Hans von Rimscha

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Hans von Rimscha (born February 25, jul. / 9. March  1899 greg. In Riga ; † 1. April 1987 in Erlangen ) was a Baltic German teacher , journalist and historian .

Life

Hans von Rimscha came from a German-Baltic family . His father Robert von Rimscha worked as a doctor, his mother Marie, née Kuntzendorf, was a granddaughter of the Russian Field Marshal Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly . After attending high school in Riga , von Rimscha studied history at the University of Dorpat , where he became a member of the Baltic Corporation Fraternitas Rigensis Dorpat . In 1918 he volunteered for the Baltic State Army . From 1920 he continued his studies at the universities of Göttingen , Breslau and Tübingen continued and received his doctorate in 1924 in Jena to the Dr. phil.

Hans von Rimscha began his professional career as a high school teacher (1925–1929) at the State German Gymnasium in Riga and as a private lecturer (1927–1933) at the Rigas Herder Institute . From 1929 he was a foreign editor and political editorialist for the minority newspaper Rigasche Rundschau . Under Paul Schiemann's aegis, he became an employee of the Association of German Nationalities in Europe and a member of the European Nationalities Congress .

In 1933, Schiemann and Rimscha were released from the Rigaschen Rundschau under pressure from the National Socialists . From October 1933, von Rimscha was editor of the newspaper Riga am Sonntag (later renamed Rigasche Post ).

In the course of the resettlement of the Baltic Germans agreed in the Hitler-Stalin Pact , Hans von Rimscha also left Latvia in December 1939. First he worked at a party newspaper in Hamburg, then at the NS-Gauverlag Wartheland in Posen and the East German Observer, which appeared there, as well as the NS monthly magazine Europäische Revue .

On January 21, 1945, he and around 70,000 German residents of the city of Posen fled from the advancing Red Army . He found his first place to stay in Coburg and later moved to Erlangen. In 1946 Hans von Rimscha received his professional re-admission and in 1947 a teaching position for Eastern European history at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen , from which he was appointed professor for Eastern European and modern history in 1951. Among other things, he was a member of the Baltic Historical Commission , board member of the Baltic Philistine Association (1954–1962) and chairman of the German-Latvian Association in the Baltic Society in Germany (1959–1973).

Journalism

In the articles in the Rigaschen Post , von Rimscha implemented Schiemann's maxim, who called for a far-reaching and loving treatment of the politics of the state - the home country of the minority. For this purpose, z. For example, reference can be made to the article “Rebuilding the State” and the lead article “Active Foreign Policy in the Renewed Latvia”. Both in the Rigaschen Post and in other publications, he continued to follow Schieman's view of national politics , taking into account the rights of minorities. He publicly described “political neutrality as political indifference and irresponsibility”, called for the “maintenance of the German claim to leadership in Europe” and saw “the strength and well-being of the German Reich as a guarantee for the strength and well-being of all of Europe”.

In 1940 Hans von Rimscha wrote the brochure The Task and Achievement of the Baltic Germans, Volkstum im Kampf as a report on "the resettled people". At the East German Observer he worked in the archive and later as a member of the NSDAP in the editorial office, where he also wrote leading articles, e.g. B. on August 24, 1944. At the same time, Rimscha wrote in the "European Review", which, on behalf of the Propaganda Ministry, propagated the National Socialist European idea . In the autumn of 1944 he was commissioned by the “Working Group to Research the Bolshevik World Danger” to write a scientific paper on the subject of “The Policy of the Bolsheviks against the Mensheviks”.

In the Federal Republic of Germany he reported extensively on his work for the Rigaschen Post , the East German Observer , the European Review and his work as a scientific expert on behalf of the above-mentioned working groups. The focus of his publications after 1945 was the “History of Russia”, which was revised, supplemented and published several times.

Others

  • He went on study trips to the Soviet Union , the Balkans and Turkey . Because he gave his report on the USSR trip the diplomatically chosen title "The Red Riddle", Rimscha was nicknamed "The Red Riddle" by colleagues, which he liked to wear until the end of his life.
  • After the Second World War, his works were banned in the GDR and included in the list of literature to be sorted out.
  • One of his grandchildren is the diplomat Robert von Rimscha .

Works

Books

  • The Russian Civil War and Russian Emigration 1917–1921. Frommann, Jena 1924.
  • Russia beyond the borders 1924–1926. A contribution to Russian post-war history. Frommann, Jena 1927.
  • In the red realm of riddles. Soviet Russian sketches. B. Lamey, Riga 1927.
  • The establishment of the state of Latvia and the Baltic Germans. Plates, Riga 1939.
  • The Gracchen. Character image of a revolution and its characters. Winkler, Munich 1947.
  • Dostoyevsky - an antipode of Goethe. Veste, Coburg 1949
  • Russians against Bolsheviks. The development of Russian emigration after the Second World War. Separate count, Frankfurt am Main 1952.
  • The resettlement of the Baltic Germans from Latvia in 1939. A consideration. From Hirschheydt, Hannover-Döhren 1957.
  • History of Russia. Rheinische Verlags-Anstalt, Wiesbaden 1960.
  • Katharina II. From the Prussian general daughter to the Empress of Russia. Musterschmidt, Göttingen a. a. 1961.
  • Baltic fellowship. The student corporations of the Baltic Germans, Estonians and Latvians then and now. Baltic Society in Germany, Munich 1968.

