Willy Andreas

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Willy Andreas (born October 30, 1884 in Karlsruhe , † July 10, 1967 in Konstanz ) was a German historian .

Life

Andreas was the son of the businessman Ludwig Andreas and Elise geb. Schnepf. Andreas studied history in Grenoble , Munich , Berlin and Heidelberg and received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1907 under Erich Marcks . The dissertation was published in 1908 under the title The Spirit of Politics in Venice of the Sixteenth Century . From 1908 to 1912 he researched the administrative organization and constitution of the Grand Duchy of Baden 1802-1818 for the Baden Historical Commission . Part of the work published in 1913 was also his habilitation thesis (Marburg 1912). In 1914 he became an associate professor at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , but did not teach because he did military service in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 . After the war he became a full professor in Rostock in 1919 (appointed in 1916) , and in 1922 he succeeded Otto Hintze in Berlin. In 1923 he switched to Hermann Oncken's chair in Heidelberg. After the war he took over the management of the Carl-August-Werk for the research of the Thuringian national history . Between 1931 and 1933 he was rector of Heidelberg University . In 1946 he had to give up the professorship under pressure from the American occupation forces and taught in Tübingen from 1949 , then in Freiburg until 1959 . That year he received an honorary doctorate from the Universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg.

Since 1930 Andreas was a full member of the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and headed its departments German Reichstag files , middle series (1932-1967) and political correspondence of the Grand Duke Carl August von Weimar (1952-1967). In 1942 he became a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and in 1943 a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Andreas' main areas of work were the history of the Renaissance , the Reformation and the 18th and 19th centuries. He was editor of the New Propylaea World History (published 1940–1943).

Andreas was married to the daughter of his doctoral supervisor Erich Marcks , Gertrud "Gerta" (1897–1986).

Fonts

  • The spirit of politics in Venice of the sixteenth century , phil. Dissertation Heidelberg 1908.
  • Administrative organization and constitution of the Grand Duchy of Baden 1802–1818 . Vol. 1: The structure of the state in the context of general politics. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1913.
  • Peter von Meyendorff. A Russian statesman of the Restoration era . Heise, Berlin 1926.
  • Mind and state. Historical portraits . Oldenbourg, Munich a. Berlin 1922, 3rd edition 1940, 5th edition 1960.
  • Changes in Greater German Thought . German publishing house, Stuttgart 1924.
  • (Ed.): Bismarck. The discussions. 3 vol., Stollberg, Berlin 1924–1926.
  • Fight for people and empire. Essays and speeches on German history in the 19th and 20th centuries , Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart a. Berlin 1934.
  • (Ed.): The Great Germans. New German biography. In 4 volumes . Propylaea, Berlin 1935 ff.
  • Richelieu . Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1941.
  • Carl August von Weimar. A life with Goethe 1757-1783. Killper, Stuttgart 1953.
  • Germany before the Reformation. A turning point . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1932, 2nd edition 1934, 3rd complete. Edition 1942, 4th new through. Edition 1943, 5th new through. Edition 1948, 6th revised. Edition 1959, Duncker et al. Humblot, Berlin 7th edition 1972.
  • The age of Napoleon and the rising of the peoples . 1943, 2nd edition Source u. Meyer, Heidelberg 1955.
  • Napoleon. Development - Environment - Impact . Thorbecke, Konstanz 1962.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the previous academies. Willy Andreas. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 16, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Andreas, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baden historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1967
Place of death Constancy