Introduction To Modern German History 1. What S German About German History?

Introduction to Modern German
History
1. What‘s German about German
History?
Christoph Nonn
Guido Thiemeyer
Tobias Winnerling
Introduction to Modern German History: 1. What‘s German about German History?
1.0 Organizational
Matters Organizational Matters
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire Slides for download:
1.3 The German
Language • http://www.geschichte.hhu.de/lehre/introd
1.4 German Nation(s) uctory-lecture-modern-german-history.html
1.5 Someone/-thing
German Still Outside • Basic literature:
Our Borders?
Neil MacGregor: Germany. Memories of a
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders? Nation, London 2014
ULB: 02 his n 041.m147
1.0 Organizational Lecture Plan I

Matters
1.1 The German
People • What‘s German about German History?
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire • Emperor, Empire, Reform, and Reformation:
1.3 The German 1486–1555
Language
1.4 German Nation(s)
• Confession, Faith, and Princely Power:
1.5 Someone/-thing
1555–1618
German Still Outside • War and Statebuilding: 1618–1688
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else • Between Baroque, Cameralism, and
Inside Our Borders? Enlightenment: 1688–1740
• Refashioning Old Orders: 1740–1815
1.0 Organizational Lecture Plan II

Matters
1.1 The German
People • Founding a Nation State: 1815–1880
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire • The Birth of Modern Germany: 1880–1918
1.3 The German • Experiment in Democracy: 1918–1933
Language
1.4 German Nation(s) • National Socialist Germany: 1933–1945
1.5 Someone/-thing • The Division of Germany: 1945–1990
German Still Outside
Our Borders? • German Reunification
1.6 Someone Else • A European Nation State? 1990–2018…
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters The German People
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
Nuremberg
Chronicle,
1493
(“Schedelsche
Weltchronik”)
Title Page
1.0 Organizational
Matters “German People”
1.1 The German
People
“teutsches volck”
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
vs.
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
“German Nation”
Our Borders?
“teutsche nation”
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
Late 15th century German intellectuals had no
clear definition of “German People” or “German
Nation”. Both were used to describe:
 People descended from ancient Germans
 People inhabiting specific German regions
 People speaking German
1.0 Organizational
Matters
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
Nuremberg
Chronicle,
Ancient
German Lands
1.0 Organizational
Matters
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
Nuremberg
Chronicle,
Larger German
Lands
1.0 Organizational
Matters The Holy Roman Empire
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters Holy Roman Empire
1.1 The German
People  Far larger than modern Germany
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire  Incorporating many non-German regions
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
Holy Roman
Empire, c. 1500,
superimposed on
modern borders
1.0 Organizational
Matters “German Emperorship”
1.1 The German
People
“teutsches kayserthumb”
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire 
1.3 The German
Language
1.4 German Nation(s) Holy Roman Empire of
1.5 Someone/-thing
German Still Outside the German Nation
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Heiliges Römisches Reich
Inside Our Borders? deutscher Nation
 Holy Roman Emperor seen as successor of
the Ancient Roman Emperors and heir of
Charlemagne
 Right to elect the Emperor seen as God‘s gift
to the Germans
1.0 Organizational
Matters
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.4 What is ʻNon-
Germanʼ?
1.6 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.7 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters Imperial Election of 1519
1.1 The German
People Francis I,
1.2 The Holy Roman King of
Empire France
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders? Henry VIII,
King of
England
Carlos I, King of Spain;
Elected King of the
Romans Charles V
(Karl V.)
1.0 Organizational
Matters Holy Roman Empire
1.1 The German
People
of the German Nation (until 1806)
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire  No nation-state
1.3 The German  No unified state
Language
1.4 German Nation(s)  But: More than just a loose
1.5 Someone/-thing federation of principalities
Our Borders?  Seen by many of its
1.6 Someone Else inhabitants as a mixed
Inside Our Borders?
political order combining the
best of monarchy, aristocracy,
and republicanism
 Imperial Patriotism
(“Reichspatriotismus”)
1.0 Organizational
Matters The German Language
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
German-speaking area around the year 962

(Red: borders of the Holy Roman Empire)
1.0 Organizational
Matters Language or Dialect?
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters
 Main division between Low
1.1 The German German (“Niederdeutsch”) and
People Upper German (“Oberdeutsch”)
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire  Language status is a political
1.3 The German matter: In the 16th century
Language
Dutch is still counted as a
1.5 Someone/-thing German dialect (“Duytsch”)
Our Borders?  German as a language is considered of low
1.6 Someone Else value even by German native speakers
Inside Our Borders?
during early modernity
 Latin is the language of learning, German the
language of the law; the imperial institutions
record their proceedings in German
1.0 Organizational
Matters German Nation(s)
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters
1.1 The German
„Germany? But
People where is it? I
1.2 The Holy Roman cannot find the
Empire
1.3 The German
land, where the
Language learned begins, the
1.4 German Nation(s) political ends.“
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders? Friedrich Schiller
„Deutschland? Aber wo liegt es? Ich weiß das

