Hermann Weiß (historian)

Hermann Weiß (born February 29, 1932 in Gunzenhausen ; † October 11, 2015 ) was a German historian with a research focus on National Socialism .

Hermann Weiß studied German, history and English at the universities of Munich and Tübingen . From 1961 to 1997 he worked at the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) in Munich , and from 1972 also deputy archive manager. In 1979/80 he was provisional director of the IfZ archive.

The main area of his work was the time of National Socialism and contemporary history . Together with Wolfgang Benz and Hermann Graml he was the editor of the standard work Encyclopedia of National Socialism . He was also the editor of the work Biographisches Lexikon zum Third Reich .

Fonts

Edits

Robert S. Wistrich : Who was who in the Third Reich. Supporters, followers, opponents from politics, business, military, art and science. Harnack, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-88966-004-5 (revised and expanded German edition of Who's Who in Nazi Germany by Hermann Weiß . Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1982); last in 1993.

with Heinz Boberach and Rolf Thommes: offices, abbreviations, actions of the Nazi state. Handbook for the use of sources from the National Socialist era. Office titles, ranks and administrative divisions, abbreviations and non-military cover names. On behalf of the Institute for Contemporary History. Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11271-8 .

Editorships

with Paul Hoser : The German Nationals and the Destruction of the Weimar Republic. From Reinhold Quaatz's diary 1928–1933 (= series of quarterly journals for contemporary history . Volume 59). Oldenbourg, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-486-64559-5 .
with Wolfgang Benz and Hermann Graml : Encyclopedia of National Socialism . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1997; 5th edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-34408-1 .
Biographical lexicon of the Third Reich . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-10-091052-4 (emerged from Who was who in the Third Reich , see above).

Essays

Hermann Göring's notes in the Institute for Contemporary History. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . Vol. 31 (1983), pp. 365-368 ( PDF ).
Le fonti sulla storia del collaborazionismo nell'Institute for Contemporary History di Monaco. In: Luigi Cajani, Brunello Mantelli (eds.): Una certa Europa. Il collaborazionismo con le potenze dell'Asse 1939–1945. Le fonti. Fondazione Luigi Micheletti, Brescia 1994, pp. 89-116.

literature

Mike Malm: White, Hermann. In: German Literature Lexicon . 3. Edition. Vol. 30 (2010), p. 15 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Web links

Literature by and about Hermann Weiß in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Obituary notice , Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 17, 2015.
↑ ^a ^b Im Gedenken , website of the Institute for Contemporary History, October 15, 2015, accessed on October 20, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	White, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian
DATE OF BIRTH	February 29, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gunzenhausen
DATE OF DEATH	October 11, 2015

[1] Obituary notice , Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 17, 2015.

[nr-2] Im Gedenken , website of the Institute for Contemporary History, October 15, 2015, accessed on October 20, 2015.