Werner Pöls

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Werner Pöls (born March 15, 1926 in Manker near Fehrbellin ; † February 21, 1989 in Braunschweig ) was a German historian and politician ( CDU ).

Life

After participating in and imprisonment in the war, Pöls was initially an elementary school teacher , then studied history , German and philosophy at the Philipps University of Marburg and at the Free University of Berlin from 1952 until his state examination in 1957 , and received his doctorate in 1959 under Walter Bußmann . He then worked as a research assistant and academic adviser at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute at the Free University of Berlin and, as a longstanding executive assistant under directors such as Hans Herzfeld , Wilhelm Berges , Reinhard Elze and Bußmann, was involved in establishing the institute. 1966 Pöls went as chief curator at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , in 1969 he was appointed as successor to Henry Heffter to the Chair of Modern History at the Technical University of Braunschweig called the Philosophical and Social Science Faculty , he from 1970 to 1972 as dean board. 1973-74 he was a visiting professor at St Antony's College of Oxford University . In 1982 he retired prematurely for health reasons . In the same year he was accepted as a full member of the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft .

Pöls was an expert on German social and political history of the 19th century and in the 1970s set up the previously completely disorganized and inaccessible Bismarck Archive (now the archive of the Otto von Bismarck Foundation ) in Friedrichsruh . In 1974 the German Historians' Day took place in Braunschweig on his initiative . Since then he has also been politically active: From 1974 to 1982 Pöls was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament and chairman of the committee for science and art for the CDU, and from 1974 to 1980 he was also president (and 1980 to 1984 vice-president) of the German University Association . Pöls turned against important concerns of the socio-politically motivated university reform of the 1970s in the Federal Republic (not least the concept of the group university ) and represented the interests of the West German professors as well as his own historical seminar with great organizational skill .

He was married to Eva di Michieli, who died of cancer in 1977. The couple has four children.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Socialist question and fear of revolution in their connection with the alleged coup d'état by Bismarck. (= Historical studies. Volume 377), Lübeck a. Hamburg 1960.
  • with Georg Kotowski , Gerhard A. Ritter (eds.): The Wilhelmine Germany. Voices of contemporaries. Frankfurt / M. 1965.
  • Change of government in Hanover. The events in the Lower Saxony State Parliament from January 14th to February 6th 1976. (= Lower Saxony State Parliament. , Issue 2), Hanover 1977.
  • (Ed.): State and society in political change. Contributions to the history of the modern world. (Festschrift for Walter Bußmann), Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-12-911900-0 .
  • with Klaus Erich Pollmann (ed.): Modern Braunschweigische Geschichte. Hildesheim 1982, ISBN 3-487-07316-1 .
  • (Ed.), German Social History 1815–1870. 4th, unchanged. Ed., Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-33292-7 .

literature

  • Wolfgang Weber : Biographical lexicon for historical studies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The chair holders for history from the beginnings of the subject until 1970. Frankfurt / M. 1984, p. 449, ISBN 3-8204-8005-6 .
  • The historical seminar of the Technical University of Braunschweig 1969–1982. Braunschweig 1982 (dedicated to Werner Pöls on the occasion of his retirement; reproduced typescript, available in the Braunschweig University Library).
  • Günther Grünthal , Klaus Erich Pollmann: Introduction. In: Werner Pöls: Studies on the Bismarckian Age. Collection of articles for the 60th birthday. (therein ten reprinted articles by Pöls), ed. by Günther Grünthal and Klaus Erich Pollmann, Hildesheim 1986, pp. VII – XI, ISBN 3-487-07726-4 .
  • Franz J. Bauer: History of the German University Association. Munich 2000, pp. 181-187 u. more often, ISBN 3-598-11440-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Pöls, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Manker , Fehrbellin
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1989
Place of death Braunschweig