Hans-Adolf Jacobsen

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Hans-Adolf Jacobsen (born November 16, 1925 in Berlin ; † December 12, 2016 in Bonn ) was a German political scientist and historian . From 1969 to 1991 he was full professor at the Department of Political Science at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

Life

Jacobsen was born in 1925 as the son of the Latvian violinist and music teacher Maxim Jacobsen and his wife Margarete, b. Vogelsang, born in Berlin. In 1940 he attended the German School in Brussels until, surprised by the campaign in the west , he returned to Germany and in 1943 became a soldier. At the age of nineteen, Lieutenant Jacobsen was taken prisoner by the Soviets . During the five-year imprisonment he learned the Russian language and developed sympathy for the Russian people. It was here that he became interested in domestic and foreign policy in the Soviet Union. After his release, Jacobsen graduated from high school in order to then study history, Slavic studies and economics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . In 1954 he published his first articles on military history. In 1955, Jacobsen at Percy Ernst Schramm with the dissertation The German military plans for the invasion of Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg on 10 May 1940 to Dr. phil. PhD .

From 1956 to 1961 he was a lecturer at the Bundeswehr school for internal leadership in Koblenz. From 1961 to 1964 he was director of the research institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy in Bonn. Jacobsen edited Colonel General Franz Halder's war diary from 1962 to 1964 , which was translated into several languages. In 1966 he completed his habilitation with Karl Dietrich Bracher at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. From April 1, 1969 he was full professor of political science, contemporary history and international relations . His academic students included a. Houshang Ameri , Alireza Azghandi , Dieter Bingen , Seo Byung-Chul , Hıdır Eren Çelik , Winfried Glashagen , Gernot GRAESSNER , Christian Hacke , Peter Hünseler , Volker Kronenberg , Gerd Langguth , Birgit Meyer , Reinhard Meyers , Sami Fayez Khalil Musallam , Ulrike Pesch , Wolfgang Pfeiler , Hans-Gert Pöttering , Angelika Volle , Werner Weidenfeld and Helmut Zander .

He was visiting professor at California State University (1977), the National Defense Academy of Japan (1978), Columbia University (1982) and San José State University (1986). Jacobsen was a pioneer in the scientific dialogue between German and Polish historians in the 1970s. From September 10 to 22, 1977, he led a colloquium at a seminar in the USSR, while German students were in Moscow and Leningrad. In 1981 Jacobsen became chairman of the German Society for Peace and Conflict Research . In February 1986 he became a member of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Agency for Civic Education with Hans-Helmuth Knütter and Hans-Peter Schwarz . After the fall of the Wall in 1989, Jacobsen intensified his efforts to reach an understanding with his Polish neighbors and was President of the Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation in Warsaw until the end of 2002 . He was a member of the German Poland Institute .

From 1973 to 1989 Jacobsen was the spokesman for the Inner Leadership Advisory Board at the Federal Minister of Defense . From 1990 to 1991 he headed the “Independent Commission for the Future Tasks of the Bundeswehr” (Jacobsen Commission) set up by the Federal Ministry of Defense.

Scientific work

Jacobsen specialized in the Second World War and the time of National Socialism in Germany. Many of his works deal with foreign policy issues of the Second World War. He also documented some war diaries. He later specialized in a sub-discipline of political science, international relations .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Documents on the prehistory of the Western campaign, 1939–1940 (=  studies and documents on the history of the Second World War . Volume 2a). Musterschmidt, Göttingen a. a. 1956.
  • Fall yellow. The struggle for the German operational plan for the western offensive 1940 (=  publications of the Institute for European History, Mainz . Volume 16). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1957.
  • Dunkirk. A contribution to the history of the western campaign in 1940 (=  The Wehrmacht in combat . Volume 19). Vowinckel, Neckargemünd 1958.
  • 1939-1945. The Second World War in chronicles and documents . Wehr- und Wissen Verlagsgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1959 (5th edition 1961).
  • Documents on the western campaign in 1940 (=  studies and documents on the history of the Second World War . Volume 2b). Musterschmidt, Göttingen a. a. 1960.
  • German warfare 1939–1945. An overview (=  series of publications by the Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education . Issue 12). Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education , Hanover 1961.
  • On the conception of a history of the Second World War 1939–1945. Disposition with critically selected literature (=  publications of the Library for Contemporary History . Issue 2). Bernard & Graefe, Frankfurt am Main 1964.
  • with Otto Stenzl: Germany and the world. On the foreign policy of the Federal Republic 1949–1963 . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1964.
  • with Martin Broszat , Helmut Krausnick : concentration camp, commissioner order, persecution of Jews (=  anatomy of the SS state . Volume 2). Walter, Olten 1965.
  • The second World War. Broad policy and strategy in documents . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1965.
  • National Socialist Foreign Policy. 1933-1938 . Metzner, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1968.
  • Five years of the Warsaw Treaty. Attempt to take stock of the relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the People's Republic of Poland 1970–1975 . Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-87061-069-7 .
  • From the strategy of violence to the politics of peacekeeping. Contributions to German history in the 20th century . Droste, Düsseldorf 1977, ISBN 3-7700-0453-1 .
  • From the imperative of peace. Contributions to politics and warfare in the 20th century . Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-1051-5 .
  • with Arthur L. Smith, Jr .: The Nazi Party and the German Foreign Office (=  Routledge studies in modern European history . Volume 11). Routledge, New York et al. a. 2007, ISBN 978-0-415-95771-7 .

