Heinrich Dannenbauer

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Heinrich Dannenbauer (born October 30, 1897 in Kemmoden in Upper Bavaria , † March 13, 1961 in Tübingen ) was a German historian .

The son of a Protestant pastor spent his childhood in Franconia . In Regensburg he attended high school. He took part in the First World War and was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class. He then studied history, German and French in Erlangen . In 1922 he received his doctorate from Gustav Beckmann with a thesis on the linen weaving trade in Nördlingen . The work went unprinted. Dannenbauer received a grant from the Notgemeinschaft der deutschen Wissenschaft . In 1926 he completed his habilitation on the development of the territory of the imperial city of Nuremberg at the University of Tübingen . After a long time as a private lecturer, he became an adjunct professor in Tübingen in 1932.

During the crisis of the Weimar Republic he was a member of Freikorps 788 “Friborg Oberland”. Dannenbauer committed himself to National Socialism at an early stage , and in 1932 he became a member of the NSDAP . In March 1933 he signed the declaration of 300 university lecturers for Adolf Hitler . His early Nazi confession was probably also decisive for his appointment as professor for middle and modern history against the will of the faculty as the successor of his teacher Johannes Haller . In Tübingen he campaigned for a university reform in the National Socialist sense.

Because of his support for National Socialism, Dannenbauer was initially not allowed to teach again in Tübingen. He was suspended from service for four years by the State Secretariat for the French-occupied zone of Württemberg . It was not until 1949 that he was able to take up his chair again and taught until his death. From 1939 to 1945 and from 1950 to 1954 he was a member of the Württemberg Commission for Regional History and then a member of the newly founded Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg .

Until the 1930s he dealt with topics from the history of the Reformation. His research focus as a Tübingen professor was the Germanic and German constitutional history . Dannenbauer's research results were decisive for a fundamental change in German research on the Middle Ages. From the 1960s onwards, his classification of the medieval world as aristocratic rule led to a departure from the previously prevalent legal and constitutional historical perspective towards a predominantly prosopographical-genealogical view.

Fonts

  • The creation of Europe. From late antiquity to the Middle Ages. 2 vols. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1959 and 1962.
    • The Origin of Europe, Vol. 2: The Beginnings of the Occidental World, Stuttgart 1962.
    • The Origin of Europe, Vol. 1: The Decline of the Old World in the West, Stuttgart 1959.
  • The emergence of the territory of the imperial city of Nuremberg (= work on German legal and constitutional history. Vol. 7). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1928 (at the same time: Tübingen, University, habilitation paper, 1926).

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Remarks

  1. ^ Anne Christine Nagel: In the shadow of the Third Reich. Medieval research in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1970. Göttingen 2005, p. 36 with note 44.
  2. ^ Anne Christine Nagel: In the shadow of the Third Reich. Medieval research in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1970. Göttingen 2005, p. 35.
  3. ^ Hans K. Schulze : Imperial aristocracy, tribal nobility and Franconian freedom. Recent research on early medieval social history. In: Historische Zeitschrift 227, 1978, pp. 353–444, here p. 353 f.
personal data
SURNAME Dannenbauer, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Kemmoden
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1961
Place of death Tübingen