Jonathan Wright (historian, 1941)

Jonathan Richard Cassé Wright (born October 24, 1941 in Nairobi , Kenya ) is a British historian and political scientist .

He taught contemporary history , politics and international relations at the University of Oxford from 1969 to 2009 . In Germany he is best known for his biography of Gustav Stresemann , the translation of which was presented in 2006 by Hans Mommsen .

Fonts (selection)

• “Above parties”. The political attitudes of the German protestant Church leadership 1918–1933. Oxford University Press, London 1974.
  • "Above the parties". The political stance of the Protestant church leaders 1918–1933. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1977 ( digitized ).
• Gustav Stresemann. Weimar's greatest statesman . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002.
  • Gustav Stresemann 1878–1929. Weimar's greatest statesman . DTV, Munich 2006.
• Germany and the Origins of the Second World War . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2007.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jonathan Wright in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Jonathan Wright at perlentaucher.de
• Reviews:
  • Iring Fetscher : The statesman of the Weimar Republic , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , December 4, 2002.
  • Heinrich August Winkler : German nationalist and good European , Die Zeit , No. 3/2003, January 9, 2003.
  • Paul Nolte : Profession: Politiker , Die Tageszeitung , No. 6953, January 14, 2003, p. 14.
  • Christian Hacke : A liberal thoroughbred politician , Das Parlament , No. 40– / 2006, October 2, 2006
  • Klaus Hildebrand : statesman in the intermediate world , the world November 18, 2006
  • Wolfgang Elz : Three biographies on Gustav Stresemann , Sehepunkte , Edition 4 (2004), No. 10
  • Annette Wilmes : From Politician to Statesman , Deutschlandradio Kultur , December 21, 2006

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Place of birth: Karl Heinrich Pohl (Ed.): Politicians and citizens. Gustav Stresemann and his time. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, p. 300.
2. ↑ Stresemann biographer Jonathan Wright on November 8, in conversation with Hans Mommsen in Munich , press , DVA website, November 8, 2006, accessed on September 12, 2015.