Karl Richard Ganzer

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Karl Richard Ganzer (born May 5, 1909 in Gunzenhausen , † October 11, 1943 at Vysoky near Gomel ) was an anti-Semitic German historian during the Nazi era .

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After completing his school career, the merchant's son completed a degree in history at the University of Munich . In 1932/33 he was awarded a doctorate by Karl Alexander von Müller with the very well graded work " Richard Wagner and the Revolution". phil is doing his doctorate. During his studies he joined the NS student union and became a member of the NSDAP and the SA as early as 1929 . From 1935 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Reich Institute for the History of New Germany . Her marriage to Lydia Gottschewski in 1935 resulted in four children. From 1938 he headed the Munich branch of the Reich Institute for the History of New Germany.

In the autumn of 1941 he was made an honorary Hitler Youth leader. After Walter Frank was relieved of his post as President of the Reich Institute for the History of New Germany at the end of 1941 , Ganzer took over provisional management of the institute. In this context he wrote the work The Empire as a European regulatory power . This pamphlet was extremely successful in its day. It reached 378 editions and 850,000 sales copies. Ganzer was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1943. He fell in the Belarusian SSR on October 11, 1943 . Posthumously , Ganzer was awarded the Knight's Cross for the War Merit Cross on September 15, 1944 .

His writings were placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet zone of occupation in 1946 . Ganzer's extensive estate is in the Koblenz Federal Archives , including files from his institute activities and journalistic work.

Fonts (selection)

  • Go on, go on !: The novel d. German departure 1917–1933 , Loewe, Stuttgart 1933.
  • Richard Wagner, the revolutionary against the 19th century, Bruckmann , Munich 1934. (Zugl .: Munich, Phil. I. Sect., Dissertation )
  • On Hitler's Struggle for the Reich: 1924–1933, Contemporary History , Berlin 1935 (2nd edition 1942)
  • Das deutsche Führergesicht , JF Lehmanns Verl., Munich 1935. (published in four editions until 1941)
  • Spirit and State in the 19th Century , Hanseatic League. Verl. Anst., Hamburg 1936.
  • November 9, 1923 , Albert Langen / Georg Müller, Munich 1936
  • Richard Wagner and Judaism , Hanseatic. Verl. Anst., Hamburg 1939
  • The holy farmer , Hanseatic. Verl. Anst., Hamburg 1939
  • Uprising and Reich , JF Lehmanns Verl., Munich 1940 (2nd edition 1942)
  • The Reich as a European regulatory power , Hanseatic League. Verl. Anst., Hamburg 1941

literature

  • Helmut Heiber : Walter Frank and his Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany (= sources and representations on contemporary history. Vol. 13). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1966, ISSN  0481-3545 .
  • Matthias Berg : Karl Richard Ganzer. In: Michael Fahlbusch , Ingo Haar , Alexander Pinwinkler (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Völkischen Wissenschaften. Actors, networks, research programs. With the assistance of David Hamann. 2nd, fundamentally expanded and revised edition. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin / Boston 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-043891-8 , pp. 203-209.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Berg: Karl Alexander von Müller. Historian for National Socialism. Göttingen 2014, p. 162.
  2. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 174.
  3. ^ Rolf Hellmut Foerster : The idea of ​​Europe 1300-1946: Sources for the history of political unification. dtv, Munich 1963, p. 264.
  4. ^ Curriculum vitae of Holle Ganzer In: Holle Ganzer, Hölderlin's Ode «Chiron» , Diss. FU Berlin, 1976, p. 235.
  5. ↑ a b Wolfgang A. Mommsen (editor): The bequests in the German archives: (with additions from other holdings) , Part II, Writings of the Federal Archives, Harald Boldt Verlag, Boppard am Rhein 1983, (No. 7092), p. 755.
  6. ^ Bernd Schneidmüller : From the German constitutional history to the history of political orders and identities in the European Middle Ages. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 53, 2005, pp. 485–500, here: p. 490. Stephanie Kluge: Continuity or change? For the evaluation of high medieval royal rule by the early West German medieval studies. In: Frühmittelalterliche Studien , Vol. 48, 2014, pp. 39–120, here: p. 62.
  7. ^ Klaus D. Patzwall: Die Ritterkreuzträger des Kriegsverdienstkreuz, 1942–1945: a documentation in words and pictures , Verlag Militaria-Archiv KD Patzwall, 1984, p. 186.
  8. ^ German Administration for National Education in the Soviet Zone of Occupation, List of Literature to be Separated , Zentralverlag, Berlin 1946
personal data
SURNAME Ganzer, Karl Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian under National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Gunzenhausen
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1943
Place of death near Vysoky near Gomel