Edgar Feuchtwanger

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Edgar Feuchtwanger (born September 28, 1924 in Munich ) is a German-British historian .

Life

Edgar Feuchtwanger is the son of the publisher Ludwig Feuchtwanger . As a child he lived with his family in Munich on Grillparzerstraße in a rented apartment. In 1929 Adolf Hitler moved into his private apartment in the neighborhood, on Prinzregentenplatz . Feuchtwanger attended elementary school and then from 1935 to 1938 the Maximiliansgymnasium in his hometown. After the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, his father was arrested and only released six weeks later. In February 1939 Edgar was sent ahead to England , and the family followed two months later.

Feuchtwanger attended Winchester College there , did military service from 1943 to 1944 and studied from 1944 to 1947 at Magdalene College in Cambridge , where he received his doctorate in 1947. From 1948 he taught first adult education and from 1963 history at the University of Southampton . Feuchtwanger works on German and British history of the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1981/82 he was a visiting professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . On September 1, 2002, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

Works

  • Disraeli, democracy and the Tory party conservative leadership and organization after the second reform bill. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1968.
  • Prussia: myth and reality: The role of Prussia in German history. London, 1970; German edition: Prussia: Myth and Reality. Frankfurt am Main 1972.
  • Upheaval and continuity: A century of German history. London 1973, ISBN 0-85496-133-X .
  • Gladstone. London 1975.
  • Air power in the next generation. London 1979, ISBN 0-333-23609-2 .
  • The Soviet Union and the Third World. London 1981, ISBN 0-333-28736-3 (together with Peter Nailor).
  • Democracy and empire: Britain, 1865-1914. London 1985, ISBN 0-7131-6161-2 , ISBN 0-7131-6162-0 .
  • From Weimar to Hitler: Germany, 1918–33. London 1993.
  • Imperial Germany 1850–1918. London 2001, ISBN 0-415-20789-4 , ISBN 0-415-20788-6 .
  • Bismarck. London 2002, ISBN 0-415-21613-3 , ISBN 0-415-21614-1 .
  • Queen Victoria and her time. Gleichen / Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-7881-0157-1 (together with Christian Müller).
  • Albert and Victoria: The rise and fall of the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. London, 2006, ISBN 1-85285-461-8 , ISBN 978-1-84725-015-5 .
  • with Bertil Scali: Hitler, mon voisin: Souvenirs d'un enfant juif . Lafon, Neuilly-sur-Seine 2013.
  • When Hitler was our neighbor. Memories of my childhood under National Socialism . From the French by Antje Peter. Siedler, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-8275-0038-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Malte Herwig : An uncanny fairy tale , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 12, 2014, p. V2, 9.
  2. ↑ Office of the Federal President.
  3. ^ Hitler's neighbor publishes memoirs , in: RP Online , January 3, 2013, accessed February 11, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Feuchtwanger, Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich