Hannsjoachim W. Koch

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Hannsjoachim Wolfgang Koch (* 1933 in Munich ; † unknown) was a British historian of German origin.

life and work

Koch earned a BA in History and American Studies from Keele University near Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1965 . He then was a lecturer in history at the University of York . Koch taught at both British and German universities, and from 1970 he was a guest lecturer at the Munich School of Politics . In the 1980s, the cook, who worked at the York Department of History, earned a DPhil . He was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society until his death .

The linguistically bumpy study Der Sozialdarwinismus (1973) is not very helpful for “further exploration” of the subject, as the historian Winfried Baumgart noted. The science historian Brigitte Hoppe summed up: “Despite the evaluation of specialist literature in general statements, it was an unsuccessful attempt that got stuck”.

According to the historian Wolfgang Wippermann , Koch is a "revisionist historian". In his work on the People's Court , published in 1988, he tried to “celebrate Freisler as an honest and conscientious official”. Hans-Ulrich Wehler , historian, describes Koch in connection with the book presented as a “right-wing radical author”.

According to Wippermann, the work on the history of the Hitler Youth (1975) should be classified as " apologetic ". For Michael H. Kater , Koch has "popular literary [] intentions" and wants to address the "interested layman". Kater criticized Koch's citation and source analysis. There are also "factual errors". Ultimately, the work lacks relevant research approaches. Historian Markus Köster also classifies the script as popular science . "Information and evaluations" provided about the early Hitler Youth are "not very convincing", as the Judaist Heinz Schreckenberg stated. Wehler sees the script as written "from the right-wing extremist corner".

The historian Heinz Hürten sees the work The German Civil War (1978) as not a great gain in knowledge. In addition, there are "factual [] errors" and formal "negligence". According to the historian Boris Barth , Koch “presents the history of the event correctly”, but tends to “make strong apologies”. Wehler rates the work as "blatantly apologetic".

Koch was married and the father of two children.

Fonts (selection)

  • Social Darwinism. Its genesis and its influence on imperialist thinking (= Beck's black series . Vol. 97). Beck, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-406-02497-1 .
  • History of the Hitler Youth. Their origins and development, 1922–1945 . Authorized translation [The Hitler youth] by Helmut Kossodo and Ulrich Riemerschmidt , Schulz, Percha am Starnberger See 1975, ISBN 3-7962-0070-2 .
  • The German Civil War. A History of the German and Austrian Freikorps 1918–1923 . Translated from the English by Klaus Oelhaf and Ulrich Riemerschmidt, Ullstein, Berlin a. a. 1978, ISBN 3-550-07379-8 . (Ed.Antaios, Dresden 2002, ISBN 3-935063-12-1 .)
  • History of Prussia . From the English [A history of Prussia] by Joachim Heimannsberg and Ulrich Riemerschmidt, List, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-471-77951-5 .
  • People's Court. Political justice in the 3rd Reich . Partial translation from English by E. Malsch, Universitas, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-8004-1152-0 .
  • German national history - why ?. A critical essay (= Türmer-Taschenbuch . No. 18). Türmer-Verlag, Berg 1990, ISBN 3-87829-139-5 .
  • The Wars of Liberation, 1807–1815. Napoleon against Germany and Europe . Publishing company Berg , Berg am Starnberger See 1998, ISBN 3-86118-075-8 .
  • The German armies in the 19th and 20th centuries . Translation from English by Sigrun Augstein, Vorwinkel, Berg / Starnberger See 1999, ISBN 3-921655-99-4 .

