Reinhard Hübner (historian)

Reinhard Hübner (born September 5, 1902 in Bonn ; † August 4, 1989 ) was a German historian and Protestant pastor.

The son of the university professor and lawyer Rudolf Hübner attended high schools in Rostock, Gießen, Halle a. d. Saale and Frankfurt am Main until he graduated from high school in 1922. From December 1919 he temporarily visited the rural education home in Bieberstein . Then he mainly studied history and philosophy a. a. in Freiburg (Br.), Munich, Berlin until his doctorate in 1926 at the University of Rostock on Friedrich Julius Stahl and Protestantism. From 1928 to 1930 he taught as a teacher in Schloss Bieberstein. Then he was a consultant at an economic advisory center in Kiel for two years until he was dismissed for reasons of economy . He then had teaching positions at the German University of Politics in Berlin and at a police vocational school. He joined the NSDAP and SA . From October 1935 he taught history and its methodology at the Hochschule für Lehrerbildung Cottbus until it was closed due to the war in 1939, whereupon he was seconded to the HfL Frankfurt an der Oder . In the summer of 1941 he was drafted and served in France for a butcher's company. From 1941 he taught at the Cottbus teacher training college and later in Liebenthal in Silesia . From January 1943 he served again in the army in Italy until he was taken prisoner by the Americans , from which he was released at the end of 1945.

From 1947 he was a parish assistant in Eisenstadt near Gera until he moved to the British occupation zone. He passed the theological exam in Oldenburg and was ordained a clergyman in 1949 . In Wilhelmshaven he became a student pastor at the University of Labor, Politics and Economics (where, among others, Wolfgang Abendroth and the Nazi lawyer Ernst Rudolf Huber taught), and also a parish pastor in East Friesland. From 1955 to 1968 he was parish priest in Hohenkirchen bei Jever and from 1963 a member of the Synod in Oldenburg. In retirement he became a monastery administrator in Neuenwalde ( Geestland ) near Bremerhaven .

After his death on August 4, 1989, he was next to his wife Antonie Hübner, geb. von Cleve (* December 2, 1901; † March 15, 1986) buried in the Neuenwald cemetery.

Fonts

• Friedrich Julius Stahl and Protestantism , Knorr 1928 [= dissertation Rostock 1926].
• Albrecht von Roon . The Prussian army in the battle for the Reich , Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1933.
• Roon. Faith and soldierhood , Wichern, Berlin 1940.
• The Berlin university anniversaries in 1960 and 1910. A contribution to the history of German universities in the 19th century. In: Siegfried Wendt: Society in the past and present: Festschrift for Friedrich Lenz. Berlin 1961.

literature

• Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , p. 380–381 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Gravestone Reinhard and Antonie Hübner. Neuenwalde cemetery (Theesberg, Geestland, Cuxhaven). In: grabsteine.genealogy.net. 2011, accessed March 27, 2020 .