Wilhelm von Kloeber

Wilhelm von Kloeber (born August 2, 1906 in Rosenheim , † June 19, 1960 in Munich ) was a German historian .

Wilhelm von Kloeber was the son of the painter Wilhelm Schmidt and the director of studies Ida von Kloeber, who adopted him. After graduating from high school in Munich, he studied history, philosophy, German and law from 1924, first in Tübingen , then from 1925 in Munich. In 1931 he received his doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with a thesis on "The German Question 1859-1871 in Greater German and Anti-Liberal Assessment" by Arnold Oskar Meyer and Karl Alexander von Müller . From 1933 to 1945 he had a lectureship in modern history at the University of Munich. Afterwards he was employed as a consultant for history at a Reichsführer school of the SA . In 1934 he was appointed a member of the University Commission of the NSDAP . His habilitation was rejected by the Munich faculty. After 1935 he worked full-time in school. His main work, an overview of German history between 1914 and 1933, uncritically justifies the takeover of power by the National Socialists . Von Kloeber had been a member of the SA and the NSDAP since 1929 . From 1939 to 1945 he did military service.

Fonts

• The German question from 1859 to 1871 in a large German and anti-liberal assessment , phil. Diss., Munich 1931.
• From world war to national revolution. German history 1914-1933. Oldenbourg, Munich / Berlin 1934.
• From World War to National Socialist Empire. German history 1914-1936. Oldenbourg, Munich 1937.

literature

• Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 91 f.
• Wolfgang Jacobmeyer : The German school history book 1700-1945. The first epoch of its genre history as reflected in the forewords. Vol. 1. Lit, Berlin 2011, p. 1384, note 4.