Erich Hassinger

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Erich Hugo Hassinger (born September 22, 1907 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † March 30, 1992 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German - Austrian historian and archivist .

Erich Hassinger was the son of the anthropogeographer Hugo Hassinger (1877–1952), later professor at the University of Basel , and his wife Helene, nee. Peyr, (1882-1955). His brother Herbert Hassinger (1910–1992) became an economic historian.

He was born in Vienna in 1907. From 1918 he attended the Humanist Gymnasium in Basel , where he passed the Matura in 1926 . He studied a few semesters a. a. Art history at the University of Basel and then modern history as well as medieval history and art history at the universities in Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich (1928–1930). In 1931 he was at Gerhard Ritter in Freiburg with a dissertation on the late Italian humanist Jacob Acontius Dr. phil. PhD. From 1931 to 1933 he was trained at the Institute for Archival Science in Berlin-Dahlem , headed by Albert Brackmann . He also learned Eastern European languages. In 1933/34 he was a scholarship holder of the Publication Office at the Prussian Secret State Archives , where he prepared an edition project for Prussian legation reports from Warsaw. In 1935 he began work on his resulting habilitation on the Northern War . From 1935 to 1939 he was funded by the German Research Foundation. Stays abroad took him to Sweden (1937) and Cracow / Cracow (1939). Hassinger was a member of the NSDAP (from 1941), the SA (1933-1935), the German Labor Front and the National Socialist People's Welfare , but did not take on any functions and received no relevant awards, which benefited him in the denazification process .

After the outbreak of the Second World War, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in autumn 1939 and in December 1939 assigned to a "reserve unit". In March 1940 he submitted part of his habilitation thesis to the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin , which he withdrew for revision in August 1940. Initially working as a translator in an agency, he was drafted into service on the Eastern Front in January 1944. He had assignments in Bessarabia and from January 1945 on the Oder near Küstrin . In March 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets , from which he was released in mid-1945. He later processed this time literarily.

In 1949 he was classified as "not affected" by the Württemberg Chamber of Arbitration. Since then he has worked again on his habilitation thesis ( Brandenburg-Prussia, Sweden and Russia 1700–1713 ). In 1950 he received the venia legendi in Freiburg . Then he worked there as a private lecturer . In 1951 he received a diet lecturer and in 1956 an extraordinary professorship. In 1952/53 he was representative of the chair for middle and modern history with special consideration of American and English history ( Otto Vossler ) at the University of Frankfurt am Main . From 1957 until his retirement in 1972 he was the successor of his teacher Gerhard Ritter at the chair for modern history at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. Illnesses that arose after his captivity made his teaching work more difficult. From 1955 to 1960 he was a member of the Senate Commission for Eastern Issues, 1956/57 a member of the Senate, 1961/62 dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, 1962/63 vice dean and 1972/73 doctoral officer of the joint committee of the philosophical faculties. His academic students included a. Hans Fenske , Wolfgang von Hippel , Wolfgang Reinhard and Klaus Schwabe .

His research focus was the early modern period . In 1960 he published a sensational article in the daily Die Welt with the title The Unsuitable Students , in which he complained that a large number of history students had no "inner relationship" with their subject. From 1951 to 1961 he was “Managing Editor” and from 1962 to 1976 he was the leading European editor of the specialist journal Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte , which combines church history and historical studies. Hassinger's main work is the handbook The Becoming of Modern Europe 1300–1600 (1959).

In 1939 he married Johanna Huizinga; from the late 1940s she worked at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Hechingen. After a serious illness he died in Freiburg in 1992. His estate is in the university archive there.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Walther Köhler (Ed.): Acontiana. Treatises and letters of Jacobus Acontius (= treatises of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class . Abh. 8). Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1932.
  • Brandenburg-Prussia, Sweden and Russia. 1700–1713 (= publications of the Eastern European Institute Munich . Vol. 2). Isar Verlag, Munich 1953.
  • The development of modern Europe 1300–1600 . Westermann, Braunschweig 1959 (2nd edition 1964; 3rd edition 1966; 4th edition 1969).
  • with J. Heinz Müller , Hugo Ott (ed.): History, Economy, Society. Festschrift for Clemens Bauer on his 75th birthday . Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-03267-5 .
  • (Ed.): Bibliography on university history. Directory of the literature published in the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1971 (= Freiburg contributions to the history of science and universities . Vol. 1). Arranged by Edwin Stark , Alber, Freiburg a. a. 1974, ISBN 3-495-49601-7 .
  • Empirical-rational historicism. His education in the literature of Western Europe from Guiccardini to Saint-Evremond . Francke, Bern a. a. 1978, ISBN 978-3-7720-1412-3 . (2nd edition 1994).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Peter Hoffmann : Peter the Great as a military reformer and general . Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-60114-3 , p. 264.
  2. ↑ Peter Nics: The Work of Austrians Abroad in the World. Biographical directory of Austrians abroad . World Federation of Austrians Abroad and the Auslandsösterreicherwerk, Vienna 1969, p. 42.
  3. ↑ a b c estate in the university archive of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .
  4. ↑ Friedrich Meyer (Ed.): The Humanist Gymnasium Basel 1889–1989. Schwabe, Basel 1989, ISBN 3-7965-0893-6 .
personal data
SURNAME Hassinger, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hassinger, Erich Hugo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1992
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau