Lothar Gall

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Lothar Gall
File:Lothar Gall.jpg
Gall in 2014
Born(1936-12-03)3 December 1936
Died20 June 2024(2024-06-20) (aged 87)
OccupationHistorian
ParentFranz Gall
Awards

Lothar Gall (3 December 1936 – 20 June 2024) was a German historian known as "one of German liberalism's primary historians".[1] He was a professor of history at Goethe University Frankfurt from 1975 until his retirement in 2005. His biography of Otto von Bismarck has been translated into English, French, Italian, and Japanese.

Life and career

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Gall was born in Lötzen on 3 December 1936.[2][3] His father was Franz Gall, a Wehrmacht lieutenant general killed in Italy in December 1944. Gall studied history and Romance and German languages in Munich and Mainz.[2] His 1960 doctoral thesis examined the political thought of Benjamin Constant, a French liberal, and its influence in Vormärz Germany.[2] His 1967 habilitation at the University of Cologne was supervised by Theodor Schieder.[2]

His next book was a regional study of liberalism in Baden between 1848 and 1871. This informed an influential 1975 article about the effects of the 1848 revolution upon German liberalism.[4] Gall argued that the revolution transformed liberalism from a constitutional movement committed to a classless society of burghers to an economically bourgeois ideology committed to free-market capitalism.[5] His biography of Otto von Bismarck has been translated into English, French, Italian, and Japanese.[3]

Gall was appointed as a professor at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen in 1968.[2] Four years later he became a professor at the Freie Universität Berlin. He was a guest professor at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 1973.[2] Gall also taught at the University of Frankfurt starting in 1975, and became a professor emeritus in 2005.[2] He focused on the history of liberalism in Europe and was an expert in Bismarck research. His 1980 book Bismarck. Der weiße Revolutionär was regarded as the first modern biography of Bismarck.[6]

Gall died on 20 June 2024, at the age of 87.[6][7]

Works

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Gall's works include:[8]

  • Benjamin Constant. Seine politische Ideenwelt und der deutsche Vormärz, 1963, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).).[2]
  • Der Liberalismus als regierende Partei. Das Großherzogtum Baden zwischen Restauration und Reichsgründung (= Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz. Bd. 47). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1968 (habilitation).
  • Das Bismarck-Problem in der Geschichtsschreibung nach 1945, 1971.
  • Bismarck. Der weiße Revolutionär. 1980, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..[2] Translated by J. A. Underwood as Bismarck, the White Revolutionary, 1986.
  • Europa auf dem Weg in die Moderne, 1850–1890, 1984, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..[2]
  • Bürgertum in Deutschland, Siedler, Berlin 1989, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[2]
  • Bismarck. Ein Lebensbild. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1991, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
  • Die Deutsche Bank, 1870–1995, 1995.
  • Krupp. Der Aufstieg eines Industrieimperiums. Siedler, Berlin 2000, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
  • Milestones – Setbacks – Sidetracks: The Path to Parliamentary Democracy in Germany, Historical Exhibition in the Deutscher Dom in Berlin (2003), exhibitioncatalog
  • Der Bankier Hermann Josef Abs. Eine Biographie. Beck, Munich 2004, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
  • Otto von Bismarck – Bild und Image. Otto-von-Bismarck-Stiftung, Friedrichsruh 2006, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
  • Walther Rathenau. Portrait einer Epoche. Beck, Munich 2009, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
  • Wilhelm von Humboldt. Ein Preuße von Welt. Propyläen-Verlag, Berlin 2011, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
  • Franz Adickes. Oberbürgermeister und Universitätsgründer. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt 2013, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
  • Hardenberg. Reformer und Staatsmann. Piper, München 2016, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
  • „Der hiesigen Stadt zu einer wahren Zierde und deren Bürgerschaft nützlich“. Städel und sein „Kunst-Institut“. Städelscher Museums-Verein, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  • Von der ständischen zur bürgerlichen Gesellschaft (Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte. Bd. 25). Oldenbourg, München 1993, ISBN 3-486-55753-X.
  • "Die Germania als Symbol nationaler Identität im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert". In: Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften Göttingen, I. Philologisch-Historische Klasse 1993, S. 35–88.
  • mit Gerald D. Feldman, Harold James, Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich, Hans E. Büschgen: Die Deutsche Bank. 1870–1995. Beck, München 1995, ISBN 3-406-38945-7.
    • S. 1–135: "Die Deutsche Bank von ihrer Gründung bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg 1870–1914"
  • mit Ralf Roth: 1848/49. Die Eisenbahn und die Revolution. Deutsche Bahn AG, Berlin 1999.
  • Otto von Bismarck und Wilhelm II. Repräsentanten eines Epochenwechsels? (= Friedrichsruher Beiträge. Bd. 4). Otto-von-Bismarck-Stiftung, Friedrichsruh 1999, ISBN 3-933418-03-8.
  • mit Karl-Heinz Jürgens: Bismarck. Lebensbilder. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1990, ISBN 3-7857-0569-7.
  • (ed.) Stadt und Bürgertum im 19. Jahrhundert, 1990.
  • (ed.) Vom alten zum neuen Bürgertum. Die mitteleuropäische Stadt im Umbruch 1780–1820, 1991.
  • (ed.) Neuerscheinungen zur Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, 1992.
  • (ed.) Stadt und Bürgertum im Übergang von der traditionalen zur modernen Gesellschaft, 1993.
  • (ed. with Dieter Langewiesche) Liberalismus und Region: Zur Geschichte des deutschen Liberalismus im 19. Jahrhundert, 1995
  • (ed.) Bürgertum und bürgerlich-liberale Bewegung in Mitteleuropa seit dem 18. Jahrhundert, 1997

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ Geoff Eley, review of Bürgertum in Deutschland by Lothar Gall, Journal of Social History 26:3 (Spring 1993), pp.634–637
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  4. ^ "Liberalismus and 'bürgerliche Gesellschaft': Zu Charakter und Entwicklung der liberalen Bewegung in Deutschland", Historische Zeitschrift 220 (1975), pp.324–356
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  8. ^ Works by Lothar Gall German National Library
  9. ^ Liste der Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger of the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit.

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