Editorships

  • with Jürgen Rohwer : decisive battles of the second world war . Commissioned by the Working Group for Defense Research , Bernard & Graefe, Verlag für Wehrwesen, Frankfurt am Main 1960.
  • with Andreas Hillgruber : The Soviet History of the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 . Written by Boris Semjonowitsch Telpuchowski, Bernard & Graefe, Verlag für Wehrwesen, Frankfurt am Main 1961.
  • War diary of the Wehrmacht High Command. 1940-1945 . Run by Helmuth Greiner and Percy Ernst Schramm . Commissioned by the Working Group for Defense Research, 4 volumes, Bernard & Graefe, Verlag für Wehrwesen, Frankfurt am Main 1961–1965.
  • with Hans Dollinger : The German students. The struggle for university reform. An inventory . Desch , Munich 1968.
  • with Hans Dollinger: The Second World War in Pictures and Documents . 10 volumes, Desch, Munich a. a. 1968/69.
  • Volume 1: The Blitzkriege 1939/1940 .
  • Volume 2: War against Great Britain 1940/1941 .
  • Volume 3: Operation Barbarossa 1941 .
  • Volume 4: The expansion to World War 1941/1942 .
  • Volume 5: The turn of the war in 1942/1943 .
  • Volume 6: Assault on Fortress Europe. 1943 .
  • Volume 7: War on All Fronts 1943/1944 .
  • Volume 8: The 1944 Invasion .
  • Volume 9: The Conquest of Germany 1945 .
  • Volume 10: The End of the Second World War .
  • with Hans Dollinger: One hundred years of Germany. 1870-1970. Images, texts, documents . With a foreword by Richard von Weizsäcker and an afterword by Willy Brandt , Desch, München a. a. 1969.
  • Suspicious neighbors. German Ostpolitik 1919/1970. Documentation and analysis . Droste, Düsseldorf 1970.
  • Hans Steinacher. Federal head of the VDA. 1933-1937. Memories and documents (=  writings of the Federal Archives. Volume 19). Boldt, Boppardt am Rhein 1970, ISBN 3-7646-1545-1 .
  • with Mieczyslaw Tomala: How Poles and Germans see each other. Contributions from both countries . Translation from Polish by Sibylle Stahlmann, Droste, Düsseldorf 1973, ISBN 3-7700-0309-8 .
  • with Wolfgang Mallmann, Christian Meier: Security and Cooperation in Europe. Analysis and documentation . 2 volumes, Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1973/78.
  • The way to divide the world. Politics and Strategy 1939–1945 . Defense and knowledge, Koblenz u. a. 1977.
  • Karl Haushofer. Life and work . Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1979, ISBN 3-7646-1648-2 .
  • Volume 1: Life Path 1869–1946 and selected texts on geopolitics ;
  • Volume 2: Selected correspondence .
  • with Gert Leptin, Ulrich Scheuner , Eberhard Schulz: Three decades of foreign policy in the GDR. Determining factors, instruments, fields of action (=  publications of the research institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy . Volume 44). Oldenbourg, Munich a. a. 1979, ISBN 3-486-49331-0 (2nd edition 1980).
  • with Carl-Christoph Schweitzer , Jerzy Sulek, Lech Trzeciakowski: Federal Republic of Germany, People's Republic of Poland. Balance of relationships, problems and perspectives of their normalization . Metzner, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-7875-5256-1 .
  • with Heinz-Georg Lemm : Heere international. Military policy, strategy, technology, military history . Editor-in-chief: Reinhard Hauschild , 3 volumes, Mittler, Herford u. a. 1981-1984.
  • A reflection of a conspiracy. The opposition to Hitler and the coup d'état of July 20, 1944 in the SD reporting. Secret documents from the former Reich Security Main Office . 2 volumes, Seewald, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-512-00657-4 .
  • with Manfred Funke , Hans-Helmuth Knütter , Hans-Peter Schwarz : Democracy and dictatorship. Spirit and shape of political rule in Germany and Europe. Festschrift for Karl Dietrich Bracher (=  series of publications by the Federal Agency for Civic Education . Volume 250). Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-7700-0730-1 .
  • with Uwe Heuer, Hans-Jürgen Rautenberg: Securing peace through defense readiness. German Security Policy 1949–1989. Documents . von Hase & Koehler, Mainz 1989, ISBN 3-7758-1210-5 .
  • with Hans-Jürgen Rautenberg: Bundeswehr and European security order. Final report of the Independent Commission for the Future Tasks of the Bundeswehr . Bouvier, Bonn 1991, ISBN 3-416-02348-X .
  • with Boris Orlow: Don't miss your chances. Aspects of German-Russian Relations in the 20th Century. Contributions . von Hase & Koehler, Mainz 1992, ISBN 3-7758-1262-8 .
  • with Mieczysław Thomala: Bonn - Warsaw. 1945-1991. German-Polish relations. Analysis and documentation . Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-8046-8761-X .
  • with Jochen Löser, Daniel Proektor, Sergej Slutsch: German-Russian turning point. War and Peace 1941–1995 (=  Paul-Kleinewefers-Stiftung: Writings of the Paul-Kleinewefers-Stiftung . Volume 2). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1995, ISBN 3-7890-3683-8 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ludger Kühnhardt: Military for Peace - To the death of the political scientist Hans-Adolf Jacobsen . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 14, 2016, p. 11 ( online ).
  2. ↑ See Ulrike Quadbeck: Karl Dietrich Bracher and the beginnings of Bonn political science (=  Nomos-Universitätsschriften, Geschichte , Volume 19). Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2008, ISBN 978-3-8329-3740-9 , p. 375 ff.
  3. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette. Vol. 25, No. 159, August 25, 1973.
personal data
SURNAME Jacobsen, Hans-Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 2016
Place of death Bonn