Michael Salewski

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Michael Salewski (born January 2, 1938 in Königsberg , † May 4, 2010 in Eckernförde ) was a German historian .

Michael Salewski began his service as a seaman in the German Navy in April 1958 . He was one of the first non-war reserve officers who trained the German Navy. He served for a year and later in many military exercises and finally achieved the rank of frigate captain of the reserve. According to his own admission, this period influenced him all his life. After completing his military service, Salewski studied history, Romance studies and philosophy at the universities of Saarbrücken , Besançon and Bonn . He received his doctorate in 1964 under Walther Hubatsch with the thesis Disarmament and Military Control in Germany 1919–1927 . Salewski was one of the first historians to also evaluate British archive material. After receiving his doctorate, he worked on a DFG research project that dealt with the processing of the files of the navy in the Third Reich . He completed his habilitation in 1970 with the first volume Die deutsche Sekriegsleitung between 1935 and 1945 . Two more volumes appeared by 1975. The presentation became the standard work of marine history. For the first time there was a source-based study of the history of the Navy and its position in the Nazi system.

Salewski taught from 1971 to 1980 as a professor of history at the University of Bonn. From 1980 to 2003 he was the successor to Karl Dietrich Erdmann as professor for modern and contemporary history at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . In the meantime, he was visiting professor at Tel Aviv University . His academic students included Birgit Aschmann , Jürgen Elvert , Guntram Schulze-Wegener , Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann and Heinrich Walle . From 1984 to 2002 he was chairman of the Ranke Society . From 1988 to 2003 Salewski published the magazine Das Historisch-Politische Buch (HPB) as the successor to the founding editor Günther Franz . He also published essays on fantastic literature in the yearbook Das Science Fiction Jahr .

Salewski's research interests included German military and naval history, gender history in the 19th and 20th centuries, intellectual and alternative history, and the history and construction of Europe. For the Navy's 160th birthday in 2008, Salewski gave the keynote lecture in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt . On March 8, 2010, he received the Bundeswehr Cross of Honor in gold.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The German naval command 1935–1945. 3 volumes. Volume 1: 1935-1941. Volume 2: 1942-1945. Volume 3: Memoranda and situation reviews 1938–1944. Bernard and Graefe - Verlag für Wehrwesen, Frankfurt am Main 1970–1975.
  • Tirpitz. Ascent - Power - Failure (= personality and history. Volume 12 / 12a). Musterschmidt, Göttingen et al. 1979, ISBN 3-7881-0103-2 .
  • Zeitgeist and time machine. Science fiction and history (= dtv 4445). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-423-04445-4 .
  • Germany. A political story. From the beginning to the present. 2 volumes. Beck, Munich 1993;
  • The Germans and the Sea. Studies on German naval history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Edited by Jürgen Elvert and Stefan Lippert. [Collection of already published essays on the occasion of Salewski's 60th birthday].
    • Volume 1 (= historical communications. Supplement 25). Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07319-1 ;
    • Volume 2 (= historical messages. Supplement 45). Steiner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-515-08087-2 .
  • History of Europe. States and nations from ancient times to the present. Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46168-9 .
  • The First World War. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2003, ISBN 3-506-77403-4 (2nd, revised edition, ibid 2004).
  • Germany and the Second World War. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2005, ISBN 3-506-71390-6 .
  • Revolution of women. Construct, sex, reality (= historical messages. Vol. 75). Steiner, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-515-09202-9 .
  • Navy and History. A personal argument. Published by the Navy Officers Association . Köllen, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-88579-472-1 . (Salewski's autobiography).

Editorships

  • The nuclear century. An interim balance sheet (= historical communications. Supplement 28). Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07321-3 .
  • What happened if. Alternative and parallel history. Bridges between fantasy and reality (= historical messages. Supplement 36). Steiner, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-515-07588-7 .

literature

  • Birgit Aschmann: On May 4th 2010 Prof. Dr. phil. Michael Salewski [obituary]. In: Christiana Albertina. Vol. 71, 2010, ISSN  0578-0160 , p. 58.
  • Birgit Aschmann: En hommage à - In memory of Michael Salewski (1938–2010). In: Franco-German Committee for the Study of German and French History of the 19th and 20th Centuries (Ed.): Bulletin n ° 20 | No. 20, September | September 2010, p. 15 online .
  • Jürgen Elvert: Memories of Michael Salewski. In: Historical communications. Vol. 23 (2010), pp. 4-9. Also published on the homepage of the Ranke Society ( online ).
  • Jürgen Elvert: Michael Salewski (1938–2010) An obituary. In: The Historical-Political Book. 58 vol. (2010), pp. 1–3.
  • Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann, Jürgen Elvert, Birgit Aschmann, Jens Hohensee (eds.): Historical images. Festschrift for Michael Salewski on his 65th birthday. (= Historical communications. Supplement 47). Steiner, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08252-2 .
  • Heinrich Walle: Obituary for Professor Dr. Michael Salewski. In: Marineforum . No. 6, 2010, ISSN  0172-8547 , p. 41.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Michael Salewski: Navy and History. A personal argument. Bonn 2011, passim.
  2. ^ Jürgen Elvert: Michael Salewski (1938-2010) An obituary. In: Das Historisch-Politische Buch , 58 vol. (2010), pp. 1–3, here: p. 1.
  3. ^ Jürgen Elvert: Michael Salewski (1938-2010) An obituary. In: Das Historisch-Politische Buch , 58 vol. (2010), pp. 1–3, here: p. 2.
  4. ^ Jürgen Elvert: Michael Salewski (1938-2010) An obituary. In: Das Historisch-Politische Buch , 58 vol. (2010), pp. 1–3, here: p. 3.
  5. ↑ Carl Amery : Possibly: A dialogue. In: Das Science Fiction Jahr 1987. Vol. 2, edited by Wolfgang Jeschke , Heyne, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-453-31365-8 , pp. 575-577.
personal data
SURNAME Salewski, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 2010
Place of death Eckernförde