Kurt von Raumer

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Kurt von Raumer (born December 15, 1900 in Erlangen , † November 22, 1982 in Münster ) was a German historian and professor of modern history .

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The son of Erlanger Oberstudiendirektor Council Sigmund von Raumer (1860-1939) and Marie Emilie von Ammon (* 1867), had in 1919 the volunteer corps of Konstantin Hierl connected. After studying history and obtaining a doctorate to become a Dr. phil. In 1924 and his habilitation in 1928 on The Destruction of the Palatinate in 1689 , he was taken on as a private lecturer from 1929 and from 1935 as an adjunct professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In the same year he went to the Herder Institute in Riga as a full professor . In May 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP .

In the 1930s, Raumer hoped to do justice to his “national educational task” by depicting the “historical highlights” that strengthened the “self-confidence of the people” and the “times of national happiness”. In 1938 he declared that the view of history had turned from state history to popular history .

In 1939, Raumer received the former chair of the expelled Hans Rothfels at the Albertus University in Königsberg and in 1942 he was appointed professor for middle and modern history at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. Here he was also a member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia and 1943–1946 its chairman.

Although Raumer had discredited himself politically , he was able to keep his chair in Münster and continue teaching and researching without restrictions. However, he held back politically and publicly apologized to his colleagues at the Munich Historians' Day in 1949 . In the post-war years, Raumer specialized in economic and social history . In 1956 he was also a specialist reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG) and, from 1959, chairman of the history committee.

Kurt von Raumer, descendant of the old former Bavarian, later Saxon noble family von Raumer , was the great-grandson of the geologist, geographer and educator Karl Georg von Raumer (1753-1833) and the grandson of the linguist Rudolf von Raumer (1815-1876).

Works (selection)

  • The destruction of the Palatinate in 1689 in connection with the French policy on the Rhine . Munich 1930.
  • The destruction of the Palatinate in 1689 in connection with the French policy on the Rhine. Oldenbourg, Munich et al. 1930, (Reprint unchanged in the text, expanded to include the plate part. Pfaehler, Bad Neustadt an der Saale 1982, ISBN 3-922923-16-X ). Google Books
  • The Rhine in German destiny. Speeches and essays on the West Question (= Prussian Yearbooks. Series of publications. No. 24, ZDB -ID 217933-7 ). Stilke, Berlin 1936.
  • as contributors: Bolshevism and the Baltic front (= World War and post-war period. Lfg. 1 = Baltic countries. Vol. 4, 1, ZDB -ID 542868-3 ). Hirzel, Leipzig 1939.
  • East and West in the survey of 1813. Published by the Gesellschaft für Rheinische Geschichtskunde. Hanstein, Bonn 1940.
  • as editor with Theodor Schieder : Stages and Changes in German Unity. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart et al. 1943.
  • King Heinrich IV. The idea of ​​peace and power politics in the struggle for the renewal of France (= representation and interpretation. 4). Silva, Iserlohn 1947.
  • with Emil Lehnartz : Sense and Legacy of the German Revolution 1848 (= publications of the Society for the Promotion of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. H. 22, ISSN  0933-2049 ). Speeches at the memorial ceremony of the University of Münster on May 13, 1948, Aschendorff, Münster 1949.
  • Eternal peace. Peace calls and peace plans since the Renaissance. Alber, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 1953.
  • Germany around 1800. Crisis and restructuring 1789–1815 (= Handbook of German History. 3, 1). 3 volumes. Athenaion, Constance 1959–1960.
  • The Freiherr vom Stein and Goethe (= writings of the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gesellschaft. H. 6, ZDB -ID 500460-3 ). Aschendorff, Münster 1965.

literature

  • Jörg-Peter Jatho, Gerd Simon: Giessen historian in the Third Reich . Giessen 2008, ISBN 978-3-88349-522-4 , p. 68 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 482.
  2. ↑ a b c Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed. :) German Biographical Encyclopedia . Saur, Munich 2007, Volume 8, ISBN 978-3-598-25030-9 , p. 209.
  3. ^ Ingo Haar : Historians in National Socialism. German history and the “national struggle” in the east . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-35942-X , p. 297.
  4. ↑ Ursula Wolf: Litteris et patriae. The Janus face of history . Steiner, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-515-06875-9 , p. 174.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang J. Mommsen : Overturned Monuments? The cases of Aubin, Conze, Erdmann and Schieder . In: Jürgen Elvert (Ed.): Historical debates and controversies in the 19th and 20th centuries. Anniversary meeting of the Ranke Society in Essen, 2001 . Steiner, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08253-0 , pp. 96-109, here: p. 98.
  6. ↑ Thomas Etzemüller: social history as a political story. Werner Conze and the reorientation of West German history after 1945 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-486-56581-8 , pp. 32 and 132.
  7. ↑ Thomas Etzemüller: social history as a political story. Werner Conze and the reorientation of West German history after 1945 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-486-56581-8 , pp. 132f. and 171.
personal data
SURNAME Raumer, Kurt von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH gain
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1982
Place of death Muenster