Gustav Roloff
Gustav Roloff (born October 7, 1866 in Oberröblingen am See near Eisleben , † October 8, 1952 in Berlin ) was a German historian and university professor in Giessen .
Life
As a private lecturer in history at the University of Berlin , he published "Problems from the Greek War History" in 1903 as booklet XXXIX of the historical studies . Since 1909 he had a chair for modern history at the Ludwig University of Giessen . As a historian, he was a student of Max Lenz and Hans Delbrück . He was “world-wide” and traveled widely for his guild and his time. As a historian, he was primarily concerned with colonial history . His main works include Napoleon I's colonial policy , the "History of European Colonization since the Discovery of America" and, after the First World War, the balance sheet of the war .
Despite his German-national attitude, from 1933 onwards he increasingly came into conflict with the behavior of the Nazis at Giessen University. He found this noisy and uncultivated and rejected the new gesture of greeting. Roloff refused to be stopped by the Nazi system to spread new ideologies and on October 10, 1934 applied for his retirement on April 1, 1935. After that he continued to give lectures. After a statement in one of his lectures that National Socialism was a “temporary phenomenon” that made headlines, he moved to Berlin with his family in 1936 .
progeny
He is the father of the pianist Helmut Roloff and the grandfather of the video artist Stefan Roloff .
literature
- Hans Georg Gundel: History at the University of Giessen in the 20th century, in: Festschrift for the 350th anniversary. Giessen 1957
- Jörg-Peter Jatho, Gerd Simon: Giessen historian in the Third Reich . Giessen 2008, ISBN 978-3-88349-522-4 , pp. 69-73
- Festschrift for Lothar Gall (see web link)
Web links
- Literature by and about Gustav Roloff in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Gustav Roloff in the German Digital Library
- Search for "Gustav Roloff" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Excerpt from the Festschrift for Lothar Gall
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roloff, Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberröblingen am See near Eisleben |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 1952 |
| Place of death | Berlin |