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Meinecke served as editor of the Historische Zeitschrift journal between 1896-1935 and was the chairman of the Historische Reichskommission between 1928-1935. He was born in Salzwedel, Prussia and was educated at the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin. He worked as an archvist at the German State Archives between 1887-1901. Salzwedel is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. ... The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia (German: Preußen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: PrÅ«sai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia and... The main building, viewed from the Hofgarten. ... There is no institution called the University of Berlin, but there are four universities in Berlin, Germany: Humboldt University of Berlin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin) Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin) Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin) This is...

Meinecke was best known for his work in 18th-19th century German intellectual and cultural history. The book that made his reputation was his 1908 work Weltbürgertum und Nationalstaat (Cosmopolitanism and the National State), which traced the development of national feelings in the 19th century. Starting with Die Idee der Staatsräson (1924), much of his work concerns the conflict between Kratos (power) and Ethos (morality), and how to achieve an balance between the two.

Under the Second Reich, Meinecke had called for more democracy in Germany. One of his students was Heinrich Brüning, the future Chancellor. Under the Weimar Republic, Meinecke was an Vernunftrepublikaner (republican by reason), that is someone who supported the republic as the least worse alternative. Under the Third Reich, Meinecke had some sympathy for the regime, especially in regard to the early anti-semitic laws. Meinecke's best known book was Die Deutsche Katastrophe (1946) which depicts Nazi Germany as result as series of unfortunate accidents, and argued that National Socialism was a aberration which had no connection to the course of German history. In 1948, he helped to found the Free University of Berlin. This article or section should include material from German Monarchy The term German Empire (the translation from German of Deutsches Reich) commonly refers to Germany, from its consolidation as a unified nation-state on January 18, 1871, until the abdication of Kaiser (Emperor) Wilhelm II on November 9, 1918. ... Dr. Heinrich Brüning (November 26, 1885–March 30, 1970) was a German politician and Chancellor of Germany. ... The period of German history from 1919 to 1933 is known as the Weimar Republic (IPA , German Weimarer Republik). ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The term National Socialism has been used in self-description by a number of different political groups and ideologies and, some of which have no connection with the Nazis; see National socialism (disambiguation). ... Satellite photo of Berlin. ...

Work

• Das Leben des Generalfeldmarschalls Hermann von Boyen, 2 volumes, 1896-1899.
• Das Zeitalter der deutschen Erhebung, 1795-1815, 1906.
• Weltbürgertum und Nationalstaat: Studien zur Genesis des deutschen Nationalstaates, 1908.
• Radowitz und die deutsche Revolution, 1913.
• Die Idee der Staatsräson in der neueren Geschichte, 1924.
• Geschichte des deutsch-englischen Bündnisproblems, 1890-1901, 1927.
• Staat und Persönlickeit, 1933.
• Die Entstehung des Historismus, 2 volumes, 1936.
• Die deutsche Katastrophe: Betrachtungen und Erinnerungen, 1946.
• 1848: Eine Säkularbetrachtung, 1948.
• Werke, 9 volumes, 1957-1979.

Reference

• Erbe, Michael (editor) Friedrich Meinecke heute: Bericht über ein Gedenk-Colloquium zu seinem 25. Todestag am 5. und 6. April 1979, Berlin: Colloquium Verlag, 1981.
• Hofer, Walther Geschichtsschreibung und Weltanschauung; Betrachtungen zum Werk Friedrich Meineckes, Munich: Oldenbourg, 1950.
• Iggers, George The German Conception of History: The National Tradition of historical Thought fromr Herder to the Present, Middletwon, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1968, revised edition, 1983.
• Meinecke, Stefan Friedrich Meincke: Persönlichkeit und politisches Denken bis zum Ende des ersten Weltkrieges, Berlin: du Gruyter, 1995.
• Pois, Robert, Friedrich Meinecke and German Politics in the Twenthieth Century, Bekeley: University of California Press, 1972.
• Shulin, Ernst "Fredrich Meinecke" from Deutsche Historiker, edited by Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Göttingen: Vandehoeck & Ruprecht, 1971.
• Sterling, Richard Ethics in a World of Power: The Political Ideas of Friedrich Meinecke, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958.

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External link

• Friedrich Meinecke Cosmopolitanism and the National State.