Hans-Otto Binder

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Hans-Otto Binder

Hans-Otto Binder (born May 15, 1940 in Balingen ; † May 29, 2017 in Tübingen ) was a German historian . He was connected to Tübingen throughout his entire professional life, where he worked as a lecturer at the Eberhard Karls University and as a local councilor for Hirschau .

Life

Hans-Otto Binder was the son of a pastor and a member of the Confessing Church . He grew up in a Christian social milieu. He learned in the seminars in Maulbronn and Blaubeuren , where he graduated from high school. He then studied at the universities of Tübingen , Göttingen and Berlin . After graduation, he returned to Tübingen, where he worked on his dissertation on Otto Bismarck . Then he worked at the seminar for modern history at the University of Tübingen - first as an assistant, then as an academic councilor and finally as an academic senior councilor. The focus of his university teaching and research work was the 19th and 20th centuries. His most popular seminar topics were Franco-German relations , restoration , industrialization , Jewish history in Württemberg , World War I and the Weimar Republic . He worked for 30 years at the university and in 2002 he retired. In his farewell lecture he presented "Conflicts in Tübingen 1800 to 1880".

After he became a member of the SPD in 1966 , he began to be politically active. For one electoral term (1975–1980) he represented the SPD in the local council, three electoral periods - until 1986 - in the local council of his place of residence Hirschau. After that he was a member of the local association executive committee of the SPD. As a chronicler of the labor movement, he worked with great devotion to preserve the historical legacy of social democracy. In 1969 he met his future wife Roswith. He had been married to her since 1971 and had two daughters.

Since his retirement, Hans-Otto Binder has devoted himself more and more to Tübingen topics. For the " Tübinger Blätter " he wrote essays over the decades in which he highlighted personalities from literature and politics. After the Stadtmuseum Tübingen had not had a management since 2003 and dubious things had happened there (disappearance of exhibits), he became chairman of the Friends of the Stadtmuseum Tübingen association in July 2003, which succeeded - thanks to its meticulous work - in stopping the museum from decaying .

He also devoted himself specifically to National Socialism in Tübingen, a topic that had accompanied him since he was a boy, as he came to the conclusion that there are “more white spots than explored islands” in this area. In the speech for the presentation of the book Heimkehrertafel as a stumbling block , he expressed his concern in 2007: "Fighting against the willful oblivion", which was established and cultivated in Tübingen by the long-time mayor Hans Gmelin . In 2008 he co-founded the working group "Modern Tübingen City History", which dealt in particular with the coming to terms with National Socialism in Tübingen. From this working group, the learning and documentation center for National Socialism eV emerged in 2010 and became its chairman. He held this position until the beginning of 2016 when he declined to be re-elected for health reasons. In order not to leave the association without leadership, he took over the chairmanship provisionally until the next general assembly, which took place on April 28, 2017. But he remained an ordinary board member. The chairmanship of the association was burdensome because the programmatic name of the association was to be implemented: the association should find a seat that should also house an exhibition, a modern learning location and a documentation center with library. To do this, a precise concept had to be worked out, financial support had to be obtained and difficult and lengthy negotiations had to be conducted with the city administration. Although the city administration had agreed to hand over part of the basement of the former freight yard to the association, the area offered by the city at the beginning of 2017 is not enough to implement the concept developed by the association.

Hans-Otto Binder died suddenly as a result of a heart attack.

