Fritz Trautz
Fritz Trautz (born March 31, 1917 in Heidelberg ; † May 31, 2001 ibid) was a German historian .
Fritz Trautz was born in 1917 into an educated middle-class family. His father Max and his uncle Friedrich were professors. He attended grammar school in Heidelberg and, after moving to Rostock in 1934, and then spent two years in the Wehrmacht . In 1938 he began studying law at the University of Münster . During the Second World War he did military service with the mountain troops . After his third injury and fifty percent war damage, Trautz was given a semester leave of absence from 1942 and studied history, English and Romance languages in Munich , Strasbourg , Vienna and Heidelberg until he was taken prisoner of war. After his release in 1946, he continued his studies in Heidelberg and received his doctorate in 1949 under Fritz Ernst .
Trautz then received grants from the British Council , the German Research Foundation and the Commonwealth Fund and was in Liverpool, London and Chicago. His habilitation took place in 1958 at the University of Heidelberg. He then taught there as a dietician and university lecturer. From 1965 he was a full professor for medieval history at the Technical University of Berlin . In 1969 he moved to the University of Mannheim as a professor of medieval history , where he retired in 1982. Kurt Andermann was one of his academic students . In 2001 Trautz died in Heidelberg, his urn was buried in the main cemetery in Karlsruhe .
Trautz dealt with the regional history of southwest Germany, medieval imperial and European history. His habilitation thesis The Kings of England and the Empire 1272–1377 became the standard work.
literature
- Kurt Andermann: Fritz Trautz 1917–2001 [obituary]. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine 150 (2002) pp. 581-592.
- Ingo Toussaint : Trautz, Fritz Alexander Theodor. In: Baden-Württemberg biographies. Volume 4, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-17-019951-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Fritz Trautz in the catalog of the German National Library
- CV at the Heidelberg History Association
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trautz, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Trautz, Fritz Alexander Theodor (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 31, 2001 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |