Peter Krüger (historian)

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Peter Krüger at a memorial event by the Federal Foreign Office, 1987

Peter Krüger (born December 17, 1935 in Eisenach , † September 16, 2011 in Marburg ) was a German historian . From 1975 to 2002 he taught as professor for modern history at the University of Marburg . Krüger was one of the leading experts on German foreign policy during the Weimar Republic .

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After attending grammar school in Goslar , Krüger studied history, German studies and politics from 1956, initially at the Philipps University of Marburg and a year later switched to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he also attended lectures in art history. At the University of Munich he received his doctorate under Franz Schnabel in 1962 with a thesis on foreign policy in the age of the Reformation .

Krüger then worked for four years in Bonn as a research assistant for the publication of documents on Germany policy , which was overseen by Ernst Deuerlein . In 1966 he began working as a research assistant at the Foreign Office . There he participated between 1966 and 1974 in the publication of the files on German foreign policy 1918-1945 .

In 1972, Krüger completed his habilitation under Erich Angermann at the University of Cologne in Middle and Modern History. His habilitation thesis dealt with the reparations issue after the First World War . The representation is fundamental to this day. Krüger began a part-time job as a lecturer at the university. In 1973 he was appointed adjunct professor there. In the same year he took over the chair for modern history at the University of Marburg. He ended his activity at the Foreign Office in 1974. The following year he was appointed Professor of Modern History at the University of Marburg, where he taught until his retirement in 2002. In 1984, Kruger received a scholarship from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Washington, DC , USA . In 1993/94 he was a research fellow at the Historical College in Munich . Krüger was a member of the Society for Intellectual History , the Association for Constitutional History or the Collegium Carolinum.

In 2006 he published a history of European integration. In the last years of his life he worked on an edition of the writings and a biography of Carl von Schubert , State Secretary in the Foreign Office, both of which appeared posthumously in 2017. The biography remained unfinished and lasted until the summer of 1925. The edition presents 285 documents from the period from September 1914 to July 1933 on over 800 pages.

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Monographs

  • Carl von Schubert. Passionate about foreign policy. His contribution to international politics and European order in the era of the Weimar Republic (= contemporary historical research. Vol. 51). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-428-14950-6 .
  • Paths and contradictions of European integration in the 20th century (= Writings of the Historisches Kolleg. Lectures. Vol. 45). Historisches Kolleg Foundation, Munich 1995 ( digitized version ).
  • The unpredictable Europe. Epochs of the integration process from the late 18th century to the European Union. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-17-016586-1 .
  • Versailles. German foreign policy between revisionism and peacekeeping (= German vol. 4513). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-423-04513-2 .
  • The foreign policy of the Republic of Weimar. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1985, ISBN 3-534-07250-2 .
  • Germany and the reparations 1918/19. The genesis of the reparations problem in Germany between the armistice and the Versailles peace treaty (= series of the quarterly books for contemporary history. Vol. 25). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-421-01620-8 (also: Cologne, university, habilitation paper, 1972).
  • Relations between the Rhineland Palatinate and Western Europe 1576–82. The foreign relations of Count Palatine Johann Casimir 1576–82. Uni-Druck, Munich 1964 (also: Munich, university, dissertation, 1962).

Editorships

  • Carl von Schubert (1882–1947). His contribution to international politics in the era of the Weimar Republic. Selected documents. With a biographical introduction by Martin Kröger (= German historical sources of the 19th and 20th centuries. Vol. 73). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-428-15332-9 .
  • with Anne Christine Nagel : Mechterstädt - 25.3.1920. Scandal and crisis in the early phase of the Weimar Republic (= studies on the history of the Weimar Republic. Vol. 3). Lit, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3061-6 .
  • The European state system in transition. Structural conditions and moving forces since the early modern period (= writings of the historical college. Colloquia. Vol. 35). Oldenbourg, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-486-56171-5 ( digitized ).
  • Germany, German state, German nation. Historical explorations of a tension (= Marburg studies on modern history. Vol. 2). Hitzeroth, Marburg 1993, ISBN 3-89398-129-2 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the discussions by Daniel Göler in: sehepunkte 7 (2007), No. 1 [15. January 2007], online ; Reiner Marcowitz in: H-Soz-Kult September 22, 2006, online .
  2. ↑ See the discussions by Volker Stalmann in: Historische Zeitschrift 308 (2019), pp. 835–837; Wolfgang Elz in: sehepunkte 18 (2018), No. 4 [15. April 2018], online .
personal data
SURNAME Kruger, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 2011
Place of death Marburg