Hugo Rachel

Hugo Rachel (born February 7, 1872 in Siegburg , † March 3, 1945 in Mutters , Austria ) was a German historian . His research focus was the economic history of Brandenburg and Prussia .

Life

Rachel came from a Protestant family spread across northern Germany. He completed his studies in 1904 with a dissertation on a Prussian constitutional history.

Between 1911 and 1928 he edited several volumes of Acta Borussica .

Together with Paul Wallich and Johannes Papritz, Rachel wrote the first volume of Berlin wholesale merchants and capitalists (Berlin 1934), which was banned after its publication because Wallich, although a Christian, was discriminated against as a "Jew" by the National Socialists. Rachel then wrote volume 2 with Wallich (Berlin 1938) and, after his suicide, completed volume 3 (Berlin 1939); both volumes appeared as private prints.

Publications (selection)

• The Great Elector and the East Prussian Estates 1640–1688. Diss., Leipzig 1905 (= state and scientific research 24.1)
• The trade, customs and excise policy of Brandenburg-Prussia. 3 volumes, Berlin 1911 ff. (= Acta Borussica 2)
• (with Johannes Papritz and Paul Wallich :) Berlin wholesalers and capitalists. Vol. 1: Until the end of the Thirty Years War. Berlin 1934 (= publications of the Association for the History of the Mark Brandenburg, Vol. 24), Berlin 1934. (With Paul Wallich :) Vol. 2: The time of mercantilism 1648–1806. Berlin 1938. Vol. 3: Transition to high capitalism 1806–1856. Berlin 1939. Newly published, supplemented and bibliographically expanded by Johannes Schultze, Henry C. Wallich, Gerd Heinrich. 2nd edition Berlin 1967.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Rachel family from Mecklenburg. In: Mitteldeutsche Familienkunde, Volume 23, 1982, p. 4

Web links

• Literature by and about Hugo Rachel in the catalog of the German National Library