Land nicht zu finden, wo das gelehrte beginnt,
hört das politische auf.“
1.0 Organizational
Matters
1.1 The German
„Germany? But
Empire
1.3 The German
land, where the
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
 Intellectual Utopia: A German National State

 Political Reality: A Collection of Territories
1.0 Organizational „Germany? But where is it? I cannot

Matters
find the land, where the learned
1.1 The German
People begins, the political ends.“
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters
1.1 The German
„Germany? But
Empire
1.3 The German
land, where the
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
 Question of Borders
 Question of Constitution
1.0 Organizational
Matters
German Confederation
1.1 The German (Deutscher Bund)
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters
German Confederation
1.1 The German (Deutscher Bund)
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters
North German Confederation
1.1 The German
People 1867-1871
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters
German Empire
1.1 The German
People 1871-1918
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters
German Empire (Weimar Republic)
1.1 The German
People 1919-1933
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters
German Empire (NS Germany)
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
Summer
1938
1.0 Organizational
Matters
German Empire (NS Germany)
1.1 The German
People September
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1939
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters
German Empire (“Greater Germany”)
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman 1944
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters
Occupied Germany
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1945
1.0 Organizational Divided Germany

Matters
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
German
1.3 The German Demo- West
Language
1.4 German Nation(s) cratic Berlin
1.5 Someone/-thing
German Still Outside Federal Republic
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Republic
Inside Our Borders?
of
Germany
1949-
Saar 1957
1.0 Organizational Divided Germany

Matters
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire German
1.3 The German
Language
Demo- West
1.5 Someone/-thing
cratic Berlin
Our Borders?
Federal Republic
1.6 Someone Else Republic
Inside Our Borders?
of
Germany
1957-
1989
1.0 Organizational Reunified Germany

Matters
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
Since
1990
1.0 Organizational
Matters
1.1 The German
„Germany? But
Empire
1.3 The German
land, where the
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
 Question of Borders
 Question of Constitution
1.0 Organizational
Matters
German Empire
1.1 The German
People 1871-1918
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters Someone/-thing German
1.1 The German
People Still Outside Our Borders?
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters Someone/-thing German Still
1.1 The German
People
Outside Our Borders?
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire  The “Austrian Question”
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters
 Overseas
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters
 Overseas: German Migration Abroad
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman Canada
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
German Still Outside USA
Our Borders? ca. 5.4 million
1.6 Someone Else
Brazil
Inside Our Borders?
Argentina
Australia
Southeastern
Europe
1.0 Organizational
Matters
 Overseas: German Colonies
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters Someone/-thing German Still
1.1 The German
People
Outside Our Borders?
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire  Eastern Europe
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters
 Eastern Europe
1.1 The German  “Mitteleuropa” / “Central Europe”
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters
 Eastern Europe: “Deutscher Kulturboden”
1.1 The German / German “Cultural Ground”
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters
 Eastern Europe: “Verlorene Ostgebiete”
1.1 The German “Lost Eastern Territories”
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters Someone Else Inside Our Borders?
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
1.1 The German
People  Poles, Danes, Alsatians
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
Matters
 Catholics
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
1.0 Organizational
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
 Poles, Danes, Alsatians
Empire
1.3 The German  Catholics
Language
1.4 German Nation(s)  Jews
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?  Muslims
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?  Migrants
1.0 Organizational
Matters
1.1 The German
People  Catholics, Jews, Muslims
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire  Migrants
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
Italian construction
workers in Germany
(ca. 1900)
1.0 Organizational
Matters
1.1 The German
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire  Migrants
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
Forced labour
during World War II
1.0 Organizational
Matters
1.1 The German
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire  Migrants
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
German refugees from

the east after 1945
1.0 Organizational
Matters
1.1 The German
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire  Migrants
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
Turkish and other

“guest workers”
(since 1960s)
1.0 Organizational
Matters
1.1 The German
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire  Migrants
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?
Asylum seekers
(since 1970s)
1.0 Organizational
Matters
A Country of Immigrants?
1.1 The German
People
1.2 The Holy Roman
Empire
1.3 The German
Language
1.5 Someone/-thing
Our Borders?
1.6 Someone Else
Inside Our Borders?

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1.0 Organizational Lecture Plan I

1.0 Organizational Lecture Plan II

German-speaking area around the year 962

„Deutschland? Aber wo liegt es? Ich weiß das

 Intellectual Utopia: A German National State

1.0 Organizational „Germany? But where is it? I cannot

1.0 Organizational Divided Germany

1.0 Organizational Divided Germany

1.0 Organizational Reunified Germany

German refugees from

Turkish and other

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