Hans Uebersberger

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Hans Uebersberger (1910)

Hans Uebersberger (born June 25, 1877 in Klagenfurt ; † July 8, 1962 in Munich ) was an Austro-German Eastern European historian with professorships in Vienna , Breslau and Berlin .

Live and act

Uebersberger studied history at the University of Vienna from 1895 to 1899 . Through the mediation of Prince Franz von Liechtenstein , then the Austro-Hungarian ambassador to Russia , around 1900 he was the first German-speaking historian to conduct archival research in Moscow and Saint Petersburg . In 1906 he became a private lecturer, in 1910 an associate professor, and in 1915 a full professor of Eastern European history at the University of Vienna. He played a key role in setting up the seminar for Eastern European history, founded in 1907 and sponsored by Prince Liechtenstein. His main research interests were the history of Russia and Poland in modern times.

During the First World War , Uebersberger was an advocate of a Central Europe dominated by Germany, alongside Richard Kralik , Rudolf von Scala , Heinrich Friedjung , Eugen von Philippovich and Michael Hainisch .

He was a member of the secretly operating anti-Semitic group of professors “ Bärenhöhle ” at the Faculty of Philosophy, which prevented successful academic careers for Jews in Vienna. In 1930/31 he was rector of the University of Vienna . During this time he was able to further expand the seminar for Eastern European history at the university, making the library of the seminar the largest specialist library for Eastern European history outside of Russia at the time.

In the interwar period , Uebersberger tried in vain to play an important advisory role for the Austrian government. His positive attitude towards National Socialism - he had been a member of the NSDAP since 1933 - cost him his professorship in Vienna, but made it possible for him to acquire the chair for Eastern European history in Breslau in 1934 . From 1935 to 1945 he held the professorship at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , as the successor to Otto Hoetzsch , who was forced to retire . As a “staunch National Socialist”, Uebersberger “willingly took over influential functions in the apparatus of the regime”.

In June 1940, after the divorce of his first marriage, Uebersberger married his former student and colleague at the time, the historian and writer Hedwig Fleischhacker (1906–1978). At the end of 1944 he had fled to relatives in Geinberg in the Innviertel with his wife and three-year-old son Alexander . After the war ended in 1945, he was released in Berlin as politically charged.

Although politically discredited, his pension entitlements were recognized on his return to Germany. Since 1950 he has taught at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich, from 1958 he also had a teaching position in Göttingen . From 1959 until his death in 1962 he also worked as an emeritus at the University of Erlangen . He was a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . His grave is in Geinberg, Upper Austria. The estate, together with that of his wife, was initially in the Eastern European Institute and its successor, the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies , before it was handed over to the Humboldt University archive in 2019 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Austria and Russia since the end of the 15th century. Braumüller, Vienna 1906. ( digitized version )
  • Russia's Orient Policy in the Last Two Centuries. At the instigation of his Highness Prince Franz von und zu Liechtenstein. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1913. ( digitized version )
  • Russia. Heymann, Berlin 1918.
  • with Ludwig Bittner (ed.): Austria-Hungary's foreign policy from the Bosnian crisis in 1908 to the outbreak of war in 1914. Diplomatic files from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Commission for Modern History, 9 volumes, Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna / Leipzig 1930.
  • The Salonika Trial. German translation based on the original Serbian text checked by the Oriental Seminar in Berlin. Working Committee of German Associations, Berlin 1933.
  • Russia's Territorial Development and Nationality Policy . Korn, Breslau 1942. Was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the war .
  • Austria between Russia and Serbia. On the South Slav question and the origin of the First World War. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne 1958.

literature

  • Arnold Suppan , Marija Wakounig: Hans Uebersberger (1877–1962). In: Arnold Suppan, Marija Wakounig, Georg Kastner (Hrsg.): Eastern European history in Vienna. 100 years of research and teaching at the university. Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2007, ISBN 978-3-7065-4525-9 , pp. 91–165.
  • Marija Wakounig: Hans Uebersberger (1877–1962). A tightrope walk: (S) a career in the focus of private and public-professional tensions . In: Karel Hruza (ed.): Austrian historians. CVs and careers 1900–1945 , Vol. 3, Vienna a. a .: Böhlau 2019, ISBN 978-3-205-20801-3 , pp. 157-184.

