Hans Goldschmidt (historian)

Julius Hans Goldschmidt (born May 22, 1879 in Hamburg ; died November 6, 1940 in London ) was a German historian .

Goldschmidt, son of the Jewish businessman Max Goldschmidt, studied history at the University of Freiburg with Georg von Below and at the University of Göttingen with Max Lehmann . After completing his doctorate , he worked in Freiburg on the Baden state parliament files and at the German Institute for International Affairs in Stuttgart and at the Institute for World Economy in Kiel . Since 1909 he was married to Sophie Clara Bickel, daughter of a Protestant pastor, with whom he had two sons, the Germanist Ulrich Karl and the educational researcher Dietrich Goldschmidt , as well as a daughter. From 1923 he worked at the Reichsarchiv in Potsdam . In 1931 his main work, Das Reich und Preußen im Kampf für dieführung ( The Reich and Prussia in the Struggle for Leadership) was published , in which he advocated the thesis that Otto von Bismarck had strived for unitarianism in the sense of Prussian supremacy within the framework of a formally federal concept. Goldschmidt, who was regarded as a nationally minded Bismarck expert with a liberal-conservative outlook, emigrated to London in 1939 , where he died on November 6, 1940 in a German air raid.

Fonts

• A century of German history. Reich thought and empire 1815–1919. 150 facsimile documents and files from the holdings primarily of the Reich Chancellery, the Foreign Office, the Reich Ministry of the Interior, etc. Edited by Hans Goldschmidt, Hans Kaiser, Hans Thimme . With a historical introduction by Ernst Müsebeck , Reimar Hobbing, Berlin 1928.
• Bismarck and the peace negotiators 1871. The Franco-German peace negotiations in Brussels and Frankfurt 1871. De Gruyter, Berlin 1929.
• The Reich and Prussia in the struggle for leadership. From Bismarck to 1918. C. Heymann, Berlin 1931.
• The German idea of ​​the Reich (unitarianism, federalism, dualism) 1860–1932. Teubner, Leipzig and Berlin 1933.

literature

• Wilhelm Schüssler :  Goldschmidt, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 614 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Carl-Hellmut Wagemann: Obituary for Dietrich Goldschmidt . In: Das Hochschulwesen 46 (1998) Heft 4, pp. 229-230 (this obituary about the son Dietrich Goldschmidt also contains information about the father).

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Goldschmidt in the catalog of the German National Library