Hermann Kellenbenz

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Hermann Kellenbenz (born August 28, 1913 in Süßen , Göppingen district ; † November 26, 1990 in Warngau ) was an internationally renowned German economic historian and most recently professor of history, economic and social history at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .

Live and act

Hermann Kellenbenz received his school education at the later so-called Freihof-Gymnasium Göppingen . He then studied history, art and literature history at the Universities of Tübingen , Munich , Kiel and Stockholm . In 1938 he obtained his doctorate from Kiel University. phil. with a dissertation on the Swedish domain Holstein-Gottorf .

In 1939 Kellenbenz was called up for military service and then for military service. He returned as a war invalid and in 1939 became an employee of the " Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany ", headed by Walter Frank , in the " Research Department Jewish Issues " headed by Karl Alexander von Müller . There he received a research assignment on Hamburg's financial Jewry and its crisis. These Sephardic Jews were expelled from Portugal and before that from Spain with the Alhambra Edict 1492 at the end of the 16th century and were accepted into Hamburg. Kellenbenz had shown their economic importance for northern Germany. In 1942 Kellenbenz received his habilitation with the completed manuscript “Hamburg Financial Judaism and Its Crisis”. In the spring of 1945, Kellenbenz burned all the files of the Munich “Research Department Jewish Question” for days - presumably on orders. In 1958 he published a modified version of his habilitation thesis with the new title "Sephardim on the Lower Elbe". Since then, this has been considered a standard work. In the mid-1960s, Helmut Heiber and Karl Ferdinand Werner examined the past of German historians. They prove that a number of historians, including Fritz Fischer and Hermann Kellenbenz, were active in the vicinity of the Frank'sche Institute. These findings led to emotional reactions in other political contexts only long after these publications.

In 1948 Kellenbenz took on a teaching position at the Philosophical-Theological University of Regensburg . In 1950 he completed his habilitation for the second time at the Philosophical Faculty of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . There he taught first as a private lecturer and then as an adjunct professor until 1957. From 1952 to 1953 he was a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation for some time in the USA at the Research Center for Entrepreneurial History at Harvard University , where he worked closely with Fritz Redlich , Arthur H Cole and Frederic C. Lane of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

From 1953 to 1954 Hermann Kellenbenz worked at the École Pratique des Hautes Études with well-known French historians, some from the group of the Annales School , to which Fernand Braudel also belonged. In 1957 Hermann Kellenbenz became a full professor at what was then the University of Economics and Social Sciences in Nuremberg . In 1960 Kellenbenz accepted a professorship for economic history at the University of Cologne , where he also held the position of director of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsarchiv . In 1969 he initiated the Cologne Lectures on Social and Economic History . For this purpose, internationally renowned scholars were recruited and the contributions were then made available to a wider audience in print. This resulted in a series of publications, among whose authors there is even a Nobel Prize winner in economics, Robert Fogel .

In 1970 Hermann Kellenbenz returned to Nuremberg to the chair for economic and social history at the economic and social science faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , where he taught until his retirement in 1983. In 1970 he became Scientific Director of the Fugger Archive in Dillingen / Danube. There he took particular care of the extensive Spanish sources. Shortly before his death, this resulted in one of his main works: The Fuggers in Spain and Portugal until 1560 .

During his time in Nuremberg, Kellenbenz worked on the relationship between Nuremberg and the Iberian Peninsula, on the Behaim question , on trade in Nuremberg around 1540, on trade and industry in the imperial city in the late Middle Ages, on the economic life of Nuremberg in the age of Willibald Pirckheimer and on individual Nuremberg merchants in the context of international trade. In 1974 he published the Medersche Handelsbuch and the Welser supplements in the "German Commercial Files of the Middle Ages and Modern Times". In his writings he also addressed the trade relations between Nuremberg and Italy.

Hermann Kellenbenz was a member of the historical commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , a member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and a number of foreign academies (Copenhagen, Brussels, London and Madrid).

estate

The library, which has over 12,000 volumes, is located in the Cologne Rhenish Economic Archive.

