Heinrich Schnee (historian)

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Heinrich Schnee (born December 7, 1895 in Reisen , Lissa district , Prussian province of Posen , † January 11, 1968 in Bonn ) was a German historian.

Life

The snow, who came from a humble background, studied philosophy, history, German, modern languages, public law and political science at the Posen Academy , then at the universities of Breslau, Münster, Cambridge, Paris and Bonn. Due to a lung disease, he escaped participation in World War I (during World War II he was able to provide indispensable declarations). In 1923 he was at the University of Breslau with Robert Holtzmann with a dissertation on the subject of the relationship between Silesia and the German Empire 1648-1806 to the Dr. phil. PhD.

After the state examination for school service, he worked for almost four decades in the school service in Prussia and later in North Rhine-Westphalia, from 1932 to 1945 at the Schalker Gymnasium in Gelsenkirchen and from 1953 to 1959 at the Max Planck Gymnasium in Gelsenkirchen-Buer . Most recently he was senior teacher and deputy headmaster.

Since the early 1940s, Schnee has been researching the history of the so-called Jewish court factors , whom he characterized or implicitly denounced as pioneers of Jewish emancipation. In doing so, he contributed to the caricature of the devious Jewish moneylenders, which was largely propagated by Walter Frank through his Reich Institute for the History of New Germany . Due to his Catholic attitude, he was refused the hoped-for approval by National Socialist programmers in the Frank area. With his point of view of the court Jews, Schnee naturally found himself in strong competition with the Jewish historian Selma Stern , who was still working on an edition on the history of the Jews in Prussia in the 1930s and was internationally acclaimed. Guido Kisch already demonstrated the National Socialist diction of his work. Snow, on the other hand, explicitly claimed a monopoly position in the 1950s and 1960s with regard to the image of court Jews it had shaped.

Schnee was interested and committed in many ways, and even after 1945 he was guided by his specific German-national character. He dealt with journalism and theater and wrote theater reviews. In addition to his school activities, he worked a. a. as a lecturer at the adult education center . In 1956 he married. Three years later he retired and moved to Bonn, where towards the end of his life he was disappointed in his hopes for an honorary professorship at the local university. He never got beyond the status of a researching privateer.

Since his student days, Schnee was a member of the Catholic student union Unitas-Breslau in the KV .

Fonts

  • The relationship between Silesia and the German Empire in the age of Fr. In: Journal of the Association for the History of Silesia . 65, 1931, pp. 412-429.
  • Race and history. Basics of a race-valued historical view from primeval times to the present, 1936 (under a pseudonym)
  • History Lessons in the Völkisch Nation-State: A Handbook for Teachers, Kamp, 4th ed. Bochum 1936
  • The British family of peoples. From empire to community of nations, Paderborn 1952.
  • The court finance and the modern state. History and system of court factors at German royal courts in the age of absolutism , Duncker & Humblot, 5 vols., Berlin 1953–67 ISBN 978-3428013500
  • Mayor Karl Lueger , Life and Work of a Great German, Paderborn 1936 (ND 1960).

literature

  • Stephan Laux: Heinrich Schnee (1895–1968). Life and work of a historian on “all-German Christian soil”. In: Gisela Fleckenstein, Michael Klöcker, Norbert Schlossmacher (Hrsg.): Church history. Old and new ways. Festschrift for Christoph Weber. Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2008, pp. 829-854.
  • Stephan Laux: "I am the historian of court factors" - On anti-Semitic research by Heinrich Schnee (1895–1968). In: Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook. V, 2006, pp. 485-514.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.lwl.org/westfaelische-geschichte/portal/Internet/finde/langDatsatz.php?urlID=5547&url_tabelle=tab_person
  2. ↑ Guido Kisch: Legal and Social History of the Jews in Halle 1686-1730 . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-084004-9 ( google.de [accessed on March 20, 2020]).
  3. ↑ KV yearbook 1965
personal data
SURNAME Snow, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Rydzyna
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1968
Place of death Bonn