Paul Egon Huebinger

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Paul Egon Hübinger (born February 4, 1911 in Düsseldorf , † June 26, 1987 in Bonn ) was a German historian .

The son of a grammar school teacher graduated from high school in Düsseldorf in 1929 and studied history, Romance studies, German studies and philosophy at the universities of Bonn , Munich and Paris from 1929 to 1935 . He became a member of the Catholic student association KStV Arminia Bonn , in Paris of the student circle "Siegfried", both in the cartel association of Catholic German student associations (KV). In 1935 Hübinger received his doctorate in Bonn under Wilhelm Levison , and in 1936 he passed the state examination. From 1937 to 1939 he completed an archive training at the archive school in Berlin-Dahlem . From 1939 to 1945 he worked as State Archives Assessor at the State Archives Koblenz , from 1942 as State Archives Councilor. In 1939/1940, Huebinger was editor of the annals of the historical association for the Lower Rhine . In 1939 he translated the posthumously published major work Mahomet et Charlemagne by the Belgian historian Henri Pirenne , which redefined the epochal boundary between antiquity and the Middle Ages. Hübinger was not ready to make any compromises with the National Socialists. At the instigation of his teacher, the Romanist Ernst Robert Curtius , he habilitated in Bonn while in 1943, but he received due to the opposition of the NSDAP not right to teach because he was not in the NSDAP still in a subdivision Member.

From 1945 to 1948, Huebinger was a university lecturer at the University of Bonn, and from 1950 to 1951 he was associate professor for medieval and modern history, with special emphasis on auxiliary historical sciences. In 1951 he went to the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster as a full professor . In 1954 he turned down a call to the University of Mainz . From 1954 to 1959, Hübinger was ministerial director for cultural affairs in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and at the same time honorary professor in Bonn, where he then taught as a full professor for medieval history, historical auxiliary sciences and archival studies from 1959 to 1979. Hübinger's most important academic students included Raymund Kottje and Erich Wisplinghoff . In 1965, Hübinger turned down an offer to head the German Historical Institute in Paris, the establishment of which he had supported as a ministerial director. From 1968 to 1973 he was head of the Society for Rhenish History . Hübinger retired in 1979. However, he continued to teach at the University of Bonn until 1985.

Hübinger's main research interests were the history of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, the history of the Rhineland and Lorraine, and university history . In the 1960s, Huebinger worked outside of his actual research focus on the revocation of Thomas Mann's honorary doctorate by the University of Bonn in the early days of the Third Reich and thus made an early contribution to dealing with the involvement of academic institutions during the National Socialist era.

For his research, Huebinger was awarded numerous scientific honors and memberships. In 1962 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the French Legion of Honor, in 1986 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic . He was a founding member of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History (since 1960). Hübinger became a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia in 1951 and a corresponding member in 1960 .

He was married and had four sons. His wife published poems, among other things, from the mid-1970s.

Fonts

  • The secular relations of the Church of Verdun to the Rhineland (= Rheinisches Archiv. Vol. 28, ISSN  0933-5102 ). Röhrscheid et al., Bonn 1935 (Bonn, University, dissertation, 1935).
  • Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages. A problem of historical period formation. In: German quarterly for literary studies and intellectual history . Vol. 26, 1952, pp. 1-48, (reprint in several editions).
  • The historical seminar of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn. Forerunner, foundation, development. A piece of German university history. (= Bonn historical research. Vol. 20). Röhrscheid, Bonn 1963.
  • as editor: cultural break or cultural continuity in the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages (= ways of research . Vol. 201). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1968.
  • The last words of Pope Gregory VII. (= North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences. Lectures. G, Geisteswissenschaften. Vol. 185). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1973, ISBN 3-531-07185-8 .
  • Thomas Mann, the University of Bonn and contemporary history. Three chapters of the German past from the life of the poet 1905–1955. Oldenbourg, Munich et al. 1974, ISBN 3-486-44031-4 .
  • Selected essays and lectures. Contributions to the history of Europe and the Rhineland in the Middle Ages and modern times. Schmitt, Siegburg 1990, ISBN 3-87710-200-X .

literature

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Representations

  • Raymund Kottje: On the path and work of life. In: Paul Egon Hübinger: Selected essays and lectures. Contributions to the history of Europe and the Rhineland in the Middle Ages and modern times (= Bonn historical research. Vol. 53). Edited by Magnus Ditsche and Raymund Kottje. Schmitt, Siegburg 1990, ISBN 3-87710-200-X , pp. XIII-XIX.
  • Ulrich Pfeil : Paul Egon Huebinger. Dealing with the pressure to adapt. In: Ulrich Pfeil (Ed.): The German Historical Institute Paris and its founding fathers. A personal history approach (= Paris historical studies. Vol. 86). Oldenburg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58519-3 , pp. 235-271. ( Digitized version )
  • Ulrich Pfeil: The "Generation 1910". Rhenish Catholic Medievalists from the “Third Reich” to the Federal Republic. In: Geschichte im Westen 26 (2011), pp. 61–87 ( online ).
  • Paul Egon Huebinger. In: Jörg Schwarz: The Constance Working Group for Medieval History 1951-2001. The members and their work. A bio-bibliographical documentation (= publications of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary 1951–2001. Vol. 2). Edited by Jürgen Petersohn . Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7995-6906-5 , pp. 199-203 ( online ).

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personal data
SURNAME Huebinger, Paul Egon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1987
Place of death Bonn