Günter Moltmann

Günter Moltmann (born December 18, 1926 in Hamburg ; † November 22, 1994 in Hamburg) was a German historian .

Günter Moltmann graduated from high school in Hamburg in 1946. He studied history, German and literature in Hamburg and for a year in Marburg . After completing his studies, there was trainee training for the higher education service. In 1956 he received his doctorate with a study of contemporary history on America’s German policy during World War II, supervised by Egmont Zechlin . In 1961 he took over a professorship for history and political education at the Bielefeld University of Education . In 1965/66 a guest stay at the University of Chicago followed . In 1967 he became Professor of Medieval and Modern History at the University of Hamburg and succeeded Zechlin. In 1970/71 he was visiting professor at Indiana University . In 1992 he retired. His successor in Hamburg was Norbert Finzsch . The University of Cincinnati awarded Moltmann an honorary doctorate.

Moltmann gave German North America research decisive impulses. He had a major impact on German migration research. His extensive project on the history of emigration was of international importance. Hans-Jürgen Grabbe is one of Moltmann's students .

Fonts

• USA-Ploetz. United States history for reference. Ploetz, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 1985, ISBN 3-87640-301-4 .
• as editor: Departure to America. Friedrich List and the emigration from Baden and Württemberg 1816/17. Documentation of a social movement. Wunderlich, Tübingen 1979, ISBN 3-8052-0310-1 (new edition as: Departure to America. The wave of emigration from 1816/17. Metzler, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-476-00670-0 ).
• Atlantic bloc politics in the 19th century. The United States and German Liberalism during the Revolution of 1848-49. Droste, Düsseldorf 1973, ISBN 3-7700-0334-9 .
• Germany as a Problem of American War Policy in World War II (1941–1945). Hamburg 1956 (Hamburg, University, dissertation dated December 13, 1956, typed).

literature

• Rainer Nicolaysen , Axel Schildt (Hrsg.): 100 years of historical science in Hamburg (= Hamburg contributions to the history of science. Vol. 18). Reimer, Berlin et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-496-02838-3 .
• Frank Golczewski (Red.): In memory of Klaus-Detlev Grothusen and Günter Moltmann (= Hamburg University Speeches . 57, ISSN  0438-4822 ). Press office of the University of Hamburg, Hamburg 1997.

Web links

• Literature by and about Günter Moltmann in the catalog of the German National Library