Hagen Schulze

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Hagen Schulze
Born	(1943-07-31)31 July 1943 Tangier, Spanish protectorate in Morocco
Died	4 September 2014(2014-09-04) (aged 71)
Nationality	German
Occupation	Historian

Hagen Schulze (31 July 1943 – 4 September 2014) was a German historian who held a position at the Free University of Berlin. He specialized in early modern and modern German and European history, particularly in comparative European nationalisms.^[1]

Life

Schulze, the son of orientalist and diplomat Peter Hans Schulze (* 1919), a member of the

During the Historikerstreit of 1986–7, Schulze did not defend the views of Ernst Nolte that Nazi war crimes, including The Holocaust, constituted a reaction to a perceived "Jewish declaration of war" against Germany, compounded by Nazi fears of Soviet communism. However, he did criticize Nolte's principal opponent, Jürgen Habermas, for presenting overly-simplistic views: on the one hand, liberals who supported the mainstream view of German history; on the other hand a group of historians promoted by conservatives.

From 2000 to 2006 Schulze was the director of the

• Kleine deutsche Geschichte (C. H. Beck, Munich, 1996)
• States, Nations and Nationalism: From the Middle Ages to the Present (The Making of Europe) (with William E. Yuill, 1998)
• Germany: A New History (with Deborah Lucas Schneider, 2001)
• The Course of German Nationalism: From Frederick the Great to Bismarck 1763-1867 (with Sarah Hanbury-Tenison, 2003)

References

• "Univ.-Prof. Dr. a.D. Hagen Schulze" (in German). Friedrich Meinecke Institute, Free University of Berlin. Archived from the original on 28 March 2009. Retrieved 10 May 2010.