Tendril society
| Tendril society. Association for History in Public Life eV | |
|---|---|
| purpose | Promotion of historical research |
| Chair: | Jürgen Elvert |
| Establishment date: | 1950 |
| Seat : | Hamburg |
| Website: | www.ranke-gesellschaft.de |
The Ranke Society. Association for History in Public Life is a non-profit , registered association based in Hamburg . It was founded in 1950 and serves to promote historical research, especially modern history, and its dissemination to the public. The association is named after the Prussian historian Leopold von Ranke .
The association organizes annual conferences, distributes research contracts and issues publications such as the conference reports Büdinger research on social history in the Boldt Verlag as well as the scientific journals Historical Messages of the Ranke Society (HMRG) since 1988 in the Franz Steiner Verlag and Das Historisch-Politische Buch (HPB) since 1953 with Muster-Schmidt Verlag and since 2017 with Duncker & Humblot .
The then call for founding signed u. a. Otto Becker , Walther Hubatsch , Heinrich Noack , Andreas Predöhl , Adolf Rein , Gotthold Rhode , Hellmuth Rössler , Andreas Scharff and Wilhelm Schüßler . The association was founded with funds from Alfred Toepfer . Well-known authors of his publications were Carl Schmitt and Karl Epting , who produced most of the France-related articles in HPB 1953–1955; Günther Franz as editor, Rudolf Buchner , Hellmuth Rößler, Armin Mohler and Michael Salewski . Many of them were nationally conservative and were involved in the Nazi state after 1933.
Members of the association are natural and legal persons. The following sponsoring memberships also exist: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh , Franz Steiner Verlag , Muster-Schmidt Verlag , Pabel-Moewig Verlag , Peter Lang Verlag and Verlag Friedrich Pustet .
The first chairman of the Ranke Society is currently Jürgen Elvert , treasurer Thomas Brechenmacher and secretary Markus A. Denzel . The executive board also includes: Birgit Aschmann , Volkhard Huth (Institute for Personal History) and Frank-Lothar Kroll . The extended board includes: Michael Gehler , Hans-Christof Kraus , Günther Schulz and Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann .
In 1965 the company became the Kuhnke Circle , named after Hans Helmut Kuhnke .
literature
- Manfred Asendorf: What will continue to work. The Ranke Society. In: 1999. Journal for Social History of the 20th and 21st Century. Jg. 4, 1989, H. 4, pp. 29-61.
- Michael Salewski : The Ranke Society and a half century. In: Jürgen Elvert , Susanne Krauss (ed.): Historical debates and controversies in the 19th and 20th centuries. Anniversary meeting of the Ranke Society in Essen 2001 (= historical messages. Vol. 46). Steiner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-515-08253-0 , pp. 124-142.
- Peter Schöttler : German Historians on Mined Terrain. In: Ulrich Pfeil (Ed.): The German Historical Institute Paris and its founding fathers. A personal history approach (= Paris historical studies. Vol. 86). Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, pp. 15–31. ( Digitized version )