Heinrich Heffter

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Heinrich Heffter (born May 17, 1903 in Bad Polzin , † January 13, 1975 in Braunschweig ) was a German historian .

Life

From 1912 to 1921 he attended the Fürst-Otto-Gymnasium in Wernigerode . During his studies he became a member of the Gottingo-Normannia gymnastics club in Göttingen in 1921 . From 1921 Heffter studied history , philosophy and ethnology at the universities of Göttingen , Tübingen and Leipzig and received his doctorate in 1927 under Erich Brandenburg . Through his mediation, he received a position as a research assistant in the lexicon editorial office of Brockhaus Verlag in Leipzig in 1926 , which he held until 1943. Having returned after participating in the war and imprisonment in 1945, Heffter began writing his habilitation thesis in Leipzig, but went to West Germany for political reasons. In 1949 he completed his habilitation at the University of Hamburg under Egmont Zechlin and then headed the research center for the history of Hamburg from 1933 to 1945 (today research center for contemporary history in Hamburg ) until 1954 . According to the current state of research, his thesis that Hamburg played a special role during the Nazi era cannot be upheld.

1954 Heffter was (initially as an associate professor since 1956 as personal professor and since 1962 as a full professor), replacing Ernst August Roloff to the chair of history of the TH Braunschweig appointed, he retired in 1969. Since 1959 he was a regular member of the Brunswick Scientific society .

Heffter's work on local self-government in the 19th century has lasting value . On the occasion of the 50th return of Heffter's appointment, the History Seminar of the Technical University of Braunschweig organized a colloquium in 2004 with the title History and Local Self- Administration.

Publications (selection)

  • The Kreuzzeitungspartei and Bismarck's cartel policy (= writings of the Saxon Research Institute for Modern History , Vol. 1), Leipzig 1927.
  • German self-government in the 19th century. History of ideas and institutions , Stuttgart 1950, 2nd, revised. Ed., Stuttgart 1969.
  • Otto Fürst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode , T. 1 (= historical studies , H. 434), ed. by Werner Pöls , Husum 1980, ISBN 3-7868-1434-1 .

estate

Part of his academic legacy is now managed in the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives .

literature

  • [Rainer] Maaß: Heffter, Heinrich Wilhelm. In: Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries , ed. by Horst-Rüdiger Jarck and Günter Scheel, Hannover 1996, p. 253.
  • Axel Schildt : From the merchant legend to the Hamburg legend. Heinrich Heffter's lecture "Hamburg and National Socialism" at Hamburg University on November 5, 1950 . In: Contemporary history in Hamburg. News from the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg (FZH) , Vol. 1 (2003), pp. 10–46.
  • Wolfgang Weber: Biographical lexicon for historical studies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The Chair of History from the beginning of the subject to 1970 . Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1984, pp. 217 f., ISBN 3-8204-8005-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Boldt: History of the gymnastics club Gottingo-Normannia zu Göttingen 1875-1975. Göttingen 1975, p. 262.
  2. ↑ Ewald Grothe : Between history and law. German constitutional historiography 1900–1970 (= Ordnungssysteme. Vol. 16). Oldenbourg, Munich 2005 (also: Wuppertal, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2003), ISBN 3-486-57784-0 , pp. 362–365.

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personal data
SURNAME Heffter, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Polzin
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1975
Place of death Braunschweig