Fritz Dickmann

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Fritz Otto Dickmann (born April 23, 1906 in Potsdam , † July 29, 1969 in Berlin ) was a German historian who was best known for his work on the Peace of Westphalia .

The son of a senior teacher at the military orphanage studied Protestant theology, German literature and history at the universities in Berlin and Graz from 1924 to 1928 . In 1928 Dickmann received his doctorate from Friedrich Meinecke with a dissertation on military-political relations between Prussia and Saxony from 1866 to 1870 . Because of a shortage of jobs in the scientific enterprise, Dickmann worked from 1934 as a teacher at high schools in Kassel and Marburg . In 1937 he was dismissed from school as a member of the Confessing Church . He then worked as an assistant teacher in Münster . From 1939 he did military service and did his habilitation during the war at the Philipps University in Marburg on the Westphalian peace negotiations after the Thirty Years' War .

In 1946 Dickmann was released from American captivity and got a position as director of the Marburg Martin Luther School , which he held until 1965. After extensive archive studies abroad, Dickmann presented the first and authoritative monograph on the Peace of Westphalia in 1959 with Der Westfälische Friede . Since then it has seen several new editions and was published in the seventh edition in 1998. Since 1961 he has been a private lecturer at the Philipps University in Marburg . In 1965 he was offered the chair of modern history at the Free University of Berlin , which he held until his death in 1969.

Dickmann published only a few papers. He is best known for his standard work on the Peace of Westphalia. In it he describes the work of the different embassies in Münster and Osnabrück. He describes the course of the negotiations in detail. Dickmann worked on the first volume of the “Vereinigung zur Erforschung der Neueren Geschichte e. V. ”initiated Acta Pacis Westphalicae (files of the Westphalian Peace Congress). Dickmann was a reviewer for the German Research Foundation . He was a member of the Franco-German Commission and the Historical Commission in Berlin .

Dickmann was married and the father of seven children.

Fonts

  • Peace Law and Peacekeeping. Studies on the Peace Problem in History. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1971, ISBN 3-525-33296-3 .
  • The question of war guilt at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. Oldenbourg, Munich 1964.
  • The Peace of Westphalia. Edited by Konrad Repgen . 7th edition. Aschendorff, Münster 1998, ISBN 3-402-05161-3 . [German-language standard work, which first appeared in 1959]
  • Military-political relations between Prussia and Saxony 1866–1870. A contribution to the creation of the North German Confederation. Verlag der Münchener Drucke, Munich 1929 (At the same time: University of Munich, phil. Diss.).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the reviews of Karl Siegfried Bader in: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte 78 (1961), p. 486 f .; Ernst Walter Zeeden : literary report ›Age of Faith Struggles‹. In: History in Science and Education 11 (1960), pp. 378–388. Dieter Albrecht in: Journal for Bavarian State History 24 (1961), pp. 504–506 ( digitized version ); Kurt von Raumer in: Historische Zeitschrift 195 (1962), pp. 235–237.
  2. ↑ Jaana Eichhorn: History between tradition and innovation. Discourses, Institutions and Power Structures in West German Early Modern Research. Göttingen 2006, pp. 363-368.
personal data
SURNAME Dickmann, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dickmann, Fritz Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1969
Place of death Berlin