Wolfgang Stribrny

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Wolfgang Stribrny (born June 16, 1935 in Gelnhausen ; † September 29, 2011 in Bad Sobernheim ) was a German historian .

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Wolfgang Stribrny is the descendant of Bohemian exiles and the son of a military doctor. He was born in Hesse, but grew up in Frankfurt an der Oder . From 1956 to 1963 he studied history, geography and political science in Göttingen and Freiburg im Breisgau . Doctorate in history, the dissertation was supervised by Richard Nürnberger , Stribrny was director of studies at the Evangelical Academy Hofgeismar from 1964 and from his appointment in 1974 until his retirement in 1997 he was full professor of history at the University of Flensburg .

As a historian, he researched problems in Prussian history such as Frederick the Great's Russia policy, German policy after Bismarck's dismissal , the history of the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel , which was part of Prussia for a long time , the history of the Order of St. John in Neumark, and Frederick the Great's financial resources for building the Sanssouci Palace .

From 1969 worked as spokesman for the Stribrny "Zoller circle" and legal Ritter was the Order of St. John . Until 2010, Stribrny was also President of the Preußeninstitut eV / Zollernkreis , whose goal is to “do justice to Prussia” and partially restore it. From 1988 Stribrny was chairman of the monarchist association Tradition und Leben and was considered a connoisseur of the history of the Hohenzollern and published some fundamental works on this. Together with the historians Josef Joachim Menzel and Eberhard Völker, he published (first printing Mainz 1979) "Alternative recommendations for the treatment of German-Polish history in school books". Stribrny was a member of the Working Group on the History of Prussia (AGP) for more than thirty years .

From 1997 he lived in Bad Sobernheim . He died there on September 29, 2011 after a brief illness.

Honors

Fonts

  • The Russia policy of Frederick the Great 1764–1786. Holzner, Würzburg 1966 (plus dissertation).
  • The path of the Hohenzollern: life pictures of all electors, kings and emperors from the House of Brandenburg-Prussia and the other important Hohenzollern. CA Starke, Limburg / Lahn 1981, ISBN 3-798-00695-4 .
  • Bismarck and German politics after his dismissal (1890–1898). Schoeningh, Paderborn 1977, ISBN 3-506-77444-1 .
  • Frankfurt / Oder. Portrait of a bridge city. Westkreuz, Berlin / Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-922131-75-1 .
  • The kings of Prussia as princes of Neuchâtel-Neuchatel (1707-1848). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-428-09405-0 .
  • (together with Jutta Angelika Wonschik-Steege) A legacy: Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia. Remagen 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-022789-9 .

literature

  • Rolf Sauerzapf , Jürgen W. Schmidt (Hrsg.): A life for Prussia: Festschrift for the 75th birthday of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stribrny (= series of publications of the Prussian Institute. Vol. 13). Ludwigsfelder Verlagshaus, Ludwigsfelde 2010, ISBN 978-3-933022-64-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 229/2011 (October 1, 2011), p. 41.
  2. ↑ http://m.schwarzwaelder-bote.de/inhalt.bisingen-politik-brauch-neue-glaubwuerdigkeit.093fa812-c986-4993-8004-1c8cd383c1ea.html
  3. ↑ http://home.arcor.de/tul/pi/erbeukauf.htm ( Memento from July 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Obituary ( memento from June 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) ( East and Central German Association Schleswig-Holstein)
personal data
SURNAME Stribrny, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelnhausen
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 2011
Place of death Bad Sobernheim