Theodore S. Hamerow

Theodore S. Hamerow (born August 24, 1920 in Warsaw , † February 16, 2013 in Madison ) was an American historian.

Hamerow lived in Germany from 1921 to 1924 and in Poland from 1924 to 1930. His parents were members of the Vilna Yiddish theater company . In 1930 he emigrated to the USA. Hamerow graduated from Columbia University and Yale University . In 1951 he received his PhD in history under Hajo Holborn . From 1952 to 1958 he taught European and German history at the University of Illinois and from 1958 to 1991 at the University of Wisconsin , most recently as GP Gooch Professor of History. As a Fulbright Research Scholar, he conducted research in Germany from 1962 to 1963. From 1973 to 1976 he was chairman of the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin. In 1978 he was chairman of the Modern European History Section of the American Historical Society. His research focus is on German history in the 19th and 20th centuries.

In Germany he was best known for his book about the assassins of July 20, 1944, the only book by Hamerow that has so far been translated into German ( Die Assentäter: Der 20. Juli, Von der Kollaboration zum Zusammenarbeit, 1999, Taschenbuch 2004 ). His essay The Elections to the Frankfurt Parliament for the Modern German Constitutional History published by Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde has also been translated into German .

literature

• Andreas W. Daum , Hartmut Lehmann , James J. Sheehan (eds.): The Second Generation. Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide . Berghahn Books, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9 .
• Konrad J. Jarausch (Ed.): In Search of a Liberal Germany. Studies in the History of German Liberalism from 1789 to the Present . Berg, New York, 1990, ISBN 0-85496-614-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Theodore S. Hamerow in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stanley G. Payne : In Memoriam: Theodore Hamerow (1920-2013). In: Perspectives on History. September 2013, accessed November 5, 2013.
2. ↑ Thomas Karlauf : Dared the decisive throw . Theodore Hamerow on the conservative resistance against Hitler. In: Die Zeit , July 15, 1999;
   P. Hoffmann: Nationalists, anti-Semites, enemies of democracy? Theodore Hamerow's unconvincing work on resisting Hitler. In: FAZ , July 12, 1999