Kurt Georg Hausmann

Kurt Georg Hausmann (born August 15, 1921 in Łódź ; † April 3, 2004 ) was a German historian .

The son of a tailor spent his childhood and youth in Łódź, Poland. He passed the Abitur in 1940 at a German grammar school. Because of his poor eyesight, he was initially exempted from military service. He was able to study in Vienna for one semester. Then he was drafted. As a Polish soldier, he took part in World War II. He was then drafted into the Wehrmacht . Because of his severe nearsightedness, he was used as a medic. In Toruń he was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1945. In 1945 he was released again because of his poor eyesight. With the help of a scholarship from the Evangelical Study Foundation Villigst , he was able to begin studying history in Göttingen. There he studied history with Hermann Heimpel and Reinhard Wittram as well as Slavic studies with Maximilian Braun . At Wittram he received his doctorate with a thesis on the self-image of Poles in their reform journalism at the end of the aristocratic republic. After completing his doctorate, he worked as a lecturer in Polish at the university. In 1958, Hausmann became a research assistant to Georg von Rauch , the first holder of the chair for Eastern European history at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . He helped set up the library and the study processes. He also married in 1958. The marriage had three children. In 1968 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on Roman Dmowski and the beginnings of his political work. In 1971 he became an adjunct professor. The appointment for life followed a year later. Hausmann taught as a professor for Eastern European history at the University of Kiel. After his retirement, Rudolf Jaworski succeeded him in Kiel.

The main focus of his work was on Poland and questions relating to the German-Polish relationship. Hausmann published only a few papers. Above all, he devoted himself to looking after the students and maintaining teaching. During the Cold War era , Hausmann promoted the exchange of students from Kiel and Warsaw. Hausmann was a regular participant in the German-Polish school talks. On his 70th birthday in 1991 he was honored with a ribbon of collected words of thanks.

literature

• Gottfried Schramm : Kurt Georg Hausmann in memory (August 15, 1921– April 3, 2004). In: Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe 53 (2005), pp. 165–166 ( digitized version )
• Peter Nitsche : In memoriam Kurt Georg Hausmann. In: Christiana Albertina: Research and reports from the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 59 (2004), p. 77.

Remarks

1. ↑ Stolat: Professor Kurt-Georg Haussmann's 70th birthday by his students and friends. Kiel 1991.