Gerhard Georg Bernhard Ritter (6 April 1888, in Bad Sooden-Allendorf – 1 July 1967, in Freiburg) was a German historian who served as a professor of history at the University of Freiburg from 1925 to 1956. He studied under Professor Hermann Oncken. A Lutheran, he first became well known for his 1925 biography of Martin Luther and hagiographic portrayal of Prussia.[1] A member of the German People's Party during the Weimar Republic, he was a lifelong monarchist and remained sympathetic to the political system of the defunct German Empire.
A critic of both democracy and totalitarianism, he supported authoritarian rule and German supremacy in Europe. His vision of history was narrowed to German interests, had little sympathy for foreign nations, and was full of disdain for Catholicism.[2] Eventually, his conflict with the Nazi regime got him arrested by it in 1944.
After World War II, Ritter worked to restore German nationalism by attempting to separate it from Nazi ideology and favored pursuit of German national interests, rather than reconciliation with the victims of German aggression. At the end of his career, he argued against theories of the German historian Fritz Fischer. Ritter became an honorary member of the American Historical Association in 1959.
^The Quest for the Lost Nation: Writing History in Germany and Japan in the American Century (California World History Library)
Sebastian Conrad page 128
^Paths of Continuity: Central European Historiography from the 1930s to the 1950s page 114 by Hartmut Lehmann, James Van Horn Melton
Gerhard Georg Bernhard Ritter (6 April 1888, in Bad Sooden-Allendorf – 1 July 1967, in Freiburg) was a German historian who served as a professor of history...
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Landtag as a member of that party. Goerdeler's biographer and friend GerhardRitter described his upbringing as one of a large, loving middle-class family...
view, Germany was suddenly threatened from all sides. According to GerhardRitter: "It was suddenly surrounded by enemies and could not trust anyone."...
(Förderstiftung Konservative Bildung und Forschung), Junge Freiheit awards the Gerhard Löwenthal Prize, a biannual prize for conservative journalists.[citation...
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Joachim Ritter (German: [ˈʁɪtɐ]; 3 April 1903 – 3 August 1974) was a German philosopher and founder of the so-called Ritter School (German: Ritter-Schule)...
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contrast, German historians such as Friedrich Meinecke, Hans Rothfels, and GerhardRitter, joined by a few non-German historians such as Pieter Geyl, contended...
Weikersheim, including Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder (at the time Baden-Württemberg's Minister of Finance) and leading journalist Gerhard Löwenthal. It is named...
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