Anton Hoch
Anton Hoch (born May 1, 1914 in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate ; † April 13, 1981 in Munich ) was a German archivist and historian .
Life
Hoch grew up in Eger and attended the humanistic grammar school there . After studying at the universities of Munich , Vienna and Prague , he received his doctorate in 1939 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich under Karl Alexander von Müller with the thesis The political overthrow 1918/19 in German West Bohemia. After brief employment at the city archive in Eger, Hoch did military service from February 1940 to 1945.
From 1949 to 1978, Hoch headed the archive of the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. The indexing of the “Nuremberg Documents” that he carried out was of particular importance. These had been confiscated by the occupation authorities after the end of the war and had previously been evidence in the Nuremberg trials . Later, further German files followed, which - initially confiscated - were returned by the Allies.
As a historian, Hoch did a great job of clearing up the case of the Hitler assassin Georg Elser . In 1969, in his essay The Assassination attempt on Hitler in Munich's Bürgerbräukeller in 1939, Hoch provided evidence of Elser's sole perpetrator. This was particularly possible against the background of the Gestapo protocol discovered by Lothar Gruchmann in 1964 .
Fonts
- The air raid on Freiburg on May 10, 1940 , in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 4, 1956, pp. 115–144
- The assassination attempt on Hitler in Munich's Bürgerbräukeller 1939, in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 17, 1969, pp. 383–413, again in: Anton Hoch / Lothar Gruchmann: Georg Elser. The assassin from the people. The attack on Hitler in the Münchner Bürgerbräu 1939, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1980
- The archive of the Institute for Contemporary History, in: Der Archivar 26 (1973), Sp. 295–308
Web links
- Literature by and about Anton Hoch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Anton Hoch on Google Book Search
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary (PDF; 8.1 MB) by Martin Broszat in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 29 (1981), p. 472 f.
- ↑ Anton Hoch: The assassination attempt on Hitler in Munich's Bürgerbräukeller in 1939 (PDF file; 1.63 MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Up, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German archivist and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Willows in the Upper Palatinate |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 1981 |
| Place of death | Munich |