Hans Schneider (historian)

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Hans Schneider (born July 7, 1907 in Weil der Stadt , † November 25, 1994 in Stuttgart ) was a German historian and director of studies .

Life

Hans Schneider 1971

Hans Schneider was born in 1907 as the son of pastor Johannes Schneider in Weil der Stadt. From 1925 to 1930 he studied history and classical philology at the University of Tübingen, among other places . After his legal clerkship, he worked as a high school teacher in Ulm and Stuttgart.

In 1934 Schneider joined the NSDAP . In 1941 he was in Baiersbronn , where he was now active in higher education, "cultural director" of the local NSDAP group . For this reason, he was subject to automatic arrest when the German Reich collapsed in 1945 and was interned from 1945 to 1946, but is said to have been exonerated in an unspecified arbitration chamber proceedings .

After returning to school in Baden-Württemberg in 1948, he taught at various grammar schools, the longest from 1955 until his retirement in 1972 at the Freudenstadt grammar school , most recently as director of studies.

After his retirement in 1972, Schneider moved to Tübingen and in 1984 to Stuttgart, where he died in November 1994 after a long illness. He had been married since 1933 and had three children.

Reichstag fire research

In 1960 Schneider, who became a member of the SPD around the same time , received a research assignment from the Munich Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) on the Reichstag fire , in the context of which he was supposed to investigate the thesis previously put forward by Fritz Tobias that the Dutch councilor Marinus van der Lubbe was the the sole perpetrator in the Reichstag fire on February 27, 1933. As in 2004 in the anthology published by the Association of German Scientists “Neues vom Reichstagbrand? A documentation "discussed, Schneider listed in his 56-page manuscript a number of methodological and technical errors in Tobias' argumentation for the lone perpetrator thesis, from the misleading abbreviations in quotations, to the one-sided selection of the individual quotations supporting his assertion of the sole perpetrator van der Lubbe, to the partial exclusion of the facts questioning his thesis.

After the then scientific employee of the IfZ, Hans Mommsen , had recorded in a memo that "the institute has an interest in preventing the publication of Mr. Schneider's manuscript because [...] such a publication seems to be undesirable for general political reasons." the director of the institute, Helmut Krausnick Schneider, received the order under threat from Mommsen, the legal and official consequences mentioned in his memo, if Schneider should pursue the research project. 39 years later, the institute's management established that “Hans Mommsen's statements are completely unacceptable from a scientific point of view”, but that “Hans Schneider's rough manuscript” “was and is not ready for publication”.

Fonts

  • News from the Reichstag fire? In: Hans Schneider: News from the Reichstag fire? A documentation. A failure of German historiography . Berlin science publisher. Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-8305-0915-4 , pp. 53-179.

literature

  • Marcus Giebeler: The controversy over the Reichstag fire. Source problems and historiographical paradigms . Martin Meidenbauer, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89975-731-6 .
  • Hans Schneider: News from the Reichstag fire? A documentation. A failure of German historiography . With a foreword by Iring Fetscher and contributions by Dieter Deiseroth , Hersch Fischler and Wolf-Dieter Narr . Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2004. ISBN 3-8305-0915-4 (Series Science in Responsibility, published by the VDW - Association of German Scientists; with Hans Schneider's curriculum vitae on p. 193).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Schneider: News from the Reichstag fire? A documentation. A failure of German historiography . Berlin 2004, p. 193.
  2. ↑ Marcus Giebeler: The controversy over the Reichstag fire. Source problems and historiographical paradigms . Munich 2010, p. 71 ff.
  3. ↑ Hersch Fischler: Hans Schneider's unfinished manuscript “News from the Reichstag fire?” An inconvenient research report and its suppression in the Munich Institute for Contemporary History . In: Hans Schneider: News from the Reichstag fire? A documentation. A failure of German historiography . Berlin 2004, pp. 37-52 ( online ); Marcus Giebeler: The controversy over the Reichstag fire. Source problems and historiographical paradigms . Munich 2010, p. 73.
  4. ↑ Memorandum of conversation with lawyer Dr. Delp regarding the legal situation in the Schneider affair . In: Archive of the Institute for Contemporary History, ZS / A7, Bd. 3 / I. Facsimile print in: Hans Schneider: News from the Reichstag fire? A documentation. A failure of German historiography . Berlin 2004, p. 231 ff.
  5. ^ Letter from Helmut Krausnick to Hans Schneider dated November 30, 1962 . In: Archives of the Institute for Contemporary History, ZS / A7, Bd. 3 / II. Facsimile print in: Hans Schneider: News from the Reichstag fire? A documentation. A failure of German historiography . Berlin 2004, pp. 235–241.
  6. ↑ On the controversy over the Reichstag fire . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 49, 2001, issue 3, p. 555 ( online , PDF, 375 kB).
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and director of studies
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Because of the city
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1994
Place of death Stuttgart