Benjamin Hasselhorn

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Benjamin Hasselhorn (born May 9, 1986 in Göttingen ) is a German Protestant theologian and historian .

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Benjamin Hasselhorn is the son of the psychologist Marcus Hasselhorn . In 2004 he passed his Abitur at the Corvinianum high school in Northeim and studied Protestant theology, history and education at the Universities of Göttingen and Mainz from 2004 to 2008 . Then he was a doctoral scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation until 2011 . He received his doctorate with a dissertation in systematic theology on the political theology of Wilhelm II at the Humboldt University in Berlin under Notger Slenczka . Between 2011 and 2014 he worked as a research assistant for the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich and as a lecturer for modern and contemporary history at the University of Passau . 2014 he was with a thesis on the German-Baltic historian Johannes Haller at Hans-Christof Kraus Dr. phil. PhD. From 2014 to 2019 he worked as a research assistant at the Luther Memorials Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt and was curator of the national special exhibition 2017 “Luther! 95 Treasures - 95 People ”in the Augusteum of the Wittenberg Luther House . Since April 2019 he is Academic Councilor a. Currently at Peter Hoeres' chair for the latest history at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .

His book The End of Lutheranism? is a pamphlet in which he identifies a Lutheran crisis despite all the activities on the Reformation anniversary in 2017 . Hasselhorn emphasized in a 3sat interview at the end of the Luther year that it was a mistake that the Evangelical Church wanted to celebrate the Reformation anniversary “past Martin Luther”. In contrast, relying on Luther instead of social policy worked in the anniversary year.

Together with the historian Mirko Gutjahr, Hasselhorn pleads for the factuality of Martin Luther's posting of the theses on October 31, 1517. In addition to Georg Rörer's note on the posting of the theses, which was rediscovered in 2006, he cites a reinterpretation of the Leipzig print of the 95 theses, which he wrote for Luther holds authorized first printing.

In his book Königstod. 1918 and the end of the monarchy in Germany , Hasselhorn advocates the thesis that the overthrow of the monarchy in 1918 was partly responsible for the success of National Socialism in Germany and promotes an “impartial look at the last German monarchy”.

With a view to the Hohenzollern's demands for compensation , the Bundestag's cultural committee held a hearing of historians and lawyers in January 2020, in which the main question was whether Crown Prince Wilhelm, expropriated in 1945, had "made a significant contribution" to the National Socialist system. Hasselhorn took part at the invitation of the CDU . He explained that the importance of Wilhelm for the rise of National Socialism could not be clearly answered historically, both sides had good arguments. In his opinion, the historical sources have not yet been adequately developed and researched to allow a conclusive assessment of this question. There is not even a scientific biography of the Crown Prince. Thereupon the student assistant at the Institute for History of the Humboldt University in Berlin , Niklas Weber, accused Hasselhorn in March 2020 in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of belonging to a “new right” network in the humanities. He publishes or has published in magazines of the “new right” and “evangelical” spectrum, such as the blue narcissus , the Cato or the idea . Hasselhorn is integrated into the new right milieu through personal contacts . Now he has been appointed by the CDU because he had expressed himself on this subject in the 3sat documentation "Who does the emperor's treasures belong to?" In a statement on the article, Hasselhorn stated that he was an author for the Blue Narcissus when it was still a school newspaper. He wrote his contributions in 2007/2008, i.e. at the age of 21. At his request, they are no longer available on the associated website. He denied relationships with new rights and rejected any identification with their ideas. Hasselhorn complained that Weber's article was based on distortions and omissions, had a denunciation undertone and that the “democratic culture of debate” would be bad if “instead of hearing the arguments, the people who represent it were attacked”.

