Hans Mommsen, one of Germany’s most important historian, has died. The scientist died on Thursday, the day of his 85th birthday, in near Lake Starnberg.
Corresponding reports the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” and the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” confirmed the funeral Zirngibl on Thursday night in Tutzing Deutsche Presse-Agentur.
The in Marburg born Mommsen taught until his retirement in 1996 as Professor of Modern History at the Ruhr University in Bochum. Mommsen had made primarily for his research on National Socialism a name. Further research priorities were the workers’ movement and the Weimar Republic. In Historikerstreit mid 80s Mommsen was one of the most outspoken opponents of Ernst Nolte, who championed the theory of a link between the Bolshevik and Nazi crimes.
The career as a scientist seemed mapped out for Hans Mommsen, he came but a significant historian Dynasty. He is grandson of the legendary and ancient historian Theodor Mommsen Liberals, who in 1902 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His father, Wilhelm Mommsen taught as a professor history in Marburg, initially defended the Weimar Republic, the first German democracy, then became entangled but the NS injustice system. That he could not return to his chair after the lost war, characterized the childhood Mommsen and his twin brother Wolfgang Mommsen, also a professor of history, who died of 2004.
His academic career began Hans Mommsen at the History Department of the University of Tuebingen, it joined stations in Munich and Heidelberg. Finally he came to the Bochum Ruhr University, where he taught as a professor of modern history from 1968 until his retirement in the year 1996th He was also a visiting professor and fellow at major universities, such as Harvard, Princeton and Oxford.
His most recent book was published in 2014. With the title “The Nazi regime and the annihilation of the Jews in Europe”, he moved the balance of his decades of Holocaust research.
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