Herbert Hömig

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Herbert Hömig (born September 22, 1941 in Gotha ; † July 15, 2020 in Cologne ) was a German historian and university professor .

life and work

Hömig graduated from high school in Cologne-Deutz in 1962 . During his studies in 1964 he became a member of the Unitas-Nibelung Cologne in the Association of Scientific Catholic Student Associations Unitas . In 1968 he completed his studies in history , German and philosophy at the University of Cologne with the state examination for teaching at grammar schools and then did his doctorate under Adam Wandruszka on the role of the Rhenish Catholics and liberals in the disputes over the Prussian constitution of 1850 . In 1970 he passed the second state examination in Düsseldorf. After completing his habilitation in Cologne in 1976 with a thesis on the Center Party in the Weimar Republic , he initially took over a professorship at RWTH Aachen University in 1980 . From 1990 he taught as a professor of modern history at the University of Dortmund and since the late 1970s has also held lectures at the University of Cologne. In the winter semester 1991/92 he accepted a guest lecturing assignment at the University of Leipzig . In 2008 he retired.

In the decade before the fall of the Wall , he was elected President of the ( West German ) "Thuringia Foundation". Hömig served as an honorary senator of the Academy of Non-Profit Sciences in Erfurt , which was established in 1754 and of which he had been a member since 1990. He was a member of the Society for Rhenish History .

Hömig's main research interests were constitutional and party history (especially Prussia) in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of political ideas and the modern history of the Rhineland and Thuringia. Hömig was editor of the journal Kultur und Geschichte Thüringens , which was discontinued in 1990. He published the Erfurt- affiliated “Subsidia academica” on contemporary history. He was an archivist for the Unitas Association and worked as a student historian .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Rhenish Catholics and Liberals in the disputes about the Prussian constitution with special consideration of the Cologne press. A contribution to the history of political parties in the 19th century. Wienand, Cologne 1971. (Dissertation)
  • The Prussian center in the Weimar Republic. Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1979 (Publications of the Commission for Contemporary History , Series B: Research, Volume 28), ISBN 3-786-70784-7 . (Habilitation thesis)
  • Brüning - Chancellor in the crisis of the republic. A Weimar biography , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2000, ISBN 3-506-73949-2 .
  • Brüning - politicians without a mandate. Between the Weimar and Bonn republics. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-506-72938-1 .
  • Carl Theodor von Dalberg. Statesman and prince of the church in the shadow of Napoleon. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77240-4 .
  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal. A life story. Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2019, ISBN 978-3-402-13345-3 .

Essays

  • Absolutism and democracy. The reform program of the Marquis d'Argenson (1737). In: Historische Zeitschrift Volume 226, 1978, pp. 146–168.
  • Contemporary history as "fighting science". On the problems of National Socialist historiography. In: Historisches Jahrbuch Volume 99, 1979, pp. 355–374.

editor

  • (Ed.): Catholics and the trade union movement 1890–1945. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2003 (Articles on Catholicism Research, Series A: Source Texts on the History of Catholicism, Volume 19), ISBN 3-506-70881-3 . ( online )

literature

  • Irene Gückel: Prof. Dr. phil. Herbert Hömig. In: Erik Gieseking (ed.): To the problem of ideology in history. Herbert Hömig on his 65th birthday. Europaforum-Verlag, Lauf an der Pegnitz 2006 (Subsidia Academica, Series A, Volume 8), ISBN 3-931070-46-8 , pp. 4-16. ( online as PDF )
  • Hömig, Herbert , in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X . P. 148.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presidium and Senate of the Academy in Erfurt ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , As of April 14, 2010 (accessed December 18, 2011) .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.akademie-erfurt.de
personal data
SURNAME Hömig, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH 15th July 2020
Place of death Cologne