Publications

  • Co-author of: How Strangers Become Guests. For the 125th anniversary of the Tübingen Citizens and Tourist Association 1891 eV Tübingen: Tübingen Citizens and Tourist Association 1891 eV 2016.
  • Tübingen and the Swabian intellectual life. The Evangelical Abbey and the Wuerttemberg convent schools . In: Reinhold Weber (ed.): Places of remembrance in Baden-Württemberg . Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2012, ISBN 978-3-17-021739-3 , pp. 324-335.
  • Editor and co-author of: From the brown shirt to the white vest? Dealing with the past in Tübingen after 1945 . Tübingen: Kulturamt 2011, ISBN 978-3-941818-02-6 (= Kleine Tübinger Schriften, 38).
  • The territorial provisions of the Paris Preliminary Treaties and their longer-term consequences . In: Lothar Hilbert: The end of the First World War 90 years ago and the peace treaties of 1919 . Constance: Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge / Stuttgart: State Center for Civic Education Baden-Württemberg 2009, pp. 48–68.
  • Co-author of: The homecoming plaque as a stumbling block. How to deal with the Nazi past in Tübingen . Tübingen: Kulturamt 2007, ISBN 978-3-910090-76-7 (= Kleine Tübinger Schriften, 32).
  • with Wilfried Setzler and Benigna Schönhagen : A brief history of the city of Tübingen . Tübingen: Silberburg-Verlag 2006, ISBN 978-3-87407-666-1 ; 2nd edition 2013 ISBN 978-3-8425-1287-0 .
  • Tübingen as a university town in the Kingdom of Württemberg . In: Sönke Lorenz and Wilfried Setzler (ed.): Tubingensia , Ostfildern: Thorbecke 2008, ISBN 978-3-7995-5510-4 , pp. 537-558.
  • A journey through the history of the old Silcherschule . In: Hans-Otto Binder (ed.): With seriousness and love. On the history of the old Silcherschule in Tübingen. Book accompanying the exhibition on the history of the Old Silcherschule, September 23 to November 27, 2005 , Tübingen: Kulturamt 2005, ISBN 978-3-910090-65-1 , pp. 15–26 (= Tübingen catalogs, 72).
  • Co-author of: "Proletarians and Academics". The story of a not quite ordinary local club. 130 years of the SPD local association in Tübingen. Tübingen: SPD local association 2005.
  • Carlo Schmid (1886–1979) . In: Reinhold Weber (ed.): Political Heads from Southwest Germany , Stuttgart: Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung 2005, pp. 246-256 (= writings on political regional studies of Baden-Württemberg, 33).
  • Contributions in: Hirschau. Landscape, culture, history, economy , ed. by Hermann Endress. Tübingen: Cultural Office 2004.
  • Association of Friends of the City Museum Tübingen eV The first 20 years . Tübingen: Association of Friends of the Tübingen City Museum eV 2004.
  • Publisher: Knight's Cross and Star of David. Rommel and the Jewish school home in Herrlingen. About dealing with history on site . Tübingen: History seminar of the University of Tübingen o. J. [1995].
  • Co-author of: Women in the wars of the 20th century. Lectures on the occasion of the symposium 'Women in the Wars of the 20th Century', Tübingen 1993 . Constance: Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge / Stuttgart: State Center for Political Education 1994.
  • Poor care and welfare in the 18th century in Württemberg with special consideration of Tübingen . In: Helga Merkel (ed.): Between annoyance and recognition. Mathilde Weber . Tübingen: Stadtmuseum Tübingen 1993, ISBN 3-910090-07-9 , pp. 71–86 (= Tübingen catalogs, 39).
  • with Dieter Stievermann in connection with Volker Press and Kurt Diemer : History of the City of Biberach . Stuttgart: Theiss 1991, ISBN 978-3-8062-0564-0 .
  • The idea of ​​peace in the peace treaties of modern times , ed. from the State Center for Political Education. Villingen-Schwenningen: Neckar-Verlag 1987, ISBN 978-3-7883-0858-2 .
  • with Gottfried Schmitt with the assistance of Angela Würmlin: “Until everything is paid for”. From the protocol books of the Tübingen SPD 1894–1958 , ed. from the local association of the SPD in Tübingen, Tübingen o. J. [1985–1988] (= materials on a history of the Tübingen SPD, 1).
  • Empire and individual states during Bismarck's chancellorship 1871–1890. An Inquiry into the State Organization Problem . Tübingen: Mohr 1971, ISBN 978-3-16-832911-4 (= dissertation University of Tübingen 1971; Tübingen studies on history and politics, 29).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Manfred Hantke: A driving force

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Binder, Hans-Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, university professor and Tübingen local politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Balingen
DATE OF DEATH 29 May 2017
Place of death Tübingen