Awards

Publications

Monographs

  • Political theology of Wilhelm II. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-428-13865-4 (also theological dissertation, Humboldt University, Berlin 2011/2012).
  • Johannes Haller. A biography of a political scholar. With an edition of the unpublished part of Johannes Haller's memoirs (= series of publications by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Volume 93). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-36084-2 (also phil. Dissertation, University of Passau 2014).
  • The end of Lutheranism? Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-374-04883-0 .
  • with Mirko Gutjahr: fact! The truth about Luther's posting of the theses , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-374-05638-5 .
  • Royal death. 1918 and the end of the monarchy in Germany , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-374-05730-6 .

Editorships

  • Communicating Luther: The history of the Reformation between historicization and updating , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-374-04432-0 .
  • with Christian Kleinert: Johannes Haller (1865–1947). Letters from a historian (= German historical sources of the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume 71). Oldenbourg, Munich 2014, ISBN 3-11-036968-0 .
  • with Mirko Gutjahr, Catherine Nichols and Katja Schneider: Luther! 95 treasures - 95 people. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3777428031 .
  • with Marc von Knorring : From Olympus to the boulevard. The European monarchies from 1815 until today - losers in history? (= Prinz-Albert-Forschungen / Prince Albert Research Publications. New Series, Volume 1), Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-428-15358-9 .

