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Werner Frauendienst (born February 5, 1901 in Berlin ; † August 24, 1966 in Mainz ) was a German historian , archivist, legation secretary and university professor.

Life

Werner Frauendienst was the son of the teacher Wilhelm Frauendienst. He finished school in his hometown in 1920 with the Abitur . He then completed a degree in history , German , geography and philosophy at the University of Berlin , where he received his doctorate in 1926. phil. received his doctorate . Since 1927 he was married to Elli Möwes. The title of his dissertation was Christian Wolff as a state thinker .

As a research assistant , he joined the Foreign Office in 1926 and was in this position from 1928 to 1932 in Department III (British Empire, America, Orient) and then in Department II (West, South and Southeastern Europe). He then worked at the AA as a legation secretary in the personnel and administration department, where he headed the Political Archive from 1937 to 1938 .

In the meantime, at the end of May 1932, he had completed his habilitation for middle and modern history at the University of Greifswald . Part-time, he initially worked as a private lecturer at the University of Greifswald and from 1935 at the University of Berlin. In autumn 1938 he received the chair for modern history at the University of Halle . In addition, Frauendienst, who had joined the NSDAP in 1933 after the transfer of power to the National Socialists , was a member of the Advisory Board of the Research Department on Jewish Issues at the Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany from spring 1939 .

After the beginning of the Second World War , he was reinstated in the Foreign Office in October 1939 and evaluated material from the archives of occupied countries on the question of war guilt in the German Information Center. From 1942 until the end of the war in the spring of 1945, Frauendienst taught political history at the University of Berlin's Foreign Studies Faculty , which published the collected works of Otto von Bismarck , also published in the National Socialist sense and used a corresponding style of language:

“The new empire has legitimized itself as a leader. Never before in its history has Germany been so solid and united as it is today. There is a strong state authority, a huge armed forces protect the Reich on land, sea and in the air, the economy secures the independence and freedom of the German people, culture again serves the beauty and greatness of the nation. […] To be a leader means to be an example and role model, it means to advance and convince others through one's own disciplined performance, it means to overcome chaos, to establish order and to be the educator of the people. Only the most powerful and the spiritually superior can do it. On the continent, that's the Empire and Italy. "

- Werner Frauendienst in his essay The Internal Reconstruction of the Reich as a Contribution to the European Order , which appeared in the yearbook of world politics in 1942 .

After the end of the war he was arrested by Soviet military police in October 1945 and was then interned in the special camps in Torgau (Fort Zinna) and Buchenwald . During the Waldheim trials in 1950 he was charged with “supporting the Nazi regime”, found guilty and given a 15-year prison sentence . The prison sentence was serving women in Bautzen prison . As part of an amnesty , he was released early from prison in 1952. From February 1953 he briefly held a research assignment at the University of Halle as an employee of Leo Stern .

Soon after, however, he settled in the Federal Republic of Germany. Women's service, who was unable to return to university due to his Nazi past, was employed at the Institute for European History in Mainz from 1954 to 1964 . In the meantime he had retired in 1959 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Christian Wolff as a state thinker , Berlin 1926, PhD thesis, E. Ebering, Berlin 1927 (= historical studies , no. 171).
  • Versailles and the war guilt , Quaderverlag, Berlin 1936 (= Berliner Monatshefte . Vol. 14, 1936, No. 1).
  • Overcoming Versailles . Public inaugural lecture, held on November 17, 1938 after being appointed to the chair for modern history, Niemeyer, Halle 1939 (= Hallische Universitätsreden , 66).
  • Yugoslavia's way to the abyss , Junker u. Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1941 (= writings of the German Institute for Foreign Policy Research and the Hamburg Institute for Foreign Policy , issue 88).
  • Bismarck as a folder of Europe. Ceremonial speech on the day of the national uprising and the founding of the Reich , on Jan. 30, 1941, Halle 1941 (= Hallische Universitätsreden , 78).
  • Pax Britannica. A representation of the peace treaties from 1919 to 1923 and their effects , Deutsche Verl. Anst., Stuttgart, Berlin 1942 (= England and the World War , No. 10).
  • On the problem of recognizing and understanding the recent German past , Musterschmidt, Göttingen, Berlin, Frankfurt, Zurich 1962 (= historical-political notebooks of the Ranke-Gesellschaft, issue 6).
  • The year 1866. Prussia's victory, the preliminary stage of the German Empire , Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1966.

Editor of the following publications

  • The secret papers of Friedrich von Holstein / Friedrich von Holstein . Edited by Norman Rich et al. MH Fisher (German edition by Werner Frauendienst), Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1956–1963 (multi-volume work).
  • Bismarck, Otto von: The collected works , Verlag f. Politics and Wirtschaft, Berlin (volumes 14 and 6c of the multi-volume work, partly together with Wolfgang Windelband).
  • Contemporary world history in documents: International Politics , 3 parts, Essen Publishing House , Essen 1935–1938.
  • Hungary: ten years later. 1956-1966. A scientific compilation. Edited on behalf of the German-Hungarian Cultural Association, v. Hare u. Koehler, Mainz 1966.
  • Recent German history from Bismarck's dismissal to the present , Part 1: From 1890 to 1933 , Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, Frankfurt am Main 1973.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who ?: Das deutsche Who's Who , Volume 15, Arani, 1967, p. 478.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Leesch : The German archivists 1500-1945. Volume 2: Biographical Lexicon. Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-10605-X , p. 163.
  3. ^ Hermann-Josef Rupieper : Contributions to the history of the Martin Luther University 1502-2002 , Mdv, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2002, p. 475.
  4. ↑ Elke Seefried (Ed.): Theodor Heuss. On the defensive. Letters 1933–1945 , Saur, Munich 2009, pp. 578f.
  5. ^ Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald: Chronicle of the Royal Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald . 1933, p. 9.
  6. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 162.
  7. ↑ a b History in Halle. Frauendienst, Werner at www.uni-halle.de
  8. ^ Wolfram Fischer: Exodus of Sciences from Berlin: Questions - Results - Desiderata . Academy of Sciences in Berlin, de Gruyter, Berlin 1994, p. 208.
  9. ↑ Quoted in: Birgit Kletzin: Europe from Race and Space: the National Socialist Idea of ​​the New Order , Lit, Münster 2002, p. 101f.
  10. ↑ cf. Werner Freitag: Halle and German History around 1900: Contributions to the Colloquium 125 Years of the History Seminar at the University of Halle on 4th / 5th. November 2000 , Mdv, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2002, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Women's service, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, archivist, legation secretary and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1966
Place of death Mainz