Roderich Gooss

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Roderich Gooß (born May 6, 1879 in Kronstadt , Austria-Hungary ; died April 19, 1951 in Vienna , Austria ) was an Austrian historian.

Life

Roderich Gooss was born as the son of General Staff Doctor Friedrich Gooss and Mathilde Dück, he was a grandson of Schäßburg member of the Reichstag Carl Gooss the elder and nephew of Schäßburg archaeologist Carl Gooss. He attended the Evangelical-German Honterus-Gymnasium in Kronstadt . Gooss studied history in Kiel , Marburg , Klausenburg and Vienna . From 1901 to 1903 he was an extraordinary member of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research (IföG) and received his doctorate in 1903 with the dissertation of Hungary's sovereignty over Wallachia and Moldova at the University of Vienna . In 1904 he began a career as an archive clerk at the Austrian House, Court and State Archives (HHStA). Gooss was drafted as a lieutenant in the reserve in the First World War and promoted to captain during the war. As a consultant for the enemy defense office, he wrote the brochure The Share of the Dynasty in the Development of Austria [sic] -Hungary in 1918 . After the end of the war he was assigned to the political archive of the Austrian Foreign Ministry.

In November 1919 he joined the Foreign Service of the German Reich. He was promoted to legation councilor in 1925 and to lecturing councilor in 1928. From 1926 to 1929 he was seconded to the Vienna legation. In 1937 he was retired, but reactivated from 1941 to 1945 and deployed to the German legation in Croatia (NDH) in Zagreb .

Between 1923 and 1930 Gooss worked part-time for the parliamentary committee of inquiry into questions of guilt during the world war and wrote an expert opinion on the question of war guilt .

Fonts (selection)

  • Sonnet wreath from a southern landscape . Poems. Dresden: Pierson, 1903
  • (Editor): Austrian State Treaties. Principality of Transylvania (1526–1690) . Leipzig: Engelmann, 1911
  • The share of the dynasty in the development of Austria-Hungary . Vienna: Enemy Propaganda Defense Center, FASt, 1918
  • The Vienna Cabinet and the Development of the World War on the basis of research on records . 2nd Edition. Vienna: Seidel, 1919
  • The Austro-Serbian Problem until Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, July 28, 1914 . Berlin: German Publishing Society for Politics and History, 1930
  • The Transylvanian Saxons in the Planning of German Southeast Policy: From Immigration to the End of the Controversy for the Throne between King Ferdinand I and King Johann Zápolya (1538) . Vienna: Luser, 1940

literature

  • Josef Karl Mayr: Roderich Gooss . Obituary, in: Communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research (MIÖG) , 1952, pp. 501f.
  • Gooss, Dr. phil., Roderick , in: Hermann A. Hienz: Writer's Dictionary of Transylvanian Germans: D - G . Cologne: Böhlau, 1998, p. 247ff.
  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 2: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: G – K. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2005, ISBN 3-506-71841-X , p. 68ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gooss, Karl (1844-1881), ancient historian and politician. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 32.


personal data
SURNAME Gooss, Roderich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gooss, Roderich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Kronstadt
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1951
Place of death Vienna