The Assets of the High Nobility. The Hanover Dynasty, 1913-1953

该项目以汉诺威家族为例，该家族属于圭尔夫家族，一直统治到1918年，该项目研究了贵族王朝如何在君主制结束后取得成功，失去了法律的和社会特权以及大量资产。它研究了家族如何在三种不同的政治制度中在社会上维护自己的地位，以及他们使用了哪些物质基础和社会以及广义上的文化策略。调查计划作为论文，它是在欧洲贵族历史，跨国家族传记和财富社会史之间的界面上解决的。它在方法论上结合了社会，文化和经济历史的方法。除了公共档案馆的传统，这项研究特别依赖于对圭尔夫档案馆档案的全面访问。（1887-1953），汉诺威最后一任国王的孙子，1913年结婚后继承了不伦瑞克和吕内堡杜克的王位。它系统地、连续地调查了该家族在国际亲属、顾问和助手之间的关系、资产保全的方法和做法以及由此产生的法律的争端。这项工作是基于一个现已完成的项目，该项目审查了“圭尔夫家族的纳粹生意”。然而，就时间、内容和概念而言，它远远超出了该项目所处理的问题。本文以汉诺威家族为例，试图阐明贵族家族的圈子有多高贵，家族的商业交易有多跨国，以及他们（家族内部）的关系对贵族“保持领先”的永久愿望有何意义。它的最终目的是为20世纪世纪富裕家庭的经济、社会和文化历史做出贡献。

Using the example of the House of Hanover, which belonged to the Guelphs and ruled until 1918, the project examines how the noble dynasty succeeded after the end of the monarchy and the loss of legal and social privileges as well as large assets. It investigates how the family managed to socially assert themselves in three different political systems and which material foundation and social as well as, broadly speaking, cultural strategies they used.The investigation is planned as a dissertation, which is settled at the interface between European aristocratic history, transnational family biography and a social history of wealth. It methodologically combines social, cultural and economic historical approaches. Next to the traditions from public archives, the study relies especially on comprehensive access to the files of the Guelphs’s archives.The study focuses on the family of Ernst August III. (1887-1953), a grandson of the last king of Hanover, who ascended the throne of the Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg upon marriage in 1913. It systematically and consecutively investigates the familiy’s tapestry of relations between international relatives, consultants and helpers, the methods and practices of asset preservation and the resulting legal disputes.The work is based on a by now completed project, which examined the "Nazi business of the Guelphs". However, in terms of time, content and concept, it goes far beyond the questions dealt with in the project. By using the example of the House of Hanover the study tries to clarify how noble the circles and how transnational the business transactions of noble families were and what significance their (intra-familial) relationships had on the permanent aristocratic aspiration “oben zu bleiben” (to stay on top). It ultimately aims at contributing to the economic, social and cultural history of rich families in the 20th century.