Ulrich Crämer

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Ulrich Crämer (born December 11, 1907 in Krefeld , † 1992 ) was a German historian and professor at the LMU Munich .

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Crämer was born in Krefeld as the son of a student councilor and professor. After studying (since 1926) in Heidelberg , Königsberg , Vienna and Rostock . He received his doctorate in 1931 from the University of Heidelberg under Willy Andreas . In 1934 he completed his habilitation at the University of Jena as part of the major regional historical project " Carl-August-Werk " with Alexander Cartellieri . He then became a lecturer at the Reich Office for the Promotion of German Literature . At the age of 33 he was appointed to Munich to succeed Karl Alexander von Müller , but was only able to take over the chair in January 1940 after Adolf Hitler received a positive decision , as he had a “non- Aryan ” great-grandmother. Since 1937 he has directed the historical didactic journal Past and Present together with Moritz Edelmann and Karl Alnor . He was also committed to the geopolitics of Karl Haushofer .

Crämer had been a member of the German Academic Guild since 1927 and of the NS student union since 1929 . Crämer was already in the NSDAP before 1930 , joined the SA in 1930 and joined the SS in 1932 and achieved the rank of SS-Scharführer . According to Jedlitschka, he was “unrivaled at the forefront” among historians in party involvement. From May 1933 he was the trainer of the Race and Settlement Office of the SS. In April 1934 he moved to the Reich Ministry of the Interior as a consultant for processing the cards in the implementation of the National Socialist Reich reform. Due to his work on the history of the state of Thuringia, under the influence of the Gauleiter Fritz Sauckel, he was given a teaching position and a substitute chair in Jena (from 1936). He was also a reviewer for the party official examination committee .

After 1945, despite years of litigation, Crämer was unable to return to the university. From 1950 to 1976 he worked on the Brockhaus Encyclopedia at Brockhaus Verlag , from 1965 as editor for the historical content .

Fonts (selection)

  • The constitution and administration of Strasbourg from the Reformation to the fall of the imperial city (1521–1681). Frankfurt 1931.
  • The Thuringian area and the Thuringian history. 1934.
  • The problem of imperial reform in German history. Jena 1935.
  • Carl August von Weimar and the German Princes' Union 1783–1790. Wiesbaden 1961.

literature

  • Karsten Jedlitschka: Science and Politics. The case of the Munich historian Ulrich Crämer (1907–1992) (= Ludovico Maximilianea. Volume 21). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-428-11861-8 .
  • Karsten Jedlitschka: Professor by Hitler's grace: The Munich modern historian Ulrich Crämer (1907–1992). In: Elisabeth Kraus (Ed.): The University of Munich in the Third Reich. Essays. Part I, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-8316-0639-0 , pp. 299-344.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Registration of Ulrich Crämer in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Karsten Jedlitschka: The "Party Official Examination Commission for the Protection of National Socialist Literature". Fields of censorship and working methods using the example of the Munich lecturer Ulrich Crämer. In: Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens 62, 2008, pp. 213–226, here: p. 214.
personal data
SURNAME Crämer, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH 1992