Publications

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the baptismal register of Riga Cathedral ( Latvian Rīgas Doms )
  2. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Hans von Rimscha. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  3. ↑ Album Fratrum Rigensium, Hechthausen 1981. No. 1181.
  4. ↑ Michael Garleff: Hans von Rimscha for his 85th birthday. Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe 32 (1984), ISSN  0021-4019 , pp. 631-642.es
  5. ↑ Hans von Rimscha: The synchronization of the Rigaschen Rundschau in 1933. In: Baltische Hefte, 1978, Issue 21, pp. 178-197.
  6. ^ Helmut Kause: Paul Schiemann's journalistic resistance to National Socialism in the German ethnic groups . In: Michael Garleff (Ed.): Baltic Germans, Weimar Republic and Third Reich. Volume 1. Böhlau Verlag, 2001, p. 213.
  7. ^ John Hiden: Defender of Minorities, Paul Schiemann 1876-1944 . Hurst and Company, London 2004, ISBN 1-85065-751-3 , pp. 201 .
  8. ^ Helmut Kause: Paul Schiemann's journalistic resistance to National Socialism in the German ethnic groups . In: Michael Garleff (Ed.): Baltic Germans, Weimar Republic and Third Reich. Volume 1. Böhlau Verlag, 2001, p. 200.
  9. ↑ Ostdeutscher Beobachter , issue of August 24, 1944, title page, H. von Rimscha: The sensitive theme . , Poznan Foundation of Scientific Libraries, accessed June 4, 2017.
  10. ^ A b Hans von Rimscha: Great Britain and the Soviet Union. in: Karl Anton Rohan (Ed.): European Review , Volume 17, Issue 2, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1941, p. 656 f.
  11. ^ A b Hans von Rimscha: Fears about India. The winter war. European consolidation. in: Karl Anton Prinz Rohan (Ed.): European Review , Volume 18, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1942, pp. 100, 165, 221, 279.
  12. ^ A b Hans von Rimscha: The War of America. in: Karl Anton Prinz Rohan (Ed.): European Review , Volume 19, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1943, p. 46 f.
  13. ↑ Chair for Modern and Contemporary History with a focus on the history of Eastern Europe (FAU) ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.osteuropa.geschichte.uni-erlangen.de
  14. ^ Paul Kaegbein , Wilhelm Lenz : Four decades of Baltic historical research. The Baltic Historians' Meeting in Göttingen 1947–1986 and the Baltic Historical Commission . Baltic Historical Commission, Göttingen 1987. Therein: List of members of the Baltic Historical Commission: I. Honorary members and full members , pp. 79–149; there Art. Rimscha, Hans von .
  15. ^ Helmut Kause: Paul Schiemann's journalistic resistance to National Socialism in the German ethnic groups . In: Michael Garleff (Ed.): Baltic Germans, Weimar Republic and Third Reich . tape 1 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar and Vienna 2001, ISBN 978-3-412-12199-0 , pp. 199 .
  16. ↑ The rebuilding of the state. H. v. Rimscha, Rigasche Post, May 15, 1936, pdf. , Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, accessed on June 4, 2017.
  17. ^ Helmut Kause: Paul Schiemann's journalistic resistance to National Socialism in the German ethnic groups . In: Michael Garleff (Ed.): Baltic Germans, Weimar Republic and Third Reich . tape 1 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar and Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-412-12199-1 , p. 198 .
  18. ^ Hans von Rimscha: European consolidation. In: Europäische Revue 18 (1942), pp. 279–282.
  19. ^ Hans von Rimscha: Task and achievement of the Baltic Germans. Nationality in battle. Border and Abroad Publishing House, Berlin, 1940. p. 36.
  20. ^ Hans von Rimscha: As a politically unreliable person in the Third Reich . Ed .: Carl Schirren Gesellschaft e. V. Band XXX . Publication distribution of the Carl Schirren Society eV, Lüneburg / Munich 1983, p. 120 .
  21. ↑ Ostdeutscher Beobachter , issue of August 24, 1944, title page, H. von Rimscha: The sensitive theme . , Poznan Foundation of Scientific Libraries, accessed June 4, 2017.
  22. ^ Matthias Heeke: Travel to the Soviets: Foreign Tourism in Russia 1921–1941. LIT Verlag Münster, 2003, pp. 610–611.
  23. ^ Christian Tilitzki : The German University Philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2002, p. 1144.
  24. ^ Gudrun Brockhaus: Attraction of the Nazi movement. Klartext Verlag, 2014, footnote 42.
  25. ^ Hans von Rimscha: As a politically unreliable person in the Third Reich . In: Carl Schirren Gesellschaft e. V. (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the Baltic Germans . tape XXX . Publication distribution of the Carl Schirren Gesellschaft e. V., Lüneburg, Munich 1983, p. 127 .
  26. ^ Hans von Rimscha: Journalism on undercutting ground . In: Carl Schirren Gesellschaft ev (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the Baltic Germans . tape XXVI . Publication distribution of the Carl Schirren Gesellschaft e. V., Lüneburg, Munich 1979, p. 118 -151 .
  27. ↑ Hans von Rimscha: As a politically unreliable person in the German Empire . In: Carl Schirren Gesellschaft e. V. (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the Baltic Germans . Publication series of the Carl Schirren Society, Lüneburg, Munich 1983, p. 115-129 .
  28. ↑ Wilfried Loth , Bernd-A. Rusinek : Transformation policy: Nazi elites in West German post-war society. Campus Verlag, 1998, p. 304.
  29. ^ Hans von Rimscha: History of Russia . 6th edition. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-534-05534-9 .
  30. ↑ Directory of the literature to be sorted out, p. 150 , Internet Archive Department for Popular Education of the City of Berlin, accessed on June 4, 2017.
  31. ↑ List of the literature to be sorted out, numbers 9584-9587. , Gotha Research Center, accessed on June 5, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Rimscha, Hans von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic teacher, journalist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1987
Place of death gain