Hugo Ott (20 August 1931 – 22 January 2022) was a German historian and academic.

Biography

Ott earned a doctoral degree in 1959 with a thesis on the history of Saint Blaise Abbey in the

Black Forest The Black Forest (german: Schwarzwald ) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is t ...

. From 1972 to 1997, he was chair of economic and social history at the

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisg ...

. In 1980, he wrote a biography of

Hans Filbinger Hans Karl Filbinger (15 September 1913 – 1 April 2007) was a conservative German politician and a leading member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union in the 1960s and 1970s, serving as the first chairman of the CDU Baden-Württemberg ...

alongside and . He was a member of the scientific advisory board of the research center ''Forschungsstelle Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus im deutschen Südwesten'', headed by at the

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 w ...

. He held discussions with pastor , who talked of the inequity within concentration camps between clergy and their fellow prisoners. From 1952, Ott had been a member of and, since 1988, the of Cartellverband. Ott died in

Merzhausen Merzhausen is a town in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Geography Location The northern and eastern part of Merzhausen is attached to the town of Freiburg im Breisgau. To the south, Merzhausen bo ...

on 22 January 2022, at the age of 90.

Works

*''Studien zur Geschichte des Klosters St. Blasien im hohen und späten Mittelalter'' (1963) *''Die Vogtei über das Kloster St. Blasien seit dem Aussterben der Zähringer bis zum Übergang an das Haus Habsburg'' (1965) *''Die Klostergrundherrschaft St. Blasien im Mittelalter. Beiträge zur Besitzgeschichte'' (1969) *''Hans Filbinger. Der „Fall“ und die Fakten'' (1980) *''Wirtschafts-Ploetz. Die Wirtschaftsgeschichte zum Nachschlagen'' (1985) *''Martin Heidegger. Unterwegs zu seiner Biographie'' (1988) *''Martin Heidegger: A Political Life'' (1994) *''Annäherungen an Martin Heidegger. Festschrift für Hugo Ott zum 65. Geburtstag'' (1996) *''Geschichte in Verantwortung. Festschrift für Hugo Ott zum 65. Geburtstag'' (1996) *''Laubhüttenfest 1940'' (2007)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ott, Hugo 1931 births 2022 deaths 20th-century German historians Heidegger scholars Historians of Nazism Cartellverband members University of Freiburg alumni Academic staff of the University of Freiburg People from Lauda-Königshofen