Hugo Preller

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Hugo Preller (born June 1, 1886 in Uftrungen , Sangerhausen district , German Empire ; † March 15, 1968 in Dornburg , GDR ) was a German historian .

Live and act

One of Hugo Preller's last publications before the professional ban was in 1934 the new edition of volume 375 of the Göschen Collection on English history, originally published in 1914 by Lambert Gerber

Hugo Preller was the son of a country pastor. He studied history and theology in Bonn, Göttingen and Berlin, but had to graduate from the state examination after six semesters due to financial difficulties. He was not called up for military service in World War I due to a congenital hip damage.

As a religion teacher, he first worked in Stralsund and then in Gotha . In 1923 he received his doctorate in Bonn under Fritz Kern with a thesis on world politics in the 19th century . Since the mid-1920s he has published numerous articles and reviews on foreign policy and international relations. As a result of recommendations from Kern and Karl Brandi , he received a teaching position for source and foreign studies at the University of Jena in addition to his school work.

In 1927 he completed his habilitation with the font Salisbury and the Turkish Question in Jena in 1865 . From 1927 to 1939 he taught foreign studies, international relations and recent history there. An appointment as honorary professor failed in 1934 due to opposition from the NSDAP . In 1935 a publication ban appears to have been imposed on Preller. This was followed by pre- trial detention and forced delivery to the Stadtroda insane asylum near Jena, and finally he was transferred to early retirement. He did not become an honorary professor until 1946 and from 1948 he held the chair for historical statology and contemporary history until his retirement in 1952.

Fonts

  • Antiquity, its political and spiritual development and its aftermath . Teubner, Leipzig 1920.
  • World historical lines of development from the 19th to the 20th centuries in culture and politics . Teubner, Leipzig 1922.
  • The world politics of the 19th century . ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1923 [ed. 1922].
  • Salisbury and the Turkish Question in 1895 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1930.
  • The history of the post-war period and its treatment in history teaching in high schools . Teubner, Leipzig 1931.
  • English history . de Gruyter, Berlin 1934.
  • England's world politics as equilibrium politics (approx. 1815 until today) . de Gruyter, Berlin 1935.
  • History of the historiography of our cultural area . Part 1. Antiquity up to 330 BC Ztw. The Hellenistic period (330 before to 330 after Ztw.). Scientia Verlag, Aalen 1967.

literature

  • Hans Walther: Hugo Preller in memory. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft , Volume 16, 1968, p. 1324.
  • Matthias Steinbach : "Late professions". Career patterns and scientific profiles of the Jena historians Hugo Preller (1886–1968) and Friedrich Schneider (1887–1962). In: Tobias Kaiser / Steffen Kaudelka / Matthias Steinbach (eds.): Historical thinking and social change. Studies on the history of science between the empire and the German two-state state, Berlin 2004, pp. 53–89, ISBN 3-936411-23-9 .
  • Albrecht Timm: Hugo Preller † . In: Historische Zeitschrift , Vol. 208 (1969), pp. 519-520.
  • Manfred Weißbecker: Hugo Preller - a contemporary historian in the conflicts of his time. In the S. (Ed.): Force, shape, memories. Contributions to the history of the FSU Jena in the first years after 1945 . Jena 2002, ISBN 3-935850-12-3 , pp. 198-210.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Matthias Steinbach: "Spätberufen". Career patterns and scientific profiles of the Jena historians Hugo Preller (1886–1968) and Friedrich Schneider (1887–1962). In: Tobias Kaiser, Steffen Kaudelka, Matthias Steinbach (eds.): Historical thinking and social change. Studies in historical studies between the German Empire and the German two-state system . Berlin 2004, pp. 53–89, here: p. 69.
personal data
SURNAME Preller, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Uftrungen
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1968
Place of death Dornburg