Ulrich Noack (historian)

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Ulrich Noack (born June 2, 1899 in Darmstadt , † November 14, 1974 in Würzburg ) was a German historian and university professor for Middle and Modern History.

Life

Noack was the son of the archaeologist Ferdinand Noack . He studied history and philosophy at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , where he heard Friedrich Meinecke and Ernst Troeltsch . He also studied at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Study visits took him to Rome and Cambridge. In 1925 he received his doctorate on Bismarck's peace policy and the problem of the decline of German power in Meinecke and in 1929 the habilitation on politics as a safeguarding of freedom on the Catholic history thinker Lord Acton (1929) at the Goethe University in Frankfurt . Noack belonged to the Confessing Church and was prohibited from publishing from 1933. He was married to a Norwegian since 1927 and studied Nordic history. In 1937/38 Noack was a professor at the University of Halle and shortly thereafter became a lecturer in Nordic history , in December 1942 an adjunct professor at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald . At the beginning of December 1939, Noack met the then State Councilor Vidkun Quisling at a book exhibition in Oslo . Both gentlemen later discussed the political and military strategic situation in detail. Quisling called for Germany's military attack on the Soviet Union. Noack summarized Quisling's statements in a detailed memo on December 8, 1939, in order to enforce them in Berlin. But this went without result. After the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , Noack was imprisoned for six weeks.

Without NSDAP membership, Noack was considered unencumbered and in 1946 received a full professorship for Medieval and Modern History at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , where he became head of the Modern Department of the Department of Medieval and Modern History in the Philosophical Faculty. In 1946 he joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Greifswald , switched to the CSU in Würzburg and founded the Nauheimer Kreis in 1948 , which advocated a neutral and unarmed Germany. As dean of the Philosophical Faculty, he was a member of the Academic Senate of the University of Würzburg in 1948. In 1952 he founded the magazine Welt ohne Krieg . In 1951 he was expelled from the CSU, then joined the All-German People's Party and was finally a member of the FDP from 1956 to 1960 .

His second wife from 1952 was Marianne Buschette, his former secretary.

In his scientific work, Noack endeavored to break down the epochs of world history into 70 or 210 years, which remained without acceptance.

In view of the Soviet and American interests in Central Europe, Noack seemed to imagine a united Germany only as neutralized and demilitarized under the international guarantee of both blocs. As a barrier between the blocs, Germany was supposed to create peace and support it globally with its population, economic power and infrastructure. After 1949, Noack considered the USA to be more threatening to peace than the USSR .

Publications (selection)

  • Bismarck's peace policy and the problem of the decline in German power , Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1928.
  • Politics as a safeguard of freedom , Habil.-Schrift, Frankfurt a. M. 1929, Schulte-Bulmke, Frankfurt a. M. 1947, 2nd edition 1960.
  • History and Truth. Based on the writings of John Dahlberg-Acton, the historian of freedom 1834-1902 , Schulte-Bulmke, Frankfurt a. M. 1935.
  • Catholicity and Freedom of Spirit. According to the writings of John Dalberg-Acton 1834-1902 , Schulte-Bulmke, Frankfurt a. M. 1936.
  • The political ethos in European diplomacy , Hoffmann u. Campe, Hamburg 1939.
  • History of the Nordic Peoples , Oldenbourg, Munich / Berlin 1941.
  • Germany's new figure in a searching world , Schulte-Bulmke, Frankfurt a. M. 1946.
  • The Nauheim Protocols. Discussions about the neutralization of Germany. The first three meetings of the Nauheimer Kreis August, September, December 1948 , self-published, Würzburg 1950.
  • Norway between peace mediation and foreign rule. Verl. Auf-Bau der Mitte, Krefeld 1952.
  • Spirit and space in the story. Classification of German history in the structure of world history. Musterschmidt, Göttingen / Berlin / Frankfurt / Zurich 1961.
  • The happier possibility as a recognizable dimension of historical judgment formation. Comments on world history. World without War, Würzburg 1978.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. University printing house H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, p. 17.
  2. ↑ Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. University printing house H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, p. 6 f. and 12.
personal data
SURNAME Noack, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1974
Place of death Wurzburg