Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen (historian)

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Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Karl August Bernhard Alexander Baron Hiller von Gaertringen (born January 15, 1923 in Stuttgart ; † October 25, 1999 ) was a German historian who worked, among other things, as editor at the Military History Research Office .

Life

Hiller von Gaertringen came from a noble family from Württemberg. He was born as the son of an officer who was in the Uhlan regiment "King Wilhelm I." (2. Württembergisches) No. 20 served, born; his maternal grandfather was the royal Prussian senior administrative judge and DNVP politician Kuno Graf von Westarp . Hiller von Gaertringen was co- lord of Gärtringen and Ditzingen and last served as first lieutenant in the Wehrmacht .

After World War II , he studied history and was in 1955 when Hans Rothfels at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Tübingen with a dissertation to history and criticism of the Memoirs of Prince Bulow to Dr. phil. PhD. Then he was an assistant at the history seminar. Hiller von Gaertringen was u. a. Editor of the memoirs of Reichswehr Minister Wilhelm Groener and author of several DBE and NDB articles. His research on the stab in the back is considered significant; for this he published u. a. in From Politics and Contemporary History . A special focus of interest was research on the resistance to National Socialism, here u. a. Editing and commenting on Ulrich von Hassell's diaries.

From 1977 to 1988 he was a historian and editor at the Military History Research Office (MGFA) in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Prince Bülow's memorabilia. Investigations into the history of their origins and their criticism (= Tübingen Studies on History and Politics, No. 5). Mohr (Siebeck), Tübingen 1956.
  • (Ed.): Wilhelm Groener : Life memories. Youth, General Staff, World War (= German historical sources of the 19th and 20th centuries . Volume 41). With a foreword by Peter Rassow , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1957.
  • The German National People's Party , in: The end of the parties. Representations and documents . Edited by Erich Matthias and Rudolf Morsey , Droste, Düsseldorf 1960, pp. 543–652.
  • (Ed. With Waldemar Besson ): History and present-day consciousness in historical considerations and investigations. Festschrift for Hans Rothfels on his 70th birthday, offered by colleagues, friends and students . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1963.
  • "Stab in the back" discussion and "stab in the back legends" in the course of four decades . Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 1970.
  • The Hiller von Gaertringen family and the aristocratic estate since 1634 . In: Fritz Heimberger (Ed.): Gärtringen. History of a community . Vaas, Langenau-Ulm 1982, pp. 83-100, ISBN 3-88360-032-6 .
  • Cavalry Regiment 18th comradeship meeting on 8./9. October 1983 . Franckh, Stuttgart 1983.
  • (Ed.): Ulrich von Hassell : The Hassell diaries 1938–1944, records from Andern Deutschland . According to the handwriting. rev. and exp. Issue / among employees by Klaus Peter Reiss ed. by Friedrich Frhr. Hiller von Gaertringen, 2nd edition, Siedler, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-88680-017-2 .
  • (Einf.): Hans Rothfels : The German opposition to Hitler. An appreciation . Manesse, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-7175-8208-9 .
  • (Ed.): Kuno von Westarp : Conservative Politics in the Transition from the Empire to the Weimar Republic (= sources on the history of parliamentarism and political parties . Series 3. The Weimar Republic . Volume 10). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5239-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stiftung Deutsches Adelsarchiv (Hrsg.): Genealogical manual of the German nobility . Freiherrliche Häuser Volume XXII, Volume 136 of the complete series. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 2020, ISBN 3-7980-0836-1 , p. 163 f .
  2. ↑ GHdA , FB, 4, 1967, 39, p. 276 f.
  3. ↑ Paul Herre : Memoirs. Youth, General Staff, World War I by Wilhelm Groener, Friedrich Frhr. Hiller von Gaertringen . In: Historische Zeitschrift 186 (1958) 1, pp. 140-144.
  4. ↑ Roger Chickering : The German Empire and the First World War . 2nd edition, Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-47592-2 , p. 268.
  5. ↑ Ulrich von Hassell : The Hassell diaries 1938-1944, records from Andern Deutschland , after the handwriting. rev. and exp. Issue / among employees by Klaus Peter Reiss ed. by Friedrich Frhr. Hiller von Gaertringen 2nd edition, Siedler, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-88680-017-2
personal data
SURNAME Hiller von Gaertringen, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hiller von Gaertringen, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Karl August Bernhard Alexander Freiherr (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1999