Siegmund Hellmann

Siegmund Hellmann , documented document Sigmund (born March 19, 1872 in Munich , † December 7, 1942 in the Theresienstadt ghetto ) was a German historian .

Siegmund Hellmann was the son of the banker Heinrich Hellmann and Zerlina Karl, his sister was the writer Carry Brachvogel . He spent his youth in Munich. He attended the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich . From 1890 he studied law, from 1892 history at the University of Munich . His academic teachers included Karl Theodor von Heigel , Hermann von Grauert , Gerhard Seeliger and Henry Simonsfeld . Hellmann was particularly strongly influenced by Ludwig Traube and turned to the literary sources of the early Middle Ages. With the work The so-called Memoiren de Grandchamps and their continuation and the Memoirs of the Marquis de Sassenage he received his doctorate in 1896 under Heigel in Munich. His habilitation took place there in 1899 with the work Counts of Savoy and the Empire until the end of the Hohenstaufen period . From 1899 to 1909 he taught as a private lecturer at the University of Munich.

In 1909 he received the title of associate professor in Munich and taught in Munich until 1923. The left-liberal-minded Hellmann was appointed to the Leipzig chair by the Saxon SPD government against the opposition of the faculty. The circumstances of his calling earned him bitter hostilities. From 1923 to 1933 he taught at the University of Leipzig as a full professor for middle history and historical auxiliary sciences . Among his students was Helmut Beumann . He wrote many daily political articles in the Frankfurter Zeitung , the Hamburger Fremdblatt and the Berliner Tageblatt . As a person appointed after 1914, Hellmann was dismissed as a Jew in accordance with the “ Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service ” in 1933 and from then on lived again in Munich, where he wrote a “German History”. For Hellmann, Karl von Amira , Karl Vossler , Karl Rothenbücher and Max Weber were of greater importance .

From 1936 Hellmann lived in seclusion with his sister in Munich. On July 22, 1942, he was deported with her to the Theresienstadt concentration camp . Both perished there under the conditions of detention. Its 1,500-volume library was confiscated by the Secret State Police . It is now considered lost.

His research focus was the time of the Franconian Empire . He re-translated the Frankish story of Gregor von Tours into German. In 1923, together with Melchior Palyi , he edited Max Weber's lectures on "Economic History". His main work, oriented towards social history, was The Middle Ages up to the end of the Crusades and is dedicated to Karl Wilhelm Nitzsch , whom he particularly valued . His treatise How does one study history? (1920).

Hellmann was married to Emma Richter and converted to Protestantism; they had a daughter.

Fonts (selection)

• The Middle Ages until the end of the Crusades. Perthes, Gotha 1920.
  • The Middle Ages until the end of the Crusades. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1969 (unchanged reprographic reprint of the 2nd edition, Gotha 1924).
• Power politics and ideal politics. Duncker & Humblot, Munich 1918.
• How do you study history? Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1911; 2nd expanded edition 1920.
• The Counts of Savoy and the Empire until the end of the Staufer period. Innsbruck 1900.

literature

• Hermann Heimpel :  Hellmann, Siegmund. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 483 ( digitized version ).
• Hermann Heimpel: Siegmund Hellmann - Nekrolog. In: Historical magazine . Volume 174 (1952), pp. 737-739.
• Siegfried Hoyer : Siegmund Hellmann. In: Max Steinmetz (Ed.): Important scholars in Leipzig. For the 800th anniversary of the city of Leipzig. Volume 1. Karl Marx University, Leipzig 1965, pp. 219–227.
• Hellmann, Siegmund. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 11: Hein – Hirs. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-22691-8 , pp. 68-72.
• Ronald Lambrecht: Political dismissals in the Nazi era. Forty-four biographical sketches by professors at the University of Leipzig. Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-374-02397-5 .

Web links

Wikisource: Siegmund Hellmann  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Siegmund Hellmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Art: Siegmund Hellmann (PDF; 17 kB) in: Professor catalog of the University of Leipzig / Catalogus Professorum Lipsensis, published by the Chair for Modern and Contemporary History, History Seminar of the University of Leipzig.

Remarks

1. ↑ Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors. Munich 2002, p. 68.
2. ^ Hermann Heimpel: Aspects. Old and new texts. Edited by Sabine Krüger. Göttingen 1995, p. 148.
3. ^ Outline of the universal social and economic history. Notes and postscripts 1919/20. Max Weber. Edited by Wolfgang Schluchter in collaboration with Joachim Schröder. Tübingen 2011, p. 61.
4. ↑ Carry curlew. In: German Literature Lexicon , The 20th Century. Biographical-bibliographical manual . Founded by Wilhelm Kosch. Edited by Lutz Hagestedt. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston, Volume 3, 2001, Col. 510.
5. ^ Outline of the universal social and economic history. Notes and postscripts 1919/20. Max Weber. Edited by Wolfgang Schluchter in collaboration with Joachim Schröder. Tübingen 2011, p. 62.