Notker Hammerstein Explained

Notker Hammerstein (3 October 1930 − 13 March 2024) was a German historian. His research interests were mainly in the field of and history of science as well as the history of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.

Life

Born in Offenbach am Main, Hammerstein was the son of the elementary school teacher August Hammerstein (1890–1976).[1] He attended the Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium in Frankfurt and passed his Abitur there in 1949. He then studied economics and philosophy, later history, philosophy and English literature at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 1956 he was appointed a Doctor in Frankfurt by Otto Vossler, then became a research assistant and from 1960 assistant at the Department of History. In 1968 he habilitated and obtained the for Medieval and Modern History. In 1971 Hammerstein was appointed professor in the course of the new Hessian Higher Education Act and in 1973 he was appointed to a newly established Extraordinary Office for Early Modern History at Frankfurt University. He was disenfranchised in 1999. His brother Reinhold was professor for musicology at the Heidelberg University, his brother Gerhard honorary professor for criminal law at the University of Freiburg.[2]

In 1999 Hammerstein published a book on the history of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft during the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. Ernst Klee called this book an "attempt at a clean slate", since Hammerstein described the work of the Nazi psychiatrist Robert Ritter as "general medical research", although he had divided the work of the Nazi psychiatrist into "full Gypsies", "Gypsy half-breeds" and "non-Gypsies" in his "expert opinions" in a racist manner.[3] [4]

Hammerstein died on 13 March 2024, at the age of 93.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Notker Hammerstein: Aus dem Freundeskreis der "Weißen Rose". Otmar Hammerstein – eine biographische Erkundung. Wallstein, Göttingen 2014,, .
  2. Notker Hammerstein: Aus dem Freundeskreis der "Weißen Rose". Otmar Hammerstein – eine biographische Erkundung. Wallstein, Göttingen 2014,, .
  3. Ernst Klee: NS-Behindertenmord: Verhöhnung der Opfer und Ehrung der Täter. In Behinderte in Familie, Schule und Gesellschaft. Internet-Ausgabe, issue 6, 1999,, online.
  4. News: Ernst Klee . Deutsches Blut und leere Aktendeckel . . 12 October 2000 . 16 June 2020.
  5. https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/autoren/der-frankfurter-historiker-notker-hammerstein-ist-gestorben-19593451.html Im öffentlichen Dienst seiner Universität
  6. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263579779 Jus und Historie. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des historischen Denkens an deutschen Universitäten im späten 17. und im 18. Jahrhundert.
  7. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1052146931 Aufklärung und katholisches Reich. Untersuchungen zur Universitätsreform und Politik katholischer Territorien des Heiligen Römischen Reiches deutscher Nation im 18. Jahrhundert
  8. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/645216104 Antisemitismus und deutsche Universitäten. 1871–1933.
  9. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237328985 results Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in der Weimarer Republik und im Dritten Reich: Wissenschaftspolitik in Republik und Diktatur : 1920-1945.