Erwin Hölzle

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Erwin Hölzle (born September 6, 1901 in Neu-Ulm , † December 27, 1976 in Freiburg i. Br. ) Was a German historian.

Life

Hölzle studied history in Freiburg , Munich and Berlin and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1925 on the old Germanic idea of ​​freedom in historical-political literature up to Montesquieu, mainly in England and France . Since the Weimar Republic he has been involved in research and propaganda into German war guilt in the First World War . Under the archivist Erich Otto Volkmann , he worked on the files on the establishment of the Polish state in 1918 for the Historical Reich Commission from May 15, 1933 . At the time of National Socialism he was one of the avowed National Socialists among historians since 1933 (in an article in the historical journal ); in March 1933 he joined the NSDAP . He was an employee of the working group for the research of the Bolshevik world danger under Heinrich Härtle in the office Rosenberg . In 1935 he openly attacked the Jewish historian Arnold Berney because of his parentage. At the International Historians' Day in Warsaw in 1933, he appeared with a party badge. In 1939/40 he was given a teaching position at the University of Tübingen . 1940–1943 he was a member of the Archives Commission of the Foreign Office in the Quai d'Orsay . In 1943 he completed his habilitation with Heinrich von Srbik at the University of Vienna . In 1944 he became a lecturer in Berlin.

After 1945, Hölzle worked in the rank of government councilor as a consultant and later head of the regional history department at the Stuttgart State Statistical Office, based in Constance . There he was a member of the Constance working group for medieval history . He also worked in the Ranke Society and in the magazine Das Historisch-Politische Buch . Until the end of his life he fought against the war guilt theses of Fritz Fischer .

In the Soviet occupation zone , Hölzel's work The East in World War I (Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1944) and the work he published, The Becoming Our People. A picture hall of German history (Union, Stuttgart 1938) was put on the list of literature to be sorted out.

Fonts (selection)

  • The idea of ​​an old Germanic freedom before Montesquieu: fragments from the history of political freedom strivings in Germany, England and France from the 16th to 18th centuries. Century , Oldenbourg, Munich 1925 (= extended dissertation).
  • The old law and the revolution. A political history of Württemberg during the revolution 1789–1805 , Oldenbourg, Munich / Berlin 1931.
  • Württemberg in the age of Napoleon and the German uprising. A German history of the turning point in individual states , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin 1937.
  • (Ed.): The becoming of our people. A picture hall of German history , Union, Stuttgart 1938.
  • The East in World War I , Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1944.
  • Lenin 1917. The birth of the revolution from the war , Oldenbourg, Munich 1957.
  • Russia and America. Departure and encounter between two world powers , Oldenbourg, Munich 1953.
  • The revolution of the two-part world. A history of the powers 1905–1929 , Rowohlt, Reinbek 1963.
  • The German Eastern Territories at the time of the Weimar Republic , Böhlau, Cologne / Graz 1966.
  • Lenin and the Russian Revolution , Francke, Bern / Munich 1968.
  • Europe's disempowerment. The experiment of peace before and during the First World War. Utilizing unpublished, partly lost German and French documents. 2 volumes, volume 2: From continental war to global war: The year 1917. Fragment , Musterschmidt, Göttingen / Frankfurt / Zurich 1975–1978.
  • America and Russia. Origin of their world contrast , Musterschmidt, Göttingen / Frankfurt / Zurich 1980, ISBN 978-3-7881-1700-9 .
  • Sources on the origins of the First World War. International documents 1901-1914. With a foreword by Winfried Baumgart , Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2nd edition Darmstadt 1995.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945? 3rd edition, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2011, p. 262, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 174 f .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ingo Haar : Historians in National Socialism , Göttingen 2000, p. 131.
  2. ^ Gerd Voigt: Russia in German Historiography: 1843-1945 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1994, p. 286, note 60.
  3. ^ List of literature to be discarded.
  4. ^ List of literature to be discarded.
personal data
SURNAME Hölzle, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH New Ulm
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1976
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau