Hans Rall

Hans Rall (born February 6, 1912 in Frankenthal ; † March 11, 1998 in Munich ) was a German historian and archivist .

The son of a public prosecutor at the Bavarian regional court attended the Ludwigs-Gymnasium. He then studied history, historical auxiliary sciences, Middle Latin philology and German studies from 1930 to 1935 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU). In 1935 he did his doctorate with Paul Lehmann with the thesis Contemporary History Traits in the Image of the Past by Medieval, especially Middle-Latin writers . In this work, Rall gave an overview of the historiography of the Latin Middle Ages from the Carolingian period to the late Middle Ages. From 1935 he wrote historical essays for the “ Weisse Blätter ”. From 1935 to 1938, Rall completed his training for the higher archival service in Bavaria and passed the major state examination. This was followed by employment at the Bavarian State Archives in Würzburg . In the interwar period he belonged to the Catholic-conservative group around Max Buchner , Ernst Pfeiffer , Reinhold Schneider and Anton Ritthaler , who campaigned for the restoration of the monarchy. After the outbreak of war he was first in the air force meteorology and later he served in an air force storm battalion. In autumn 1944 he was taken prisoner by the Americans in Lorraine.

At the instigation of Max Spindler , Rall became an assistant at the University of Munich (LMU). In 1947 he was appointed to the State Archives Council and after his habilitation received the venia legendi for middle and modern history. His habilitation thesis Kurbayern in the last epoch of the old imperial constitution 1745–1801 is the most important work of the 1950s on Bavarian constitutional and administrative history for the second half of the 18th century. Rall taught as a professor for middle and modern history at the LMU Munich. Rall was director of the Secret House Archives department in the Bavarian Main State Archives . Since 1953 Rall was a member of the Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and was its second chairman from 1973 to 1983. His main research interests included the Bavarian kings of the 19th century, especially Maximilian II and Ludwig II. His biography of Wilhelm II, presented in 1995, is a very one-sided presentation in favor of the emperor, which does not take into account the research status of the last few decades. For Fritz Fellner the book was "a late bloom of monarchist historiography".

Fonts

• Wilhelm II. A biography. Styria, Graz et al. 1995, ISBN 3-222-12182-6 .
• The Wittelsbachers in pictures of life. Styria, Graz et al. 1986, ISBN 3-7917-1035-4 .
• Chronological tables on the history of Bavaria and the territories linked to or absorbed into Bavaria. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-7991-5728-X .
• King Ludwig II and Bismarck's struggle for Bavaria 1870/71. Shown after evaluating unknown English, Prussian and Bavarian sources (= series of publications on Bavarian regional history. Vol. 67). Beck, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-406-10467-3 .
• Kurbayern in the last epoch of the old imperial constitution 1745–1801 (= series of publications on Bavarian regional history. Vol. 45). Beck, Munich 1952.
• Wittelsbach life pictures from Emperor Ludwig to the present day. Guide through the Munich princely tombs with a list of all Wittelsbach burials and tombs. Wittelsbach Compensation Fund, Munich 1979.

literature

• Wilhelm Volkert : Obituary by Hans Rall (1912–1998). In: Journal for Bavarian State History , Vol. 61 (1998), pp. 847–850 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

1. ↑ See the issues Oct. 1935, May / June 1939, Nov./Dec. 1940, May / April 1941, Aug. 1941 and Jan./Feb./ March 1943.
2. ^ Review by John CG Röhl in: Historische Zeitschrift Volume 264 (1997), pp. 240–242, here: p. 240.
3. ↑ See the review by John CG Röhl in: Historische Zeitschrift Volume 264 (1997), pp. 240–242.
4. ↑ See the review by Fritz Fellner in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung . 105: 258-259 (1997).