Friedrich-Karl Proehl

Friedrich-Karl Proehl (born October 5, 1920 in Naumburg (Saale) , † March 6, 1991 ) was a German historian .

Life

Friedrich-Karl Proehl attended the Latin School in Halle , which he left in 1940 with the school- leaving certificate . As a soldier , Proehl took part in the Second World War. In 1942 he was seriously wounded . After the war, Proehl studied at the History Department of the University of Hamburg . He was Research Assistant of Paul Johansen . In 1959 Proehl was with a dissertation about Tsar Ivan Grozny doctorate .

After completing his doctorate, Friedrich-Karl Proehl was a member of the historical seminar in Hamburg until 1981 as a scientific employee , academic councilor and senior councilor. For health reasons he left this prematurely.

Proehl's main fields of work were contemporary history , the history of the Soviet Union and that of the GDR . As a university lecturer , Friedrich-Karl Proehl represented the concept of research-based learning . He was involved in the field of political education and participated in academic self-administration . Proehl was for many years managing director of the Science and Press Foundation .

For a while he worked as a disability representative on the university staff council .

Academic students

Arnold Sywottek , first director of the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg , considered his professional career to have been influenced by Friedrich-Karl Proehl. On the occasion of Proehl's solemn farewell ceremony in 1981, he gave the farewell speech. According to his own statement, Sywottek belonged to a group of students who deliberately gathered around Friedrich-Karl Proehl. Arnold Sywottek spoke of a domination-free dialogue with the teacher, which he had experienced at Proehl. Proehl, whose research assistant Sywottek was temporarily, also introduced him to the history of the GDR, which he later made into his own teaching and research area.

Fonts

• Friedrich-Karl Proehl: A description of Moscow by the Kurlander Jakob Reutenfels . In: Hugo Weczerka (Ed.): Rossica Externa. Studies on the 15th-17th Century. Festgabe for Paul Johansen on the occasion of his 60th birthday , Marburg 1963, p. 157.
• Friedrich-Karl Proehl: Emeritus Prof. Ohnsorge . In: Uni HH, published by the press office of the University of Hamburg, Volume 4 (1973), No. 24, pp. 38-39.
• Friedrich-Karl Proehl: Alfred Frankenfeld (obituary) . In: Uni HH, published by the press office of the University of Hamburg, Volume 7 (1976), No. 42, p. 13.
• Friedrich-Karl Proehl: List of publications by Paul Johansen . In: Hugo Weczerka (Ed.), Rossica Externa. Studies on the 15th-17th Century, Festgabe for Paul Johansen on his 60th birthday , Marburg 1963, pp. 179–188.
• Friedrich-Karl Proehl: Tsar Ivan Groznyj in the mirror of early Russian historiography: A contribution to Russian historiography of the 16th-19th centuries Century , University of Hamburg, Diss. Phil. 1959.

literature

• Eckart Krause: People who made "history". Attempt to study history for almost a century at Hamburg University . In: The historical seminar of the University of Hamburg . Research report 2002-2004, Hamburg 2005, pp. 247-307 , accessed on January 13, 2020.
• Helmut Mejcher , Arnold Sywottek: Friedrich-Karl Proehl (obituary) . In: Uni HH, published by the press office of the University of Hamburg, Volume 22 (1991), No. 3, pp. 54-55.
• Arnold Sywottek: At Friedrich-Karl Proehl's grave on March 11, 1991 in Reinhardshagen (obituary) . Typescript , Hamburg 1991.

Web links

• Biographical information from the archive of the Francke Foundations , accessed on January 13, 2020.
• Online research - Hamburg State Archives: 622-2 / 65 Sywottek, 1946-2000 (holdings) , accessed on January 13, 2020.
• WorldCat Identities: Friedrich-Karl Proehl , accessed January 13, 2020.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See State Archives of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , 622-2 / 65 Arnold Sywottek.