Paul Hirsch (historian)

Paul Hirsch (born March 10, 1883 in Mannheim , † June 17, 1961 in Heidelberg ) was a German historian .

The son of a Mannheim entrepreneurial family studied history in Heidelberg, Berlin and Strasbourg. Hirsch also attended art-historical, archaeological, classical philological and legal lectures. With Harry Bresslau he received his doctorate with a thesis on the elevation of Berengar I of Friuli to King of Italy. Hirsch belonged to the Strasbourg work and friends group around Hans Wibel , Walter Lenel , Robert Hedicke , Alfred Hessel and Paul Wentzcke . Even after the death of his academic teacher Bresslau, Hirsch had a close relationship with his family. Hirsch worked as an assistant to Marc Rosenbergon its third edition The Goldsmith's Marks . He accepted the Christian faith and married a "Gentile". The so-called “privileged mixed marriage” initially protected him from persecution under National Socialism. The couple granted protection to Jews who were persecuted many times. From 1941, Hirsch had to wear the Star of David. He was denied access to the library and the university. His private environment prevented his deportation in February 1945 by making him unfit for transport using febrile means. From the summer semester of 1947, he had a teaching position for medieval source studies at the University of Heidelberg .

His main focus was the history of Italy in the 9th and 10th centuries. An attempted translation of the Longobard story of Paul the deacon was not completed. Hirsch also researched Jewish history. On behalf of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica , Hirsch took over one of the most important sources on the history of the 10th century with the edition of the history of Saxony by Widukind von Corvey . Financial and professional difficulties delayed the completion of the edition. Bresslau tried in vain to get a job for his student Hirsch with the Baden government. The Mannheim antiquity association deleted him from its list of members. He was refused admission to the Reich Association of German Writers . Because of his Jewish descent, Hirsch feared that the edition would not appear under his name and that it would be panned for anti-Semitic motives. The Widukind edition could not appear until 1935. As President of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Paul Fridolin Kehr made it possible for the edition to appear under Hirsch's name two years after the “ seizure of power ”. In July 1934, Hirsch had expressed understanding for Kehr's possible decision “in one of all the inhibitions of the past - tradition, the unfortunate attack, as well as descent - carefree, happier, working in the new spirit of science, as well as of transformed thinking in general close".

Nikola Becker dealt with the three now less known Jewish employees of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica Paul Hirsch, Erika Sinauer and Josef Juncker . She came to the conclusion that the bloodletting of German science as a result of the National Socialist persecution and extermination of the Jews also affected the Monumenta Germaniae Historica.

Publications

with Hans-Eberhard Lohmann: Widukindi monachi Corbeiensis rerum gestarum Saxonicarum libri tres. = The Saxon history of the Widukind von Korvei (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Scriptores. 7: Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separatim editi. Vol. 60). 5th edition. Hahn, Hanover 1935, ( digitized ).

literature

Nikola Becker: Jewish employees at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in the “Third Reich”. Paul Hirsch, Josef Juncker and Erika Sinauer. In: Historisches Jahrbuch 135 (2015), pp. 453–502.
Marie Luise Bulst : Paul Hirsch in memoriam 1883–1961. In: Ruperto Carola. Volume 13, volumes 30, pp. 159–160.

Remarks

↑ Nikola Becker: Jewish employees at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in the "Third Reich". Paul Hirsch, Josef Juncker and Erika Sinauer. In: Historisches Jahrbuch 135 (2015), pp. 453–502, here: p. 473.
↑ Nikola Becker: Jewish employees at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in the "Third Reich". Paul Hirsch, Josef Juncker and Erika Sinauer. In: Historisches Jahrbuch 135 (2015), pp. 453–502, here: p. 470.
^ Paul Hirsch: The Mannheim Jewry at the end of the eighteenth century. In: Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter , vol. 23, 1922, pp. 178–190.
↑ Nikola Becker: Jewish employees at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in the "Third Reich". Paul Hirsch, Josef Juncker and Erika Sinauer. In: Historisches Jahrbuch 135 (2015), pp. 453–502, here: p. 476.
↑ Quoted from Nikola Becker: Jewish employees at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in the “Third Reich”. Paul Hirsch, Josef Juncker and Erika Sinauer. In: Historisches Jahrbuch 135 (2015), pp. 453–502, here: p. 479.
↑ Nikola Becker: Jewish employees at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in the "Third Reich". Paul Hirsch, Josef Juncker and Erika Sinauer. In: Historisches Jahrbuch 135 (2015), pp. 453–502, here: p. 502.

personal data
SURNAME	Hirsch, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian
DATE OF BIRTH	March 10, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH	June 17, 1961
Place of death	Heidelberg

[1] Nikola Becker: Jewish employees at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in the "Third Reich". Paul Hirsch, Josef Juncker and Erika Sinauer. In: Historisches Jahrbuch 135 (2015), pp. 453–502, here: p. 473.

[2] Nikola Becker: Jewish employees at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in the "Third Reich". Paul Hirsch, Josef Juncker and Erika Sinauer. In: Historisches Jahrbuch 135 (2015), pp. 453–502, here: p. 470.

[3] Paul Hirsch: The Mannheim Jewry at the end of the eighteenth century. In: Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter , vol. 23, 1922, pp. 178–190.

[4] Nikola Becker: Jewish employees at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in the "Third Reich". Paul Hirsch, Josef Juncker and Erika Sinauer. In: Historisches Jahrbuch 135 (2015), pp. 453–502, here: p. 476.

[5] Quoted from Nikola Becker: Jewish employees at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in the “Third Reich”. Paul Hirsch, Josef Juncker and Erika Sinauer. In: Historisches Jahrbuch 135 (2015), pp. 453–502, here: p. 479.

[6] Nikola Becker: Jewish employees at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in the "Third Reich". Paul Hirsch, Josef Juncker and Erika Sinauer. In: Historisches Jahrbuch 135 (2015), pp. 453–502, here: p. 502.