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Friedrich Meinecke (October 20, 1862 – February 6, 1954) was a German historian, with national liberal and antisemitic views, who supported the Nazi invasion of Poland. After World War II, as a representative of an older tradition, he criticized the Nazi regime, but continued to express antisemitic prejudices.
Friedrich Meinecke (born Oct. 30, 1862, Salzwedel, Prussia—died Feb. 6, 1954, Berlin) was the leading German historian of the first half of the 20th century and, together with his teacher Wilhelm Dilthey, a founding father of modern intellectual historiography.
Friedrich Meinecke (* 30. Oktober 1862 in Salzwedel; † 6. Februar 1954 in Berlin) war ein deutscher Historiker und Universitätsprofessor in Straßburg, Freiburg und Berlin.
Meinecke reserves for Hitlerism the minor epithet of “misfortune.” The “catastrophe,” the “abyss,” was the prostration of the German state, the abasement of the German spirit and world mission.
May 23, 2018 · Friedrich Meinecke (1862-1954), Germany's greatest historian in the period from 1890 to 1950, founded a school of the history of ideas and trained many scholars. Friedrich Meinecke was born in Salzwedel and educated in Berlin.
Mar 5, 2018 · Friedrich Meinecke, the German historian and political philosopher, was small in stature and somewhat frail but remained mentally very vigorous and intellectually prolific until his death at the age of ninety-two.
Internationally celebrated historian Friedrich Meinecke (born October 30, 1862, in Salzwedel; died February 6, 1954 in Berlin), a professor of history at Berlin’s Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, moved to Freie Universität on November 10, 1948.
Dec 16, 2023 · Friedrich Meinecke was one of the leading representatives of German Historicism, and his thought has had a great influence in different fields of historical and philosophical research. He was born in 1862 in Salzwedel and died in 1954 in Berlin.
The official obituary of the Freie Universität Berlin states that, with the passing of Meinecke, Germany lost ‘a historical-political thinker’, who ‘embodied the voice of its conscience’.¹ With this, the university calls to mind Meinecke’s repeated warnings about National Socialism.
Jan 5, 2013 · Friedrich Meinecke (1862-1954) was a central figure of restoration and continuity in the West German historical profession after 1945. Yet this was not without a certain incongruity, for the disintegration of the Weimar Republic, Nazi rule, defeat, occupation, and partition occurred when he was of advanced age, at a point when most of his ...
