Philipp W. Fabry

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Philipp Fabry (2011)

Philipp Walter Fabry (born October 14, 1927 in Speicher (Eifel) ) is a German high school teacher and historian. He became known as a publicist and author of contemporary history books.

Life

Philipp W. Fabry grew up in Cologne and attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium there . In 1943/44 he was an air force helper , later he was in the Reich Labor Service and with the paratroopers . From May 1945 to July 1945 he was wounded in English captivity . After his release, he attended the Hindenburg Realgymnasium Trier from autumn 1945 to spring 1947 and completed the French Central Abitur . In the summer semester of 1948 he began to study history, German, art history and geography at the University of Mainz . In 1949 he became active in the Corps Hassia-Gießen in Mainz . In the summer semester of 1952 he moved to the University of Hamburg , where he also joined the Corps Thuringia Jena . In 1953 the first state examination followed in Mainz, the doctoral semester and the study seminar . In 1956 he passed the second state examination for higher education and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD .

School service

Fabry was 1956-1960 Studienassessor the Regino-Gymnasium in Prüm and 1960-1962 school teacher in Worms . In 1962 he went to the German School in Barcelona . He returned to Germany in 1967 and became senior teacher at the Saarland College in Saarbrücken . At the Congress of the Kösener Seniors Convent Association in 1970 in Würzburg, he gave the keynote address. For the AHSC Saarbrücken, he was first chairman of the Association of Old Corps Students from 1972 to 1976 . From 1971 to 1975 he was senior director of the advanced high school in Jägersfreude and the high school in Dudweiler . From 1975 to 1980 he was headmaster of the German School Tehran with around 2,000 students. After the institution was closed in the course of the Islamic Revolution , Fabry headed the German Embassy School in Tehran until the summer of 1983. He then returned to Germany and took over the Gymnasium am Rotenbühl in Saarbrücken. In the summer of 1986 he took over the management of the largest German school abroad, the Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt (Mexico City) . He retired in August 1992 and has lived in Bübingen ever since .

From 1993 to 2007 he was at the head of the Donors' Association for Old Corps Students , which was founded in 1986 and honors exemplary Corps students.

He has two children with his wife Beatrice.

Contemporary history

Fabry is one of the early proponents of the preventive war thesis . In his book on the German-Soviet non-aggression pact (1962) he developed the theses of Alan JP Taylor further. He portrayed Adolf Hitler as a merely reactive, pragmatic politician without ideologically motivated expansion plans and emphasized one-sidedly the aggressive Soviet foreign policy. His book met with sharp criticism and received just as little scientific attention as an expanded new edition under the title The Soviet Union and the Third Reich from 1971, in which Fabry again represented the long-disproved preventive war thesis. In his foreword, Fabry had made a connection with the new Ostpolitik . According to Fabry, one should not, for reasons of opportunity, spread the veil of oblivion over an entire era of Bolshevik expansion policy. The CSU chairman Franz Josef Strauss quoted this in a speech in the Bundestag on February 24, 1972 on the occasion of the debate on the Eastern Treaty .

Works

Fabry was a long-time author of radio features and a reviewer for Deutschlandfunk and Deutsche Welle . He was a freelancer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and wrote a regular gloss on the zeitgeist in CORPS - the magazine .

Publications

Recent history
  • The Hitler-Stalin Pact. A contribution to the method of Soviet foreign policy , Darmstadt 1962.
    • Italian translation by Mondadori: Il patto Hitler – Stalin 1939–1941 . Il Saggiatore 1965.
  • Balkan confusion 1940/41. Diplomatic and military preparation for the German Danube crossing , contributions to defense research IX / X, Wehr und Wissen Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Darmstadt 1966.
  • Conjectures about Hitler. Judgments by Contemporaries , 2nd edition. Düsseldorf 1969, 1980
  • The Soviet Union and the Third Reich. A documented history of German-Soviet relations 1933–1941 , Prolegomena by Ernst Deuerlein . Stuttgart 1972.
  • The Soviet Union and the German Reich 1917–1945 , in: A thousand years of neighborhood. Russia and the Germans . Munich 1988.
  • Bartholomäus Koßmann: Trustee of the Saar 1924–1935 . Merzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-938823-99-6 .
  • History of the Corps Hassia 1965–2015 . D. & L. Koch Verlag, Bonn 2015. 978-3-9815935-1-8.
Iran and Mexico
  • Iran, the Soviet Union and warring Germany in the summer and autumn of 1940 , Göttingen 1980
  • Between the Shah and Ayatollah. A German caught in the tension of the Iranian Revolution, Darmstadt 1983
  • Viva Zapata! Folk hero and victim of the Mexican revolution . A biography, Darmstadt 1990
economy
  • One century Volksbank Saarbrücken eGmbH (formerly Vereinsbank). Borderland fate of a medium-sized bank 1873–1973 , Saarbrücken 1973
  • Probation in the borderland. Cooperative work on the Saar from 1860 to the present day , Saarbrücken 1986
  • The history of the Genossenschaftsverband Rheinland eV and its legal predecessors , Cologne 1989
  • The Saarland craft and its organizations in the past and present , Saarbrücken 1999
  • Building in the border region on the Saar. 100 years of the employers' association of the construction industry , Saarbrücken 2000

Awards

literature

  • Hermann Rink : Philipp Walter Fabry Hassiae, Thuringiae Jena on his 90th birthday . In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research , Vol. 63 (2018), pp. 419-420.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 66/1272; 174/1149.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The St. Cyriacusstift zu Neuhausen near Worms .
  3. ↑ Men's Association and Mass Society . In: Deutsche Corpszeitung , Volume 71, June 1970, No. 3, pp. 117–125.
  4. ↑ a b Dr. Philipp W. Fabry Hassiae, Thuringiae Jena on his 80th birthday . Corps - das Magazin (Deutsche Corpszeitung 100th volume) 4/2007, p. 33
  5. ^ Rolf-Dieter Müller , Gerd R. Ueberschär : Hitler's War in the East 1941-1945. A research report . Knowledge Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2000, p. 9 f .; Bernd Wegner: Preventive War 1941? On the controversy about a pseudo-military history problem . In: Jürgen Elvert, Susanne Krauss: Historical debates and controversies in the 19th and 20th centuries . Steiner, Stuttgart 2003, p. 207; Bernd Bonwetsch : The research conroversy on the Red Army's preparations for war in 1941 . In: Bianka Pietrow-Ennker (Ed.): Preventive War? The German attack on the Soviet Union . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011, pp. 173–192, here p. 175.
  6. ↑ Quoted from Dieter Dowe: Review . In: Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 13 (1973), p. 810.
  7. ^ German Bundestag. Minutes of the Plenary No. 06/172, Session 172, Thursday, February 24, 1972, p. 9916.
predecessor Office successor
Kurt Wiechert VAC Chairman
1972–1975 		Christian helper


personal data
SURNAME Fabry, Philipp W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fabry, Philipp Walter (full name); Fabry, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher and historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Speicher (Eifel)