Horst Hartwich

Horst Wolfgang Hartwich (born May 18, 1924 in Berlin ; † July 20, 2000 there ) was a founding member of the Free University of Berlin and the long-standing head of its academic external office.

Life

After graduating from high school, the son of a pharmacist attended the Lessing-Gymnasium in Berlin , from which, however, he was expelled in the spring of 1942 as a "Jewish misfit"; his father was "non-Aryan", his mother "Aryan". He got by with temporary work until the end of 1944 he was forced to go to a work camp run by the Todt Organization near Zerbst to expand an airport. After the end of the war, Hartwich made up his Abitur and began studying medicine at the University of Unter den Linden. He was socio-politically active in the CDUwhich he co-founded in the Western Sectors. Hartwich was mainly involved in student politics and he was one of the editorial members of the student magazine Colloquium, which first appeared in May 1947 with an American license. When, in the course of the Cold War, plans arose to found a university of their own in the western part of the city, Hartwich was one of the student activists who pushed ahead with the development of the new university. In the first elected student council of the Free University, he was external advisor and speaker in the Senate. In parallel to his medical exams and his doctorate , he was in charge of the university's external academic office; in the winter semester of 1953/1954 he became a full-time managing director. As "Foreign Minister" of the university, Hartwich campaigned for years to be involved in the support programs of the Fullbright Foundation and the Ford Foundation . He maintained close contacts with US universities and was primarily responsible for German-American academic relations. It was Hartwich who hung a medallion on US President Kennedy in 1963, making him an honorary member of Freie Universität. In retirement, Horst Hartwich remained connected to the university, through his work as managing director of the Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft , in the German-American Information Office , as a member of the “Luftbrückendank” foundation and as an active contemporary witness for contemporary historical research and on podiums at scientific conferences. He was a holder of the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class. His wife was the actress Hannelore Minkus .

literature

Stanislaw Karol Kubicki, Siegward Lönnendonker (ed.): 50 Years of the Free University of Berlin - from the Point of View of Contemporary Witnesses (1948–1998) . Central University Printing House , Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-929532-60-3 .

Siegward Lönnendonker: Free University of Berlin 1948–1988. A German university in current affairs. Scientific publishing house Spiess Berlin 1988. ISBN 3-89166-921-6

Uwe Prell, Lothar Wilker: The Free University of Berlin 1948–1968–1988: Views and Insights. BWV - Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-87061-353-X .

James F. Tent: In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Fate of German-Jewish "half-breeds" in the Third Reich . Böhlau-Verlag Cologne and Weimar 2007, ISBN 9783412163068

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Personal entry in Manfred Heinemann (Ed.): University officers and the reconstruction of higher education in Germany 1945-1949 . W. de Gruyter 2009 (p. 436)

↑ James F. Tent: In the shadow of the Holocaust: Fates of German-Jewish "half-breeds" in the Third Reich. Böhlau Verlag Cologne and Weimar 2007, p. 65ff.

^ Stanislaw Karol Kubicki, Siegward Lönnendonker (ed.): 50 Years of the Free University of Berlin - from the Point of View of Contemporary Witnesses (1948–1998). Central University Print Shop, Berlin 2002 p. 34.

↑ John F. Kennedy . An exhibition by the German Historical Museum in collaboration with the John F. Kennedy Institute of the Free University of Berlin.

↑ James F. Tent: In the shadow of the Holocaust: Fates of German-Jewish "half-breeds" in the Third Reich. Böhlau Verlag Cologne and Weimar 2007, p. 278.

↑ Gesine Schwan : Science and politics in public responsibility: Problem diagnoses in a time of upheaval: in memory of Richard Löwenthal . P. 10, Nomos-Verlag-Ges., 1995, p. 10. ISBN 978-3-789039164

personal data
SURNAME	Hartwich, Horst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hartwich, Horst Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German founding member of the Free University of Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH	May 18, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	July 20, 2000
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Personal entry in Manfred Heinemann (Ed.): University officers and the reconstruction of higher education in Germany 1945-1949 . W. de Gruyter 2009 (p. 436)

[2] James F. Tent: In the shadow of the Holocaust: Fates of German-Jewish "half-breeds" in the Third Reich. Böhlau Verlag Cologne and Weimar 2007, p. 65ff.

[3] Stanislaw Karol Kubicki, Siegward Lönnendonker (ed.): 50 Years of the Free University of Berlin - from the Point of View of Contemporary Witnesses (1948–1998). Central University Print Shop, Berlin 2002 p. 34.

[4] John F. Kennedy . An exhibition by the German Historical Museum in collaboration with the John F. Kennedy Institute of the Free University of Berlin.

[5] James F. Tent: In the shadow of the Holocaust: Fates of German-Jewish "half-breeds" in the Third Reich. Böhlau Verlag Cologne and Weimar 2007, p. 278.

[6] Gesine Schwan : Science and politics in public responsibility: Problem diagnoses in a time of upheaval: in memory of Richard Löwenthal . P. 10, Nomos-Verlag-Ges., 1995, p. 10. ISBN 978-3-789039164