Joachim Remak

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Hermann Joachim Remak , Joe , (born December 4, 1920 in Berlin ; died June 16, 2001 in Santa Barbara ) was an American historian.

Life

Remak's family emigrated from National Socialist Germany to the USA in 1938 . He studied history at the University of California, Berkeley and made a BA in 1942 and an MA in 1946. He worked for the State Department at the occupation authorities in Germany and served in the United Kingdom. After returning to the United States, he received his doctorate from Stanford University in 1955 , where he then worked as an instructor for three years. From 1958 he was a lecturer at Lewis and Clark College in Portland . Since 1965 Joe Remak taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara . In 1966 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship , in 1967 he was appointed professor and in 1984 he retired. In 1969 his essay The Healthy Invalid: How Doomed the Habsburg Empire? the American Historical Association's Higby Prize for the best YHM article in the past two years.

Remak researched recent German history and the First World War. His publication on the assassination attempt in Sarajevo in 1914 was still considered a standard work in 2014.

Fonts (selection)

  • England, Germany, and Portugal's Empire: A Chapter in Diplomatic History, 1912–1914 . MA in History. University of California, Berkeley 1946
  • Germany and the United States, 1933-1939 . Ph. D. Stanford University 1954
  • Hitler's America Policy , in: Foreign Policy Journal for International Issues , 6 (1955), pp. 706–714
  • Sarajevo. The Story of a Political Murder . London: Criterion, 1959
  • The Gentle Critic: Theodor Fontane and German Politics, 1848–1898 . Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1964
  • The Nazi Years: A Documentary History . New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1969
  • The Healthy Invalid: How Doomed the Habsburg Empire? , in: The Journal of Modern History , 41 (1969): pp. 127-143.
  • 1914 — The Third Balkan War: Origins Reconsidered , in: The Journal of Modern History , 43 (1971): pp. 353-366.
  • The Origins of World War I, 1871-1914 . Textbook. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Wilson, 1967
  • (Ed.): The Nazi Years: A Documentary History . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969
  • The First World War: Causes, Conduct, Consequences . Textbook. New York: Wiley, 1971
  • The Origins of the Second World War . Textbook. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1976
  • (Ed.): War, Revolution, and Peace. Essays in Honor of Charles B. Burdick . Lanham: University Press of America, 1987, ISBN 0-8191-6342-2 .
  • with Jack Dukes (Ed.): Another Germany: A Reconsideration of the Imperial Era . Boulder: Westview Press, 1988
  • A Very Civil War: The Swiss Sonderbund War of 1847 . Boulder: Westview Press, 1993
    • Fratricidal quarrel, not fratricide. The Swiss Sonderbund War of 1847 . Translation by Irmhild and Otto Brandstädter with the assistance of the author. Zurich: Orell Füssli, 1997 ISBN 3-280-02801-9

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography Joachim Remak, in: Andreas W. Daum ; Hartmut Lehmann ; James J. Sheehan (Ed.): The second generation: émigrés from Nazi Germany as historians; with a biobibliographical guide . New York, NY: Berghahn, 2016, ISBN 9781782389859 , p. 426
  2. ↑ Hubert Wetzel: Der perplexed judge , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 28, 2014, p. VZ9
personal data
SURNAME Remak, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Remak, Hermann Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 2001
Place of death Santa Barbara (California)