literature

  • The Academic Who's who 1973-1974: University Teachers in the British Isles in Arts, Education and Social Sciences . A. & C. Black, Löndon 1973, ISBN 0-7136-1340-8 , p. 260.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Report of Council, Session 1998–1999 . In: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 9 (1999), pp. 353-361 and 363-372, here: pp. 359 f.
  2. ↑ a b publisher information, cf. Michael H. Kater : The unresolved youth movement. To new books by Rudolf Kneip, Werner Kindt and Hansjoachim W. Koch. [Collective review] . In: Archiv für Sozialgeschichte Vol. 17 (1977), pp. 559–566, here: p. 564.
  3. ^ A b c d The Academic Who's Who 1973-1974: University Teachers in the British Isles in Arts, Education and Social Sciences . A. & C. Black, Löndon 1973, ISBN 0-7136-1340-8 , p. 260.
  4. ↑ See List of Fellows of the Royal Historical Society . In: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 31 (1981), pp. 244-287, here: 266; List of Fellows of the Royal Historical Society . In: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 37 (1987), pp. 187-240, here: p. 214.
  5. ↑ Winfried Baumgart : Social Darwinism. Its genesis and influence on imperialist thinking by Hannsjoachim W. Koch . In: Historische Zeitschrift 219 (1974) 2, p. 431 f.
  6. ↑ Brigitte Hoppe : The theory of evolution in the German-speaking area. On the scientific, epistemological and scientific history debate over the past decade . In: History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 7 (1985) 1, pp. 121-147, here: p. 140.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Wippermann : Controversial past. Facts and controversies about National Socialism (= Antifa edition ). Elefanten-Press, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-88520-717-6 , p. 68.
  8. ^ Hans-Ulrich Wehler : German history of society. [1700-1990] . Volume 4: From the beginning of the First World War to the founding of the two German states, 1914–1949 . 2nd revised edition, Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-32264-6 , p. 1134.
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Wippermann : Controversial past. Facts and controversies about National Socialism (= Antifa edition ). Elefanten-Press, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-88520-717-6 , p. 172, fn. 62.
  10. ↑ Michael H. Kater : The unmanaged youth movement. To new books by Rudolf Kneip, Werner Kindt and Hansjoachim W. Koch. [Collective review] . In: Archiv für Sozialgeschichte Vol. 17 (1977), pp. 559–566, here: p. 564.
  11. ↑ a b Michael H. Kater : The unmanaged youth movement. To new books by Rudolf Kneip, Werner Kindt and Hansjoachim W. Koch. [Collective review] . In: Archive for Social History Vol. 17 (1977), pp. 559-566, here: p. 565.
  12. ↑ Michael H. Kater : The unmanaged youth movement. To new books by Rudolf Kneip, Werner Kindt and Hansjoachim W. Koch. [Collective review] . In: Archiv für Sozialgeschichte Vol. 17 (1977), pp. 559-566, here: p. 566.
  13. ^ Markus Köster : Youth, the welfare state and society in transition. Westphalia between the Empire and the Federal Republic (= research on regional history . Vol. 30). Schöningh, Paderborn 1999, ISBN 3-506-79602-X , p. 250, fn. 6.
  14. ↑ Heinz Schreckenberg : Education, living environment and war effort of the German youth under Hitler. Notes on literature (= history of youth . Vol. 25). Lit, Münster u. a. 2001, ISBN 3-8258-4433-1 , p. 244.
  15. ^ Hans-Ulrich Wehler : German history of society. [1700-1990] . Volume 4: From the beginning of the First World War to the founding of the two German states, 1914–1949 . 2nd revised edition, Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-32264-6 , p. 1059, fn. 15.
  16. ^ Heinz Hürten : The German Civil War. A History of the German and Austrian Freikorps 1918–1923 by Hannsjoachim W. Koch . In: Historische Zeitschrift 235 (1982) 3, pp. 735 f.
  17. ↑ Boris Barth : Europe after the Great War. The Crisis of Democracy in the Interwar Period, 1918–1938 . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-593-50521-3 , p. 301, fn. 23.
  18. ^ Hans-Ulrich Wehler : German history of society. [1700-1990] . Volume 4: From the beginning of the First World War to the founding of the two German states, 1914–1949 . 2nd revised edition, Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-32264-6 , p. 1027, fn. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Hannsjoachim W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koch, Hannsjoachim Wolfgang (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 20th century