Max Braubach

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Max Braubach (born April 10, 1899 in Metz , † June 21, 1975 in Bonn ) was a German historian . Braubach taught from 1928 to 1967 as a full professor of history at the University of Bonn . He published important studies on the history of the Rhenish territories in the 17th and 18th centuries and the University of Bonn. His main work is the five-volume biography of Prince Eugene .

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Max Braubach came from a bourgeois family in Cologne. He grew up in Strasbourg as the youngest of five children. His father rose to the top of the Prussian official hierarchy and became a miner captain . In 1916 he passed the Abitur at the imperial lyceum in Strasbourg. Braubach wanted to become an officer. But first he studied law for one semester in 1916/17. In 1917/1918 he took part in the First World War as a flag junior of the Strasbourg hussar regiment. Most recently he held the rank of lieutenant and fought on the Western Front . After the First World War, Braubach first studied history and economics in the summer semester of 1919 in Heidelberg and since the winter semester of 1919/20 in Bonn. He interrupted his studies in Heidelberg for a one-semester study visit to Munich. There he became a member of the Catholic student association Rheno-Bavaria in the KV . His academic teacher in Bonn was Aloys Schulte . In October 1922, at the age of 23, he received his doctorate from Schulte with a thesis on the importance of subsidies for foreign policy in the War of the Spanish Succession . In 1924 he completed his habilitation in Bonn with a biography of Max Franz , the last elector of Cologne. On April 1, 1928, at the young age of 29, Braubach was given the concordat chair in Bonn as the successor to his teacher Schulte . He held this chair until his retirement on March 31, 1967. He thus held one of the most important chairs in Germany.

Braubach elected the Center Party until 1933 . From 1936 to 1967 he was chairman of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine . He took part in the Second World War from the beginning and fought in the west. From the beginning of 1940 he was a captain and later a major. Braubach was deployed from 1942 to 1944 on the staff of the military commander in France General Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel , a resistance fighter, with the rank of major . There he met Colonel Hans Speidel and other people. In October 1945 Braubach was released from American captivity.

After the Second World War, Braubach was considered politically unencumbered. Braubach was only a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare and the Reich Air Protection Association . As a conservative, Braubach maintained a “clear distance” from “politically compromised historians and journalists of the extreme right” such as Günther Franz , Herbert Grabert and Kurt Ziesel . Braubach played a major role in the reconstruction of the University of Bonn in the post-war period. In 1946 he was elected vice dean and denazification officer. Braubach was elected vice dean in 1946/47, dean in 1947/48 and rector of the University of Bonn in 1959/60. From 1953 he was a member of the Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties in Bonn and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. From 1957 he was chairman of the Association for the Study of Modern History, which wanted to research history from the 16th to the 20th century. Braubach was a member of the advisory board of the German Historical Institute in Paris and remained so until 1969. Braubach dealt with events in recent history at an unusually early stage in his seminars. In the summer semester of 1946 Braubach held a course on the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 . As early as 1950 he was supervising a doctoral thesis on contemporary history. His research report Der Weg zum 20 July 1944 , published in 1953, was the “best critical review of the available material” at the time.

As an academic teacher, Braubach supervised five habilitations and 140 doctorates. His academic students included Andreas Biederbick , Eugen Ewig , Manfred Funke , Eduard Hegel , Herbert Hermesdorf , Hans Horn , Josef Jansen , Georg Kliesing , Herbert Lepper , Horst Günther Linke , Walter Loch , Günther von Lojewski , Friedrich J. Lucas , Wolfram Köhler , Norbert Matern , Klaus Müller , Konrad Repgen , Horst Romeyk , Dieter Schuster , Stephan Skalweit , Karl Stommel and Hermann Weber . His student Repgen succeeded Braubach as a professor in Bonn in 1967.

