Wolfgang Sauer (historian)

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Wolfgang Wilhelm Sauer (born February 12, 1920 in Berlin ; † December 23, 1989 ) was a German historian. Among other things, he held the chair for German history at the University of California, Berkeley .

Life and activity

Sauer received his doctorate in 1957 from the Free University of Berlin with a dissertation on the Ebert-Groener Pact from autumn 1918 for Dr. phil.

Sauer first became well-known through his work on the monograph The National Socialist Seizure of Power , which was created under the direction of Karl Dietrich Bracher and is still considered a standard work of Nazi research today. This study, which appeared for the first time in 1957 and has seen numerous new editions since then, was carried out by Bracher and Sauer together with Gerhard Schulz , with Sauer taking over the large chapter "The Mobilization of Violence". For the follow-up study The Dissolution of the Weimar Republic , he wrote the chapter on the Reichswehr.

In 1964 Sauer was appointed to the University of California in Berkeley, where he held the chair of German history until his death. The focus of his research was the investigation of the history and the theoretical foundation of civil-military relations in the first half of the 20th century.

Sauer's scientific papers are now housed in the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University .

Fonts

  • The Ebert-Groener Alliance. A study on the necessity and limits of military power , o. O. 1957 (dissertation).
  • Army and Politics in Germany , in: Neue Politische Literatur 4 (1959).
  • The National Socialist seizure of power. Studies on the establishment of the totalitarian system of rule in Germany 1933/34 , Cologne 1960 (together with Karl Dietrich Bracher and Gerhard Schulz ).
    • in particular: The mobilization of violence , pp. 683–966.
  • National Socialism. Totalitarianism or Fascism , in: American Historical Review , Vol. 63 (1967), pp. 404-422.
  • The failure of the parliamentary monarchy , in: Eberhard Kolb (Ed.): Vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik , Cologne 1972, pp. 77-99.
  • Weimar Culture: Experiments in Modernism , in: Social Research , Vol. 39 (1972), pp. 254-284.
  • The problem of the German nation state , in: Hans-Ulrich Wehler : Modern German Social History , Cologne 1973, pp. 407-436.
  • Catholic associations in Vienna. On the history of the Christian-socially conservative camp before 1914 , in: History and Social Studies Research , No. 5, Salzburg 1980.
  • The Reichswehr , in: Karl Dietrich Bracher: The dissolution of the Weimar Republic. A study on the problem of the decline in power in democracy , Düsseldorf 1984, pp. 205–253.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5v19n7wn/entire_text/
personal data
SURNAME Sauer, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sauer, Wolfgang Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1989