Hermann Aubin
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Hermann Aubin | |
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Freiburg, Germany | |
| Nationality | German |
| Awards | Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1955) |
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| Discipline | History |
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Hermann Aubin (23 September 1885 – 11 March 1969) was an Austrian-German historian.
Biography
Hermann Aubin was born in
PhD at Freiburg in 1910 under the supervision of Georg von Below
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After gaining his PhD, Aubin lectured on history in
University of Breslau
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At the end of
Volksturm and fought in the Siege of Breslau. In 1946, Aubin was appointed Professor of Medieval and Modern History at the University of Hamburg. From 1955, he was honorary professor of history at the University of Freiburg. After the war, Aubin founded and led a number of scholarly organizations. He was the editor of Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung from 1952 to 1966. Aubin played a leading role in shaping the field of history in West Germany. On his 70th birthday in December 1955, Aubin received the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
. He died in Freiburg 11 March 1969.
Sources
- Eduard Mühle: Für Volk und deutschen Osten. Der Historiker Hermann Aubin und die deutsche Ostforschung (= Schriften des Bundesarchivs. Bd. 65). Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-7700-1619-X.
- Axel Schildt: Aubin, Hermann. In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biografie. Band 6. Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4, S. 20–22.
- ISBN 978-3-11-042989-3, S. 55–59.
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