Oswald Hauser

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Oswald Hauser (born November 9, 1910 in Altona ; † December 9, 1987 in Kiel ) was a German philologist and historian .

Life

Hauser was born in 1910 as the son of a Reichsbahn official and his wife. He studied German, history, English and philosophy in Marburg, Munich , Hamburg and Kiel. First he started at the Philipps University of Marburg . In the summer semester of 1929 he became active in the Hercynia fraternity , which later merged with the Marburg fraternity Rheinfranken . He later moved to the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 1935 he passed the state examination for higher teaching qualifications in Marburg and was admitted to the Philosophical Faculty in 1936 with the dissertation Gustav Frenssen as a Low German poet. Studies on the landscape and folklore of his homeland for Dr. phil. PhD . Since 1937 he was teacher at the Old School Flensburg .

In 1939 he was called up as a reserve officer for the Wehrmacht and was used in the western campaign and in the German-Soviet war . Most recently he was a captain .

On February 8, 1950 , he completed his habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel for Medieval and Modern History with the work Tensions in the Anglo-Russian Entente and Possibilities of German Foreign Policy before the First World War and became a private lecturer . On April 1, 1952, he was transferred to Kiel as a teacher and taught at the Kiel School of Academics until 1959 . In 1959 he became professor and scientific advisor at the history seminar of Christian-Albrechts-Universität.

The RWTH Aachen University appointed him on 30 November 1964 the Chair of Modern History; Hauser continued to teach in Kiel. He was also a visiting professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax (Nova Scotia) and at St Antony's College of Oxford University . He retired in Aachen on April 1, 1979 .

He was head of the Franco-German historians and history teachers commission and board member of the Ranke Society and the Prussian Historical Commission (chairman from 1977 to 1987). In 1976 he became a corresponding member of the Académie d'Aix-en-Provence .

Hauser, of Protestant denomination, was married and the father of two children.

Fonts (selection)

  • Gustav Frenssen as a Low German poet. Studies on the landscape and folklore of his homeland (= form and spirit . Volume 40). Eichblatt, Leipzig 1936.
  • Germany and the Anglo-Russian opposition 1900–1914 (= Göttingen building blocks for the science of history . Volume 30). Muster-Schmidt, Göttingen a. a. 1958.
  • Prussian reasons of state and national thought. Based on unpublished files from the Schleswig-Holstein state archive. With a document attachment (= sources and research on the history of Schleswig-Holstein . Volume 42). Wachholtz, Neumünster 1960.
  • State unity and regional diversity in Prussia. The development of the administration in Schleswig-Holstein after 1867 . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1967.
  • (Ed.): Political parties in Germany and France, 1918–1939. 10 lectures . F. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1969.
  • (Ed.): World politics . For the Ranke Society . Multi-volume, Musterschmidt, Göttingen a. a. 1973 ff.
  • (Ed.): History and historical awareness. 19 lectures . For the Ranke Society. Muster-Schmidt, Göttingen a. a. 1981, ISBN 3-7881-1735-4 .
  • (Ed.): Lectures and studies on Prussian-German history (= New research on Brandenburg-Prussian history . Volume 2). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 1983, ISBN 3-412-10782-4 .
  • (Ed.): On the problem of "Prussia and the Reich" (= new research on Brandenburg-Prussian history . Volume 4). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 1984, ISBN 3-412-06483-1 .
  • (Ed.): Prussia, Europe and the Reich (= new research on Brandenburg-Prussian history . Volume 7). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 1987, ISBN 3-412-05186-1 .
  • (Ed.): Friedrich der Grosse in his time (= new research on Brandenburg-Prussian history . Volume 8). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 1987, ISBN 3-412-08186-8 .
  • (Ed.): The divided Germany in its international entanglements. 15 lectures . For the Ranke Society. Muster-Schmidt, Göttingen a. a. 1987, ISBN 3-7881-1745-1 .
  • with Waltraud Hunke , Wolfgang J. Müller : Das Haus Glücksburg and Europe . Mühlau, Kiel 1988, ISBN 3-87559-058-9 .

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SURNAME Hauser, Oswald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1987
Place of death Kiel