Gottlieb von Jagow and the war guilt question 1918 to 1935. The role of Imperial Germany's leading diplomat in the political debates on war guilt during the Weimar Republic. A historiographical and biographical study

戈特利布·冯·雅戈和 1918 年至 1935 年的战争罪问题。魏玛共和国期间德意志帝国首席外交官在战争罪政治辩论中的作用。

• 批准号: 397638807
• 负责人: Dr. Reinhold Zilch
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/397638807?language=en
• 关键词: Gottlieb; von; Jagow; war; guilt

Gottlieb von Jagow (1863 to 1935) the top diplomat of Germany from 1913 to 1916 (undersecretary of state of the Foreign Office) was a major figure in the debates on German war guilt postulated in Versailles Treaty (esp. Art. 231). But Jagow stand in the 2nd line; he was avoiding the limelight. His closed collaboration with the Foreign Office and his position in a wide network of former and active diplomats and politicians, historians, and publicists is nearly unknown. There was a special department in the Office dealing with the war guilt question (Schuldreferat). It was not only reporting on national and international discussion but it was also organizing research to publish “Arguments of German innocence concerning war guilt“ (Große Kracht). The state of the art in the scientific literature on this question is dominated by the studies of Geiss, Heinemann, and Dreyer/Lembke, published between 1983 and 1993. Theiy discribed the organization of the Schuldreferat, the research on war guilt, and the collaboration with academic historians. The role of the contemporary witnesses was not in the main focus. It is thus the project’s goal to discover the role of Jagow in these debates as an arch-typical figure of the former imperial politicians and representatives of the Prussian-German right wing conservative elites before and during Ward War I, as well as after the monarchy’s demise during revolution and until the National-Socialist’s rise to power. Jagow played an unknown part in the strategy of the Weimar government to end the Versailles dictates. To discover these relations and motives the project will analyse Jagow’s political correspondence with the Office, with other politicians, diplomats, the Office and the reactions of it’s civil servants, as well the project will analyse Jagow’s unprinted secret memoirs. These big numbers of documents have been nearly ignored till now by the historians. You can find these sources in the Jagow papers and the files of the Schuldreferat kept in Foreign Office political archive as well as in numerous archives. To discover Jagow’s role the project will compare these documents with his own publications. These sources greatly extend beyond his publication „Causes and Outbreak of World War I“ (1919) concerning the covered period as well as his seemingly neutral and forced objective cadence; in fact, the named documents allow for a much clearer and more focused analysis of certain events and figures as well as their motives, including Jagow himself. The project will enable researchers to scrutinize the Weimar Republic’s political, cultural, and intellectual history, as well as individuals‘ and groups‘ biographies. Historians are thus enabled to study the Empire’s bureaucratic elites, including the analysis of political networks dealing with the issue of war guilt.

戈特利布·冯·雅戈（Gottlieb von Jagow，1863 - 1935）是1913 - 1916年德国的最高外交官（外交部次官），是凡尔赛条约（特别是第231条）中关于德国战争罪责的争论的主要人物。但是Jagow站在第二线，他在躲避聚光灯。他与外交部的密切合作以及他在前任和现任外交官和政治家，历史学家和政治家的广泛网络中的地位几乎是未知的。该办公室有一个特别部门处理战争罪问题（Schuldreferat）。它不仅报道国内和国际讨论情况，而且还组织研究，以出版"德国在战争罪行方面无罪的论据"（Große Kracht）。关于这个问题的科学文献中的最新技术水平主要是由Geiss，Heinemann和Dreyer/Lembke在1983年至1993年之间发表的研究。他们描述了Schuldreferat的组织，对战争罪行的研究，以及与学术历史学家的合作。当代证人的作用不是主要焦点。因此，该项目的目标是发现雅高在这些辩论中的作用，作为前帝国政治家和普鲁士-德国右翼保守派精英的代表，在第一次沃德战争之前和期间，以及在革命期间君主制灭亡之后，直到国家社会主义者掌权。雅高在魏玛政府结束凡尔赛和约的战略中扮演了一个不为人知的角色。为了发现这些关系和动机，该项目将分析Jagow与办公室的政治通信，与其他政治家，外交官，办公室及其公务员的反应，以及该项目将分析Jagow未印刷的秘密回忆录。这些大量的文献至今几乎被历史学家所忽视。你可以在Jagow文件和外交部政治档案馆保存的Schuldreferat文件以及许多档案中找到这些来源。为了发现Jagow的角色，该项目将这些文件与他自己的出版物进行比较。这些来源大大超出了他的出版物“第一次世界大战的原因和爆发”（1919年）关于所涵盖的时期以及他看似中立和强迫的客观节奏;事实上，命名的文件允许对某些事件和人物及其动机进行更清晰和更集中的分析，包括Jagow本人。该项目将使研究人员能够仔细研究魏玛共和国的政治，文化和思想史，以及个人和团体的传记。因此，历史学家能够研究帝国的官僚精英，包括分析处理战争罪行问题的政治网络。