Article ID: CBB345983679

„Bernzieh“ und Esperanto. Technische Terminologie im Nationalsozialismus zwischen Sprachpurismus und internationaler Normung (“Bernzieh” and Esperanto. Technical Terminology in the Third Reich between Linguistic Purism and International Standardisation) (2023)

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In the early 1930s, the engineering societies in Germany consolidated the rules for defining their terminology as part of international standardisation. With the rise to power of the National Socialists, language purists managed to place their Germanisation activism in the collaborative work of the societies. In 1937, however, Fritz Todt, the leading Nazi technical functionary, banned the purist work, while the societies continued the institutionalisation of technical terminology based on international standardisation and the planned language Esperanto. The article uses this example to examine the socio-political position of engineers in the Third Reich, which was shaped less by a contradiction between technical rationality and Nazi ideology or a “politicisation of tech- nology” (Meyer) than by the integration of the engineering societies into the regime’s “new statehood” (Hachtmann). Anfang der 1930er Jahre festigten sich bei den technisch-wissenschaftlichen Vereinen in Deutschland die Regeln zur Festlegung ihrer Terminologie im Rahmen der internationalen Normung. Mit dem Machtantritt der Nationalsozialisten gelang es Sprachpuristen, ihren Verdeutschungsaktivismus in der Gemeinschaftsarbeit der Vereine zu platzieren. 1937 aber verbot Fritz Todt, der führende NS-Technikfunktionär, die sprachpuristischen Arbeiten, während die Vereine die auf internationaler Kooperation und der Plansprache Esperanto aufsetzende Institutionalisierung der technischen Terminologie fortführten. Der Beitrag untersucht an diesem Beispiel die gesellschaftspolitische Stellung der Ingenieure im Dritten Reich, die weniger von einem Widerspruch zwischen technischer Rationalität und NS-Ideologie oder einer „Politisierung der Technik“ (Meyer) geprägt war als von der Integration der technisch-wissenschaftlichen Vereine in die „neue Staatlichkeit“ (Hachtmann) des Regimes.

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Authors & Contributors
Augustine, Dolores L.
Birdsall, Carolyn
Epple, Moritz
Fickers, Andreas
Giunta, Carmen J.
Guse, John C.
Journals
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Technikgeschichte: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technik und Industrie
Substantia: An International Journal of the History of Chemistry
Central European History
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
German Studies Review
Publishers
Princeton University
Cambridge University Press
Amsterdam University Press
Aracne
MA, Belknap Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Concepts
National Socialism
Technology and politics
Standards and standardization
Technology
Terminology and nomenclature
Genetics
People
Hallervorden, Julius
Hitler, Adolf
Joule, James Prescott
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
Watt, James
Leonhard, Karl
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
Germany
China
Italy
United States
Institutions
Universität Erlangen
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
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