Hermann Weber (historian, 1922)

Hermann Weber (born February 17, 1922 in Bad Kreuznach , † August 15, 2014 in Mainz ) was a German historian .

Hermann Weber passed the Abitur in 1940 in Idar-Oberstein . From 1940 to 1941 he studied art history and philosophy at the University of Munich . From 1941 to 1945 he did military service. In 1946/47 he studied philosophy at the Trier Theological Faculty . From 1950 to 1954 Weber studied history and philosophy at the University of Bonn . In 1951/52 he conducted research in the archives of the French Foreign Ministry and the Bibliothèque nationale de France . Weber was a student of Max Braubach and Konrad Repgen in Bonn . In 1954 he received his doctorate from Braubach in Bonn. In his dissertation he dealt with the politics of Karl Theodor von der Pfalz during the Austrian War of Succession . 1954 also took place the state examination in history and philosophy.

From 1955 to 1957 Weber received a DFG grant in Paris to prepare an edition of instructions for French envoys at the German ecclesiastical courts. From 1958 to 1968 he was a research assistant at the German Historical Research Center in Paris (from 1964 German Historical Institute Paris ) and from 1966 to 1968 deputy director. In 1969 Weber co-founded the Monumenta Europae Historica and was its president from 1993 to 1997. His habilitation with a thesis on French policy on the Rhine and the Reich in the Richelieu era took place in 1966 with Stephan Skalweit in Saarbrücken . From 1968 until his retirement in 1987 he taught general and modern history at the University of Mainz as a full professor . From 1969 to 1992 he was a member of the advisory board of the DHI Paris and from 1970 to 1985 a member of the advisory board of the Institute for European History. His main area of ​​work was Franco-German relations and maintaining the Franco-German partnership.

Fonts

Monographs

• The policy of Elector Karl Theodor von der Pfalz during the Austrian War of Succession (1742–1748) (= Bonn historical research. Volume 6). Röhrscheid, Bonn 1956 DNB 480463816 (Dissertation University of Bonn, Philosophical Faculty, May 26, 1954, 314 pages).
• France, Kurtrier, the Rhine and the Reich. 1623–1635 (= Paris Historical Studies. Volume 9). Röhrscheid, Bonn 1969 DNB 458584193 (Habilitation thesis Universität Saarbrücken [1969], 418 pages full text online free of charge, 421 pages in viewer by perspectivia.net).

Editorships

• Enlightenment in Mainz (= writings of the Mainz Philosophical Faculty Society. Volume 9). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1984, ISBN 3-515-04150-8 .
• Political orders and social forces in the Old Reich (= publications of the Institute for European History, Mainz. Volume 8). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1980, ISBN 3-515-03121-9 .

literature

• Ulrich Pfeil : Prehistory and foundation of the German Historical Institute Paris. Presentation and documentation (= Instrumenta. Vol. 17). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 3-7995-7917-6 , p. 239.
• Heinz Duchhardt , Eberhard Schmitt (ed.): Germany and France in the early modern period. Festschrift for Hermann Weber on his 65th birthday (= Ancien Régime, Enlightenment and Revolution. Vol. 12). Oldenbourg, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-486-54161-7 .
• Bernard Vogler: Hermann Weber (1922-2014). In: Francia 42 (2015), pp. 401-402 ( online ).
• Heinz Duchhardt : Hermann Weber (1922-2014). In the S. (Ed.): Mainzer Historiker (= contributions to the history of the University of Mainz. Vol. 16). V&R unipress, Mainz University Press, Mainz 2020, ISBN 978-3-8471-1115-3 , pp. 149–170.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Weber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hermann Weber , in: Directory of professors at the University of Mainz. (Accessed October 28, 2018)