Hugo Ott

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Hugo Ott (born August 20, 1931 in Königshofen , Main-Tauber-Kreis ) is a German economic historian and emeritus professor for economic and social history , biographer of the philosopher Martin Heidegger .

Life

Hugo Ott in 1959 with the work on the history of the monastery of St. Blaise in the high and late Middle Ages in Freiburg to Dr. phil. doctorate , in 1967 he completed his habilitation with a paper on the late medieval agricultural constitution in the Upper Rhine region.

From 1972 to 1997 Ott held the chair for economic and social history at the historical seminar of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau .

He wrote a biography of Hans Filbinger , the controversial former Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg (together with Wolfgang Jäger and Heinz Hürten ) in 1980, in which he was the first specialist scientist to examine Filbinger's activity as a naval judge (see also: Filbinger Affair ).

He was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Center Resistance Against National Socialism in Southwest Germany at the University of Karlsruhe , headed by Rudolf Lill . Ott is also head of the historians' commission for the beatification of Max Josef Metzger .

He had conversations with Pastor Emil Kiesel in which Kiesel addressed the lack of solidarity in the concentration camp, both among the priests and between priests and their fellow prisoners.

Hugo Ott has been a member of Unitas Reichenau in the Association of Scientific Catholic Student Associations Unitas since 1952 and an honorary member of the KDStV Hercynia Freiburg in CV since 1988 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Hans Filbinger. The "case" and the facts , 1980, ISBN 3775810021 , together with Heinz Hürten, Wolfgang Jäger, Bruno Heck
  • Economic Ploetz. The economic history to look up , Ploetz, Freiburg 2nd edition 1985, ISBN 3876400732 , together with Hermann Schäfer
  • Martin Heidegger. On the way to his biography , Campus, Frankfurt a. M., New York 1988, 2nd edition 1992, ISBN 3593340356
  • Martin Heidegger: A Political Life , Fontana Press 1994, ISBN 0006861873
  • Approaches to Martin Heidegger. Festschrift for Hugo Ott on his 65th birthday Campus, Frankfurt a. M. 1996, edited by Hermann Schäfer
  • History in responsibility. Festschrift for Hugo Ott on his 65th birthday , Campus Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1996, ISBN 3593356015 , edited by Hermann Schäfer
  • Tabernacles Festival 1940 , Lehmanns 3rd edition 2007, ISBN 3865411967
  • Studies on the history of the St. Blasien monastery in the high and late Middle Ages. Stuttgart 1963. (= publications of the commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg; series B, volume 27)
  • The bailiwick over the monastery of St. Blasien since the Zähringer died out until the transition to the House of Habsburg. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine . 113 (NF 74), 1965, pp. 30-44.
  • The monastery manor of St. Blasien in the Middle Ages. Contributions to the history of ownership. Stuttgart 1969. (= Work on the Historical Atlas of Southwest Germany, Vol. 4)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see also Bavarian Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg, Bavarian National Museum. Working group for folklore and cultural history, Bavarian National Museum: BBV: Volume 1 , University of Würzburg, 1999, p. 180ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Ott, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economic historian, Heidegger biographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigshofen