Mourning Hans Mommsen: With it Germany lose the Central Council of Jews to view one of his great historians.. “His research on the Nazi era was groundbreaking and also for subsequent historians generations decisively,” President Josef Schuster said on Friday.
Mommsen was on Thursday, the day of his 85th birthday, in his adopted home at the Starnberger lake died.
Norbert Frei (“The Leader State”), who succeeded Mommsen at Bochum University, paid tribute to the historian as a seminal figure in the scientific reappraisal of the Nazi era. “Hans Mommsen was the focus of huge, critical productivity of first generation empirically-working historian in the Federal Republic,” said Frei, now a professor at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. “His combative spirit owes the German and international Nazi research groundbreaking impulses.”
In great sadness the Ruhr-Universität Bochum remembered her former professor. Mommsen had taught from 1968 to 1996 in Bochum. Rector Axel Schölmerich said: “Hans Mommsen was an internationally highly respected scientist. The Ruhr-Universität Bochum owes an extraordinary amount of it. “
Mommsen belonged to the founding generation of the university and had built up with the then Department of History. In the early 70s he ran the establishment of the Institute for the history of the labor movement.
The “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” praised him as the most important historian for the Study of National Socialism. “For veteran he never brought it. He made things more complicated by having them brought to the cool light of enlightenment “
The” Süddeutsche Zeitung “writes:”. In the many decades of his work he has done more than for the processing of the Nazi period some of his colleagues. “
The Historian Association named the native Marburger a great historian. “Hans Mommsen has always highly committed and courageous used for the tray and scientific history and political discussions ahead”, it said in a statement the association.
Mommsen came from a major historian Dynasty. His great-grandfather was the legendary Liberal and ancient historian Theodor Mommsen, who in 1902 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His twin brother Wolfgang and his father Wilhelm were also historians.
Hans Mommsen counted in Historikerstreit mid-80s to the most determined opponents of Ernst Nolte’s thesis of a link between the Bolshevik and Nazi crimes.
His last book was published in 2014. Under the title “The Nazi regime and the annihilation of the Jews in Europe”, he took stock of his decades of Holocaust research.
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