Georg Stadtmüller

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Georg Stadtmüller (born March 17, 1909 in Bürstadt , † November 1, 1985 in Munich ) was a German historian and Byzantinist . He was a professor at the University of Leipzig and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

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Georg Stadtmüller was of Catholic origin. His father was a railway supervisor at the Deutsche Reichsbahn . From 1918 to 1927 he attended the Alte Kurfürstliche Gymnasium Bensheim . From 1927 to 1931 Stadtmüller studied classical and oriental philology as well as history at the universities of Freiburg and Munich . The state examination followed in 1931. A year later he was in Munich with Franz Dölger with a thesis on Michael Choniates Dr. phil. PhD. He then worked at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich and completed the traineeship and library assistant exams. In 1934 he was assistant to Hermann Aubin in Breslau. It was there that he completed his habilitation in Byzantine and Southeast European history in 1936 with a thesis on early Albanian history.

From 1935 to 1938 he was library director at the Breslau Eastern Europe Institute and from 1937 private lecturer at the University of Breslau . In 1938 he became an associate professor for the history and culture of Southeastern Europe at the University of Leipzig and vice-president of the Southeastern Europe Institute. In Leipzig he founded the Leipziger Vierteljahresschrift für Südosteuropa , which he then published. From 1934 to 1944 Stadtmüller published four books and 49 essays. They are almost free of any concessions to Nazi ideology .

Stadtmüller was a member of the Stahlhelm , the SA , the NSV , the NSLB and became a member of the NSDAP . Since 1941 he was considered politically unreliable. He therefore lost his offices in 1943 and was from June 1943 until the end of the war as a personal interpreter for Modern Greek and Italian for General der Flieger Hellmuth Felmy on the staff of LXVIII. Army Corps of the Wehrmacht in southern Greece. In 1945 he was initially taken as a corporal in British captivity . From June 1945 to January 1946 he was held in the American internment camp in Ludwigsburg .

He then went on to teach history and Latin. In 1947 Stadtmüller was a defense advisor at the Nuremberg Trials against the Southeast Generals . In 1950 he became honorary professor for comparative history at the University of Munich and in 1954 an associate professor there. From 1958 until his retirement in 1974 he taught as a full professor for the history of Eastern and Southeastern Europe at the University of Munich. From 1960 to 1963, Stadtmüller was director of the Munich Eastern Europe Institute as the successor to Hans Koch . He then founded the Albania Institute and headed it until 1976. From 1968 to 1979 he was head of the Hungarian Institute in Munich, which had existed since 1962 . From 1971 to 1972 Stadtmüller was also rector of the Munich School of Politics . Stadtmüller founded the quarterly Saeculum in 1950 . In 1969 he also founded the Hungary Yearbook , the Studia Hungarica and the Albanian Research . From 1960 to 1965 he was editor of the yearbooks for the history of Eastern Europe . In 1974 Stadtmüller retired. As an academic teacher, he supervised seven habilitation theses. Stadtmüller's academic students are Peter Bartl , Horst Glassl , Gerhard Grimm , Edgar Hösch and Ekkehard Völkl . His main research interests were the history of Southeast Europe and Eastern Europe .

After the Second World War, Stadtmüller became politically active in the right-wing conservative Occidental Action and the Occidental Academy. From 1957 to 1965 he was a member of the state executive committee of the CSU . From 1966 he was chairman of the Germany Foundation , but resigned from his office in 1968 after differences with the managing director Kurt Ziesel . Stadtmüller was one of the signatories of the Heidelberg Manifesto in 1981 .

Stadtmüller's work, Research on Early Albanian History , published for the first time in 1942, gradually led to the view that the “Albanian people emerged from an old Balkan folk relic in the midst of the general Romanization in late antiquity”. This view was disputed again in 1994 by Gottfried Schramm's work on the beginnings of Albanian Christianity. Stadtmüller has received numerous scientific honors and memberships for his research. Stadtmüller was appointed to the Southeast Committee of the German Academy in Munich in 1939 . The magazine Saeculum dedicated its 20th volume to its founder in 1969 for his 60th birthday. In 1973 he became an extraordinary member of the historical section of the Bavarian Benedictine Academy , in 1973 he received the Bavarian Order of Merit and in 1976 the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class . Stadtmüller received an honorary doctorate in law from the Ukrainian Free University in Munich in 1979 .

He was married and had two sons and a daughter; Most recently he lived in Iggstetten, a part of the municipality of Markt Winzer , in the Deggendorf district . After his death he was buried in the cemetery of the Benedictine Abbey in Niederaltaich . His estate is in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and in the university archive of the LMU Munich.

