Heinz-Otto Sieburg
Heinz-Otto Sieburg (born December 16, 1917 in Herne ; † November 7, 2003 in Saarbrücken ) was a contemporary historian and author . He was particularly concerned with Franco-German relations .
Life
Sieburg was the son of Erich Sieburg (1878–1947) and grew up in the coal and mining industry. From January 1923 he experienced the occupation of the Ruhr by the French . In 1937 he passed his Abitur and studied history, philosophy, art history and modern German literature, first in Münster , then in Berlin. The course was interrupted in 1938/39 by a nine-month labor service . In 1941 he received his doctorate with the dissertation “The awakening of political consciousness in Germany between 1815 and 1848 as reflected in the image of Greece”. He was then called up for the Navy and stationed in Angers , France . From 1958 Sieburg was professor for modern history with a focus on Franco-German relations at Saarland University .
Work and work
His first works appeared after the war and dealt with his hometown Herne and the mentality history of the miners in the Ruhr area . Sieburg was a Francophile ; the author of the work God in France ( French " Dieu est-il Français? " ) (1929) was his uncle Friedrich Sieburg (1893–1964). Sieburg's oeuvre focuses on the complex relationship between the two Central European peoples.
One of his most important works is the two-volume work Germany and France in the Historiography of the 19th Century (1954, 1958), which is now considered the standard work and in which he refutes the myth of Franco-German hereditary enmity . During the 25 years of his teaching activity in Saarbrücken , Sieburg published numerous other works, including a sociological study on the subject of mining .
In his book Die Grubenkatastrophe von Courrières 1906 about the mine disaster in Courrières , he describes the work of the German rescue teams in this tragedy, in which approximately 1,100 miners were killed and which was expressly recognized by the French press. The town twinning between the mining towns of Hénin-Beaumont and Herne, which was entered into in 1954, stems from this event.
Fonts (selection)
- Germany and France in the historiography of the 19th century. 1954/58.
- with Peter Richard Rohden: Political History of France. Second, revised and expanded edition. Bibliographical Institute, Mannheim 1959.
- Basics of French history. Scientific Book Society Darmstadt, 1966.
- The Courrières mine disaster in 1906. Verlag F. Steiner Wiesbaden, 1967.
- Napoleon and Europe. 1971.
- History of france. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 1975.
literature
- Barbara Stambolis : Histoire croisée, shared memory: Franco-German places of remembrance , in: Die Grubenkatastrophe von Courrières 1906 Aspects of transnational history . (PDF; 148 kB) Ed. By Michael Farrenkopf and Peter Friedemann, Bochum 2008, ISBN 978-3-937203-39-3 , pp. 212–228.
- Heribert Müller : The admired hereditary enemy. Johannes Haller, France and the French Middle Ages . (PDF; 3.5 MB) public inaugural lecture at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. Frankfurt / Main 1989.
- Alfred Wahl: Heinz-Otto Sieburg (1917–2003). In: Francia 31,3, 2004, pp. 207-208.
- Wolfgang Müller: Obituary Prof. Dr. Heinz-Otto Sieburg. In: Saarpfalz Heft 3, 2005, pp. 31–35.
- Rainer Hudemann: Homage to Heinz-Otto Sieburg (December 16, 1917 - November 7, 2003). In: German-French Committee for Research into German and French History of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Bulletin No. 17,2006, pp. 7–9.
- Albert HV Kraus: The search for the "black gold" - the lifeblood of the Saar district. In: Der Saarländische Steinkohlenbergbau (Ed .: Karlheinz Pohmer), RAG AG, Herne and Institut für Landeskunde im Saarland, Schiffweiler, 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814952-1-8 , pp. 110f.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sieburg, Heinz-Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Herne |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 2003 |
| Place of death | Saarbrücken |