Golo Mann
20th-century German popular historian
Biography
Golo Mann (born Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann; 27 March 1909 – 7 April 1994) was a popular German historian and essayist. After completing a doctorate in philosophy under Karl Jaspers at Heidelberg, in 1933 he fled Hitler's Germany. He followed his father, the writer Thomas Mann, and other members of his family in emigrating first to France, then to Switzerland and, on the eve of war, to the United States. From the late 1950s he re-established himself in Switzerland and West Germany as a literary historian.
Mann was perhaps best known for his master work German History in the 19th and 20th Century (1958). A survey of German political history, it emphasised the nihilistic and aberrant nature of the Hitler regime. In his later years, Mann took issue with historians who sought to contextualise the crimes of the regime by comparing them with those of Stalinism in Soviet Union and with wartime Allied bombing. At the same time he was sharply critical of those, broadly on the left, who carried a unique German guilt for the Holocaust not only back into the pre-Nazi past but forward in a manner that seemed to question the legitimacy of the postwar Federal Republic.
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Career highlights
Employers / organisations
- University of Stuttgart
- Claremont McKenna College
- Office of Strategic Services
- University of Münster
- University of Olivet
Notable works
- Wallenstein: His Life Narrated
Family
- Children
- Hans Beck-Mann
- Parents
- Thomas MannKatia Mann
Awards & honours (22)
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Georg Büchner Prize
- Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Schweizerische Schillerstiftung
- Schiller Memorial Prize
- Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
- Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize
- Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt
- Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- Knight of the National Order of Merit
- Fontane-Preis
- Schiller Prize of the City of Mannheim
- Bodensee-Literaturpreis
- Pipe Smoker of the Year
- Ernst Robert Curtius Award
- Gottfried-Keller-Preis
- Grimme-Preis
- Ludwig Thoma Medal
- honorary doctor of the University of Bath
- Kulturpreis der deutschen Freimaurer
- Lessing Ring
- honorary doctorate from University of Nantes
Quick answers about Golo Mann
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- Golo Mann died on April 7, 1994 at the age of 85.
- When is Golo Mann's birthday?
- Golo Mann was born on March 27, 1909.
- Where was Golo Mann born?
- Golo Mann was born in Munich.
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- Golo Mann's zodiac sign is Aries.
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- Golo Mann is a citizen of Germany, Switzerland.
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- Golo Mann is known as writer, historian of Modern Age, essayist, university teacher.
- How many children did Golo Mann have?
- Wikidata lists 1 child of Golo Mann.
