Herbert Ludat

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Herbert Ludat (born April 17, 1910 in Insterburg / East Prussia , † April 27, 1993 in Gießen ) was a German historian .

The son of a postal inspector was born in East Prussia. His parents moved to Berlin in 1913. In autumn 1928 he passed the Abitur at the Berlin Königstädtische Realgymnasium. In October 1933 he joined the SA . Until 1935 he studied history, German, philosophy and Slavic studies at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . Willy Hoppe and Max Vasmer are considered his most important academic teachers . In October 1936 he received his doctorate with the work Die Ostdeutsche Kietze in Berlin. As a scholarship holder of the Notgemeinschaft der deutschen Wissenschaft , Ludat undertook research trips to Poland from 1935 to 1937 . In May 1937 he joined the NSDAP . From 1937 to 1939 Ludat worked at the Berlin School of Politics as head of the Poland department of the East Central Europe seminar. In December 1940 he also completed his habilitation in Berlin with the thesis diocese Lebus. Studies on the founding question and the development and economic history of his Silesian-Polish possessions. In 1941 he received a lectureship at the University of Posen , which he hardly attended because of his service in the Wehrmacht . He was released from the Wehrmacht because of a heart condition. After the Second World War, in 1945 he completed his habilitation at the University of Kiel . Two years later he was appointed associate professor for Eastern European history in Münster. In the summer semester of 1955, Ludat was visiting professor in Mainz . In 1956, Herbert Ludat received appointments from the Universities of Mainz and Giessen. He decided on the University of Giessen . There he held the chair for Eastern European History and General Economic History. At the same time he was director of the "Institute for Continental Agricultural and Economic Research". In 1964 he turned down offers from the Universities of Bochum and Vienna. In 1978 he retired. Ludat's academic students included Klaus Zernack , Hans-Dietrich Kahl and Christian Lübke .

Ludat devoted himself primarily to the medieval history of Eastern Europe . He is considered one of the most important and influential German historians in this field. During the Cold War , he managed to establish contacts with Polish historians. With An Elbe and Oder around the year 1000, Ludat presented a fundamental study of the politics of the Ottonian Empire and the Slavic powers in Central Europe .

Ludat was a co-founder of the German-Polish textbook conference (Braunschweig). In April 1968 he was awarded the Palacký Medal of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences . Since 1956 he was a member of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research .

Fonts

  • Slavs and Germans in the Middle Ages. Selected essays on questions of their political, social and cultural relationships. Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-412-01981-X .
  • On the Elbe and Oder around the year 1000. Sketches on the politics of the Ottonian Empire and the Slavic powers in Central Europe. Cologne 1971, ISBN 3-412-07271-0 .
  • German-Slavic early days and modern Polish historical consciousness. Selected essays. Cologne 1969, ISBN 3-412-07669-4 .
  • Poland and Germany. Scientific conference of Polish historians on Polish-German relations in the past. Cologne 1963.
  • Preliminary stages and development of the urban system in Eastern Europe. On the question of the pre-colonial economic centers in the Slavic-Baltic region. Cologne 1955.
  • Diocese of Lebus. Studies on the founding question and the development and economic history of his Silesian-Polish possessions. Weimar 1942 (reprint 1993).

literature

  • Błażej Białkowski: Herbert Ludat. In: Ingo Haar , Michael Fahlbusch (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Völkischen Wissenschaften. Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-598-11778-7 , pp. 393-396.
  • Błażej Białkowski: utopia of a better tyranny. German historian at the University of Posen (1941–1945). Paderborn 2011, ISBN 3-506-77167-1 , pp. 221 ff., 338 ff.
  • Martin Burkert: The Eastern Sciences in the Third Reich. Part 1: Between prohibition and tolerance. The difficult tightrope walk of the Eastern sciences between 1933 and 1939 (= research on Eastern European history. Vol. 55). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2000, p. 531 ff., 688 ff.
  • Lothar Dralle: Herbert Ludat on his 75th birthday. In: Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe. NF 43: 158-159 (1985).
  • Klaus-Detlev Grothusen : On the death of Herbert Ludat. In: Zeitschrift für Ostforschung 42 (1993), pp. 571-573.
  • Jürgen Petersohn : Obituary for Herbert Ludat. In: Meeting reports of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main 36 (1999), No. 6, pp. 17-21.
  • Andrzej Poppe, Stanisław Trawkowski: In memoriam Herbert Ludat. In: Kwartalnik Historyczny 101 (1994), No. 2, pp. 118-121.
  • Jerzy Strzelczyk: Obituary. In: Roczniki Historyczne 59 (1993), pp. 163-167.
  • Corinna R. Unger: East research in West Germany. The exploration of the European East and the German Research Foundation, 1945–1975 (= studies on the history of the German Research Foundation. Vol. 1). Steiner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 3-515-09026-6 , pp. 142-146.
  • Klaus Zernack : "Europe east of the Elbe". On the life's work of Herbert Ludat (1910–1993). In: Jahrbuch für die Geschichte Mittel- und Ostdeutschlands 44 (1996), pp. 1–13.
  • Klaus Zernack: Herbert Ludat (1910–1993). East Central European historian and regional historian. In: Friedrich Beck , Klaus Neitmann (ed.): Life pictures of Brandenburg archivists and historians. State, municipal and church archivists, state, regional and church historians, archaeologists, historical geographers, regional and folklorists of the 19th and 20th centuries (= Brandenburg historical studies. Volume 16). be.bra scientific publ. Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-937233-90-1 , pp. 164-173.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Błażej Białkowski: Herbert Ludat. In: Ingo Haar, Michael Fahlbusch (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Völkischen Wissenschaften. Munich 2008, p. 393–396, here: p. 394.
  2. ^ Klaus Zernack: Herbert Ludat (1910–1993). East Central European historian and regional historian. In: Friedrich Beck, Klaus Neitmann (ed.): Life pictures of Brandenburg archivists and historians. State, local and church archivists, state, regional and church historians, archaeologists, historical geographers, regional and folklorists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Berlin 2013, pp. 164–173, here: p. 166. Błażej Białkowski: Herbert Ludat. In: Ingo Haar, Michael Fahlbusch (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Völkischen Wissenschaften. Munich 2008, p. 393–396, here: p. 394.
  3. ^ Błażej Białkowski: Herbert Ludat. In: Ingo Haar, Michael Fahlbusch (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Völkischen Wissenschaften. Munich 2008, p. 393–396, here: p. 396.
  4. ^ Klaus-Detlev Grothusen: On the death of Herbert Ludat. In: Zeitschrift für Ostforschung 42 (1993), pp. 571-573, here: p. 571.
personal data
SURNAME Ludat, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Insterburg , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1993
Place of death to water