Friedrich Heer

Friedrich Heer (1916 - 1983) was a historian born in Vienna . He received a PhD at the University in Vienna in 1938. Even as a student he came into conflict with pan-German thinking historians as a staunch opponent of National Socialism.

Friedrich Heer was arrested for the first time on 11 March 1938 by the Austrian Nazis. He founded a small Catholic resistance group and sought to amalgamate into one organised band the Christians, Communists and trade unionists against the Nazis, and as a soldier later came into contact with the resistance group "Soldatenrat".

From 1946 to 1961 Friedrich Heer was the editor of the weekly magazine "Die Furche" [The Furrow] and in 1961 he was appointed chief literacy to the Vienna Burgtheater. He taught at the University of Vienna. The majority of his books have been translated into several languages.

In 1967 Friedrich Heer became the first winner of the Martin Buber-Franz Rosenzweig Medal, awarded by a group of forty-four German societies for Christian and Jewish understanding, for his achievement with "God's First Love".

Friedrich Heer died in Vienna.

Publications

*1947: "Die Stunde des Christen"
*1949: "Gespräch der Feinde"
*1949: "Aufgang Europas" (2 Bände)
*1950: "Der achte Tag" (Roman, erschienen unter dem Pseudonym „Hermann Gohde“)
*1952: "Die Tragödie des Heiligen Reiches"
*1953: "Europäische Geistesgeschichte"
*1953: "Grundlagen der europäischen Demokratie der Neuzeit"
*1960: "Die dritte Kraft"
*1961: "Mittelalter - von 1100 bis 1350" in Kindlers Kulturgeschichte
*1964: "Europa – Mutter der Revolutionen" ("The Intellectual History of Europe", Weidenfeld & Nicolson , 1966)
*1967: "Das Heilige Römische Reich" ("The Holy Roman Empire", abridged translation reprinted by Phoenix Press, 2002: ISBN 1-84212-600-8).
*1967: "Gottes erste Liebe. Die Juden im Spannungsfeld der Geschichte". ISBN 3-548-34329-5 ("God's First Love", 1970)
*1968: "Der Glaube des Adolf Hitler. Anatomie einer politischen Religiosität" ISBN 3-548-34598-0
*1978: "Warum gibt es kein Geistesleben in Deutschland?" Falsche ISBN|3-471-17830-6
*1981: "Der König und die Kaiserin" (Gegenüberstellung Friedrich II. und Maria Theresia)
*1981: "Der Kampf um die österreichische Identität"

External links

* [http://friedrichheer.com Friedrich Heer]