Klaus Schwabe (historian)

Klaus Schwabe (born March 23, 1932 in Berlin ) is a German historian . From 1980 until his retirement in 1997 he was Full Professor of Modern History at RWTH Aachen University . Schwabe is particularly concerned with German-American relations and European unification.

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Klaus Schwabe studied at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , where he received his doctorate in 1958 under Gerhard Ritter . He completed his habilitation with Erich Hassinger, also in Freiburg in 1969, in the subject of modern and contemporary history , especially American history. He received his first full professorship in 1972 at the University of Frankfurt . In 1980 he became a full professor at RWTH Aachen University. In 1992 he was awarded a Jean Monnet Professorship and has been retired since 1997 . His successor to the chair in Aachen was Armin Heinen .

Schwabe did research on the topics of German-American relations, American foreign policy and European unification (in particular Robert Schuman , Jean Monnet ). The “entanglement” of university teachers in contemporary history was also repeatedly his research topic (German university teachers in the First World War, Gerhard Ritter, Hans Ernst Schneider ). In 2005 , Eberhard Kolb called his Edition Sources for the Treaty of Versailles , published in 1997, the “best currently existing collection of sources” for these negotiations.

Schwabe was or is a member of the Prussian Historical Commission , Ranke Society , Liaison Group of Historians at the EU, German Studies Association , Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Association of Historians of Germany , American Historical Association , Franco-German Committee for the Research into German and French history of the 19th and 20th centuries, German Committee for the History of the Second World War, German Society for American Studies .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Science and Morale of War. The German university professors and the basic political questions of the First World War . Musterschmidt publishing house, Göttingen 1969 (plus dissertation, University of Freiburg / B.).
• German Revolution and Wilson Peace. The American and German peace strategy between ideology and power politics 1918/19 . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1972, ISBN 3-7700-0219-9 (plus habilitation thesis, University of Freiburg / B.).
  • English revision: Woodrow Wilson, Revolutionary Germany, and Peacemaking 1918/1919. Missionary Diplomacy and the Realities of Power . University Press, Chapel Hill 1985, ISBN 0-8078-9773-6 .
• Woodrow Wilson. A statesman between puritanism and liberalism (= personality and history. Vol. 62). Verlag Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1972, ISBN 3-7881-0062-1 .
• World power and world order. American Foreign Policy from 1898 to the Present. A story of the century . 3. update Ed., Schöningh, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-74783-9 (EA Paderborn 2006).
• Jean Monnet. France, the Germans and the unification of Europe (= publications of the historians liaison group at the Commission of the EC ). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2016, ISBN 978-3-8487-3385-9 .

Editorships

• The beginnings of the Schuman Plan in 1950/51. Contributions from the colloquium in Aachen, 28. – 30. May 1986 . Nomos VG, Baden-Baden 1988, ISBN 3-7890-1543-1 .
• Konrad Adenauer and France 1949–1963. Status and perspectives of research on Franco-German relations in politics, economy and culture (= Rhöndorfer Talks , Vol. 21). Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-416-03075-3 .

literature

• Guido Müller (Ed.): Germany and the West. International Relations in the 20th Century. Festschrift for Klaus Schwabe on his 65th birthday (= historical messages. Supplement 29). Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07251-9 .

Web links

• Schwabe on the RWTH Aachen website

Remarks

1. ↑ Klaus Schwabe: World power and world order. American Foreign Policy from 1898 to the Present. A story of the century. Paderborn et al. 2006, p. XIV.
2. ↑ Eberhard Kolb: The Peace of Versailles. Munich 2005, p. 115.
3. ^ CV of Prof. Schwabe University of Heidelberg.