Thilo Vogelsang

Thilo Vogelsang (born February 14, 1919 in Braunschweig , † April 2, 1978 in Munich ) was a German historian .

Live and act

Thilo Vogelsang studied history, German and Latin in Göttingen . In 1949 he took his doctorate , in 1951 he passed the state examination for higher library service. Then Thilo Vogelsang acted as head of the library of the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich and from 1962 as a lecturer at the Munich School of Politics . Since 1966 he had a teaching position for contemporary history at the University of Munich, in 1973 he was appointed honorary professor at the Technical University of Munich. From 1972 Thilo Vogelsang was Deputy Director of the Institute for Contemporary History .

In addition to his bibliographic work (since 1953 bibliography on contemporary history , constant supplement to the quarterly journals for contemporary history ) and numerous academic articles, the following book publications should be mentioned: “The woman as ruler in the high Middle Ages . Studies on the consors-regni formula ”(1954),“ Reichswehr , State and NSDAP . Contributions to German History 1930-1932 ”(1962),“ Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf and Lower Saxony ”(1963),“ Kurt von Schleicher . A General and Politician ”(1965),“ The divided Germany ”(1966),“ The National Socialist Era. Germany 1933 - 1939 ”(1967),“ Occupation and Reconstruction. The Activity of the Military Government in the American Zone of Occupation in Germany 1944-1947 ”(1973, together with Conrad F. Latour). In addition, he published Hermann Pünder's diary “Politics in the Reich Chancellery ” (1961). Thilo Vogelsang was co-editor of the “Lexicon on History and Politics in the 20th Century” (1971) and the “Yearbook of Historical Research in the Federal Republic of Germany” (since 1974).

Awards

In 1967 Thilo Vogelsang received the Richard Franck Prize for bibliographical work in the field of contemporary history, and in 1976 the Cross of Honor for Science and Art of the Republic of Austria .

Works

• The woman as ruler in the High Middle Ages. Studies on the "Consors Regni" formula , 1954.
• The Reichswehr and Politics 1918-1934 , 1959.
• The foreign policy of the Weimar Republic 1918-1933 , 1959.
• Reichswehr, State and NSDAP. Contributions to German history 1930-1932 , 1962.
• Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf and Lower Saxony , 1963.
• Kurt von Schleicher . A general as a politician . Musterschmidt, Göttingen a. a., 1965.
• The National Socialist Era. Germany 1933 to 1939 , 1968.
• Divided Germany . Deutscher-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1975.

literature

• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries , Hannover 1996, p. 631

Web links

• Literature by and about Thilo Vogelsang in the catalog of the German National Library