Gerhard Schulz (historian)

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Gerhard Schulz (born August 24, 1924 in Sommerfeld , † April 14, 2004 in Tübingen ) was a German historian .

Life

Gerhard Schulz was the son of a civil servant and studied in Leipzig after the Second World War . At the end of the 1940s, he moved to the Free University of Berlin and did his doctorate under Hans Herzfeld on the SPD before the First World War . He then worked as a historian on the Weimar Republic and National Socialism .

In 1962 Schulz accepted a position at the University of Tübingen and in the same year his habilitation thesis Between Democracy and Dictatorship was published . Volume I: Constitutional Policy and Imperial Reform in the Weimar Republic . From 1963 to 1990 he was director of the Tübingen seminar for contemporary history. He was co-editor of Bracher / Schulz / Sauer , a standard work on the National Socialist " seizure of power ", which was first published in 1960 at the Institute for Political Science in West Berlin. Gerhard Schulz was responsible for the second part: The beginnings of the totalitarian state of measures .

Schulz's wife was the daughter of the Prussian finance minister and resistance fighter Johannes Popitz , who was executed in February 1945.

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  • German Social Democracy and the Development of Foreign Relations before 1914. A Contribution to the History of Political Thought and Party System , Dissertation Freie Universität Berlin 1952.
  • with Klaus Schütz among others: parties in the Federal Republic. Studies on the development of the German parties up to the Federal Parliament election 1953 (= publications of the Institute for Political Science. Vol. 6, ISSN  0522-9677 ). Ring-Verlag, Stuttgart et al. 1955.
  • as editor with Karl Dietrich Bracher and Wolfgang Sauer: The National Socialist Seizure of Power (= writings of the Institute for Political Science. Vol. 14). West German publishing house, Cologne ao 1960.
  • Between democracy and dictatorship. Constitutional politics and imperial reform in the Weimar Republic. 3 volumes. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1963–1992;
    • Volume 1: The period of consolidation and revision of the Bismarckian Reich construction 1919–1930. 1963 (at the same time: Berlin, Free University, habilitation thesis from July 13, 1960);
    • Volume 2: Germany on the Eve of the Great Crisis. 1987, ISBN 3-11-002486-1 ;
    • Volume 3: From Brüning to Hitler. The change in the political system in Germany 1930–1933. 1992, ISBN 3-11-013525-6 .
  • The German Eastern Territories. On their historical-political situation , Neske, Pfullingen 1967.
  • Revolutions and peace agreements. 1917–1920 (= dtv world history of the 20th century. Vol. 2 = dtv 4002). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1967.
  • (as editor): What will happen to the university? : Viewpoints on higher education reform, Wunderlich, Tübingen 1969.
  • The age of society. Essays on the political social history of modern times , Piper, Munich 1969.
  • (as editor): history today. Positions, tendencies and problems , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1973, ISBN 3-525-36159-9 .
  • Fascism, National Socialism. Versions and theoretical controversies 1922-1972 , Propylaen-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1974, ISBN 3-549-07304-6 .
  • Rise of National Socialism. Crisis and Revolution in Germany. Propylaen-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1975, ISBN 3-549-07309-7 .
  • Germany since the First World War. 1918–1945 (= German history. Vol. 10 = Kleine Vandenhoeck series 1419). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1976, ISBN 3-525-33390-0 .
  • (as editor): Secret services and resistance movements in World War II, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1982, ISBN 3-525-01327-2 .
  • (as editor): The great crisis of the thirties. From the decline of the world economy to the Second World War , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1985, ISBN 3-525-36189-0 .
  • (as editor): Partisans and People's War. On revolutionizing the war in the 20th century , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1985, ISBN 3-525-36188-2 .
  • (as editor): Ploetz, Weimar Republic. A nation in transition , Ploetz, Freiburg 1987, ISBN 3-87640-088-0 .
  • Introduction to contemporary history , Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1992, ISBN 3-534-06485-2 .
  • Europe and the globe. Cities, states and empires since ancient times. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart et al. 2001, ISBN 3-421-05349-9 .
  • Central German diary. Notes from the early years of the SED dictatorship 1945–1950. Edited by Udo Wengst . Oldenbourg, Munich 2009, ISBN 3-486-59033-2 ( review ).

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SURNAME Schulz, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Summer field
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 2004
Place of death Tübingen