Short Portrait: Hubert Kroll

Hubert Kroll
Hubert Kroll

Kroll was born 20. May 1901 in Zerkwitz/Prov. Posen, he dies on 09. June 1940 (Semuy, Arrdennes, WWII)

Kroll studied Völkerkunde, Volkskunde and Prehistory 1921 in Leipzig, 1927 in Cologne (with Lips). His dissertation (with Weule in Leipzig) was finished in May 1928 on Bantu domestic animals. In 1929 he became director of the newly opened section "Völkerkunde"  at Museum für Heimat-, Natur- und Völkerkunde in Essen (from 1934 onwards: Ruhrland-Museum, since 2008 Ruhr Museum). In 1932, Krolls position was discarded and he became unemployed. In the same year he was considered candidate for a museum position in Dresden, but he decided to stay in Essen.

 

Publications:

1928 Das Zurückhalten der Milch bei Rindern und ihre Behandlung bei afrikanischen Hirtenstämmen, in: Milchwirtschaftliches Zentralblatt. Jahrgang 57, Heft 22, pp. 349–350; 1929 Die Haustiere der Bantu; 1937 Der Iniet . Das Wesen eines melanesischen Geheimbundes, in:  Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologie, 70, pp. 180-220

[More information on this anthropologist is welcome]

 

Source: Ingrid Kreide-Damani (2010) Ethnologie im Nationalsozialismus - Julius Lips und die Geschichte der "Völkerkunde". Wiesbaden: Reichert, pg 78

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