KROGMANN, Willy (Wilhelm). Wismar 13.9.1905 — Hamburg 20.3.1967. German Germanist also interested in IE Linguistics. Son of Heinrich Krogmann (d. 1939), a timber dealer, and Auguste Meyer. From 1924 studied Germanistics, etc. at Rostock and Leipzig. Ph.D. 1928 Rostock. In 1933-39 in Berlin working on German lexicography. PD 1939 Königsberg. Member of NSDAP from 1933, in WW II served in the Netherlands. After war taught at Hamburg Univer­sity until death, mainly teaching Frisian philology, and worked from 1952 of the great dictionary of Heligoland Frisian dialect.

Publications: “Av. ²drva”, KZ 65, 1938, 141f.

– IE etymologien in KZ 62, 1935, 267-269; 63, 1936, 256-259; and 64, 1937, 267-269.

– “Das Buchenargument”, KZ 72, 1955, 1-29 & 73, 1956, 1-25; “Das Lachsargument”, KZ 76, 1960, 161-179.

– Much on Germanic languages and literature, Runes, etc.

Sources: U. Pretzel, N.D.B. 13, 1982, 67f.; Ẃikipedia (more in German version).