Fritz Ernst (historian)

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Fritz Ernst (born October 30, 1905 in Stuttgart , † December 21, 1963 in Heidelberg ) was a German historian .

Fritz Ernst was the son of the regional historian Viktor Ernst . In 1923 he passed the Abitur. He studied history, English and German in Tübingen. He went to Berlin University for three semesters (from the winter semester 1924/25 to the winter semester 1925/26). A stay in England followed in the winter of 1926/27. In 1929 Ernst completed his studies with Johannes Haller . In his dissertation he dealt with the economic equipment of the University of Tübingen. In 1929/1930 he worked as a teacher at a German school in Buenos Aires . His habilitation took place in Tübingen in 1932 through Eberhart im Bart , the first Duke of Württemberg. Since the winter semester 1935/36 Ernst had representations in Erlangen, Kiel, Würzburg and in the summer semester 1937 in Heidelberg. In 1937 he succeeded the Heidelberg chair, which had previously been held by Günther Franz for three semesters and Karl Hampe for decades . In Heidelberg he taught medieval history until his death in 1963. In 1938 he turned down a call to Hamburg for what was then the only German chair for colonial and overseas history. Ernst had joined the SA in Tübingen in 1933 , but had successfully resisted joining the NSDAP , which helped him with the denazification in 1946. Ernst's academic students were Gunther Wolf , Fritz Trautz , Karl Ferdinand Werner and Peter Moraw . In 1944 Ernst became a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . In 1957 he gave the speech at the 500th anniversary of the Württemberg state parliament. From 1961 to 1963 Ernst was rector of Heidelberg University.

Since 1938, Ernst has co-edited the magazine “ Die Welt als Geschichte ”. Ernst gave the impetus for a revision of Gebhardt's Handbook of German History , in the 1st volume of which he himself presented The Empire of the Ottonians in the 10th Century (1954).

Fonts

A complete bibliography of his writings can be found in: Fritz Ernst 1905–1963. With a list of publications and a list of the post-doctoral theses and dissertations suggested by Ernst. 2 memorial speeches given by Ahasver von Brandt and Karl Engisch. Edited by Peter Moraw, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1964, pp. 23-27.

  • In the shadow of the dictator: a Heidelberg historian looking back at the Nazi era. Edited, introduced, explained and with a source appendix by Diethard Aschoff, Manutius-Verlag, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-925678-64-6 .
  • The Germans and their recent history. Observations and remarks on the fate of Germany over the past 50 years (1911–1961). 3. Edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1966.
  • England and India. The history of their relationships. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1939.
  • Eberhard in the beard. The politics of a German sovereign at the end of the Middle Ages. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1933.
  • The economic equipment of the University of Tübingen in its first decades (1477–1534). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1929.

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ Jürgen Miethke: Medieval Studies in Heidelberg since 1933. In: Jürgen Miethke (Ed.), History in Heidelberg. 100 years of the historical seminar, 50 years of the institute for Franconian-Palatinate history and regional studies. Berlin 1992, pp. 93–124, here: p. 105.
  2. ↑ Astrid M. Eckert: Struggle for the files. The Western Allies and the return of German archive material after the Second World War. Stuttgart 2004, p. 370.
  3. ↑ Erich Maschke: Fritz Ernst † (October 30, 1905– December 22, 1963). In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences 1963/64, pp. 55–58, here: p. 56.
personal data
SURNAME Ernst, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1963
Place of death Heidelberg