Adam Sahrmann

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Adam Sahrmann (* 1885 in Landau in the Palatinate ; † after 1938) was a German historian and high school teacher.

Life

Adam Sahrmann studied history at the University of Munich , where he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1911 after writing a dissertation on the politics of Frederick the Great . From then on he worked as an author of historical works. After the suspension of Carl Friedrich Müller-Palleske , the city council of Landau in the Palatinate elected Sahrmann as district school inspector in 1912 and appointed him as the second successor to Christian Friedrich Maurer to head the local secondary school for girls , which was later renamed the Max Slevogt Gymnasium . Since the school had welcomed Jewish students since it was founded and Sahrmann was unable to identify with the Nazi school policy in this tradition , he had to resign from the management in 1938.

Historical work

As a historian, Sahrmann was known as a meticulous archival researcher. One of his specialties included dynastic succession. “In 1912 Adam Sahrmann worked out from the archives in Bamberg, Berlin and Munich that it was the essential merit of Frederick the Great that Prussia was able to inherit Ansbach-Bayreuth smoothly in 1791/92.” Another field of Sahrmann's research concerned the question of through which After the victory of the allied powers over Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Kingdom of Bavaria was awarded its areas on the left bank of the Rhine, the so-called Bavarian Palatinate , for diplomatic actions . Sahrmann's study of the Palatinate or Salzburg in this regard is considered a “clear and fluid account of the negotiations between 1813–1816 that brought Bavaria into possession of the Palatinate - very much against the will of its politicians”, but Sahrmann was also accused of being a historian unilaterally to identify with the Bavarian standpoint. In 1930 Sahrmann published a study of the Hambach Festival , which was long regarded as a standard work and was published repeatedly. The staunch democrat Sahrmann described the state repression that followed Hambach's demand for liberty rights as a "struggle to destroy the reaction against popular rights."

Works

  • The question of the Prussian succession in Ansbach and Bayreuth and Frederick the Great . Bayreuth 1912
  • Palatinate or Salzburg? History of the territorial equalization between Bavaria and Austria from 1813–1819. Munich and Berlin 1921
  • Contributions to the history of the Hambach Festival in 1832. Landau in der Pfalz 1930 (new edition: Vaduz 1978, ISBN 3-289-00156-3 )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erwin Riedenauer: Franconian country's history and historical geography. Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-10715-X , p. 237.
  2. ^ From Karg-Bebenburg: German landscapes. In: Historische Zeitschrift , Vol. 127, H. 2 (1923), p. 365.
  3. ^ Adam Sahrmann: Contributions to the history of the Hambach Festival 1832 . Landau in the Palatinate 1930
personal data
SURNAME Sahrmann, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Landau in the Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH after 1938