Web links

Commons : Hans Uebersberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walther Killy: Dictionary of German Biography. Volume 10: Thibaut-Zycha. Walter de Gruyter, 2006, ISBN 3110961164 , p. 130.
  2. ^ Herbert Dachs: Austrian History and Connection 1918–1930. Geyer Edition, Salzburg 1974, p. 141.
  3. ^ A b Günther Kronenbitter: War in Peace. The leadership of the Austro-Hungarian army and the great power politics of Austria-Hungary 1906–1914. Oldenbourg, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56700-4 , p. 225.
  4. ^ Klaus Meyer: Eastern European History. In: Reimer Hansen (ed.): History in Berlin in the 19th and 20th centuries. Personalities and institutions. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-11-012841-1 , pp. 533-570, here: pp. 565f.
  5. ↑ Richard Georg Plaschka, Horst Haselsteiner (Ed.): Nationalism, State Authority, Resistance. Aspects of national and social development in East Central and Southeast Europe. Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-486-52831-9 , p. 399.
  6. ^ Kurt Ehrenberg: Othenio Abel's life path, using autobiographical records. Kurt Ehrenberg, Vienna 1975, p. 85 f., Evaluated by Klaus Taschwer: Secret thing Bärenhöhle. How an anti-Semitic professor cartel from the University of Vienna expelled Jewish and left-wing researchers after 1918. In: Regina Fritz, Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, Jana Starek (Ed.): Alma mater antisemitica: Academic milieu, Jews and anti-Semitism at the universities of Europe between 1918 and 1939. Volume 3, new academic press, Vienna 2016, p. 221– 242, here p. 230 ( online ).
  7. ^ Rectors of the University of Vienna in the 20th and 21st centuries
  8. ^ Andreas Kappeler : Eastern Europe and Eastern European history from a Zurich, Cologne and Vienna perspective. In: Dittmar Dahlmann (Ed.) One Hundred Years of Eastern European History. Past, present and future. Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3515085289 , pp. 107–119, here: p. 107. Werner Weilguni: Austrian-Yugoslavian cultural relations. 1945-1989. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3702802975 , p. 101.
  9. ^ Yearbook for the History of Central and Eastern Germany . 44 (1996), p. 215.
  10. ↑ Heike Anke Berger: German historians 1920–1970. History between science and politics. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38443-6 , p. 277.
  11. ^ Arnold Suppan, Maria Wakounig: Hans Uebersberger (1877–1962). In: Arnold Suppan, Marija Wakounig, Georg Kastner (Hrsg.): Eastern European history in Vienna. 100 years of research and teaching at the university. Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2007, ISBN 978-3-7065-4525-9 , pp. 91–165, here: pp. 159ff.
  12. ^ Walter M. Markov, Fritz Klein: Basic features of the Balkan diplomacy. A contribution to the history of the relationships of dependency. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3933240972 , p. XXXV.
  13. ↑ a b Wolfram Fischer (Ed.): Exodus of Sciences from Berlin. Questions - Results - Desiderata Developments before and after 1933. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3110139456 , p. 47.
  14. ↑ Heike Anke Berger: German historians 1920–1970. History between science and politics. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38443-6 , p. 278.
  15. ^ Arnold Suppan, Maria Wakounig: Hans Uebersberger (1877–1962). In: Arnold Suppan, Marija Wakounig, Georg Kastner (Hrsg.): Eastern European history in Vienna. 100 years of research and teaching at the university. Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2007, ISBN 978-3-7065-4525-9 , pp. 91–165, here: p. 164.
  16. ^ Archives and legacies of the IOS library
  17. ^ Letter U, list of literature to be discarded. Published by the German Administration for Public Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone. Second addendum as of September 1, 1948 (Berlin: Deutscher Zentralverlag, 1948). Retrieved June 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Uebersberger, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Übersberger, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1962
Place of death Munich