Hanns Hubert Hofmann

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Hanns Hubert Hofmann (born November 6, 1922 in Nuremberg ; † June 5, 1978 in Würzburg ) was a German historian . He was a professor at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and made a contribution to research on Franconian history.

Life

Hofmann was established in 1922 as the son of General Counsel Hanns Heinz Hofmann, the future chief executive of the Chamber of Commerce born Nuremberg. From 1933 to 1940 he attended the Melanchthon High School in Nuremberg . He then served as a soldier in World War II .

From 1946 to 1948 he studied history, German, geography and law. In 1948 he became a student of Erich Freiherr von Guttenberg at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Erlangen with a dissertation in Herzogenaurach. The story of a border area in Franconia to the Dr. phil. PhD. Then he was a research assistant at the University of Erlangen. From 1953 to 1965 he was a research assistant at the Commission for Bavarian State History .

In 1961 he completed his habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg with the thesis Noble rule and sovereign state . In 1963 he became a lecturer and in 1968 an extraordinary professor for modern, social and national history. His academic students included a. Friedhelm Golücke , Ernst Schubert and Bernhard Sicken .

From 1959 he was head of the "Büdinger Talks" and edited several volumes of the Büdinger Lectures series . In addition, he was responsible - together with u. a. Erich von Guttenberg - for the part of Franconia in the Historical Atlas of Bavaria (HAB) and editor of the Biographical Dictionary on German History in Weltbild-Verlag .

Hofmann was married twice and has two children.

Awards and memberships

Fonts (selection)

  • Ed. With Fritz Schnelbögl : Gelegenhait der Landschaft mitsampt den ford und brightten darinnen. A political-statistical, defense and geographic traffic description of the greater Nuremberg area at the beginning of the 16th century (= series of publications of the Altnürnberger Landschaft . Volume 1). Pfeiffer, Hersbruck 1952.
  • The Hitler putsch. Years of crisis in German history 1920–1924 . Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, Munich 1961.
  • Castles, palaces and residences in Franconia. According to old templates . Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1961.
  • Noble rule and sovereign state. Studies on the state and society in Franconia and Bavaria in the 18th and 19th centuries (= studies on Bavarian constitutional and social history . Volume 2). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1962.
  • The Nuremberg city wall . Verlag Nürnberger Presse, Nuremberg 1967.
  • Ed .: The emergence of the modern sovereign state . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne a. a. 1967.
  • Edited with Günther Schuhmann: Franconia in old views and descriptions . Thorbecke, Constance a. a. 1967.
  • Emperor Karl's canal construction. How Künig Carl the Great was responsible for digging up the Donaw and the Rhine . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen u. a. 1969. (2nd edition, 1976, ISBN 3-7995-4014-8 )
  • A trip to Padua in 1585. Three Frankish junkers on the Reiss to Italiam . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen u. a. 1969.
  • Ed .: Sources on the constitutional organism of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, 1495–1815 (= selected sources on German history in modern times . Volume 13). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1976, ISBN 3-534-01959-8 .
  • Ed .: The German Officer Corps, 1860–1960 (= German leadership classes in modern times . Volume 11). In connection with the Military History Research Office, Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1980, ISBN 3-7646-1775-6 .
  • Ed .: Franconia in old views and descriptions . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1981, ISBN 3-7995-2123-2 .

literature

  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who . 19th edition, Societas-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-7973-0296-7 , p. 394.
  • Hermann Hemmerich (Zsgest.): Complete bibliography of the writings of Prof [essor] D [okto] r Hanns Hubert Hofmann . With the obituaries of Theodor Berchem and Hermann Hemmerich, private print, H. Hemmerich, Würzburg 1979.
  • Dieter Karasek: List of publications by Hanns Hubert Hofmann . In: Yearbook for Franconian State Research 39 (1979), pp. 217-231.
  • Ernst Schubert : Hanns Hubert Hofmann . In: Yearbook for Franconian State Research 39 (1979), pp. 209-216.
  • Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE). 2nd edition, KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-25030-4 , p. 73.
  • Eugen Wirth : Obituary for Hanns Hubert Hofmann, 1922–1978 . In: Reports on German Regional Studies 53 (1979), pp. 1–3.

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