John Grenville

John Ashley Soames Grenville, born as Hans Grub Auer, ( born January 11, 1928 in Berlin, † 7 March 2011) was a German - British historian.

John AS Grenville was the son of a district court director. After the Kristallnacht in 1938, he was expelled from high school. Nazism destroyed his family. His father was deported to a concentration camp. 1939 fled Grub Auer was eleven years old, together with his two older brothers on a Kindertransport to England. His mother he saw the train is the last time departure. In England, his older brothers were separated from him. Grub Auer spent the first two years at the Mistley Place Preparatory and the third year at Cambridgeshire Technical School. His school career ended in 1941 at age 13, because the British authorities expected a practical training. His father survived the concentration camp and was able to follow his son to England after.

Under its new name, John Grenville, he first worked as a chemist in a laboratory and then as a gardener at Peterhouse, a college of the University of Cambridge, works. The study of history began at Birkbeck College, University of London, where Eric Hobsbawm was one of his teachers. At the London School of Economics Grenville studied under Harold Laski and Charles Webster. By supervised by Webster study of the British Prime Minister Salisbury, he received the Ph.D.. The study was published in 1964 and a standard work. She brought him great recognition in the professional world. Greenville was Lecturer and Reader in Nottingham. In 1966 he became a professor in Leeds. Greenville taught since 1969 until his retirement as Professor of Modern History at the University of Birmingham. He wrote a history of the twentieth century, which experienced numerous editions and appeared in many languages. He also published relevant work on English and American foreign policy as well as on film history.

In 1976 he met the Hamburg historian Bernd Jürgen Wendt know on a textbook conference in Braunschweig. At the invitation of Wendt's, he was a visiting professor in 1980 at the University of Hamburg. This visit aroused in him the research interest in the history of the Hamburg Jewry. This was a research project, the Grenville 2008 with the book manuscript The Jews and the Germans of Hamburg. The Destruction of a Civilization 1790-1945 graduating. The book was published in 2011 and provides an analysis of over 150 years of German-Jewish History in Hamburg.

Since 1981, he participated in the Leo Baeck Institute, which explores the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry. He was as editor of the Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook successor of Arnold Paucker 1993. From 2002 to 2011 he edited the yearbook along with Raphael Gross.

Writings

  • The Jews and the Germans of Hamburg. The Destruction of a Civilization 1790-1945. Routledge, London ua 2012, ISBN 978-0-415-66586-5 ( review ).
  • The Collins history of the world in the twentieth century. Harper Collins, London, 1994, ISBN 0-00-255169-1.
  • Jews, " non-Aryans " and " German doctors ". The adaptation of the physicians in the Third Reich. In: Ursula Büttner (ed.): The Germans and the persecution of Jews in the Third Reich ( = Hamburger contributions to the social and Contemporary History Vol 29. ). Christians, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-7672-1165-3, pp. 191-206 ( Revised edition. ( Fischer 15896 = The period of National Socialism ). Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-596-15896 -6, pp. 228-246 ).
  • The "Final Solution " and the "Jewish half-breeds" in the Third Reich. In: Ursula Büttner (ed.): The regime of injustice. International research on National Socialism. ( Festschrift for Werner Jochmann on his 65th birthday ). Volume 2: Tracking - exile - loaded new beginning (. = Hamburger contributions to the social and Contemporary History Vol 22). Christians, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-7672-0963-2, pp. 91-121.
  • A World history of the twentieth century. Volume 1: Western dominance. 1900-45. Fontana Paperbacks, London, 1980 ( it only appeared the first volume ).
  • With Ruth Barker: Nazi Germany ( = History through the newsreel The 1930 's. ). Macmillan for the Historical Association, Basingstoke 1976, ISBN 0-333-18554-4.
  • Lord Salisbury and foreign policy, the close of the nineteenth century ( = University of London Historical Studies. Vol 14, ISSN 0076-0692 ). Athlone Press, London, 1964 ( 1st paperback edition, with Corrections. Ibid, 1970, ISBN 0-485-12014-3 ).
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