Honors

Works (selection)

  • Holstein-Gottorff, a Swedish domain. A contribution to the history of North German and North European politics from 1657–1675 . Kiel, Phil. Diss., 1940. Hirzel, Leipzig [1940], XI, 244 pages (= writings on the political history and racial studies of Schleswig-Holstein ; Volume 4).
  • Entrepreneurs in the Hamburg Portugal and Spain trade. 1590-1625 . Verlag der Hamburgische Bücherei, Hamburg 1954, 424 pages, with Darst. (= Publications of the Wirtschaftsgeschichtliche Forschungsstelle e.V .; Volume 10).
Digital copy , Hamburg State and University Library
  • Portuguese research and sources on the question of behavior . In: Communications of the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg , Volume 48, 1958, pp. 79–95, digital-sammlungen.de .
  • Sephardim on the lower Elbe. Their economic and political importance from the end of the 16th to the beginning of the 18th century . [modified version of the post-doctoral thesis from 1942/44: Hamburg Finance Judaism and its Crisis ]. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1958, XII, 606 p., With box, 1 fold. (= Quarterly for social and economic history ; supplements; No. 40).
Digital copy , Hamburg State and University Library
  • A French travelogue about Nuremberg and Franconia from the end of the 16th century . In: Communications of the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg , Volume 49, 1959, pp. 226–245, digital-sammlungen.de .
  • Nuremberg trade around 1540. Georg Bergler on his 60th birthday . In: Communications of the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg , Volume 50, 1960, pp. 299-324, digital-sammlungen.de .
  • Problems of a German Social History of Modern Times . Glock u. Lutz, Nürnberg 1961, 68 pages (= publications of the Nuremberg University of Economics and Social Sciences ; Volume 16).
  • Mercantilism and social mobility in Europe . F. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1965, 71 pp. (= Lectures ; No. 42).
  • The sugar industry in the Cologne area from the Napoleonic era to the founding of the empire . Industrial u. Chamber of Commerce, Cologne 1966, 235 pp.
  • Götz Freiherr von Pölnitz (1906–1967), obituary . In: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (VSWG), vol. 56, 1969, issue 3, p. 282.
  • The Fugger Maestrazgopacht (1525–1542). On the history of the Spanish orders of knights in the 16th century . Mohr (Siebeck), Tübingen 1967, VIII, 402 p. (= Publications of the Swabian Research Association at the Commission for Bavarian State History ; Series 4; Vol. 9: Studies on Fugger History ; Vol. 18).
  • Georg Peurl's factor invoice . In: Communications of the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg , Volume 63, 1976, pp. 183–191, Digitale-sammlungen.de .
  • German economic history . Beck, Munich (Beck's special editions);
    • Volume 1: From the beginning to the end of the 18th century , 1977, ISBN 3-406-06987-8 , 412 pp.
    • Volume 2: From the end of the 18th century to the end of the Second World War , 1981, ISBN 3-406-06988-6 , 544 pp.
  • Schleswig in the Gottorf period 1544–1711 . Edited by the Society for Schleswig City History. Schleswiger Druck- und Verlags-Haus, Schleswig 1985, ISBN 3-88242-091-X .
  • The Fugger as landowners and landowners in front of Austria with special consideration of the Lake Constance area , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 103rd year 1985, pp. 63-74.
  • The cradle of modernity. European Economy and Society 1350–1650 . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-608-91357-2 , X, 410 pp.
  • The Fuggers in Spain and Portugal until 1560. A large company of the 16th century . 2 vols. Verlag Ernst Vögel, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-925355-60-X . Volume 32 / 1–2 (= writings of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Augsburg ; Volume 33).
  • Small fonts . In: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (VSWG), supplements 92–94. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1991;
    • Volume 1: Europe, space for economic encounters . (= VSWG supplement ; No. 92), Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-515-05805-2 , 441 pages (articles in German and French).
    • Volume 2: Dynamics in a quasi-static world . (= VSWG supplement ; No. 93), Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-515-05854-0 , pp. 447-741.
    • Volume 3: Economic performance and social change . Edited from the estate and provided with an afterword, a list of the author's publications and an index for all 3 volumes by Rolf Walter. VSWG supplement no. 94, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-515-05896-6 , pp. 749–1282, table of contents Erlangerhistorikerseite.de.

