Hartmut Mehringer

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Hartmut Mehringer (born July 14, 1944 in Erlangen ; † October 17, 2011 in Krailling ) was a German contemporary historian .

Life

Mehringer studied modern and Eastern European history in Erlangen , Paris and Amsterdam from 1963 to 1971 and received his doctorate in 1976 at the University of Erlangen under Karl-Heinz Ruffmann with an investigation into the development of the theory of permanent revolution in the context of the Marxist conception of the revolution from 1848 to 1907. He worked on the DFG project Archive and Biographical Manual of German-Speaking Emigration after 1933 at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, from which the 4-volume bilingual Biographical Manual of German-speaking Emigration after 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Émigrés 1933-1945 emerged ( Saur Verlag 1980–1984, edited by Werner Röder and Herbert A. Strauss ). He completed his habilitation in 1987, again in Erlangen, with a biography of Waldemar von Knoeringen . Mehringer worked as the head of the Berlin branch of the Munich Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ). He then headed the archive of the Munich Institute for Contemporary History. In the 1990s he edited three volumes of the 15-volume edition of the Joseph Goebbels diaries. For his book Resistance and Emigration , Mehringer was awarded the Prix Philippe Viannay-Défense de la France in 2001 by the Parisian Fondation de la Résistance.

Mehringer was 1983-1987 chairman of the SPD local association Krailling.

Works

  • Permanent revolution and Russian revolution. The development of the theory of the permanent revolution in the context of the Marxist revolution conception 1848–1907 . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1978 (also Phil. Diss., University of Erlangen / Nuremberg 1977)
  • Waldemar von Knoeringen - a political biography. The way from revolutionary socialism to social democracy . KG Saur Verlag, Munich 1989 (also habilitation thesis from the University of Erlangen / Nuremberg 1987), ISBN 3-598-22021-9
  • Resistance and Emigration. The Nazi regime and its opponents . Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-04520-5
  • With Volker Dahm , Albert A. Feiber and Horst Möller (eds.): Die tödliche Utopie. Pictures, texts, documents, data on the Third Reich. 5th, completely revised and expanded edition. Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-9807890-7-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ SPD mourns Hartmut Mehringer , Merkur-Online , October 20, 2011, accessed on October 21, 2011.
  2. Blanche Mamer: Hartmut Mehringer is dead , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , Starnberg edition, from October 21, 2011, p. R4 (PDF; 4.2 MB) ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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.sueddeutsche.de
  3. Cf. Aurelius Freytag u. a. (Ed.): History and responsibility . Vienna 1988. p. 467 (Documentation of a Vienna Congress at which Mehringer gave a lecture on “Adaptation and Resistance”).
  4. ^ Institute for Contemporary History on the book
  5. compare Hartmut Mehringer: Resistance and Emigration. The Nazi regime and its opponents . Munich 1997. p. 2.
  6. ^ Institute for Contemporary History to the edition
  7. Blanche Mamer: Hartmut Mehringer is dead , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , Starnberg edition, from October 21, 2011, p. R4 (PDF; 4.2 MB) ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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.sueddeutsche.de