Rainer Wohlfeil

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Rainer Wohlfeil (born April 27, 1927 in Königsberg ) is a German historian .

Rainer Wohlfeil studied history and law at the universities of Göttingen and Mainz from 1950 to 1955 , where he received his doctorate under Ludwig Petry on the position of the Palatinate in the war constitution of the German Confederation . After a research stay as a DAAD scholarship holder in Madrid ( CSIC , 1955/56), his habilitation followed in 1964 with a thesis on Spain and the German survey 1808–1814 at the University of Mainz. From 1964 to 1966 he taught as a private lecturer. During his employment from 1957 to 1970 at the Military History Research Office in Freiburg im Breisgau, most recently as “Senior Historian”, he wrote numerous studies on military history , including the pioneering study on the concept of military history.

At the University of Freiburg he taught as a private lecturer until 1970 as part of his rehabilitation. In the winter semester 1969/70 he took over a professorship at the University of Cologne . After his appointment as adjunct professor in 1970, he received offers to the universities of Hamburg, Cologne, Trier and Saarbrücken. He decided on the University of Hamburg and was appointed full professor on February 2, 1971. In 1973/74 he headed the Department of History in Hamburg. Under Wohlfeil, Hamburg developed into a center for research into the peasant wars of the 16th century. During his time, Wohlfeil caused a sensation by establishing scientific contacts with the GDR . In 1990 Wohlfeil retired. His academic students include Rainer Elkar , Ruth Kastner , Franklin Kopitzsch , Rainer Postel and Klaus Wittmann .

His main research interests are Spanish history, historical imagery , the age of the Reformation, Charles V and military history.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Spain's history reflected in coins and banknotes. Knowledge Publication Documentation & Book, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-934632-39-4 .
  • Introduction to the history of the German Reformation. Beck, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-406-08675-6 .
  • The current scientific image of Luther in the Federal Republic of Germany and in the German Democratic Republic. A comparison. Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education, Hanover 1982.
  • Spain and the German uprising 1808–1814. F. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1965 (print version of the habilitation thesis, Mainz 1964).
  • From the standing army of absolutism to general conscription (1789–1814) (= handbook on German military history. Delivery 1). Bernard & Graefe, Frankfurt am Main 1964.
  • The Palatinate in the War Constitution of the German Confederation 1815–1866. Mainz 1954 (recte 1955), (Mainz, University, dissertation from September 1, 1955).

Editorships

  • with Brigitte Tolkemitt: Historical Imagery. Problems - ways - examples (= magazine for historical research. Supplement 12). Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-428-07187-5 .
  • The Peasants' War 1524–26. Peasants' War and Reformation. Nine contributions (= Nymphenburg texts on science. Vol. 21). Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-485-03221-2 .
  • Reformation or early bourgeois revolution? (= Nymphenburg Texts on Science. Vol. 5). Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-485-03205-0 .

literature

  • Rainer Postel , Franklin Kopitzsch (ed.): Reformation and Revolution. Contributions to political change and social forces at the beginning of the modern age. Festschrift for Rainer Wohlfeil on his 60th birthday. Steiner, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-515-05164-3 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Christian Th. Müller, Rainer Wohlfeil: Defense, War or Military History? In: Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen 1 (1967), pp. 21–29. ( online )
  2. ↑ Barbara Vogel: History in Hamburg since 1970. In: Rainer Nicolaysen, Axel Schildt (Hrsg.): 100 years of history in Hamburg (= Hamburg contributions to the history of science. Vol. 18). Reimer, Berlin et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-496-02838-3 , pp. 295-330, here: p. 316.
personal data
SURNAME Cheap, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg