Konrad Repgen was a German historian and a professor emeritus at the University of Bonn.
15 Facts About Konrad Repgen
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Konrad Repgen was revered for his work on contemporary church history.
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Konrad Repgen was born in 1923 at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hutte, part of the conurbation of Troisdorf a short distance to the south-east of Cologne.
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Konrad Repgen's father was a teacher and an active member of the Catholic Centre Party.
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Konrad Repgen successfully completed his schooling at the Beethoven-Gymnasium in Bonn in 1941.
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War had resumed in 1939, and Konrad Repgen was promptly conscripted into the army, serving as a soldier on the Russian Front until 1945.
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Konrad Repgen received his doctorate in 1950 for a dissertation on the March Movement and the May Elections which were features of the political turmoil of 1848 in the Rhineland.
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Between 1952 and 1955, Konrad Repgen undertook an extended period of research at the German Historical Institute in Rome.
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Konrad Repgen relocated from the Bonn area in 1962 when he was appointed to a full professorship at the Saarland University at Saarbrucken where he remained until 1967.
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Back at Bonn that was he year in which his old teacher Max Braubach retired from the Konkordatslehrstuhl, and Konrad Repgen returned to Bonn to take it on.
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Konrad Repgen remained at Bonn as a professor in Medieval and Modern history until his own retirement in 1988.
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Konrad Repgen rejected the sociological-political historical prism favoured by the so-called Bielefeld School, and is regarded as a conservative among historians.
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Konrad Repgen was a member of the British Academy, of the Commission for Contemporary History, the Commission for Parliamentary History and of Political Parties, the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy, and of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.
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In 1989, Konrad Repgen was appointed a Commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great.
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Konrad Repgen was an advisory council member with the Munich-based Institute for Contemporary History since 1972 and with the Italian-German Historical Institute since 1973.