Alfred Vagts
Alfred Hermann Friedrich Vagts (December 1, 1892, in Basbeck – June 19, 1986, in Cambridge, MA) was a German poet and historian. Vagts served in the First World War as a captain in the German military and was awarded the Iron Cross first class. In the years 1923-1932 Vagts was a historian at the Institut für auswärtige Politik (Institute for Foreign Affairs) at the Hamburg university.
Also recorded as Alfred Hermann Friedrich Vagts
Alfred Vagts
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- Name
- Alfred Vagts
- Born
- 1 December 1892
- Birthplace
- Basbeck
- Died
- 19 June 1986
- Place of death
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Occupation
- Historian, poet
- Nationality
- Germany
- Fields
- military affairs · literature
- Languages
- English · German
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In this role Vagts visited the Yale university in the United States where he worked with American historian Charles A. In 1927 he married Beard's daughter, Miriam. Their son, Detlev, was born in 1929. In 1932, with the rise of Nazism, the Vagts family left Germany for the UK. In 1933 they moved to the US, where Alfred became a US citizen. Initially he worked as an independent scholar. Between 1938 and 1939, he was a visiting professor at Harvard University before becoming a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, where he remained until 1942. Then, until the end of WWII, Vagts served on the Board of Economic Warfare. After the war, and until his death, Vagts continued to work as an independent scholar. Vagts's work comprises scientific and literary books as well as essays. His most well known work is The History of Militarism, Civilian and Military. Vagts collaborated with Hajo Holborn, Eckhart Kehr, George W. Hallgarten, Fritz T. Epstein and Hans Rosenberg.
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• Name — Alfred Vagts • Born — 1 December 1892 • Birthplace — Basbeck • Died — 19 June 1986 • Place of death — Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. • Occupation — Historian, poet • Notable Works — The History Of Militarism • Children — Detlev F. Vagts
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Alfred Vagts, a historian, writer and translator, was born in 1892 in Basbeck, Niederelbe (heute Hannover) and died in 1986. Both events are recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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- 1.Peter Th. Walther: Emigrierte Historiker in den Vereinigten Staaten 1945–1950. Blick oder Sprung über den Großen Teich? In: Christoph Cobet (Hrsg.): Einführung in Fragen an die Geschichtswissenschaft in Deutschland nach Hitler. Frankfurt am Main 1986, S. 41–50, hier S. 44.
- 2.Christof Brauers: Die FDP in Hamburg 1945 bis 1953. Meidenbauer, München 2007, S. 68 f.
- 3.Ansprachen erstmals gedruckt in: Carlo Mierendorff. Porträt eines deutschen Sozialisten. Exil-Broschüre, 1944, S. 9–14 (Vagts) und S. 15–40 (Zuckmayer).
- 4.Richard Albrecht: Der militante Sozialdemokrat. Carlo Mierendorff 1897–1943. Eine Biografie. Berlin/Bonn 1987, hier S. 182–187.
- 5.Richard Albrecht, der Autor der Carlo-Mierendorff-Biographie, wertete Vagts’ Nachlass dahingehend aus und befragte ihn 1985 als Zeitzeugen: Richard Albrecht: Der militante Sozialdemokrat. Carlo Mierendorff 1897–1943. Eine Biografie. Berlin/Bonn 1987, hier S. 302–304, Anm. 120–130.
- 6.Claus-Dieter Krohn: Geschichtswissenschaften. In: Claus-Dieter Krohn u. a. (Hrsg.): Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration 1933–1945. Darmstadt 1998, Sp. 747–760, hier Sp. 754.
- 7.Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan (Hrsg.): The Second Generation. Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a biobibliographical guide. Berghahn, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9, S. 63.
- 8.Claus-Dieter Krohn: Geschichtswissenschaften. In: Claus-Dieter Krohn u. a. (Hrsg.): Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration 1933–1945. Darmstadt 1998, Sp. 747–760, hier Sp. 750 f.
- 9.Alfred Vagts: Hüben und drüben. Autobiographische Schriften. Aus dem Nachlass herausgegeben von Peter Schütt, unter Mitarbeit von Ursula Hensler und Detlev Vagts. von Bockel, Neumünster 2010, ISBN 978-3-932696-78-7.
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