Richard Fester (historian)

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Richard Fester (born September 20, 1860 in Frankfurt am Main , † January 5, 1945 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German historian .

Life

Fester had studied at the universities in Munich , Berlin and Strasbourg . In 1886 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1893 he completed his habilitation at the University of Munich on the subject of "The armored estates and the Reich War Constitution 1681–1697" and then accepted a number of calls to various German universities. In 1908 he became a full professor at the University of Halle (Saale) . From 1917 to 1918 he was a member of the nationalist German Fatherland Party . In 1925 Fester caused a general sensation with his report in the Munich stab in the back trial , in which he accused the social democrats of treason. In 1926 Fester retired. Since 1931 he was a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

During the National Socialist era , he worked in the anti-Semitic Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany , was a member of the institute's advisory board and made a name for itself with anti-Semitic publications, for example with his work Das Judentum als “Ferment der National Dekomposition” (1940) or Das Judaism as a decomposing element of peoples (1941).

post war period

After the end of World War II , his writings, which were created during the Nazi era, were published in 1946, Das Judentum als Zersetzungelement der Völker (Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1941) and The Political Struggles for Peace 1916–1918 and Deutschtum (Lehmann, Munich 1938) in the SBZ included in the list of literature to be sorted out, as well as in 1947 Friedrich Wilhelm I, Friedrich the Great and the beginnings of the German state sentiment (Schaffstein, Cologne 1942). In 1953, the GDR also included The International 1914-1919 (Niemeyer, Halle 1919) on the list.

Works

  • The armored estates and the Imperial War Constitution, 1681–1697 , Knauer, Frankfurt am Main 1886.
  • Rousseau and the German philosophy of history. A contribution to the history of German idealism , 1890.
  • A forgotten philosophy of history. On the history of young Germany , 1890.
  • Regest of the Margraves of Baden and Hachberg, 1050–1515. Innsbruck 1892-1915; Volume 1: Margraves of Baden 1050–1431, Margraves of Hachberg 1218–1428. Innsbruck 1892–1900, online in the Munich Digitization Center .
  • Margrave Bernhard I and the beginnings of the Baden territorial state , 1896.
  • Machiavelli , 1900.
  • The Bayreuth sister of Frederick the Great. A biographical attempt , 1902.
  • The university tourer Friedrich Gedike and his report to Friedrich Wilhelm II. , 1905.
  • Franconia and the district constitution. Stürtz, Würzburg 1906.
  • Letters, files and registers on the history of Hohenzollern's candidacy for the throne in Spain. Book 1: Until July 6, 1870 (Gramont's declaration). Book 2: The Emser Negotiations and the aftermath of the candidacy. Teubner, Leipzig 1913.
  • The Genesis of the Emser Dispatch. Paetel, Berlin 1915.
  • The politics of the Reichstag majority. Hendel, Hall a. P. 1917.
  • The world situation at the end of the third year of the war. Hendel, Hall a. P. 1917.
  • The will to power and the world situation. A public lecture given at the meeting of the German Fatherland Party in Magdeburg and Bernburg on February 18 and 19, 1918. German Fatherland Party, Berlin 1918.
  • The changes in the Belgian question. Niemeyer, Halle a. P. 1918.
  • The right to self-determination and the unified German state , Paetel, Berlin 1919.
  • The International 1914–1919. Niemeyer, Halle a. P. 1919.
  • The politics of Emperor Charles and the turning point of the world war. Lehmanns, Munich 1925.
  • Frederick the Great: Letters and Writings. Selected, introduced and explained. 2 volumes. Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1927.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm I, Friedrich the Great and the beginnings of the German state sentiment , Schaffstein, Cologne 1934.
  • The instructions of Frederick the Great for his generals from 1747. EG Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1936.
  • The political struggles for peace 1916–1918 and Germanness. Lehmanns, Munich 1938.
  • Judaism as a decomposing element of peoples. World historical considerations. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1941.

literature

  • Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mdv, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 368.

Web links

Wikisource: Richard Fester  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 148.
  2. ^ Entry on Richard Fester in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
  3. ^ Helmut Heiber : Walter Frank and his Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany. Stuttgart 1966, p. 466 f., 596 f.
  4. ^ List of literature to be sorted out 1946 .
  5. ^ List of literature to be sorted out 1947 .
  6. ^ List of the literature to be discarded 1953 .
personal data
SURNAME Fester, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1945
Place of death Garmisch-Partenkirchen