Seeberg address

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The so-called Seeberg address (also known as the intellectual input) is a declaration by German professors from June 20, 1915 on the German war aims of the First World War . The name goes back to the main initiator, the Berlin professor for Protestant theology Reinhold Seeberg .

The declaration demanded that the only war goal for Germany could be a victory peace . As a result, the war opponents, the neighboring Entente states France and Russia, would have to cede large areas of territory to the German Reich . In the case of France: areas on the Somme or northern France and parts of Belgium. The Seeberg address received wide attention thanks to the support of Alfred Hugenberg and the Pan-German Association . There were 1347 signatures, 352 of them university professors.

The Seeberg address is one of several “intellectual entries” of that time. The Delbrück-Dernburg petition to Reich Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg of July 9, 1915 , for example, was also named in this way. It was initiated in response to the Seeberg address by Hans Delbrück (an opponent of the Pan-Germans) and advocated a peace agreement . This petition was signed by 141 renowned intellectuals, including around 70 university professors such as Max Planck , Albert Einstein , David Hilbert , Heinrich Rubens , Ludwig Quidde , Walther Schücking , Max Weber , Alfred Weber , Adolf von Harnack , Ernst Troeltsch , Alfred Dove , Heinrich Triepel and Max Lehmann . However, there was little public response.

literature

Klaus Böhme: Appeals and speeches by German professors in the First World War . Reclam, Stuttgart 1975, pp. 125-135.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dietrich Denecke: Göttingen . In: Dietrich Denecke, Rudolf Von Thadden (eds.): Volume 3 of Göttingen: History of a University City, Göttingen: History of a University City , Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999, ISBN 9783525361986 , p. 388
  2. ↑ Eberhard Fromm: Extract from the Seeberg address and the Delbrück-Dernburg petition [1]
  3. ^ Gordon A. Craig: German History 1866 - 1945: From the North German Confederation to the End of the Third Reich . In: Volume 1306 of the Beck series, Verlag CH Beck, 1999, ISBN 9783406421068
  4. ^ Dietrich Denecke: Göttingen . In: Dietrich Denecke, Rudolf Von Thadden (eds.): Volume 3 of Göttingen: History of a University City, Göttingen: History of a University City, Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999