Christian Graf von Krockow

Christian Graf von Krockow ( born May 26, 1927 in Rumbske ( Pomerania ), † 17 March 2002 in Hamburg ) was a German political scientist, historian and writer.

Life

Krockow was born in 1927 in Pomerania, the son of uradeligen Pomeranian noble family of Krockow. He visited the Baltic School Międzydroje the Athenaeum Stade. 1945, he went to collect the Wehrmacht as seventeen and internment in Denmark to North-West Germany.

He studied from 1947 to 1954 sociology, philosophy and constitutional law at the University of Göttingen and the University of Durham. In 1955 he received his doctorate with the thesis The decisionismo at Ernst Jünger, Carl Schmitt and Martin Heidegger, its social function and its social theoretical importance at the University of Göttingen.

From 1961 to 1965 he was professor of political science at the University of Education, Göttingen, then at the University of Saarland and from 1968 to 1969 at the University of Frankfurt am Main. As an emeritus he worked as a freelance scientist and successful writer in Hamburg. His biographies of Frederick II, Emperor Wilhelm II, and the resistance fighter Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg found rich attention. From 1970 to 1973 he was a member of the founding committee of the University of Oldenburg, where he became involved. 1981 he has been appointed as Honorary Professor University of Goettingen.

In 1994 he received the Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize and the Friedrich- SCHIEDEL Prize for Literature. For his contributions to the "interpretation and reflection of the socio-political presence " in 1995 he became an honorary doctorate " Rerum politicarum " the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg excellent.

Karl Dietrich Bracher wrote about his book Hitler and his Germans (Munich 2001): " The reading of this remarkable book is recommended to all who are looking for an illustration and explanation of the still- burning Hitler theme on the current state of research in contemporary history. "

Krockow lived since the 1990s, together with his later adopted son Alexander Pascal.

Christian Graf von Krockow was buried in the Park Cemetery Hamburg- Ohlsdorf (R6 4-6).

Works (selection)

  • The decision. A study of Ernst Jünger, Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidegger. Stuttgart 1958 ( zugl. Diss ).
  • Sociology of peace. Three Essays on the issue of the East- West conflict. Gütersloh 1962.
  • The trip to Pomerania. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3- 421-06251 -X.
  • The trip to Pomerania in pictures. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-421-06322-2.
  • Frederick the Great. Life images. Luebbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach, 1986, ISBN 3-7857-0414-3.
  • The Moment of women. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-421-06396-6.
  • Homeland. Experience with a German theme. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-421-06513-6.
  • The Germans of their future. Rowohlt, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-87134-081-2.
  • Bismarck. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-421-05080-5.
  • The Germans in their century: 1890-1990. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-19195-4.
  • Hitler and his Germans. List, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-471-79415-8.
  • A question of honor. Stauffenberg and the attempt to assassinate Hitler on 20 July 1944. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-87134-441-9.
  • The big dream of education - In the footsteps of the great explorers James Cook and Georg Forster. List, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-471-79467-0.
  • The future of history. A legacy. List, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-548-60381-5.
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