Hermann Christern

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Hermann Gottfried Wilhelm Christern (born June 27, 1892 in Lübeck , † December 1, 1941 in Greifswald ) was a German historian and university professor.

Life

Hermann Christern was a son of the Lübeck doctor (Johann) Friedrich Christern (* 1858 in Grünhof , † 1925 in Lübeck) and his wife Louisa Maria, born. Müller. Alfred Christern was his uncle, Hans Christern his cousin.

He attended the Reformrealgymnasium (today Johanneum zu Lübeck ) until his Abitur in 1913 and studied history, German and geography at the University of Marburg , interrupted by military service in the First World War from 1916 in the Royal Bavarian Railway Battalion . He was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class and the Hanseatic Cross.

In 1920 he was at the University of Munich with a dissertation on Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann (1785 to 1860) to Dr. phil. PhD. After further studies in Munich and Kiel, he passed the examination for the higher teaching post in 1923 in the subjects of history, German and geography.

As a study assessor he was released for scientific work. In 1928 he was editor of a selection of the writings of the liberal politician Friedrich List (1789–1846). His habilitation thesis at the University of Berlin (1931, published 1933) dealt with the development and tasks of biographical compilations. It was based on knowledge that he had gained as the editor of the German Biographical Yearbook series. In Berlin he taught as a private lecturer . On May 1, 1933, he was admitted to the NSDAP with membership number 2,579,957 .

He received his first teaching assignment for modern and contemporary history in 1936 at the University of Greifswald. In September 1939 he was appointed adjunct professor here.

In 1939 he published his main work, a comparative study on the development of parliamentarism in England and the German states. Hans-Christof Kraus sees them as useful individual analyzes , which, however , would be overshadowed by an ideologically structured opposition between British individualism and the German national community . According to Kraus, a later, posthumously published study no longer rose significantly above the level of comparable war propaganda in a pseudo-academic guise .

During the Second World War he was used in troop support. He died of typhus infection .

Works

  • Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann's Political Development until 1848: A Contribution to the History of German Liberalism. Leipzig: Haessel 1921, zugl .: Munich, Phil. Diss.
also in: ZSHG 50 (1921), pp. 147–392 ( digitized version )
  • (Ed.) Friedrich List: A selection from his writings. Berlin: Reimar Hobbing [1928] (= classic of politics 16)
  • Development and tasks of biographical compilations: A contribution to the history of historiography. Berlin: de Gruyter 1933
  • German corporate state and English parliamentarism at the end of the 18th century. Munich: Beck 1939
  • Influence and defense of English political ideology in Germany from the 18th to the 20th century. (= English cultural ideology 2) 1942
  • Elisabeth Christern (ed.): The Reich and the German living space. Legacy of a Greifswald historian. 1942

literature

  • Henrik Eberle: "A valuable instrument". The University of Greifswald under National Socialism. Böhlau 2016 ISBN 978-3-412-21785-3 , p. 829f (accessed via De Gruyter Online)
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1762 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-305545 , No. 790
  2. ^ Obituary, in: Jomsburg 6 (1942), p. 171
  3. ↑ Hans-Christof Kraus: English constitution and political thinking in the ancien régime. 1689 to 1789 (= publications of the German Historical Institute London. Vol. 60). Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57908-8 (also: Munich, University, habilitation paper, 2001/2002), p. 13
personal data
SURNAME Christians, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Christern, Hermann Gottfried Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1941
Place of death Greifswald