Essays

  • Religion with Wilhelm Bölsche . In: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 64 (2012), pp. 117–137.
  • Religious form. The Protestant religious problem and the liturgical movement of the interwar period . In: Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 124 (2013), pp. 17–38.
  • Johannes Haller (1865-1947). Letters from a historian . In: Akademie aktuell 4 (2014), pp. 62–65; and in the 2014 annual report of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 2015, pp. 31–46.
  • The Myth of the Volunteer in the Wars of Liberation . In: Roland Gehrke (Ed.): From Breslau to Leipzig. Perception, memory and interpretation of the anti-Napoleonic wars of liberation (= New Research on Silesian History , Volume 24), Cologne 2014, pp. 215–240.
  • Memory in dispute. How German historians deal with their own past . In: Erziehungswissenschaft 49 (2014), pp. 27–36.
  • The wars of liberation volunteers . In: Eberhard Birk, Thorsten Loch and Peter Andreas Popp (eds.): How Napoleon came to Waterloo. A short history of the Wars of Liberation 1813 to 1815 , Freiburg i. Br. 2015, pp. 158-163.
  • Members of the Reichstag who volunteered to go to war. Reflections on the historical reality content of the “August experience” in 1914 . In: Lothar Höbelt (Ed.): European Parliaments in World War I (= Studia Universitatis Cibiniensis . Series Historica, Volume 12), Sibiu 2015, pp. 135–147.
  • Invention of tradition? Victorian and Wilhelmine monarchies in comparison . In: Frank-Lothar Kroll and Martin Munke (eds.): Hannover - Coburg-Gotha - Windsor. Problems and perspectives of a comparative German-British dynasty history from the 18th to the 20th century (= Prince Albert Studies , Volume 32), Berlin 2015, pp. 277–293.
  • The Bismarck Germans - The adoration of the Reich Chancellor as a political statement . In: Die Mark Brandenburg , No. 97, Marika Grosser Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-910134-71-3 .
  • The emperor and his grandfather. On the political mythology of Wilhelm II. In: Research on Brandenburg and Prussian History , NF 25 (2015), pp. 321–335.
  • Wilhelm II in a new perspective. Plea for an objective assessment of the last German emperor . In: Research on Brandenburg and Prussian History , NF 25 (2015), pp. 337–351.
  • Reflective storytelling. Luther's interpretation between myth and science . In: Benjamin Hasselhorn (Ed.): Luther convey. Reformation history between historicization and updating , Leipzig 2016, pp. 15–33.
  • Luther and politics . In: Harald Meller (ed.): Martin Luther. Departure into a new world. Essays , Dresden 2016, pp. 315–321.
  • Luther myth. Reflections on the public handling of the history of the Reformation . In: Dalheim Monastery Foundation (ed.): Luther. 1917 to today , Münster 2016, pp. 86–94.
  • Third way. Correct remembering alternates between historizing and updating. In: zeitzeichen 18/5 , May 2017, pp. 25–27.
  • with Mirko Gutjahr, Catherine Nichols and Katja Schneider: Luther existenziell. Curatorial introduction. In: Luther! 95 Treasures - 95 People , Munich 2017, pp. 20–23.
  • The end of Lutheranism? . In: Confessio Augustana 2 (2017), pp. 42–48.
  • Literature on Luther and the Reformation for a larger audience . In: Theologische Literaturzeitung 142 (2017), Sp. 1119–1132.
  • Convey the foreign. About the compatibility of historicizing and updating the Reformation . In: Johann Hinrich Claussen and Stefan Rhein (eds.): Reformation 2017. Eine Bilanz , Leipzig 2017, pp. 69–74.
  • Newer literature on the history of the Reformation . In: Zeitschrift für Neuere Rechtsgeschichte 3/4 (2017), pp. 290–303.
  • Introduction . In: Benjamin Hasselhorn / Marc von Knorring (eds.): From Olympus to the Boulevard. The European monarchies from 1815 to today - losers in history? (= Prinz-Albert-Forschungen / Prince Albert Research Publications. New Series, Volume 1), Berlin 2018, pp. 1–8.
  • The monarchical death 1914–1945. A triumph of democracy? . In: Benjamin Hasselhorn / Marc von Knorring (eds.): From Olympus to the Boulevard. The European monarchies from 1815 to today - losers in history? (= Prinz-Albert-Forschungen / Prince Albert Research Publications. New Series, Volume 1), Berlin 2018, pp. 47–60.
  • Luther pictures in England. In: Frank-Lothar Kroll / Glyn Redworth / Dieter J. Weiß (eds.): Germany and the British Isles in the Reformation. Comparison, transfer, entanglements (= Prince Albert Studies , Volume 34), Berlin 2018, pp. 177–186.
  • Dare more Luther! A review of 2017. In: Annette Seemann / Thomas A. Seidel / Thomas Wurzel (eds.): The Reformation Decade "Luther 2017" in Thuringia. Documentation, reflection, perspective , Leipzig 2018, pp. 286–289.
  • Lutheran existence today. In: Thomas Martin Schneider (Ed.): Luther and the word. Interdisciplinary approaches (= series of publications by the Association for Rhenish Church History , small series, issue 9), Bonn 2018, pp. 230-27.
  • with Mirko Gutjahr: Who's Afraid of the Myth? Luther's posting of the theses is in all probability a historical fact. In: zeitzeichen 3 (2019), pp. 12-14.
  • Belief Today: The Seriousness Deficit . In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 22, 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ute Lawrenz: Five minus one for choral singing. In: goettinger-tageblatt.de. May 2, 2008, accessed February 1, 2020 .
  2. ^ Benjamin Hasselhorn: Vita , uni-wuerzburg.de, accessed on April 6, 2019.
  3. ↑ How Lutheran is the Evangelical Church? , rotary.de, article from February 1, 2017.
  4. ^ Hasselhorn on the Luther year. Kulturzeit talk with the theologian , 3sat kulturzeit , on October 30, 2017, accessed on November 9, 2017.
  5. ↑ René Nehring: “We want to remind you of the facts”. In: Rotary Magazine. October 1, 2018, accessed March 5, 2020 .
  6. ↑ And it was there! The posting of the theses. Retrieved November 22, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Rotary Magazine Article: Cover Story - The Missed Exit , ( online ), accessed April 4, 2019.
  8. ^ German Bundestag: Role of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia in the judgment of historians. Retrieved March 5, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Weber, Niklas - detail page . Information from the Humboldt-Universität zu Weber, requested on March 20, 2020.
  10. ↑ Niklas Weber: How closely conservatives and right-wing radicals are entangled. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 3, 2020, accessed March 10, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Benjamin Hasselhorn (University of Würzburg): Comment on the article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 3, 2020. Retrieved on March 5, 2020 .
  12. ^ Theologian Hasselhorn receives price for understandable language , evangelisch.de, article from March 14, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Hasselhorn, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen