Franz Steinbach

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Grave of the historian Franz Steinbach in the Poppelsdorf cemetery in Bonn.

Franz Steinbach (born October 10, 1895 in Engelskirchen , † November 7, 1964 in Bonn ) was a German historian . Steinbach was one of the leading Rhineland regional historians of the 20th century.

Franz Steinbach was the tenth of twelve children in a smallholder family. In 1915 he passed the war high school at the humanistic grammar school in Neuss. He took an active part in the First World War and returned as an officer. From 1918 to 1922 he studied history, German, geography and economics at the University of Bonn . There he received his doctorate under Hermann Aubin in 1922 with the thesis Inheritance and Mobilization of Rural Property in the Bergisches Hügelland . In 1925 he completed his habilitation in Bonn with his studies on West German tribal and folk history .

From 1926 until 1961 he headed the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland , which was affiliated with the University of Bonn. In 1928 Steinbach received a chair in Bonn and became director of the Institute for Regional History. In Bonn, together with his predecessor Hermann Aubin and his successor Franz Petri, he pushed ahead with massively politically motivated research activities aimed at subversion and irredentism in the areas west of the Reich , known as research into the West . In 1930 he became a member of the Society for Rhenish History . Also in 1930 he founded the Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter , which developed into one of the leading regional historical journals. In the era of National Socialism , he was not a member of the Nazi Party , but resigned in 1934 the Nazi Teachers' Association , and in 1937 the Nazi Dozentenbund at.

Steinbach became co-editor of the Nazi magazine Rasse und Volk . In 1937 he published the essay The West German People's Frontier as a question and research task in political history . In 1938 he became an honorary member of the Section historique de l ' Institut Grand-Ducal de Luxembourg. In the winter of 1940/1941 he was visiting professor at the University of Ghent in occupied Belgium. From 1941 to 1945 Steinbach did military service in Norway. From 1948 to 1950 Steinbach was Professor of Rhenish History and General Economic History in Bonn. From 1950 to 1960 he was professor of social and economic history there. In 1960 he retired. In the winter semester of 1960/61 he represented his own chair.

In 1953, Steinbach's book: The historical sense of the armistice with France (Bonn University Book Printing, Bonn 1940) was included in the list of literature to be segregated in the GDR . In 1963 Steinbach asserted: “No historian and no penitential preacher will convince us that we have 'an unresolved past' behind us”.

Steinbach was one of the currents that tried to emphasize the Germanic peoples' own cultural achievements and to suppress the influence of antiquity . His main research interests are historical regional studies, especially of the Rhineland and the Saar area. Agricultural, economic and social history were given special consideration. He was a member of the Constance working group for medieval history . In 1960 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . In 1961 he became a member of the Royal Belgian Academy. In 1963 he received an honorary doctorate from the Catholic University of Leuven .

Steinbach had been an honorary member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. since 1929 . Ripuaria Bonn .

Fonts

  • Collectanea Franz Steinbach. Bonn: Röhrscheid, 1967.
  • In memory of Franz Steinbach. Bonn: Hanstein, 1965.
  • Studies on West German tribal and folk history. Darmstadt: Scientific Book Society, 1962, unchanged. photomechan. Reprint d. 1st edition, Jena 1926.
  • From history and regional studies. Bonn: Röhrscheid, 1960.
  • Origin and nature of the rural community according to Rhenish sources. Cologne: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1960.
  • The Franconian Empire. Konstanz: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, [1958].
  • The origin of the Cologne municipality. Bonn: Hanstein, 1955.
  • The historical path of economic people to social freedom and political responsibility. Cologne: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1954.
  • The tasks of the landscape history associations. [Neuss]: Rheinischer Heimatbund, [1951].
  • Hermann Aubin's 65th birthday celebration. Bonn: Röhrscheid, 1951.
  • Cheeky. On the history of a Rhenish community. Cologne: Verlag der Löwe, 1951.
  • The historical meaning of the armistice with France. Bonn: University of Bonn printing press, 1940.
  • On the foundation of European unity through the Franks. Leipzig: Hirzel, 1939.
  • The city of Bonn. Bonn: [City. Sparkasse], 1934.
  • Historical basics of local self-government in Germany. Bonn: Röhrscheid, 1932.
  • Studies on West German ancestral and folk history. Jena: G. Fischer, 1926.
  • Contributions to the mountainous agricultural history. Bonn: K. Schroeder, 1922.

literature

  • Franz Steinbach. In: Jörg Schwarz: The Constance Working Group for Medieval History 1951-2001. The members and their work. A bio-bibliographical documentation (= publications of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary 1951–2001. Vol. 2). Edited by Jürgen Petersohn . Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7995-6906-5 , pp. 417-424 ( digitized version ).
  • Franz Petri : Franz Steinbach in memory. In: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter , Vol. 29 (1964), pp. 1–27.
  • Franz Petri: Franz Steinbach In: Historische Zeitschrift , Vol. 201 (1965), pp. 524-526.
  • Franz Petri: Franz Steinbach In: Bonner scholars. Contributions to the history of science, historical sciences (150 years Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn 1818–1968). Bouvier, Bonn 1968, pp. 376-384.
  • Wolfgang Schmid, Franz Petri, Matthias Zender: In memoriam Franz Steinbach. Speeches held on February 17, 1965 at the memorial ceremony of the Philosophical Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (= Alma mater. Contributions to the history of the University of Bonn. Vol. 18). Hanstein, Bonn 1965.
  • Ulrich Tiedau: Franz Steinbach. In: Ingo Haar, Michael Fahlbusch (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Völkischen Wissenschaften. People - institutions - research programs - foundations. Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-11778-7 , pp. 661-666.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. 2nd updated edition. Frankfurt 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 600.
  2. ^ List of the literature to be discarded, Third Supplement 1953 .
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 600.
  4. ↑ See ( Memento of September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Sebastian Brather .
personal data
SURNAME Steinbach, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Engelskirchen
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1964
Place of death Bonn