Hubert Mohr

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Hubert Mohr as a young Pallottine

Hubert Mohr (born May 3, 1914 in Altenhundem ; † January 22, 2011 in Potsdam ) was a German Pallottine and historian .

Life

Hubert Mohr, nephew of the painter Franz Mohr , graduated from high school in Oberlahnstein in 1934 and joined the Society of Apostolic Life of the Pallottines in the same year . From 1935 to 1941 he studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the Limburg University of Applied Sciences and the University of Münster . In 1940 he was ordained a priest. At the Second World War Mohr took from 1941 to 1944 as a medic in part. He deserted in April 1944 and was then a Soviet prisoner of war until 1949. There he worked on the National Committee for Free Germany . In 1947 he became a lecturer at the Antifa School in Krasnodar and remained so until his release. In 1949 he returned to Germany in the Soviet zone of occupation and was excommunicated , but at the same time he was also a teacher of history and Russian at a high school in Saxony. From 1950 to 1957 Mohr worked first as a staff member, then as main consultant at the German Central Pedagogical Institute (DPZ) in East Berlin. From 1956 he was also head of the department for distance learning for history teachers at the DPZ.

Early on, Mohr also worked part-time as a lecturer at the evening universities of the SED district leaderships in Dresden and Potsdam . In 1951 he became a lecturer at the Institute for Teacher Training "Edwin Hoernle" in Radebeul . Since 1957 Mohr has been entrusted with teaching general and German history of the Middle Ages at the Potsdam University of Education . In November 1960 Mohr did his doctorate with Walther Eckermann and Eduard Winter on the subject of the "Catholic Apostolate". An instrument of political clericalism in West Germany. Shown using the example of the story of the Catholic Apostolate (SAC) and the Schoenstatt Movement . Since 1961 he has held a professorship in Potsdam. The habilitation followed in 1964 with the same reviewers on the subject of the development of the Catholic order in imperialist Germany . Since February 1965 he had a teaching position for general history of the Middle Ages in Potsdam, in 1968 he became a full professor. From 1969 until his retirement in 1979 he was a professor at the chair. Between 1965 and 1972 Mohr also acted as Vice-Rector for Forecasting and Scientific Development. At the end of the 1980s he was a member of the Presidium of the GDR Historian Society , an honorary member since 1982.

Mohr's scientific publications have received international recognition and attention since the 1960s. He was mentioned by name with The Catholic Apostolate in the Dizionario degli Istituti di perfezione (vol. 1, 1974, page XV, Introduzione by Giancarlo Rocca, Edizioni Paoline) - a rare honor bestowed on a Marxist in this Vatican publication. His scientific adaptations and translations also received recognition and attention. In the 1970s, Mohr took on the translation and scholarly editing of the two-volume edition of the book by Josef Grigulewitsch Heretic-Witches-Inquisitors (13th - 20th centuries) (Moscow 1970; Berlin 1976, 2nd edition 1980, 1988 ) for Akademie-Verlag , 1995, paperback 2000), meanwhile a standard work on the history of the Inquisition. This was followed by the scientific processing of the translation of Aaron Gurewitsch's book The World View of Medieval Man (Moscow 1972; Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1978; Munich 1980). In 1984 the Urania-Verlag published the book The Popes of the 20th Century (Moscow 1981; Leipzig / Jena / Berlin 1984), which he translated and edited . This was followed by scientific contributions in various publications on cultural-historical topics until the 1990s. The scientist also published reports from contemporary witnesses and poems ( Jugendgedichte , 2003, Russische Lyrik , 2005).

Mohr worked since 1959 as an unofficial employee under the code name IM Rottek for the Ministry for State Security of the GDR. Since 1979 it has been listed as an “expert IM” IME . He was the recipient of the gold medal for loyal service to the MfS. In 1997 he was laicized by a Vatican decree . His civil marriage, which had been concluded in 1950, was recognized and he was re-admitted to the Catholic Church. Mohr was a highly decorated scientist in the GDR. In 1969 he received the National Prize of the GDR III. Class, 1989 the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. His estate is in the Brandenburg State Main Archive in Potsdam.

Fonts

  • Introduction to home history (Ed. With Erik Hühns), DVW, Berlin 1959
  • The Catholic apostolate. On the strategy and tactics of political Catholicism , Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1962 (Contributions to the history of religious and scientific thought, vol. 2)
  • Catholic Orders and German Imperialism , Academy, Berlin 1965
  • Introduction to the Study of History (Ed. With Walther Eckermann ), DVW, Berlin 1969
  • Byzantium and the Arab Caliphate. Presentation for the history teacher , People and Knowledge, Berlin 1973 [2. Edition 1976; 3rd edition 1981; 4th edition 1984]
  • Restorative movements in the FRG , Warnemünde 1985
  • Russian poetry as a revelation of the Russian soul , NORA, Berlin 2005 ISBN 3-86557-042-9
  • Heart, you should start over ... Youth poems , NORA, Berlin 2003 ISBN 3-936735-38-7
  • Who lives in world history (Goethe). Articles , RPress, Berlin 2004

literature

  • 2005 Discourse on Mohr's biography in the journal of the SED State Research Association. ISSN  0948-9878 .
  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , pp. 432-433.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ example His conscience following. In: Sandra Schneider (editor): I've seen it. The 20th century in eyewitness accounts. Cornelia-Goethe-Akademie-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-86548-207-4
personal data
SURNAME Mohr, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Pallottine and historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenhundem
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 2011
Place of death Potsdam