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- Title
Hans Rosenberg und die Geschichte des deutschen Liberalismus. Seine unveröffentlichte Antrittsvorlesung vom Januar 1933.
- Authors
Grothe, Ewald
- Abstract
On 23 January 1933 - just one week before Hitler was made Reich Chancellor - Hans Rosenberg gave his inaugural lecture as a private lecturer in the auditorium of Cologne University. The lecture manuscript survives in the Rosenberg collection at the Bundesarchiv in Koblenz and is published here for the first time. Rosenberg's text 'The Epochs of Party Political Liberalism in Germany' is a politically argumentative overview. It offers a critical contemporary analysis of liberal thought and politics since the early 19th century. The disappointment in the state of political liberalism in 1932/33 of a loyal supporter of the Weimar Republic is palpable. The clear political accentuations and assessments of the historical development in this lecture manuscript make it a document of special relevance. Additionally the inaugural lecture in January 1933 marks the beginning of Rosenberg's methodological transition from the history of ideas to constitutional and social history. His critical interpretation of liberalism was taken up and developed by German social historiography since the 1960s.
- Subjects
GERMANY; ROSENBERG, Hans, 1904-1988; LIBERALISM; NATIONALISM; CAPITALISM; MEINECKE, Friedrich, 1862-1954; GERMAN history, 1789-1900; GERMAN history, 1871-1918; WEIMAR Republic, 1918-1933; GERMAN politics &; government; GERMAN politics &; government, 1871-1933; HISTORY; HISTORY of liberalism; NINETEENTH century; HISTORIOGRAPHY
- Publication
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 2014, Vol 62, Issue 1, p109
- ISSN
0042-5702
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/vfzg-2014-0005