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

该项目以汉诺威王朝为例，该王朝属于圭尔夫家族，统治到1918年，研究了贵族王朝在君主制结束后如何成功，失去了法律和社会特权以及大量资产。它调查了家庭如何设法在三种不同的政治制度中维护自己的社会地位，以及他们使用的物质基础和社会以及广义上讲的文化策略。本研究拟作为一篇论文，定位于欧洲贵族史、跨国家族史和财富社会史的交叉点。它在方法论上结合了社会、文化和经济历史的方法。除了公共档案的传统，这项研究尤其依赖于对圭尔夫夫妇档案的全面查阅。研究的重点是恩斯特奥古斯特三世的家庭。（1887-1953），汉诺威末代国王的孙子，1913年结婚后继承了不伦瑞克公爵和<s:1>内堡公爵的王位。它系统和连续地调查了国际亲属，顾问和助手之间的家庭关系，资产保存的方法和做法以及由此产生的法律纠纷。这项工作是基于一个现已完成的项目，该项目调查了“圭尔夫的纳粹业务”。然而，从时间、内容和概念上来说，它远远超出了项目所处理的问题。本研究以汉诺威家族为例，试图阐明贵族家族的圈子有多高贵，商业交易有多跨国，以及他们的（家族内）关系对贵族永久的愿望“oben zu bleiben”有什么意义。它的最终目标是为20世纪富裕家庭的经济、社会和文化史做出贡献。

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.