Martin Goehring

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Grave of Martin Göhring in the main cemetery in Mainz

Martin Göhring (born November 21, 1903 in Ostdorf ( Württemberg ), † March 8, 1968 in Mainz ) was a German historian .

Life

The Protestant Göhring, who came from an agricultural family, passed the external high school diploma in Esslingen am Neckar in 1927 . He studied geography, German and history at the universities of Tübingen , Paris , Halle and Kiel . With Otto Becker he received his doctorate in 1932 on Feudality in France before and during the French Revolution . In 1934 he joined the NSDAP . Between 1933 and 1937 he did research in France. He completed his habilitation in Kiel in 1938 on the ability to buy office in the Ancien Régime . In 1939 he was given a lectureship in Middle and Modern History at the University of Halle. However, from 1940 he was posted to occupied France to process files from the French Foreign Ministry. From 1942 to 1944 he was Associate Professor of Political Studies and Western European History at the National Socialist Elite University of Strasbourg .

In 1945 Göhring became a lecturer in modern French history at the University of Tübingen , and from 1947 to 1960 visiting professor at the Technical University of Stuttgart . In 1951 he went to the Institute for European History in Mainz as director of the department for universal history . He was also a full professor at the University of Giessen from 1961 until his death .

From 1959 to 1969 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

The focus of Göhring's scientific work was the history of Western Europe, especially France. One of his assistants was Ernst Schulin , later a professor of modern history in Freiburg .

Fonts (selection)

  • The ability to buy office in the ancien régime. Ebering, Berlin 1938.
  • Path and victory of the modern state idea in France. Mohr, Tübingen 1946, 2nd edition 1947.
  • Stresemann. Man, statesman, European. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1956.
  • Bismarck's heirs 1890–1945. Germany's path from Wilhelm II to Adolf Hitler. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1958, 2nd edition 1959.
  • Napoleon. From old to new Europe. Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1959, 2nd edition 1965.

literature

  • Heinz Duchhardt (Ed.): Martin Göhring (1903–1968). Stations of a historical life (= publications of the Institute for European History Mainz. Supplement 64). von Zabern, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3526-1 .
  • Heinz Duchhardt: Martin Göhring and his relationship to French history. In: Ulrich Pfeil (Ed.): The return of German history to the “ecumenism of historians.” An approach to the history of science (= Paris Historical Studies. Volume 89). Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-486-58795-1 ( online )
  • Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 372.
  • Heinz Duchhardt: A career marked by upheavals. The historian Martin Göhring (1903–1968) in his time. (= Historical research. Volume 30). Franz Steiner Verlag, Mainz 2018, ISBN 978-3-515-11966-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Goehring, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH East village
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1968
Place of death Mainz