Wednesday, May 18, 2016

US historian Fritz Stern is dead – SPIEGEL ONLINE


Recently he had in interviews on his 90th birthday in front of a” warned new age of anxiety “. Now is the historian Fritz Stern, the life dealt with Germany, died.

The historian Fritz Stern is at the age of 90 years in New York died. This was announced C.H. his German book publisher Beck with.

Stern was born in 1926 as son of a German Jewish doctor’s family in Breslau, the discrimination of the Third Reich experienced firsthand and fled in 1939 before the terror of the Nazis in the United States. He studied history at Columbia University in New York. Later he worked as a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Stern was one of the most renowned historian of the United States, he worked especially with German history.

Stern was the recipient of many awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the German National Prize, the Order of Merit and the Order Pour le Mérite for Science and Art. To star major works include “Gold and Iron”, a study on Bismarck and the Jewish banker Gerson and his dissertation “Politics of Cultural Despair danger” in which he analyzed the nationalist-irrational thinking that Nazism rendered feed.

In addition, Fritz Stern volunteered with many essays also to the debate about words, which he became one of the most important personalities of intellectual life into Germany. In his latest book “At home away from home” he put in various essays again his understanding of history is, in the characters and situations to “signs to goal of understanding” should be.

Stern made in his writings the radical change significantly, the Federal Republic took place by the Nazi regime. Equally insistently he also described the atrocities under the Third Reich.

Given the refugee crisis warned Stern in interviews in front of a new age of anxiety. Many countries in Europe are frightening moved fast and far to the right, “I have sometimes complained that I grew up with the end of a democracy and now, at the end of life, to experience the struggles for democracy again really sad. balance. “

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