Helmut Neubach

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Helmut Neubach (born January 27, 1933 in Grottkau / Upper Silesia ; † December 12, 2019 in Baden-Baden ) was a German historian .

Live and act

Until his escape and expulsion in 1945, Neubach lived in Brieg / Lower Silesia , then in Neustadt an der Orla / Thuringia . In 1948 he moved to Lahnstein , where he passed the Abitur at the New Language High School in 1954. He then studied history and Slavic studies in Bonn, Marburg, Berlin and Mainz and received a scholarship from the Eastern European Institute of the Free University of Berlin in 1957/58 . In 1962 he received his doctorate on Bismarck's Poland policy under Gotthold Rhode in Mainz . From 1962 to 1968 Neubach was active in the academic service ( Johann Gottfried Herder Research Council , Marburg / Mainz) and from 1968 to 1992 with interruptions in the school service. From 1992 to 1998 he was again active in the academic service ( University of Koblenz-Landau ).

In 1982/83 Neubach received a DFG scholarship for the edition of the diary of Reichstag President Franz von Ballestrem . His research areas were the political history from 1815 to 1945 in the former Prussian eastern provinces, especially Silesia and Posen , as well as Rheinhessen . Above all, he dealt with parties, parliamentarism, administration, traffic and the German-Polish relationship.

Neubach was a member of the Commission for the History of Germans in Poland (1992 to 2005 on the board), the Historical Commission for Silesia and the Herder Research Council . In 1960 he received a Brieg grant from the city of Goslar .

Publications

  • The expulsions of Poles and Jews from Prussia in 1885/86. A contribution to Bismarck's Poland policy and the history of German-Polish relations. Wiesbaden 1967 (dissertation).
  • Franz Graf von Ballestrem, a President of the Reichstag from Upper Silesia. Dülmen 1984.
  • From Paul Löbe to Heinrich Windelen. The Silesians in the German Bundestag 1949–1984. Munich 1985.
  • with Hans-Ludwig Abmeier (Ed.): For our Silesia. Festschrift for Herbert Hupka. Langen Müller, Munich / Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-7844-2078-8 .
  • Paul Löbe. Bonn 1985; 2nd edition 1999.
  • Parties and politicians in Silesia. With a foreword by Gotthold Rhode . Dortmund 1988.
  • Little history of Silesia. Bonn 1990; 11th edition Görlitz 2019. Translation into Polish: Krótka historia Śląska. Bonn 1992.
  • The vote in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921. Herne 2000.
  • Gotthold Rhode (1916–1990). From the perspective of a student and a commission assistant. Marburg 2001.
  • Eduard v. Hartmann's catchphrase of "exterminating the Poles". Antipolonism, anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism in the empire. With a foreword by Gotthold Rhode (+). Herne 2003.
  • Memories and notes of a Silesian refugee boy in Neustadt an der Orla (1945–1947). Jena 2020,   ISBN 978-3-947303-19-9

literature

  • Franz Heiduk : Oberschlesisches Literatur-Lexikon, Vol. 2, Berlin 1993, p. 159.
  • Gerhard Scheuermann: Das Breslau-Lexikon, Vol. 2, Dülmen 1994, ISBN 3-87466-157-1 , pp. 1130-1131.
  • Herbert Gross: Significant Oberschlesier, Dülmen 1995, pp. 409-412.
  • Hans-Ludwig Abmeier: Helmut Neubach 70 years, in: Oberschlesisches Jahrbuch 18/19 (2002/2003), pp. 283–286.
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 21st edition, Vol. 2, Berlin 2007, p. 2547.
  • Ekkhard Verchau : Helmut Neubach 75 years old, in: Home yearbook of the Mainz-Bingen district
  • Walter Dittrich: Helmut Neubach 80 Years, in: Schlesische Nachrichten, 2013, No. 2, p. 13.
  • Arno Herzig : Helmut Neubach 85 years old, in: Schlesien heute 21 (2018), No. 1 (232), p. 49.

Honors

  • 1970 Prize of the Upper Silesian Culture Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 2005 honorary member of the "Commission for the History of Germans in Poland"
  • 2006 Medal of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
  • 2006 Silesian Cross
  • 2006 Literature Prize of the "Heimatfreunde am Mittelrhein"
  • 2012 Culture Prize of the country team Weichsel-Warthe .
  • 2018 honorary member of the Zornheim / Rheinhessen history association
  • 2018 Gerhart Hauptmann badge

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Silesian history friend Dr. Helmut Neubach died
personal data
SURNAME Neubach, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Grottkau
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 2019
Place of death Baden-Baden