Hans Peter Mensing

Hans Peter Mensing (* 1942 ) is a German historian who is considered an Adenauer expert.

He studied history , German , Scandinavian studies , philosophy and political science at the Universities of Kiel and Uppsala . In 1979 he was with the work manifestations of Swedish social policy in the late 19th century in Kiel doctorate . From 1980 to 2007 he worked for the Federal Chancellor Adenauer House Foundation in Bad Honnef-Rhöndorf, first as a research assistant and from 1988 as head of the editing department. Mensing is a member of the editorial board of the Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation in Stuttgart. Since 2008 he has been deputy chairman of the home and history association Herrschaft Löwenburg .

Fonts

• From Adenauer's estate. Contributions to the biography and politics of the first Federal Chancellor. Arranged: Benedikt Praxenthaler. SH, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-89498-186-0 .
• Resi Schlief - Adenauer's support from Unkel. Bouvier, Bonn 2013, ISBN 978-3-416-03371-8 .

Rhöndorf edition

Hans Peter Mensing was the editor of the "Rhöndorfer Ausgabe" published since 1983, in which letters from Konrad Adenauer and other documents about Adenauer are published. The edition is published by Ferdinand Schöningh Paderborn.

• Letters 1945–1947. 1983, ISBN 3-88680-071-7 .
• Letters 1947–1949. 1984, ISBN 3-88680-073-3 .
• Letters 1949–1951. 1985, ISBN 3-88680-075-X .
• Letters 1951–1953. 1987, ISBN 3-88680-077-6 .
• Letters 1953–1955. 1995, ISBN 3-88680-750-9 .
• Letters 1955–1957. 1998, ISBN 3-88680-654-5 .
• Letters 1957-1959. 2000, ISBN 3-506-70510-5 .
• Letters 1959–1961. 2004, ISBN 3-506-70128-2 .
• Letters 1961–1963. 2006, ISBN 3-506-75742-3 .

• Adenauer in the Third Reich. 1991, ISBN 3-88680-415-1 .
• Tea talks 1961–1963. 1992, ISBN 3-88680-067-9 .
• Konrad Adenauer. The last years of life.
  Volume 1: October 1963 - September 1965. 2009, ISBN 978-3-506-76776-9 .
  Volume 2: September 1965 - April 1967. 2009, ISBN 978-3-506-76776-9 .

Further edits

• For our fatherland. Theodor Heuss , Konrad Adenauer: The exchange of letters 1948–1963. Goldmann, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-442-12841-2 .
• In private. Adenauer, Heuss: Conversations from the founding years 1949–1959. Siedler, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88680-686-3 .
• Konrad Adenauer in correspondence with refugees and displaced persons. Cultural Foundation of the German Displaced Persons, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-88557-186-2 .
• Friendship in difficult times. Konrad Adenauer's letters to Dora Pferdmenges 1933–1949. Bouvier, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-416-03173-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Peter Mensing in the catalog of the German National Library
• Roswitha Oschmann: Resi Schlief was Adenauer's Rhöndorfer “opposition”. Interview with Hans Peter Mensing about the book Resi Schlief - Adenauer's support from Unkel. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis . January 9, 2014.
• Roswitha Oschmann: The historian about the work on the Geschichtsweg in Rommersdorf. Interview with Hans Peter Mensing. In: General-Anzeiger, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis. October 9, 2014 (with personal details).