Otto Becker (historian)

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Otto Becker (born July 17, 1885 in Malchow (Mecklenburg) , † April 17, 1955 in Kiel ) was a German historian .

Life

Otto Becker was born the son of a cloth maker, factory owner and councilor. After graduating from high school at the Güstrow Cathedral School in 1905, he studied at the University of Heidelberg , in Freiburg im Breisgau and in Berlin . Becker received his doctorate in 1909. In 1910, he worked with the Japanese historian Hisho Saito on the publication of a history of Japan in German. In 1910 and 1911 he served as a one-year volunteer in an artillery regiment. From 1912 to 1914 he worked as a lecturer at the Okayama Imperial State University. He took off at the beginning of the First World Warparticipated in the fighting to defend the port controlled by the German Reich in the Chinese Tsingtau ( siege of Tsingtau ) and became a prisoner of war after the victory of the Japanese-British allies . In 1920 he returned to Germany and worked as private secretary to the chairman of the supervisory board of Siemens and Halske AG, Carl Friedrich von Siemens . From 1920 to 1927 he managed the business of the Notgemeinschaft der deutschen Wissenschaft . In 1924 he received his habilitation for Middle and Modern History in Berlin. In 1927 Otto Becker became a full professor in Halle . From 1931 he worked at the University of Kiel . In 1935/36 he was temporarily in talks to take a position as an exchange professor in Tokyo. He retired in 1953.

Otto Becker was one of the founding members of the state association CDU Schleswig-Holstein on January 4, 1946 and was considered to be their "programmatic head". From April 1946 to 1951 he was - along with the notary Max Emcke , the Kiel mayor Willi Koch and the former publisher Curt Heinrich of the Kieler Zeitung and the Kieler Latest News - as a license holder with a 10 percent share in the newly founded Kieler Nachrichten .

In 1950 he took part in the founding of the Ranke Society and was co-editor of its magazine Das Historisch-Politische Buch .

Private

He had been married to Hildegard Becker (born Becker, 1907–1991) since 1928 and had five children. His estate is in the Schleswig-Holstein State Archives .

Memberships

Fonts

  • The constitutional policy of the French government at the beginning of the great revolution , Berlin 1910.
  • Germany's collapse and resurrection. The renewal of state sentiments based on the lessons of our recent past , Berlin 1921.
  • Conditions for Germany's resurgence. Germany's collapse and resurrection. Part 2, 2nd edition, Berlin 1922.
  • Bismarck and the encirclement of Germany. Vol. 1: Bismarck's alliance policy. Vol. 2: The Franco-Russian Alliance. Berlin 1923–1925.
  • Weimar Constitution and National Development , Berlin 1931.
  • Bismarck's struggle to shape Germany. Ed. U. supplemented by Alexander Scharff , Heidelberg 1958.

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 669 .
  • Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4 .
  • Historical forces and decisions. Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Otto Becker . Edited by Martin Göhring and Alexander Scharff. Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden 1954.
  • Hans Schleier : The bourgeois German historiography of the Weimar Republic. I. Trends - Concepts - Institutions. II. The left-liberal historians , Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1975.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Bieder: SS and Samurai. German-Japanese cultural relations 1933–1945 , pp. 315 and 424.
  2. ↑ 150 years of Kieler Nachrichten It continued with a wedding , kn-online.de from November 22, 2014.
  3. ↑ Peter Köpf: Writing in any direction. Goebbels propagandists in the West German post-war press , Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 1995, p. 167.
  4. ↑ Otto Becker , gelehrtenverzeichnis.de (accessed March 31, 2020).
  5. ↑ Section 399.108: Becker, Otto .
  6. ^ Josef Schmid: The CDU. Organizational structures, policies and functioning of a party in federalism , Springer VS, Wiesbaden 1995, p. 115.
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Malchow (Mecklenburg)
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1955
Place of death Kiel