Hans Erich Bull

Hans-Erich Stier (born May 25, 1902 in Rostock ; † January 28, 1979 in Münster ) was a German ancient historian and CDU politician.

Professional background

After graduating from high school, Stier studied history and classical philology in Berlin from 1921 to 1928 . His academic teacher was Eduard Meyer . In 1927 he received his doctorate in Berlin with the work Nomos Basileus. Studies on the history of the nomos idea mainly in the 5th and 4th centuries BC Chr . Then he was a research fellow in Egypt until 1928 . In 1930 Stier completed his habilitation in Berlin with the thesis The Panhellenic Idea and Isokrates . The work as a whole remained unprinted. Your first part appeared in 1945 revised as the basis and meaning of Greek history . In Berlin he was a private lecturer until 1935 and in 1936 he became an associate professor for ancient history in Münster. He then represented the subject there as a full professor until 1970.

Scientific activity

Taurus was scientifically influenced mainly by Eduard Meyer and the philosopher Eduard Spranger . He felt that he belonged to Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff's research direction. His book Basics and the Meaning of Greek History begins with an overview of the image of Greece in research and culture, then uses the “Hellenic name” as a guide to the unity of Greek history and its epochs, to end with a discussion of its “meaning” : "Like Greek culture and art [...] Greek history reveals to us a life that corresponds to our most secret essence - out of the spirit of freedom." Later, too, he mainly worked on the historical significance of Hellenism. He wrote numerous writings on Greek and Roman history, whereby he tried above all to draw lessons for the present. So he closes his investigation into the decline of the Hellenistic world and the rise of Rome with the warning: “We hear a warning from history to Europe. You can ignore it, you can respect it - above all you should be grateful for the help that it, rightly understood, can give to our politics. ”In the long term, Stier made only a small impression in his subject, despite extensive publication activity rarely cited today.

In 1945 he was a member of the denazification committee of the University of Münster . In terms of science policy, Stier was one of the initiators to expand the working group for research in North Rhine-Westphalia (later the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences ) to include the integration of the humanities and theology .

politics

Politically, Stier had been a member of the CDU since 1945 and was deputy chairman of the party in Münster from 1946 to 1954. He was also active in the Protestant working group of the Union. Later he was also a board member of the party in Westphalia-Lippe and a member of the state presidium. In the federal party he was chairman of the cultural policy committee.

In 1946 Stier was a member of the advisory provincial council for Westphalia . He was then a member of the appointed state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia . He then remained a member of parliament for various constituencies until 1970. From 1947 to 1966 he was deputy chairman of the culture committee.

From July 1955 to 1956 he was a member of the personnel appraisal committee for the new Bundeswehr .

Fonts (selection)

• From the world of the Pergamon Altar: Birth, Bloom and Fate of Hellenistic Culture. Keller, Berlin 1932.
• German history in the context of world history. From the beginning to the present. German Book Community, Berlin 1934, 1958.
• Foundations and meaning of Greek history. Cotta, Stuttgart 1945. Reprinted by Magnus-Verlag 1984 ISBN 978-3-88400-169-1 .
• The spiritual foundations of western culture. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1947.
• Classic democracy. West German Publishing House, Cologne 1954.
• Rome's rise to world power and the Greek world. West German Publishing House, Cologne 1957.
• The historical meaning of the Hellenic name. West German publishing house, Cologne 1970.
• The fall of classical democracy. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1971.
• World conquest and world peace in the work of Alexander d [es] gr [ossen]. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1973.
• Small fonts. Hain, Meisenheim am Glan 1979.
• as publisher (with Ernst Kirsten , Wilhelm Wühr et al.): Westermann's great atlas of world history: prehistory - antiquity - middle ages - modern times. Braunschweig 1969.

literature

• Ancient and Universal History. Festschrift for Hans Erich Stier's 70th birthday on May 25, 1972. Edited by Ruth Stiehl and Gustav Adolf Lehmann . Aschendorff, Münster 1972.
• Hans Erich Bull. Commemoration. Aschendorff, Münster Westf. 1980. (Writings of the Society for the Promotion of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität zu Münster, vol. 68) Contains memorial speeches, laudation and lecture.
• Beat Näf : Stier: The contribution of classical democracy to Europe . In: ders .: From Pericles to Hitler? The Athenian democracy and the ancient German history up to 1945 , Lang, Bern a. a. 1986, pp. 221-230 (European University Writings: Series 3, History and its Auxiliary Sciences, Volume 308) ISBN 3-261-03595-1
• Karl Christ : Hellas. Greek history and German history. Beck, Munich 1999, pp. 274-275.
• Alois Vogel: 60 years of the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament. The state and its representatives (= writings of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. Vol. 17, ZDB -ID 1392309-2 ). State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf 2006, p. 612.
• Bernd Haunfelder : North Rhine-Westphalia. Country and people. 1946-2006. A biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-402-06615-7 , pp. 450f.
• Bull, Hans-Erich:  Bull, Hans-Erich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 31, Bautz, Nordhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-88309-544-8 , Sp. 1299-1305.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Erich Stier in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hans Erich Stier at the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bertram Haller: Bibliography Hans Erich Stier , in: Antike und Universalgeschichte. Festschrift for Hans Erich Stier's 70th birthday on May 25, 1972. Edited by Ruth Stiehl and Gustav Adolf Lehmann . Aschendorff, Münster, 1972, pp. 443–464, here p. 451.
2. ↑ Here you would like a receipt.
3. ↑ Hans Erich Stier: Foundations and meaning of Greek history. Cotta, Stuttgart 1945, p. 365.
4. ↑ Hans Erich Stier: Rome's rise to world power and the Greek world, p. 202.