Ludwig Zimmermann (historian)

Ludwig Zimmermann (born March 11, 1895 in Schachten , † March 25, 1959 in Riffian , South Tyrol ) was a German modern historian and professor at the University of Marburg and from 1935 until his death at the University of Erlangen .

The teacher's son graduated from high school in Kassel in 1914 and did military service in the First World War. In 1918 he was appointed lieutenant in the reserve. From 1918 he studied at the Universities of Göttingen, Heidelberg and Marburg and received his doctorate there in 1926. In the same year, after his legal clerkship year 1922/23, he was also appointed to the teaching council in Marburg. In 1931 the habilitation followed in Marburg. In 1935 Zimmermann took over a professorship at the University of Erlangen. In 1944 he did research for the Foreign Office in Paris on the background of the French Ruhr War in 1923. In the interests of Nazi education , he contributed to several new history textbooks under Moritz Edelmann in the series People Become the Germans. He also worked on the Franconian and Hessian national history .

Zimmermann had been with the Fichte Society since 1927 and joined the NSDAP on June 1, 1933 . He was in the National Socialist Teachers' Association and acted as an SA Rottenführer . In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges .

Zimmermann had been married since 1924 and had five children.

Fonts (selection)

• France's policy on the Ruhr from Versailles to the Dawes Plan , ed. v. Walther Peter Fuchs , Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1971
• Imperialism: Its intellectual, economic and political objectives , Ernst Klett, Stuttgart 1955 (several editions in the series of sources and workbooks on history and social studies )
• Germany and the Great Powers 1918–1932 , Ernst Klett, Stuttgart 1956 (series of sources and workbooks on history and social studies )
• The unity and freedom movement and the revolution of 1848 in Franconia , Schöningh, Würzburg 1951
• German history from 1648–1871 Teubner, 5th through. Edition Berlin Leipzig 1943 (= people becoming the Germans class 4)

literature

• Hard u. a .: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2006, p. 497

Web links

• Ludwig Zimmermann's personnel sheet in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)