Hermann Graml

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Hermann Graml (born November 10, 1928 in Miltenberg ; † February 4, 2019 in Wasserburg am Inn ) was a German historian and publicist . From the beginning of 1953 until his retirement in 1993 - with an interruption in 1958/59 - he was a member of the Munich Institute for Contemporary History . There he was mainly responsible as editor for the journal Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . In his own work he dealt with the resistance against National Socialism , foreign policy and the prehistory of the Federal Republic of Germany. Together with Wolfgang Benz he edited the series of the quarterly books for contemporary history and with Benz and Martin Broszat the series German history of the newest time in the German paperback publishing house .

Life

Hermann Graml, son of a forestry school director, who was among other things forester for Prince Esterházy , grew up in castles in Edelstetten and in Günzburg . In the Second World War he was called in as an air force helper and for the Reich Labor Service . In 1945 he became an American prisoner of war .

After graduating from high school in Günzburg in 1947, he studied history, German and political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with Franz Schnabel and the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen with Hans Rothfels and Theodor Eschenburg . In 1953 he became an assistant at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. In 1958/59 he was editor of the monthly magazine Behind the Iron Curtain of Free Europe Press . He was a scientific consultant and later editor-in-chief (until 1993) of the Institute's quarterly magazine for contemporary history .

Graml was married and the father of two children.

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An early article by Graml on the National Committee for Free Germany appeared in 1952 in the magazine Neues Abendland , which was part of the Occidental Action founded by the former director of the Institute for Contemporary History Gerhard Kroll . In it, Graml spoke of the officers' “spiritual homelessness” and concluded that the “political slogans of the West are no longer capable” of supporting “the defensive struggle against the East”. The "pseudo-religious character of the opponent" can "only be overcome through religion". A year later, Graml published a basic account of the “ Reichskristallnacht ” of 1938 in the publication series of the Federal Center for Homeland Service. In the following years he dealt with the German military opposition to National Socialism. In 1963 he proved the American history revisionist David Hoggan to have forged documents.

Other works by Graml dealt with the Stalin Note of 1952, the question of Germany and the development of Europe. In 1969 he presented an overall presentation of international politics in Europe between the wars , Europe between the wars . In it, Graml interprets the foreign and domestic policy revisionism of the German presidential cabinets from 1930 to 1933 as a preliminary stage of later aggression policy. In 1985 he published a study on the Allies and the division of Germany and in 1990 the overall picture of Europe's path to war .

Together with Wolfgang Benz, Graml was responsible for the series of quarterly journals for contemporary history and published the volumes Weltprobleme between the power blocs (1981) and Europe after the Second World War as part of Fischer Weltgeschichte. Together with Benz and Martin Broszat , Graml published the German History of the Latest Time series for the German paperback publishing house .

Honors

On July 2, 2002 he was awarded an honorary doctorate for his life's work by the Faculty of History and Art Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 2004 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Fonts (selection)

  • as editor with Wolfgang Benz : Europe after the Second World War. 1945–1982 (= Fischer World History. Volume 36: The Twentieth Century 2). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-596-60035-9 .
  • as editor with Wolfgang Benz: Weltprobleme between the power blocs (= Fischer-Weltgeschichte. Volume 36: The twentieth century 3). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-596-60036-7 .
  • as editor: Resistance in the Third Reich. Problems, events, shapes. (= Fischer pocket books 4319). Fischer-Taschenbuch Verl, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-596-24319-X .
  • The allies and the division of Germany. Conflicts and decisions. 1941–1948 (= Fischer pocket books 4310). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-596-24310-6 .
  • Reichskristallnacht. Anti-Semitism and persecution of the Jews in the Third Reich (= dtv 4519). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-423-04519-1 .
  • as editor with Wolfgang Benz and Hermann Weiß : Encyclopedia of National Socialism .
  • Europe's way to war. Hitler and the Powers 1939 (= sources and representations on contemporary history. Volume 29). Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-55151-5 .
  • Between Stresemann and Hitler. The foreign policy of the presidential cabinets Brüning, Papen and Schleicher (= series of quarterly journals for contemporary history. Volume 83). Oldenbourg, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-486-64583-8 .
  • Hitler and England. An essay on National Socialist foreign policy 1920 to 1940. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2009, 124 pp. ISBN 978-3-486-59145-3 .
  • Bernhard von Bülow and German Foreign Policy. Hubris and a sense of proportion in the Foreign Office. Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-70945-2 ( review ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Axel Schildt : Between Occident and America. Studies on the West German landscape of ideas of the 50s. Oldenbourg, Munich 1999, p. 48.
  2. ↑ Horst Möller : Europe between the world wars. Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, p. 182.
  3. ↑ dtv.de: table of contents, reading sample (PDF; 2 MB).
  4. ↑ dtv: Foreword to the extended new edition (PDF).
personal data
SURNAME Graml, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Miltenberg
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 2019
Place of death Wasserburg am Inn