Hans Fenske

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Hans Fenske (born May 24, 1936 in Geesthacht ) is a German historian . He was a professor for modern and contemporary history at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

Life

Hans Fenske was born in 1936 as the second son of a plumber and his wife in Geesthacht; his family has West Prussian and East Frisian roots. After attending school in Geesthacht and graduating from high school in 1956, Fenske studied history , geography and political science from 1956 to 1963 at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg . From 1963 to 1971 he was Georg Smolka's Rector's Assistant at what was then the University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer . In 1965 he was at Erich Hassinger at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Freiburg with a thesis conservatism and right-wing extremism in Bavaria after 1918 to Dr. phil. PhD .

From 1969 to 1974 he worked as a lecturer and research assistant at the International and Interpreting Institute of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germersheim . In 1971 he completed his habilitation with Erich Hassinger at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Freiburg with the thesis Electoral Law and Party System. A contribution to German party history . In 1973 he became a private lecturer and co-director at the history seminar. In 1977/78 and 1991/92 he was managing director. From 1977 to 2001 he was Professor of Modern and Modern History there. During this time, teaching positions took him to Saarbrücken , Speyer, Basel and Leipzig . In 1988/89 he was dean of the Philosophical Faculty IV. His research interests include constitutional and administrative history, the history of political ideas and the regional history of Baden-Württemberg and the Palatinate . His academic students include: a. Ernst Otto Bräunche, Tobias C. Bringmann , Hermann Joseph Hiery , Heiger Ostertag , Rüdiger Overmans and Karl-Ludwig Sommer.

Fenske is a member of the Society for Historical Migration Research , the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History , the Hambach Society , the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg , the Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science, the Association of Historians in Germany and the Association for Constitutional History .

Fenske published numerous books on German history and gave a. a. for the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (WBG) source volumes of the Freiherr-vom-Stein memory edition . Furthermore, he is u. a. Contributor to the Historical Lexicon of Bavaria and the Handbook of Baden-Württemberg History .

Fenske is married to a high school teacher and has two children.

reception

Fenske's book The Beginning of the End of Old Europe (2013) was published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung by Hans-Christof Kraus as an answer to the "legend that the Versailles peace was in its harshness with the German-Russian peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk (March 1918) comparable ”, and praised as a“ very concise description of the unsuccessful German peace efforts before 1918 ”. Benjamin Hasselhorn also recognized the volume positively in the historical magazine . In a sehepunkte review by Wolfgang Elz , however, the book was criticized as a “one-sided selection” without “promoting historical knowledge”. The selection guided in the “interest of the thesis” blames Russia and Serbia for the First World War and, for example, suppresses the German blank check .

Awards

  • 2011: Palatinate Prize for Palatinate History and Folklore of the Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science.

Fonts (selection)

  • Conservatism and right-wing radicalism in Bavaria after 1918. Gehlen, Bad Homburg vdH / Berlin / Zurich 1969, DNB 456607587 (revision of the dissertation, Freiburg i. B., February 26, 1965, Philosophical Faculty, DNB 482059680 ).
  • Suffrage and party system. A contribution to German party history. Athenäum-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1972, DNB 730045765 (also: Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Philos. Fac., Habil.-Schr. 1971).
  • Structural problems in German party history. Suffrage and party system from Vormärz to today (= Fischer Athenaeum pocket books. Volume 6015). Athenäum-Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-8072-6015-3 .
  • Pre- March and Revolution 1840–1849 (= Freiherr vom Stein memorial edition. Sources on the political thought of Germans in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume 4). Edited by Hans Fenske. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1976, ISBN 3-534-04838-5 .
  • The way to founding an empire 1850–1870 (= Freiherr vom Stein memorial edition. Sources on the political thought of Germans in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume 5). Edited by Hans Fenske. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1977, ISBN 3-534-04839-3 .
  • German constitutional history. From the North German Confederation to today (= contributions to contemporary history. Volume 6). Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-7678-0539-1 (2nd new edition 1984, 3rd new edition 1991, UTB 1994, 4th new edition 2006).
  • The Liberal Southwest. Freedom and democratic traditions in Baden and Württemberg 1790–1933 (= writings on political regional studies of Baden-Württemberg. Volume 5). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-17-007089-4 .
  • Bureaucracy in Germany. From the late empire to the present (= contributions to contemporary history. Volume 15). Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-7678-0621-5 .
  • The administration of Pomerania 1815–1945. Structure and yield (= research on Pomeranian history. Volume 26). Böhlau, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-412-13892-4 .
  • 175 years of the Baden Constitution. Edited by the Karlsruhe City Archives . Badenia-Verlag, Karlsruhe 1993, ISBN 3-7617-0074-1 .
  • German party history. From the beginning to the present. Schöningh, Paderborn 1994, ISBN 3-8252-1824-4 .
  • The modern constitutional state. A comparative history from its inception to the 20th century. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2001, ISBN 3-506-72432-0 ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fdigi20.digitale-sammlungen.de%2Fde%2Ffs1%2Fobject%2Fdisplay%2Fbsb00044216_00001.html~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~ SZ% 3D ~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D ).
  • Prussianism and Liberalism. Essays on Prussian and German history of the 19th and 20th centuries . Edited by Hermann Joseph Hiery . Röll, Dettelbach 2002, ISBN 3-89754-196-3 .
  • German history. From the end of the Middle Ages to today. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2002, Primus 2002.
  • Friedrich of Holstein. Foreign politicians with a sense of proportion (= Friedrichsruher contributions. Volume 39). Otto von Bismarck Foundation , Friedrichsruh 2009, ISBN 978-3-933418-42-5 .
  • Baron von Stein. Reformer and moralist. WBG, Darmstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-534-25162-9 .
  • The beginning of the end of old Europe. The allied refusal to hold peace talks 1914–1919. Olzog, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7892-8348-2 .
  • On the way to democracy. Striving for German Unity 1792–1871. Lau-Verlag, Reinbek 2018, ISBN 978-3-95768-184-3 .

literature

  • Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. 41st edition 2002/2003. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2002, ISBN 3-7950-2034-4 , p. 345.
  • Ernst Otto Bräunche, Hermann Hiery (ed.): History as responsibility. Festschrift for Hans Fenske on his 60th birthday. Wolf-Fachverlag, Karlsruhe 1996, ISBN 3-87213-076-5 .
  • Bernd Goldmann, Henner Grube, Joachim Hempel (Hrsg.): Literary Rhineland-Palatinate today. An author's lexicon. v. Hase & Koehler, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7758-1182-6 , p. 72.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Hans-Christof Kraus : Fenske, Hans: The beginning of the end of old Europe. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 30, 2014, p. 6.
  2. Benjamin Hasselhorn : Hans Fenske, The beginning of the end of old Europe. The allied refusal to hold peace talks 1914–1919. Munich, Olzog 2013. In: Historical magazine . 298 (2014) 3, pp. 852-853.
  3. Wolfgang Elz : Review of: Hans Fenske: The beginning of the end of old Europe. The allied refusal to hold peace talks 1914–1919. Olzog Verlag, Munich 2013. In: sehepunkte. 14 (2014), No. 2 [15. February 2014] ( sehepunkte.de [accessed October 1, 2019]).
  4. Awards. In: pgfw.hypotheses.org, accessed November 17, 2017.