Hellmuth Rössler

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Hellmuth Rössler (born January 26, 1910 in Dresden , † August 21, 1968 in Maria Rain (Carinthia) ) was a German historian .

Live and act

Hellmuth Rössler studied law, political science and history at the universities of Erlangen , Vienna and Leipzig from 1929 . In Erlangen he joined the Corps Baruthia in the Kösener SC Association for four semesters . In 1933 he was promoted to Dr. iur. doctorate with a thesis on the Prussian mortgage legislation in the 17th and 18th centuries before the year 1780. After initially planning a career in civil service, he turned increasingly to historical studies from 1934 onwards.

In 1933 Rössler became a member of the SA . In 1937 he applied for membership in the National Socialist German Workers' Party , but was not registered as a party member until 1940. He was also a member of the National Socialist Old Masters Association and the National Socialist Legal Guardian Association. In 1937, he worked as a consultant in the Central Office for National Socialist People's Welfare . From 1941 he was a member of the advisory board of the Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany and published the two-volume work Austria's Struggle for Germany's Liberation in its publishing house . After completing his habilitation with Heinrich von Srbik in Vienna , he was a university lecturer at the University of Vienna from 1942 . At the end of 1943 he became an associate professor for modern history at the University of Innsbruck .

In the post-war period in Germany , Rössler initially worked as a freelance writer in Erlangen . He later returned to university service and had been an adjunct professor at the University of Erlangen from 1950 before he was appointed to the chair of modern history at the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1955 . In 1959 he was able to tie Wilhelm Schüßler to the TH Darmstadt.

In January 1966, Rössler caused a sensation with a speech at a meeting of the East and West Prussian Landsmannschaft, according to which Poland would not need the German eastern territories, since five million Poles were killed in the Second World War. Despite heavy criticism from the press, this opinion had no consequences.

In his capacity as history professor at the TH Darmstadt, Rössler became a member of the historical commission for Hesse .

Fonts

  • The soldier of the kingdom of Prinz Eugen. Stalling, Oldenburg u. a. 1934.
  • Austria's struggle for Germany's liberation. The German policy of the national leaders of Austria 1805–1815. 2 volumes. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1940.
  • with Günther Franz : Biographical dictionary on German history. Oldenbourg, Munich 1952.
  • Franconian spirit, German fate. Ideas, strengths and designs in Franconia. 1500-1800 (= Die Plassenburg. Bd. 4, ZDB -ID 504385-2 ). Baumann, Kulmbach 1953.
  • Greatness and tragedy of Christian Europe. European figures and forces in German history from the late Middle Ages to the present. Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1955.
  • Europe in the age of Renaissance, Reformation and Counter-Reformation, 1450–1650 (= world history in individual representations. Vol. 4, ZDB -ID 1173479-6 ). Bruckmann, Munich 1956.
  • with Günther Franz: Dictionary of German history. Oldenbourg, Munich 1958.
  • German history. Fate of the people in the center of Europe. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1961.

literature

  • Franz Fischer: Hellmuth Rössler †. In: Historische Zeitschrift , Vol. 209 (1969), pp. 254-256 ( online ).
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 503.
  • Kristof Lukitsch: 'Brown Beginnings': Darmstadt's Post-War History. In: Christof Dipper , Jens Ivo Engels (ed.): Karl Otmar von Aretin. Historian and contemporary. Peter Lang Edition, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 3-631-66614-4 , pp. 149–172.
  • Roessler, Hellmuth. In: Fritz Fellner , Doris A. Corradini: Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon (= publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria. Volume 99). Böhlau, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-205-77476-0 , p. 349.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Kristof Lukitsch: 'Braune Beginnings': The Darmstadt History of the Post-War Period. In: Christof Dipper, Jens Ivo Engels (ed.): Karl Otmar von Aretin. Historian and contemporary. Frankfurt am Main 2015, pp. 149–172, here: p. 156, note 33.
  2. ↑ Kristof Lukitsch: 'Braune Beginnings': The Darmstadt History of the Post-War Period. In: Christof Dipper, Jens Ivo Engels (ed.): Karl Otmar von Aretin. Historian and contemporary. Frankfurt am Main 2015, pp. 149–172, here: p. 155.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 503.
personal data
SURNAME Rössler, Hellmuth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1968
Place of death Maria Rain (Carinthia)