Editor and Associate Editor

  • 1961 to 1971 series of publications by the Rhenish-Westphalian economic archive
  • 1969 to 1972 lectures in Cologne on social and economic history
  • Since 1964 co-founder and co-editor of the "Yearbook of State, Economy and Society of Latin America"
  • Since 1968 co-editor of the quarterly journal for social and economic history and the series of its supplements
  • Studies on Fugger history since 1970
  • Since 1970 "Colloquia on international social and economic history"
  • Since 1971 "Research on international social and economic history"
  • Since 1977 co-editor of the "Latin America Studies" of the Latin America section of the Central Institute 06 of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

literature

  • Kellenbenz, Hermann . In: Who is who? The German Who's Who , 1969/70.
  • Rolf Walter : Obituary Prof. Dr. Hermann Kellenbenz (August 28, 1913– November 26, 1990). In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg. (MVGN), Volume 78 (1991), pp. VIII-X, Digitale-sammlungen.de .
  • Manfred Jessen-Klingenberg : Hermann Kellenbenz, b. August 28, 1913, died November 26, 1990. In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History 119 (1994), pp. 9-10 ( digitized version ).
  • Hermann Kellenbenz, 1913–1990 [obituary]. In: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (VSWG) 78, 1991, p. 1.
  • Helmut Heiber : Walter Frank and his Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany . Deutsche Verl.-Anst., Stuttgart 1966, 1273 pages, 2 supplements in back loop (= sources and representations on contemporary history ; vol. 13).
  • Karl Ferdinand Werner : The NS-historical image and the German historical science. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1967, 123 pp. (= Living knowledge ).
  • Jürgen Schneider in connection with Karl Erich Born (Hrsg.): Economic forces and economic routes . Festschrift for Hermann Kellenbenz . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1978 (contributions partly in German, English, French, Italian, Swedish, Spanish);
    • Volume 1: Mediterranean and Continent , 1978, ISBN 3-12-912620-1 , 744 pages (= contributions to economic history ; Volume 4);
    • Volume 2: Economic Forces in European Expansion , 1978, ISBN 3-12-912630-9 , 740 pages (= contributions to economic history ; Volume 5);
    • Volume 3: On the way to industrialization , 1978, ISBN 3-12-912640-6 , 692 pages (= contributions to economic history ; Volume 6);
    • Volume 4: Übersee und general economic history , 1978, ISBN 3-12-912650-3 , 746 S. (= contributions to economic history ; Volume 7);
    • Volume 5: (1981), ISBN 3-12-912660-0 , 890 pages, graph. Representations (= contributions to economic history ; Volume 8).
  • Stefan Tangermann : Hermann Kellenbenz August 28, 1913 - November 26, 1990 . In: Yearbook of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1995, Göttingen 1997, pp. 234–238.
  • Dirk Rupnow : Continuities in Nazi Jewish Research? , in: Hamburg Key Documents on German-Jewish History , September 22, 2016, doi : 10.23691 / jgo: article-88.de.v1
  • Jeanette Granda: Hermann Kellenbenz (1913–1990). An international (economic) historian in the 20th century. Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-8305-3755-7 (Matthias Berg: Review , H-Soz-Kult, February 11, 2020).
  • Jeanette Granda: Hermann Kellenbenz as a cultural historian . In: Scripta Mercaturae. Journal for Economic and Social History , vol. 47, 2018, pp. 191–208.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rolf Walter: Obituary Prof. Dr. Hermann Kellenbenz (August 28, 1913– November 26, 1990) . In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg , (MVGN), Volume 78 (1991), pp. VIII – X.
  2. ↑ ihk-koeln.de ( Memento from January 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved December 2010.
  3. ^ Association for Hamburg History .
personal data
SURNAME Kellenbenz, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Cuties
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1990
Place of death Warngau