In the decades of his work, Braubach presented three dozen books, more than 200 essays and probably up to 1000 reviews. His main research interests were the European history of the late 17th and 18th centuries, the history of the Rhineland in the same period, contemporary history up to 1945 and the history of the University of Bonn. On the occasion of his 70th birthday, 32 essays were published under the title Diplomacy and Spiritual Life in the 17th and 18th Centuries . His main work is the five-volume biography about Prince Eugen , which was published between 1963 and 1965. Braubach presented an overview of the history of the Rhine from 1648 to 1815. Braubach was one of the authors of the " Gebhardt ", the respected handbook for history teachers and history students. In the 1931 edition he was the author for the period from 1740 to 1815. In the post-war editions he dealt with the period from 1648 to 1815. Braubach was awarded numerous scientific honors and memberships for his research. Braubach was elected to the advisory board of the Görres Society as early as 1930 . He was a full member of the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1951), honorary member of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research (1958), corresponding member of the Philosophical-Historical Class of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1964) and a member of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Sciences (1970). Braubach was also Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Palmes académiques (1961). He received an honorary doctorate from the universities of Clermont-Ferrand (1958) and Vienna (1965). In 1964 a festival was dedicated to Braubach. In addition, Braubach received the Great Federal Cross of Merit with Star in 1969 and the Great Silver Medal of Honor with Star in 1971 . Braubach had been a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia since October 19, 1951 .

Braubach died in 1975 at the age of 76 in a Bonn clinic. Braubach had already lost his wife on July 6, 1957. He was buried on June 26, 1975 in the Poppelsdorf cemetery in Bonn. On April 27, 1976, a memorial ceremony for the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn took place. The historical seminar of the University of Bonn and the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine held a centenary on April 10, 1999.

Fonts (selection)

  • Thomas P. Becker: Bibliography Max Braubach (1923–1974). In: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine, in particular the Old Archdiocese of Cologne, Vol. 202 (1999), pp. 75–93.

Monographs

  • Wilhelm von Fürstenberg (1629–1704) and French politics in the age of Louis XIV. Bonn 1972
  • Diplomacy and Spiritual Life in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Collected Treatises. Bonn 1969.
  • Prince Eugene of Savoy. A biography. Munich 1963–1965.
    • Vol. 5: Man and Fate , 1965.
    • Vol. 4: The Statesman , 1965.
    • Vol. 3: To the peak of fame , 1964.
    • Vol. 2: The General , 1964.
    • Vol. 1: Ascent , 1963.
  • The chronicle of the life of Baron Franz Wilhelm von Spiegel to this mountain. At the same time a contribution to the history of the Enlightenment in Rhineland-Westphalia. Munster 1952.
  • Versailles and Vienna from Louis XIV to Kaunitz. The preliminary stages of the diplomatic revolution in the 18th century. Bonn 1952.
  • Kurköln. Figures and events from two centuries of Rhenish history. Munster 1949.
  • The first university in Bonn and its professors. A contribution to the Rhenish intellectual history in the Age of Enlightenment. Bonn 1947.
  • Austrian diplomacy at the court of Elector Clemens August of Cologne 1740–1756. In: Annals of the historical association for the Lower Rhine […]. Cologne, Heft 111, 1927, pp. 1-80, and Heft 112, 1928, pp. 1-70.
  • Max Franz of Austria last elector of Cologne and Prince-Bishop of Munster. Attempt a biography based on unpublished sources. Munster 1925.

