 1st year, Issue 2, Munich 2000, pp. 2–3 ( Online ; PDF, 46 kB)
  2. ↑ Wolfgang König: Technical research in Germany from 1800 to the present. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89958-318-2, p. 51 ( Google books )
  3. ↑ Wolfgang König: Technical research in Germany from 1800 to the present. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89958-318-2, pp. 118–120 ( Google books )
  4. ↑ Wolfhard Weber, Lutz Engelskirchen: Dispute over technology history in Germany, 1945-1975. In: Günter Bayerl (ed.): Cottbus studies on the history of technology, work and the environment. Vol. 15, Waxmann, Münster/New York/Munich/Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-89325-992-2, p. 48
  5. ↑ B. Fabian (ed.): Handbook of historical book stocks in Germany, manual of historical book stocks in Austria, manual of German historical book stocks in Europe. Olms Neue Medien, Hildesheim 2003, ISBN 3-487-11711-8; Available online: Günter Kükshöner (digital edit.): Handbook of historical book stocks in Germany, Austria and Europe . ; See entry for the German Museum, Sect. 1.10 .
  6. ↑ a b Medal carrier. German Institute for Inventory, accessed on May 19, 2019 .