Karl Holl (historian)

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Karl Holl (born June 22, 1931 in Altendiez ; † April 23, 2017 in Bremen ) was a German historian . Holl was a professor of contemporary and party history at the University of Bremen . He is considered the " Nestor of German historical peace research ".

Live and act

Karl Holl grew up in Bremberg as the son of an elementary school teacher. He graduated from high school in Bad Ems in 1950 and then studied history, German and Romance studies in Mainz and Tübingen with the professional goal of being a high school teacher . While he was still working on his dissertation on The Irish Question in Daniel O'Connell's Era and its assessment in the political journalism of the German Vormärz (1958 with Leo Just in Mainz), he was initially a teacher at grammar schools in Mainz, but soon switched to the Teacher training for history at the University of Education in Neuwied , then at the University of Education (EWH) in Koblenz .

From there, Holl was appointed to the newly founded University of Bremen in 1971 as one of the first professors, where he taught modern, contemporary and contemporary history with a special focus on party history. He taught for a trimester as a Fulbright Professor at Gettysburg College in 1985 . In addition to research interests on the 19th century and the Weimar Republic , focal points were formed in the history of the peace movement and pacifism as well as exile research . He contributed to the latter through the rediscovery of the exiled writer Lilo Linke .

The Historic Peace Research in Germany coined Holl on from its beginnings in the 1970s. Even before his significant involvement in the founding of the Working Group on Historical Peace Research (AKHF) in 1984, Holl was at the center of a network of young researchers who were concerned with the history of organized liberal-democratic bourgeois pacifism and anti-militarism . For his work Pacifism in Germany he was awarded the Carl von Ossietzky Prize for Contemporary History and Politics of the City of Oldenburg in 1988 .

Holl retired in 1996 and continued to live and conduct research in Bremen. In particular, he pushed ahead with his long-pursued project of a biography of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ludwig Quidde , which was published in 2007 as Holl's opus magnum . With the comprehensive biography, in the opinion of the reviewers, he set "Ludwig Quidde, the great German pacifist, a permanent memorial". Holl was a member and temporarily chairman of the board of trustees of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Memorial Foundation . From 1969 to 1985 he was a member, at times chairman of the advisory board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

politics

After his involvement in the Liberal Student Union of Germany , Holl was politically active first with the German Young Democrats , the former FDP youth organization, of which he was national chairman from 1964 to 1966. At this time began his seven-year membership in the Mainz city council for the Free Democratic Party . After moving to Bremen , he became a member of the Bremen citizenship in 1979 ( 10th legislative period ), but resigned his mandate in 1982 due to the end of the social-liberal coalition at the federal level (→ Wende ) and returned to university teaching.

Karl Holl died after a long illness at the age of 85 in his adopted home of Bremen.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The Irish question in the era of Daniel O'Connell and its assessment in the political journalism of the German pre-March . Mainz 1958 (dissertation University Mainz, Philosophical Faculty, July 11, 1959).
  • Pacifism in Germany. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-518-11533-2 .
  • Ludwig Quidde (1858–1941). A biography. Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-1622-8 .

Editorships

  • with the assistance of Helmut Donat : Ludwig Quidde. German pacifism during the world war 1914–1918. Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1979, ISBN 3-7646-1647-4 .
  • with Wolfram Wette : Pacifism in the Weimar Republic. Contributions to historical peace research. Schöningh, Paderborn 1981, ISBN 3-506-77457-3 .
  • with Helmut Donat: The Peace Movement. Organized pacifism in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Econ, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-612-10024-6 (Hermes Handlexikon).
  • Ludwig Quidde: Germany's relapse into barbarism. Texts from exile 1933–1941. Donat, Bremen 1999, ISBN 978-3-938275-53-5 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl Holl (historian)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ^ Karl Holl obituary notice , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 28, 2017.
  2. ^ Roger Chickering: Review of Karl Holl: Ludwig Quidde (1858–1941). A biography. Droste, Düsseldorf 2007 . In: H-Soz-u-Kult , October 19, 2007.
  3. ^ First: Karl Holl: Lilo Linke (1906–1963). From the young Weimar democrat to a social reporter in Latin America. Materials for a biography . In: Exilforschung 5 (Vanishing Points of Exile and Other Topics), 1987, pp. 68–89. Later appeared: Lilo Linke: Days of Restlessness. From Berlin into Exile: A German Girl's Life 1914–1933 . Edited and with an afterword by Karl Holl, translated by Dorothea Hasbargen-Wilke. Edition Lumière, Bremen 2005, ISBN 3-934686-24-9 .
  4. ↑ Jost Dülffer: Forge the swords into plowshares. On the death of Karl Holl, the nestor of historical peace research . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of April 27, 2017, p. 13.
  5. ↑ On the history of the Working Group on Historical Peace Research .
  6. ^ Previous awards of the Carl von Ossietzky Prize (since 1984) .
  7. ↑ Gottfried Niedhart : Lavieren as a life principle . [Review of Karl Holl: Ludwig Quidde (1858–1941). A biography. Droste, Düsseldorf 2007]. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 145 of June 26, 2007, p. 7.
  8. ^ Volker Ullrich: Strange in your own country . [Review of Karl Holl: Ludwig Quidde (1858–1941). A biography. Droste, Düsseldorf 2007]. In: Die Zeit , No. 50 of December 6, 2007. Further reviews appeared in HZ 285, 2007, issue 3 (by Reinhold Lütgemeier-Davin), as well as in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on November 2, 2007 (by Benjamin Ziemann ).
  9. ↑ (JH): Karl Holl died. Quidde's biographer was 85 years old. In: Weser-Kurier , April 25, 2017, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Holl, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Altendiez
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2017
Place of death Bremen