literature

  • Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine, in particular the Old Archdiocese of Cologne, Vol. 202 (1999). (Therein: Konrad Repgen: Max Braubach. Leben und Werk . Pp. 9–41. Christoph Kampmann: An “old style” biography? Prince Eugene and his time in historical research since 1965. pp. 43–62. Rudolf Morsey : Max Braubach and contemporary history . Pp. 63–74. Thomas P. Becker: Bibliography Max Braubach (1923–1974). Pp. 75–93. Vers .: PhD students of Max Braubach 1930–1973 . Pp. 95–104.)
  • Eduard Hegel: Max Braubach † In: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine, in particular the Old Archdiocese of Cologne, Vol. 178 (1976), pp. 303-306.
  • Ursula Lewald: Max Braubach 1899–1975. In: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter Vol. 40 (1976), pp. VII – XII.
  • Johannes Spörl : Max Braubach 1899–1975. In: Historisches Jahrbuch Vol. 95 (1975), pp. 170-187.
  • Konrad Repgen : In Memoriam Max Braubach. In: Historische Zeitschrift Vol. 224 (1977), pp. 82-91.
  • Konrad Repgen, Stephan Skalweit (ed.): Mirror of history. Ceremony for Max Braubach on April 10, 1964. Aschendorff, Münster 1964.
  • Konrad Repgen: Max Braubach. Person and work. In: Ulrich Pfeil (Ed.): The German Historical Institute Paris and its founding fathers. A personal history approach (= Paris historical studies. Vol. 86). Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58519-3 , pp. 104-117. ( Digitized version )
  • Joachim Scholtyseck : From the War of the Spanish Succession to the Resistance against Hitler. The polymath Max Braubach (1899–1975). In: Institute for History (Ed.): 150 Years of the Historical Seminar. Profiles of Bonn History. Income from a lecture series (= Bonn historical research. Volume 64). Franz Schmitt, Siegburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-87710-211-4 , pp. 179-193.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Konrad Repgen: Max Braubach. Person and work. In: Ulrich Pfeil (Ed.): The German Historical Institute Paris and its founding fathers. Munich 2007, pp. 104–117, here: p. 105 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Konrad Repgen: Max Braubach. Person and work. In: Ulrich Pfeil (Ed.): The German Historical Institute Paris and its founding fathers. Munich 2007, pp. 104–117, here: p. 107, note 15 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Konrad Repgen: Max Braubach. Person and work. In: Ulrich Pfeil (Ed.): The German Historical Institute Paris and its founding fathers. Munich 2007, pp. 104–117, here: p. 105, note 5 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Johannes Spörl: Max Braubach 1899–1975. In: Historisches Jahrbuch, Vol. 95 (1975), pp. 170-187, here: p. 172.
  5. ^ Konrad Repgen: Max Braubach. Person and work. In: Ulrich Pfeil (Ed.): The German Historical Institute Paris and its founding fathers. Munich 2007, pp. 104–117, here: p. 109, note 26 ( digitized version ).
  6. ^ Konrad Repgen: Max Braubach. Person and work. In: Ulrich Pfeil (Ed.): The German Historical Institute Paris and its founding fathers. Munich 2007, pp. 104–117, here: p. 113 ( digitized version ).
  7. ^ Rudolf Morsey: Max Braubach and the contemporary history. In: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine, especially the Old Archdiocese of Cologne, vol. 202, 1999. pp. 63–74, here: p. 63.
  8. ^ Konrad Repgen: In Memoriam Max Braubach. In: Historische Zeitschrift, Vol. 224 (1977), pp. 82-91, here: p. 89.
  9. ^ Konrad Repgen: Max Braubach. Life and work. In: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine, especially the Old Archdiocese of Cologne, vol. 202, 1999, pp. 9–41, here: p. 16.
  10. ↑ Max Braubach's doctoral students 1930–1973 . In: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine , in particular the old Archdiocese of Cologne , Vol. 202 (1999), pp. 95-104.
  11. ^ Konrad Repgen: Max Braubach. Person and work. In: Ulrich Pfeil (Ed.): The German Historical Institute Paris and its founding fathers. Munich 2007, pp. 104–117, here: p. 111 ( digitized version ).
  12. ^ Max Braubach: From the French Revolution to the Congress of Vienna. In: Herbert Grundmann (Ed.): Gebhardt. Handbook of German History. Stuttgart 1970, Vol. 3, pp. 1-96.
  13. ↑ Konrad Repgen, Stephan Skalweit (ed.): Mirror of history. Ceremony for Max Braubach on April 10, 1964. Münster 1964.
  14. ↑ On the numerous honors and memberships cf. Johannes Spörl: Max Braubach 1899–1975. In: Historisches Jahrbuch Vol. 95 (1975), pp. 170–187, here: p. 173.
  15. ↑ In memoriam Max Braubach. Speeches held on April 27, 1976 at the commemoration of the Philosophical Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Cologne and others in 1977.
  16. ^ The papers were published in: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine, especially the Old Archdiocese of Cologne, Vol. 202 (1999).
personal data
SURNAME Braubach, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Metz
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1975
Place of death Bonn