Peter Rassow

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Peter Hermann Karl Rassow (born November 23, 1889 in Elberfeld , today in Wuppertal , † May 19, 1961 in Cologne ) was a German historian and professor at the University of Cologne .

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Peter Rassow's father was a high school teacher and first took a position in Potsdam, then in Berlin. After graduating from high school, Peter Rassow studied history and Protestant theology in Bonn , Heidelberg and Berlin from 1908 . In 1912 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the law firm of Bernhard von Clairvaux under Michael Tangl .

After the First World War , in which Rassow was wounded, he was employed in the Reich Chancellery and helped former Reich Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg with his memoirs. Furthermore Rassow worked as a lecturer at the University of Politics in Berlin. In the mid-1920s he worked for Paul Fridolin Kehr and supported him in Madrid in collecting papal documents from the early Middle Ages. 1927 habilitation Rassow with the edition of the charters of Alfonso VII. Of Castile and was the same year a lecturer at the University of Breslau , where he was appointed associate professor 1,936th Until he was appointed to the University of Cologne in 1941, Rassow remained in Wroclaw, apart from a year of representation in Leipzig in 1939. He taught in Cologne until the university was closed due to the war in 1944, and after the university reopened he held his chair again until he retired in 1958. In 1945 he was appointed the first acting dean of the Philosophical Faculty in Cologne by the British occupying forces.

In 1949 he founded the collection of sources published by the Academy of Sciences and Literature (Mainz) on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914 , the first volumes of which, however, only appeared after his death.

Rassow was a member of the left-wing liberal DDP before 1933 , then in the Stahlhelm . The NSDAP he did not join. From 1959 to 1960 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

Rossow was married to Victoria Luise Hildegard Wiggert since 1919. He died at the age of 71 in his apartment in Cologne-Lindenthal. The estate of Rassow is in the Federal Archives in Koblenz.

Fonts

  • The law firm of Bernhard von Clairvaux. Salzburg 1913.
  • The documents of Emperor Alfonso VII of Spain. A palaeographic-diplomatic investigation. Berlin 1929.
  • Epochs of modern warfare . Cologne 1942.
  • The historian and his present. Munich 1947.
  • The Prince Consort. A Pactum Matrimonale from 1188. Weimar 1950.
  • The political world of Charles V Munich 1947.
  • Honor Imperii. The new policy of Friedrich Barbarossa 1152–1159. Munich / Berlin 1940.
  • (as ed.) German history at a glance . Stuttgart 1953, new edition 1987, ISBN 3-476-00469-4 .
  • The historical unity of the West. Speeches and essays. Cologne 1960.
  • Charles V. The last emperor of the Middle Ages . Goettingen 1957.
  • The position of Germany among the great powers, 1887–1890. Mainz 1959 (= treatises of the humanities and social sciences class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born in 1959, No. 4).
  • The conflict between King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and the Prince of Prussia in 1854. A Prussian state crisis (= treatises by the humanities and social sciences class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born in 1960, No. 9).

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  1. ↑ a b Death certificate no. 1235 from May 20, 1961, registry office Cologne Lindenthal. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Leo Haupts: The University of Cologne in the transition from National Socialism to the Federal Republic. Cologne 2007, p. 246.
personal data
SURNAME Rassow, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rassow, Peter Hermann Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1961
Place of death Cologne