Willy Real

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Willy Real (born October 25, 1911 in Osternienburg , † April 23, 2004 in Bonn ) was a German historian . Real was professor of history and history didactics at the University of Cologne .

Life

He was born on October 25, 1911 in Osternienburg as the son of the construction engineer Wilhelm Real. After graduating from high school in March 1930 in Koethen , he studied history, German and philosophy at the universities of Halle , Münster and Cologne . A study on the German constitutional question at the exit of Napoleonic rule until the beginning of the Congress of Vienna received his doctorate in 1935, at the University of Muenster in Hermann Wätjen Dr. phil. From 1936 he worked at the Hindenburg School in Düsseldorf . From 1945 to 1971 he taught German and history at the grammar school in Waldbröl , then at the Aloisiuskolleg in Bad Godesberg . In 1977 he was retired.

After his habilitation in 1970 at the PH Rhineland , Bonn department, from 1971 he was scientific advisor and professor at the PH Rhineland, Cologne department, and since 1980 at the University of Cologne. He dedicated his book Die Revolution in Baden 1848/49 (1983) to the memory of his "honored teacher Hans Herzfeld ".

From 1939 he was married. The marriage had three children: Heinz Jürgen, Michael Alexander and Monika Christiane. His son Heinz Jürgen also became a historian: he did his doctorate under Johannes Spörl and later worked at the Koblenz Federal Archives .

Works (selection)

  • Between confidence and degeneration: memories of studying the humanities in the years before and after the National Socialist seizure of power 1930–1935. Kovač, Hamburg 2000, (3rd extended edition) ISBN 3-86064-529-3 .
  • (Ed.) From the memoirs / Hans Herzfeld . de Gruyter, Berlin (inter alia) 1992, ISBN 3-11-013520-5 .
  • Karl Friedrich von Savigny : 1814–1875; a Prussian diplomatic life in the century the empire was founded. (= Historical Research Vol. 43), Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-06963-3 .
  • The revolution in Baden: 1848/49. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-17-007921-2 .
  • The German Reform Association: Greater German voices and forces between Villafranca and Königgrätz. Matthiesen, Lübeck 1966.

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  • Curriculum vitae in: The German constitutional question at the end of Napoleonic rule up to the beginning of the Congress of Vienna. (Diss.)
  • Who is who? The German Who's Who (1996)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Real's personal form in the personnel file of the BIL reviewer in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)


personal data
SURNAME Really, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Easter castle
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2004
Place of death Bonn