Imanuel Geiss

Imanuel Geiss (actually Imanuel Geiß; born 9 February 1931 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German historian.

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Life

Imanuel Geiss was born as the youngest of 5 children to a working class family affected by the economic crisis. The unemployed father had to raise the children alone as the mother suffered from Meningitis. She was killed in 1941 by Aktion T4 after the father had died in 1940. The five children were brought to a rather liberal orphan home which made it possible to Imanuel to study [1] after completing his Abitur in 1951 at Carl-Schurz-Gymnasium.

He became a certified translator for French and English at the Auslands- und Dolmetscherinstitut in Germersheim which allowed him to finance studies beginning in 1955.

Work

Notes

  1. ^ Imanuel Geiss: Interview mit Imanuel Geiss zum Thema: „Neubeginn und Entwicklung der deutschen Geschichtswissenschaft in den 1950/60er Jahren“. In: Fragen, die nicht gestellt wurden! oder gab es ein Schweigegelübde der zweiten Generation? H-Soz-u-Kult, Interview vom 19. Februar 1999. Auch in: Hohls, Rüdiger/Jarausch, Konrad H. (Hg.): Versäumte Fragen. Deutsche Historiker im Schatten des Nationalsozialismus, Stuttgart/München 2000. Daraus auch weitere Informationen über Geiss’ Lebenslauf.

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