Friedrich Andreae

Friedrich Andreae (full name Emil Friedrich Adolf Andreae; born October 12, 1879 in Magdeburg , † January 17, 1939 in Breslau ) was a German historian.

Life

Andreae was born in Magdeburg as the son of the shipowner Hans Andreae and his wife Martha, née Müller . Since Easter 1890 he attended the educational center for the monastery of Our Dear Women there with his brother Wilhelm and Kurt Hildebrandt . He then studied history, economics, literary and art history and philosophy at the University of Munich . In 1901 he moved to Berlin University , where he dealt primarily with the history of Eastern Europe. His academic teachers in Berlin were mainly Kurt Breysig , Max Lenz , Michael Tangl and Theodor Schiemann . In the latter, he received his doctorate in 1905 on Prussian and Russian politics in Poland .

During his studies he belonged to a group of young students who gathered around the universal historian Kurt Breysig in Niederschönhausen near Berlin. At that time he lived with Friedrich Wolters , with whom he published a volume of poetry in 1908, and Rudolf von Heckel in a house in a park. The circle also included Berthold Vallentin , Kurt Hildebrandt and Friedrich's brother Wilhelm Andreae. In June 1907, the community moved to Lichterfelde , where Friedrich Wolters, Berthold Vallentin and the Andreae brothers lived together in a villa. Here the architect Paul Thiersch joined the circle, who increasingly turned away from Kurt Breysig. In 1908 Breysig, Andreae, Wolters and Vallentin jointly published a commemorative publication for Gustav von Schmoller , to which Andreae made a contribution on China and the 18th century . The circle turned more and more to the poet Stefan George , who had already visited the Hohenschönhausener Runde in 1905. Andreae and the other Hohenschönhausen friends became members of the George Circle .

Andreae was valued in the circle, but had no important function of her own and also no particularly close contact with the "master". Once he looked through the selected volumes of papers for art for George . The friends seem to have valued him, Friedrich Gundolf, for example, calls him “the dear, fine, noble and clever Andreae”. Via Andreae, Ludwig Thormaehlen also joined the group, whom he and Hildebrandt knew from school. Thormaehlen described Andreae in his memoirs as a person "of indescribable kindness, of incredible, selfless zeal".

In 1912 Andreae went to the University of Breslau as a private lecturer , where he became an associate professor of history in 1921. After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, he was relieved of his teaching post due to the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 and from then on was only allowed to work in the university archives. From here he conducted research on the history of the University of Breslau, and in 1936 he anonymously published a collection of sources on the history of the University of Breslau. First he had dealt with Eastern European, especially Russian history under Catherine II , on which he published a study in 1912. This was received positively by the professional world. Later he dealt with Silesian history, especially with Silesian biographies. Particularly influential was the four-volume series Schlesische Lebensbilder ( Silesian Life Pictures) commissioned by the Historical Commission for Silesia and edited by Andreae with some colleagues (1922–1931, new edition 1985).

Andreae was married to Maria Reichl, a Jew. In 1939, after Andreae's death, she was able to emigrate to England with their daughter Lida Maria Renate.

Fonts

• Prussian and Russian Politics in Poland: From the Tauride Journey of Catherine II (January 1787) to Friedrich Wilhelm II's turning away from the Hertzberg plans (August 1789) . Liebheit & Thiesen, Berlin 1905.
• with Friedrich Wolters : Arcadian moods . S. Calvary, Berlin 1908 ( digitized at Wikimedia Commons ; DjVu format).
• Contributions to the history of Catherine II. The instruction of 1767 for the commission to draft a new code . Reimer, Berlin 1912.
• From the life of the University of Wroclaw . no place [Breslau], no year [1936].

editor

• with Kurt Breysig, Berthold Vallentin and Friedrich Wolters: Outlines and building blocks for the theory of state and history. Compiled in honor of Gustav Schmoller and in memory of June 24, 1908, his seventieth birthday , Berlin 1908.
• Memories of Baron Hermann von Gaffron-Kunern. The Association for the History of Silesia celebrates the centenary of the Wars of Liberation . Wroclaw 1913.
• with Max Hippe, Otfried Schwarzer, Heinrich Wendt: Schlesische Lebensbilder . 4 volumes. Korn, Breslau 1922–1931, 2nd edition Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1985.

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich Andreae  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Eichler , Slavic Studies in Germany , Domowina, Bautzen 1993; Year also in: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar . Nekrolog 1936-1970 , 1973, p. 496.
2. ↑ See the short curriculum vitae that Andreae wrote on the occasion of his doctorate: Friedrich Andreae, curriculum vitae , in: Friedrich Andreae, Prussian and Russian politics in Poland , p. 40.
3. ↑ Friedrich Andreae, China und das 18. Jahrhundert , in: Andreae, Breysig, Vallentin, Wolters, Grundrisse und Baussteine zur Staats- und das Geschichtelehre , pp. 121–200.
4. ↑ On the Hohenschönhausener and Lichterfeld district cf. such as Thomas Karlauf , Stefan George. The discovery of charisma , Pantheon, Munich 2008, pp. 435, 441.
5. ^ Friedrich Gundolf, Letters. New series , edited by Lothar Helbing and Claus Victor Bock , Amsterdam 1965, p. 45.
6. ↑ Ludwig Thormaehlen, Memories of Stefan George , Hamburg 1962, p. 12. On Andreae's role in the circle, cf. Stefan George. Documents of its impact , edited by Lothar Helbing and Claus Victor Bock with Karlhans Kluncker, Castrum Peregrini Presse, Amsterdam 1974, p. 13.
7. ↑ Ludwig Petry, Breslau as Silesian, Prussian and German University , in: Yearbook of the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau , Vol. 28, 1987, pp. 342–356, here p. 354.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Assignment in: Arno Herzig , The Union of Leopoldina and Viadrina 1811. For Eckart Krause , in: Norbert Conrads (Hrsg.), The tolerated University: 300 years University of Breslau 1702 to 2002 , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, p 244–254, here p. 244, note 3.
9. ↑ See, for example, the review by Neville Forbes, in: The English Historical Review , Volume 29, No. 115 (July 1914), pp. 584f.