Fonts (selection)

  • Michael Choniates, Metropolitan of Athens (approx. 1138 – approx. 1222) (= Orientalia christiana. Volume 91). Rome 1934.
  • History of Southeast Europe. 2nd edition, expanded by a foreword and additional literature, otherwise unchanged reprint of the 1st edition from 1950. Oldenbourg, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-486-46342-X .
  • Europe on the way to the great schism in the church 1054 (= Institute for European History Mainz. Volume 29). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1960
  • Research on early Albanian history (= Albanian research. Volume 2). 2nd, expanded edition, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1966.
  • History of Habsburg power. (= Kohlhammer-Urban pocket books. Volume 91). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1966.
  • with Bonifaz Pfister: History of Niederaltaich Abbey 741–1971. Winfried-Werk et al., Augsburg et al. 1971.

literature

  • Edgar Hösch : Georg Stadtmüller (1909–1985) in memory. In: Year books for the history of Eastern Europe , New Series 33 (1985) Issue 4, pp. 632–633.
  • Horst Glassl , Peter Bartl (ed.): Southeast Europe under the half moon. Studies on the history and culture of the Southeast European peoples during the Turkish period. Dedicated to Prof. Georg Stadtmüller on the occasion of his 65th birthday (= contributions to knowledge of Southeast Europe and the Near East. Volume 16). Trofenik, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-87828-075-0 .
  • Horst Glassl, Ekkehard Völkl : Georg Stadtmüller (March 17, 1909– November 1, 1985). In: Ungarn-Jahrbuch , 14 (1986), pp. IX – XI, online (PDF).
  • Helmut W. Schaller : Georg Stadtmüller in memory. In: Zeitschrift für Ostforschung , 35 (1986), pp. 403-405.
  • Ekkehard Völkl: Georg Stadtmüller, March 17, 1909– November 1, 1985. In: Journal for Politics , New Series 33 (1986), pp. 348–349.
  • Gerhard Grimm : Georg Stadtmüller and Fritz Valjavec. Between adaptation and assertion. In: Mathias Beer (Ed.): Southeast research in the shadow of the Third Reich. Institutions - Contents - People (= Southeast European Works. Volume 119). Oldenbourg, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-486-57564-3 , pp. 237-255.
  • Zsolt K. Lengyel:  Stadtmüller, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , p. 15 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Zsolt K. Lengyel: Hungarology in the Hungarian Institute in Munich. Basics, causes and goals of the re-profiling around the turn of the millennium. In: Márta Fata (Ed.): The Hungarian image of German historiography (= series of publications by the Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies. Volume 13). Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08428-2 , pp. 310-326.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ March 10 with Helmut W. Schaller : Georg Stadtmüller in memory. In: Zeitschrift für Ostforschung , 35 (1986), pp. 403-405, here: p. 403.
  2. ↑ The information about Passau in: Helmut W. Schaller: Georg Stadtmüller zum Gedächtnis . In: Zeitschrift für Ostforschung , 35 (1986), pp. 403–405, here: p. 403. Munich: Murray G. Hall, Christina Köstner (eds.): “... to get hold of all kinds of things for the national library ... “An Austrian institution during the Nazi era. Vienna 2006, p. 542. Zsolt K. Lengyel:  Stadtmüller, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , p. 15 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ On the other hand, January 26, 1939 is found in: Gerhard Grimm: Georg Stadtmüller and Fritz Valjavec. Between adaptation and assertion. In: Mathias Beer (Ed.): Southeast research in the shadow of the Third Reich. Institutions - content - people. Munich 2004, pp. 237–255, here: p. 243.
  4. ^ Gerhard Grimm: Georg Stadtmüller and Fritz Valjavec. Between adaptation and assertion. In: Mathias Beer (Ed.): Southeast research in the shadow of the Third Reich. Institutions - content - people. Munich 2004, pp. 237–255, here: p. 244.
  5. ↑ Register . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1969, p. 200 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Peter Bartl: Albania. From the Middle Ages to the present. Regensburg et al. 1995, p. 19.
  7. ^ German culture in the life of peoples. Communications from the German Academy , Munich 1939, p. 287.
  8. ^ Helmut Neubauer: Preliminary remark (to the booklet for Georg Stadtmüller). In: Saeculum , 20, 1969, pp. 3-5.
  9. ↑ The papers of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek sorted by occupation (as of April 2011) , accessed on April 7, 2019.
  10. ↑ Papers , Munich University Archives, accessed on April 7, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Stadtmüller, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and Byzantinist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1909 or March 17, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Bürstadt
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1985
Place of death Munich