Fritz Gause

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Fritz Gause (born August 4, 1893 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † December 24, 1973 in Essen ) was a German high school teacher, historian and archivist.

Life

Hohenstaufen

Gause's parents were August Gause, municipal director of the Königsberg mayor Siegfried Körte , and his wife Margarete nee. Hunke. The family lived in Kalthof (Königsberg) from 1905 to 1945 .

Fritz Gause attended the Collegium Fridericianum and, after graduating from high school, studied history , German and geography at the Albertus University in Königsberg . He was a member of the Hohenstaufen Scientific Association in the German Association of Scientists . He served as a war volunteer in the field artillery on the Eastern Front . After the First World War , he was able to complete his studies and on December 16, 1921, was awarded a Dr. phil. be awarded a doctorate. Then he was a teacher all his life, always at girls' schools. Since 1923 and again since the re-establishment in 1950 he was a committed member of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research .

Gause had just entered the teaching profession and 1922 teacher at the Goethe-Oberlyzeum become in Koenigsberg. In 1938, the city gave him the management of the Königsberg City Archives and the management of the Königsberg City History Museum . He remained in both posts until 1945, always devoted to science, but was deployed to the front during the Second World War despite health problems. Wounded seven times, he was taken prisoner in Poland at the end of the war , from which he was released in 1947. He came to Essen , where he taught as a teacher at a girls' high school and retired in 1959 as a senior teacher . The city ​​community of Königsberg elected him as chairman in 1967. Under his aegis , the Museum Stadt Königsberg , which was inaugurated on October 20, 1968, was established in Königsberg's godfather city, Duisburg .

After the Second World War, Gause was one of the protagonists of the newly constituting research on the East , the central theme of which was the flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe 1945–1950 . His history of Prussia (1966) primarily reflected the front position against the "foreign power" Russia, which should not determine the fate of the region in the long term. His portrayal was tied to the traditions of the concept of Germanism and the confrontation with Poland. Compared to Hermann Aubin , Gause insisted on the term "East Germany" instead of "East Central Europe" in order to emphasize the German part in the history of the area. Gause wrote a three-volume history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia as well as a series of articles for the New German Biography and continued the Old Prussian biography with Kurt Forstreuter . He died in 1973 on Christmas Eve at the age of 80. He is buried in the Essen Park Cemetery .

Honors

Fonts

  • The treasury of the city of Königsberg in the 19th century . Graefe and Unzer , Königsberg i. Pr. 1924.
  • The Russians in East Prussia 1914/15 . Gräfe and Unzer, Königsberg 1931.
  • New place names in East Prussia since 1800 . Königsberg: Gräfe & Unzer, 1935. Association for family research in Ost- u. West Prussia, Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-922953-53-0 .
  • Krollmann's scientific work . Königsberg: Graph. Kunstanst., 1936
  • Heritage and task of the German East . Gräfe u. Unzer, Munich 1955.
  • History of the office and the town of Soldau . Herder Institute (Marburg) 1958 (2nd reprint. E. Meier, Oberhausen 1998, ISBN 3-931577-13-9 ).
  • East Prussia . Burkhard-Verlag Heyer, Essen 1958.
  • The Königsberg Friedrichskollegium , 1959.
  • The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia , 3 vol. Böhlau, Cologne Vienna 1965–1971 (also: ibid. 1996, ISBN 3-412-08896-X ).
  • German-Slavic community of fate . Holzner, Würzburg 1967.
  • The medieval German east settlement . Klett, Stuttgart 1969.
  • Acta Prussica . Holzner, Würzburg 1968.
  • Königsberg as it was . Droste, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-922953-53-0 .
  • History of the Prussia . Rautenberg, Leer 1966, ISBN 3-7921-0005-3 (also 1970, 1986).
  • Königsberg in Prussia. The story of a European city. Rautenberg, Leer 1987, ISBN 3-7921-0345-1 .
  • Kant and Königsberg to this day . Rautenberg, Leer 1989, ISBN 3-7921-0418-0 .
  • East Prussia and West Prussia. Short history of the Prussian country . Rautenberg, Leer 1994, ISBN 3-7921-0535-7 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: The regional courts of the Order of Prussia up to secularization, with special reference to the Landschöffenbücher of Bartenstein and Gilgenburg / Hohenstein .
  2. ↑ http://www.hiko-owp.eu/haben/nachangebote/ .
  3. ↑ a b Connected to Königsberg for a lifetime. The historian Fritz Gause received the Prussian Shield 50 years ago from the East Prussian Landsmannschaft . Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 38, September 21, 2013, p. 11.
  4. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings. License issue. Flechsig, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
  5. ↑ Jörg Hackmann: East Prussia and West Prussia in German and Polish Perspective: State History as a Relationship History Problem . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1996, p. 319 f.
  6. ↑ Jörg Hackmann: East Prussia and West Prussia in German and Polish Perspective: State History as a Relationship History Problem . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1996, p. 311 f.
  7. ^ Minutes of the 1021st cabinet meeting in North Rhine-Westphalia on September 9, 1969
personal data
SURNAME Gause, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH December 24th 1973
Place of death eat