Werner Conze (December 11, 1910, in Amt Neuhaus – April 1986 in Heidelberg) was a German historian. Georg Iggers refers to him as "one of the most important historians and mentors of the post-1945 generation of West German historians."[1] Beginning in 1998, Conze's role during the Third Reich and his successful postwar career in spite of this became a subject of great controversy among German historians.[2]
A student of the national conservative historian Hans Rothfels at the University of Königsberg, Conze began his career during the Nazi period, working on Ostforschung, specifically studying German language islands and agrarian society in Eastern Europe. Conze became a member of both the SA and the Nazi Party. His early writings evince völkisch and antisemitic ideas, including advocating for the purging of Jews from Eastern Europe by unspecified means.[3][4]
After the war, Conze continued to work in academia, eventually becoming a professor at the University of Heidelberg. From 1956 to 1961, he was a member of the Schieder commission, which documented the expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe at the end of the War in a way that skirted the issue of German atrocities. In the postwar years, Conze moved away from his earlier völkisch positions and became a major mentor of new historians between the 1950s and 1970s;[5] he was one of the most significant advocates of social history.[6] Through his work on the encyclopedia Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe [de], he was also important for the development of conceptual history. He served as rector of the University of Heidelberg from 1969 to 1970 and as president of the Deutscher Historikerverband [de] from 1972-1976.
WernerConze (December 11, 1910, in Amt Neuhaus – April 1986 in Heidelberg) was a German historian. Georg Iggers refers to him as "one of the most important...
Bonn University; his mother was the daughter of the archeologist Alexander Conze. He gained a doctorate in law and joined the army in 1907. He married in...
some significance. The earliest conception of the theory was created by WernerConze, a Nazi anthropologist. He refined the racist ideas of his mentor, Gunther...
York 2001, S. 215–220. Wilhelm Janssen: "War". In: Reinhart Koselleck, WernerConze, Otto Brunner (eds.): Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe: Historisches Lexikon...
Alongside the philosopher Joachim Ritter, the historians Otto Brunner, WernerConze, and Reinhart Koselleck, and the sociologist Erich Rothacker are viewed...
centuries. Between 1972 and 1997 Koselleck co-edited, together with WernerConze and Otto Brunner, the eight-volume encyclopedia Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe...
himself, were his students Theodor Schieder and WernerConze. Whereas Rothfels had to emigrate, Schieder and Conze joined the NSDAP. They were active in the...
of the Marxist philosophy of history. Outstanding German historians WernerConze and Reinhart Koselleck were important guiding influences during his formative...
in Nazi Germany. The trio challenged the defense of Theodor Schieder, WernerConze and Karl-Dietrich Erdmann in terms of inner emigration arguing that they...
der Essen, worked alongside Germans Franz Petri, Hans Rothfels, and WernerConze. In 1994, John Horne and Allan Kramer published an article analyzing...
original on 18 June 2010. Retrieved 20 December 2009. Pommern, Werner Buchholz (ed.), WernerConze, Hartmut Boockmann (contrib.), Berlin: Siedler, 1999, pp...
preparatory developments in the German states since the early modern period. WernerConze narrowed down a preparatory phase to roughly the period between 1770...
Buddhologist Edward Conze (1966) has proposed that similarities existed between Buddhism and Gnosticism, a term deriving from the name Gnostics, which...
von Papen had gutted German democracy involved him in a dispute with WernerConze, a prominent Nazi historian during Nazi rule who emerged as a leading...
as the basis for a new global culture. Brunner also contributed, with WernerConze and Reinhart Koselleck, to a major encyclopedic work, Geschichtliche...
on politics and current affairs, colonialist and explorer of Africa WernerConze (1910-1986), historian Jürgen Schult (*1960), German track and field...
then still young South Asia Institute, which had just been founded by WernerConze. From 1963, he was a research assistant in the Department of History...
History. From 1959 until his retirement in 1968, he led, together with WernerConze, the newly founded Institute for Social and Economic History. In the...
cross-epochal questions and was open to interdisciplinary methods. Moraw named WernerConze, Erich Maschke, Ahasver von Brandt , and Hermann Heimpel as the historians...
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS IN EUROPE Theodor Schieder 10 THE GERMAN EMPIRE WernerConze 11 THE FRENCH REPUBLIC J. Nere 12 AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, TURKEY AND THE BALKANS...
(1817–1895) Heinrich von Treitschke (1834–1896) Martin Broszat – Nazi era WernerConze Fritz Fischer (1908–1999) – World War I Klaus Hildebrand (born 1941)...
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