Wolfgang Steglich (historian)

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Wolfgang Steglich (born March 2, 1927 in Grimma ; † April 29, 2004 in Berlin ) was a German historian and professor of modern history .

Steglich studied history and philology in Greifswald , Leipzig and Freiburg im Breisgau . He received his doctorate in 1956 under Gerhard Ritter and completed his habilitation in 1963 at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg .

From 1970 to 1995 he was a full professor of modern history at the Free University of Berlin . The focus of his research and publications was the history of the German Reformation , the Bismarckian era and, above all, the political history of the First World War .

In the course of the Fischer controversy , Steglich used extensive archive material to emphasize the efforts of Austria-Hungary and the German Reich to achieve a mutual or separate peace in the world war.

Fonts

  • Securing alliances or mutual agreement. Investigations into the peace offer of the Central Powers of December 12, 1916. Musterschmidt, Göttingen / Berlin / Frankfurt am Main 1958.
  • The peace policy of the Central Powers 1917/18. 2 volumes, Steiner, Wiesbaden 1964 (habilitation thesis 1963).
  • The appeal for peace by Pope Benedict XV. of August 1, 1917 and the Central Powers. Diplomatic files from the German Foreign Office, the Bavarian State Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Austro-Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the British Foreign Office from the years 1915-1922. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1970.
  • The peace attempts of the warring powers in the summer and autumn of 1917. Source-critical investigations, files and interrogation protocols. Steiner, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-515-02455-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Lang Publishing Group  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.peterlang.com  
  2. ↑ Bruno Thoss: The First World War as an event and experience. Paradigm shift in West German World War II research since the Fischer controversy. In: Wolfgang Michalka (Ed.): The First World War. Effect, perception, analysis. Seehamer Verlag, Weyarn 1997, ISBN 3-932131-37-1 , pp. 1012-1044, here: p. 1021.
personal data
SURNAME Steglich, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Grimma
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 2004
Place of death Berlin