Kurt Borries

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Kurt Borries (born March 23, 1895 in Berlin , † January 23, 1968 in Esslingen am Neckar ) was a German historian and university professor.

Life

Kurt Borries was the son of a Berlin Reichsbahn inspector. After graduating from high school, he took part in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 , most recently as a first lieutenant . He then studied history, German language and literature, political science and philosophy at the universities of Berlin and Tübingen , where he received his doctorate in 1924. phil. received his doctorate . Adalbert Wahl was in charge of the work . In 1927 he passed the state examination for higher teaching post in Berlin. In 1929 he completed his habilitation in middle and modern history with a paper on "Kant as a politician" at the University of Tübingen, where he then taught as a private lecturer .

From 1920 to 1921 Borries had already belonged to the German People's Party and from 1926 to 1928 to the Society "German State". In the course of the emergence of National Socialism, he joined the Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur (KfdK) in 1932 and, after the National Socialists came to power in March 1933, the NSDAP ( membership number 1.497.091). In March 1933 he signed the declaration of 300 university lecturers for Adolf Hitler . He also became a member of the SA , the Nazi teachers 'association , the Nazi lecturers' association , the Reichs Luftschutzbund , the Nazi lecturers association and the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV).

From November 1933 Borries was part of the leadership council in Tübingen initiated by Rector Albert Dietrich . His anti-republican and national sentiments were no different from that of many colleagues who were not party members. Since he had "some differences with party comrades", the Reich Ministry of Science, Education and National Education rejected Borries' appointment to a full professorship. From 1935 onwards he took on professorships at the universities of Rostock , Hamburg and Königsberg . Despite the support of influential National Socialist colleagues and seminar topics chosen for opportunistic reasons ("Historical exercises on National Socialism and foreign policy using selected chapters from Hitler's Mein Kampf" in the winter semester of 1936/37), Borries was unable to succeed his teacher Adalbert Wahl , who retired in 1937, in Tübingen. In 1937 he only received a part-time associate professor at the University of Tübingen, according to his career. From 1938 to 1945 he taught intermittently as a tenured associate professor at the University of Giessen , since it after the start of World War II in 1939 as captain of the reserve for the armed forces was called and was after a short teaching from November 1940 almost two years at the German Archives Commission in Paris used.

After the end of the war, he moved from Gießen to Eßlingen am Neckar in 1946. In 1949 he received a lectureship in English and American history at the University of Tübingen. He retired in Gießen in 1960. He belonged to the Kuratorium Indivisible Germany . He was married to Hildegard, nee Rieger; the couple had a child.

Fonts (selection)

  • The romance and history: studies on the romant. Life form . Deutsche Verlagsges. f. Politics and History, Berlin 1925 (Zugl. Tübingen, Phil. Diss., 1925)
  • Kant as a politician: Zur Staats- u. Social theory d. Criticism . F. Meiner, Leipzig 1928 (reissued in 1973 by Aalener Scientia-Verlag)
  • Prussia in the Crimean War (1853-1856) . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1930
  • Limits and tasks of history as a science . JCB Mohr, Tuebingen 1930
  • Prussia, Austria and Germany in the last hundred years (1815–1918) . JCB Mohr, Tübingen 1937
  • The importance of the French Revolution for the creation of the modern world . JCB Mohr, Tübingen 1938
  • German unity: fate a. Order . Steiner, Laupheim Württ. 1954
  • The German Southwest in its historical function . Steiner, Laupheim Württ. 19545
  • Germany in the circle of the European powers: A histor.-polit. Analysis . Tauchnitz, Stuttgart 1963

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  1. ↑ Jörg-Peter Jatho, Gerd Simon: Gießener Historiker im Third Reich , Gießen 2008, p. 62
  2. ↑ As an alternative to Borries joining the NSDAP in March 1933, 1932 is also given as the year of entry. Compare Mathias Kotowski: The public university: Event culture of the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen in the Weimar Republic . Contubernium: Tübingen contributions to the history of universities and science, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 216
  3. ^ A b c Mathias Kotowski: The public university: Event culture of the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen in the Weimar Republic . Contubernium: Tübingen contributions to the history of universities and science, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 216
  4. ↑ Uwe Dietrich Adam: University and National Socialism. The University of Tübingen in the Third Reich , Tübingen 1977, p. 143
  5. ↑ Hans Georg Gundel, Peter Moraw, Volker Press: Gießener Gelehre in the first half of the 20th century , Marburg 1982, Volume 2, Part 2, pp. 774f.
  6. ↑ a b Rolf Rieß (ed.), Carl Schmitt and Ludwig Feuchtwanger (authors): Correspondence 1918–1935: With a foreword by Edgar J. Feuchtwanger , Duncker & Humblot GmbH, 2007, p. 124
  7. ↑ Who is who? , Volume 14, Schmidt-Römhild, 1962, p. 147
personal data
SURNAME Borries, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1968
Place of death Esslingen am Neckar