George Wolfgang Felix Hallgarten

Background

Hallgarten, George Wolfgang Felix was born on January 3, 1901 in Munich, Germany. Son of Robert (b. New York City) and Constance (Wolff-Arndt) Hallgarten.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, University Munich, 1925.

Career

Came to the United States, 1937. Substitute assistant Institute for Foreign Politics, Hamburg, Germany, 1925. Private research, 1926-1934.

Lecturer Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sociales et Internationales, 1935, graduate div. Brooklyn College, 1938. Research associate history University of California at Berkeley, 1940-1941.

Historian, then senior research analyst Department of Army, 1945-1949. Guest professor of history U. Munich, 1949-1950. Lecturer, author, 1951-1975.

Lecturer universities in India and Japan, 1965, Rome and Munich, 1967. Visiting professor of history U. New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1968-1969. President’s scholar and visiting professor of history U. Dayton, 1970-1971.

Robert Lee Bailey professor of history U. North Carolina, Charlotte, 1972. Co-founder American Committee Study War Documents, 1955.

Works

• Other Work

  • Author: Imperialismus vor 1914, 2 vols., review edit., 1963. Why Dictators?—the causes and forms of tyrannical rule since 600 B.C., 1954. Daemonen oder Retter?, 1957, English and French edit., 1960.
    
    Das Wettrusten — sein Geschichte bis zur Gegenwart, 1968, Italian edit., 1972. Als die Schatten Fielen-memoirs, 1969. (with Joachim Radkau) Deutsche Industrie U. Politik von Bismarck bis Heute, 1974.

Membership

Served with Army of the United States, 1942-1945. Research grantee American Philosophical Society, 1940-1941. Member American History Association, Societe d’Histoire Moderne.

Connections

Married Katherine MacArthur Drew, February 15, 1941.

Father:

Robert (b. New York City) Hallgarten

Mother:

Constance (Wolff-Arndt) Hallgarten

Spouse:

Katherine MacArthur Drew