Ludwig Volk

Ludwig Volk (born September 14, 1926 in Mömbris , † December 4, 1984 in Munich ) was a German Jesuit and historian .

Life

Volk, from the Catholic family of a railway official, attended elementary school in Mömbris and the grammar school in Aschaffenburg , did military service from 1943 to 1945 and passed the Abitur in 1946. On October 1, 1946, he joined the society in Pullach as a novice Jesu , studied philosophy there , interrupted by a prefecture at the Jesuit College St. Blasien , then theology at the University of Innsbruck , followed by a tertiary degree in Murcia, Spain . On July 31, 1956 people were in Munich by Cardinal Joseph Wendel for priests ordained . From 1958 to 1962 he studied history and English at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he passed the first state examination for high school teachers in 1962 . In 1964 he received his doctorate under Karl Bosl with the thesis The Bavarian Episcopate and National Socialism 1930-1934 . He then taught English and history at the Jesuit College St. Blasien for three years. In 1968, Volk was released from his order for the exclusive occupation with church contemporary history and in the same year he became a full-time employee of the commission for contemporary history founded in 1962 . Here he found his life's work and edited six basic source publications for the commission, accompanied by a large number of relevant essays.

Works

Fonts

• The Bavarian Episcopate and National Socialism 1930–1934 (= publications of the Commission for Contemporary History, Series B Volume 1), Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1965.
• The Reich Concordat of July 20, 1933. From the beginnings in the Weimar Republic to ratification on September 10, 1933 (= publications of the Commission for Contemporary History, Series B Volume 5), Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, Mainz 1972.
• Catholic Church and National Socialism. Selected essays , ed. by Dieter Albrecht (= Publications of the Commission for Contemporary History Series B Volume 46), Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, Mainz 1987 (here is a bibliography of the writings of Ludwig Volks, pp. XII-XV).

Editions

• Church files on the Reich Concordat negotiations in 1933 (= publications by the Commission for Contemporary History, Series A, Volume 11), Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1969.
• Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber's files 1917–1945 :
  • Volume I: 1917–1934 (= publications of the Commission for Contemporary History, Series A, Volume 17), Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, Manz 1975.
  • Volume II: 1935–1945 (= publications of the Commission for Contemporary History, Series A Volume 26), Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, Mainz 1978.
• Files of German bishops on the situation of the church 1933–1945 :
  • Volume IV: 1936–1939 (= publications of the Commission for Contemporary History, Series A Volume 30), Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, Mainz 1981.
  • Volume V: 1940–1942 (= publications of the Commission for Contemporary History Series A Volume 34), Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, Mainz 1983.
  • Volume VI: 1943–1945 (= publications of the Commission for Contemporary History Series A Volume 38), Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, Mainz 1984.

literature

• Christoph Kösters / Petra von der Osten: Ludwig Volk (1926–1984). A Catholic contemporary historian , in: Ronald Lambrecht / Ulf Morgenstern (eds.): “Powerfully advanced detailed research”. Articles for Ulrich von Hehl on his 65th birthday , Edition Kirchhof and Franke, Leipzig / Berlin 2012, pp. 27–56.
• Konrad Repgen : Ludwig Volk † , in: Historisches Jahrbuch 105 (1985), pp. 347–352.

Web links

• Ludwig Volks estate at the Commission for Contemporary History
• Ludwig Volk: An unhistorical historian (Review of Guenter Lewy : The Catholic Church and the Third Reich)