Georg von Rauch (historian)

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Georg Alexander Cornelius Erich von Rauch (* July 31 jul. / 13 August  1904 greg. In Pskov , Russian Empire ; † 17th October 1991 in Kiel ) was a German historian .

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Georg von Rauch's father Cornelius von Rauch was a doctor in the Russian Empire. In 1911 the family moved from Pleskau to the Sagnitz estate in Livonia . After the First World War, this part of Livonia became part of the new state of Estonia . The University of Tartu was now under Estonian influence and the lectures were switched from German to Estonian. Von Rauch began his studies at this university.

From 1922 he studied history in Tartu (German: Dorpat) (member of the Corps Neobaltia ), Tübingen and Breslau , and became Mag. Phil. (later recognized as Dr. phil. in Germany) and initially took up a position as a teacher and educator at a boarding school of the Moravian Brethren in Niesky in Upper Lusatia . In 1928 he became a senior teacher at the Walter School in Tartu, in 1930 at the grammar school there, and in 1938 lecturer in history and church history at the Luther Institute in Tartu. From 1936 to 1939 he was chairman of the Dorpater German Teachers' Association and the Dorpater German Genealogical Society.

After the resettlement forced by the German-Soviet border and friendship treaty in 1939, he came to the " Warthegau " in Posen . The Imperial University of Posen was established there in the following years . Due to his war effort, an activity at this university was only possible to a limited extent. Nominally he was listed as a scientific assistant and from 1943 as a lecturer at the historical seminar. His biographer Michael Garleff writes about his publications during the war : “In 1941 von Rauch published two articles which, in formal terms, seem to show the clearest concessions to the“ zeitgeist ”.” After his habilitation in Greifswald (1941) and participation in the war (1941 –1945, special leader or interpreter in Group III (interrogation and loot evaluation) of the General Staff Department Foreign Armies East (FHO) ) von Rauch became a lecturer in 1946 and an adjunct professor for Eastern European history at the University of Marburg in 1953 . He later followed a call to the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , where he rebuilt the seminar for Eastern European history and also became dean of the philosophy faculty. In 1972 he retired. From 1973 to 1979 he was chairman of the Baltic Historical Commission .

The polyglot and in many ways experienced by smoke understood as only a few, at the time of the Cold War and the Iron Curtain to establish contacts with colleagues in Eastern and Central Europe.

From 1938 Georg von Rauch was married to Margarethe Reimer, daughter of the doctor Arthur Reimer from Tartu. His son Georg (1947–1971), the youngest of their three sons, was part of the militant left-wing radical scene in Berlin. Georg von Rauch's grave is in the Eichhof park cemetery in Kronshagen near Kiel.

Fonts (selection)

  • The University of Dorpat and the penetration of the early Enlightenment into Livonia 1690–1710 . Essen Publishing House, Essen 1943, habilitation thesis, University of Greifswald, 1943.
  • Russia: State Unity and National Diversity. Federalist Forces and Ideas in Russian History . Isar, Munich 1953.
  • Lenin. Foundation of the Soviet system , Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1957 (Personality and History, Volume 8) (3rd edition 1962).
  • Studies on the relationship between Russia and Europe , Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1964.
  • The tsarist empire and the Soviet state in the mirror of history. Articles and lectures , Muster-Schmidt, Göttingen 1980, ISBN 3-7881-1699-4 .
  • The Riga Prophets Club and other articles on Baltic and Russian history, Hirschheydt, Hannover-Döhren 1988 (Contributions to Baltic History, Volume 11), ISBN 3-7777-0035-5 .
  • History of Bolshevik Russia Rheinische Verlagsanstalt, Wiesbaden 1955; later than History of the Soviet Union. Last: 8th edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-520-39408-1 .
  • History of the Baltic States. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1970; 3rd edition: dtv, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-423-04297-4 .
  • as editor: History of Baltic German historiography. Commissioned by the Baltic Historical Commission , Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-412-05085-7 (= East Central Europe in the past and present , volume 20).
  • Writings from the estate (edited by Michael Garleff ), Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, Tartu 1994, ISBN 9985-56-062-0 .

literature

  • Bruno von Lingen, Georg von Rieder: Album Neobaltorum 1879–1956 , o. O. 1956
  • Uwe Liszkowski (Ed.): Russia and Germany. [Festschrift for Georg von Rauch on his 70th birthday] , Klett, Stuttgart 1974 (Kieler historical studies, volume 22), ISBN 3-12-906650-0 .
  • Michael Garleff : Georg von Rauch on the interethnic relations in the Baltic region. On his historiography from 1935 to 1943. In: Between Confrontation and Compromise: Oldenburg Symposium “Interethnic Relations in East Central Europe as a Historiographical Problem of the 1930s / 1940s”. Oldenbourg, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-486-56047-6 , pp. 197-215.
  • Gert von Pistohlkors : Obituary for Georg von Rauch. In: Zeitschrift für Ostforschung , 41, 1992, pp. 258–260.
  • Uwe Liszkowski: Bridge builder into a strange world. Georg von Rauch as a historian of Russia . In: Olaf Mertelsmann (Ed.): Estonia and Russia. Aspects of Relations between the Two Countries, Kovač, Hamburg 2005 (series of Hamburg contributions to the history of Eastern Europe, Volume 11), pp. 289–312, ISBN 3-8300-1510-0 .

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Remarks

  1. ^ Roland Gehrke: Baltic Germans at the University of Posen . In the Baltic Germany, Weimar Republic and Third Reich . Volume 1. Verlag Böhlau, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-12199-0 , p. 401 f.
  2. ↑ Michael Garleff: Georg v. Rauch about interethnic relationships . In: Between Confrontation and Compromise. Oldenburg Symposium: Interethnic Relations in East Central Europe as a Historiographical Problem of the 1930s / 1940s . Federal Institute for East German Culture and History. Oldenbourg, 1995, ISBN 3-486-56047-6 On page 209 the following publications are mentioned:
    • A polemic on the Jewish question in Courland . In: Jomsburg 5 (1941), pp. 84-95. (Report on controversy at the end of the 18th century)
    • FWR from Berg. A German statesman in Russian service . In: Deutsche Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift im Wartheland 3–4 (1941), pp. 258–281. (Biography of a protagonist in the mid-19th century)
  3. ^ Hermann Zolling, Heinz Höhne : Pullach internally: the history of the Federal Intelligence Service . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1971 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Rauch, Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rauch, Georg Alexander Cornelius Erich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Pleskau , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 1991
Place of death Kiel