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Ernst Jäckh

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This reputation was maintained to the end of his life, with obituaries of him hailing his claimed opposition to the Nazi regime. But the progressive, democratic reputation that the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik had enjoyed for decades became diminished as a result of scholarly research performed in
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and which advocated the creation of an international tribunal and an international police force. Jäckh worked with the German branch of the society, which at first had close ties to the Nazi Party; but subsequently, the Nazis grew suspicious of both the branch and of Jäckh, reporting that Jäckh was a
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was founded by Jäckh, who served as its president and initial director. During the 1920s, it was considered Berlin's best school for the study of political behavior. The Hochschule benefited from Jäckh's abilities to fit in with both liberal and conservative factions and act as a consensus builder.
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in January 1933. Indeed in public statements and a private letter to Hitler, he maintained that a continuity was possible between the liberalism of Naumann and the national socialism of the new regime. His attempts at accommodation with the Nazis were to little avail, however, as the Hochschule
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the latter part of the twentieth century, which showed that the Hochschule's relationship with the Nazi Party was not the one of pure opposition that had been portrayed. With these findings, Jäckh's reputation in connection to his role there suffered substantially as well.
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As an academic, Jäckh has not been highly regarded in terms of scholarship or original thought. Author Sevil Özçalık states that "Jäckh's reputation was largely self-created throughout his career, which also favorably shaped other people's perception of him."
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Ernst Jäckh and the Turkish study commission in Heilbronn, on July 8, 1911. Jäckh stands in the middle in the background (behind him the lamp attached to the wall), with the hat taken off in his right hand.
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At this point in 1933, Jäckh left Germany for refuge in Britain, but he still traveled to Germany on a steady basis and maintained contact with the government and went to Nazi-related events.
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describes Jäckh as "a diminutive journalist with a supersized gift for self-promotion" who marketed the Ottoman Empire as "the land of tolerance" while Ottoman Armenians were being
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made reference to "Dr. Jackh's distinguished reputation as an interpreter of Turkey's policies" and found "his frank special pleading for Turkey disarming and persuasive."
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Neckar-Zeitung (Heilbronn), Deutscher Werkbund, Nachrichtenstelle für den Orient, Deutsche Hochschule für Politik, New Commonwealth Institute, Columbia University
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Korenblat, Steven D. (September 2006). "A School for the Republic? Cosmopolitans and Their Enemies at the Deutsche Hochschule Für Politik, 1920–1933".
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and the United States. He is most known for having advocated for first Germany, and then the United States, having better relations with
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He gave lecture tours in America, made contacts there, and secured funding for the Hochschule's library and publications from the
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Jäckh suffered a personal loss when his only son, 18-year-old Hans, was killed in action in September 1918, on the
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Promoting an Alliance, Furthering Nationalism: Ernst Jäckh and Ahmed Emin in the Time of the First World War
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In 1940, he migrated further to the United States where he became Professor of Public Law and Government at
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Jäckh wrote some twenty-one books, including some under the name Ernest Jackh. His books include:
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in 1944; his aim was to explain modern Turkey to American readers and to foster improvement in
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characterizing him as "the most important propagandist of Germany's eastern policy." Historian
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Finding aid to Ernst Jäckh papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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Weber, "Ernst Jäckh and the National Internationalism of Interwar Germany", pp. 421–422, 423.
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He served on the Columbia faculty until 1946. Jäckh then became a consultant at Columbia's
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Weber, "Ernst Jäckh and the National Internationalism of Interwar Germany", pp. 419–420.
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Weber, "Ernst Jäckh and the National Internationalism of Interwar Germany", pp. 410–411.
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Weber, "Ernst Jäckh and the National Internationalism of Interwar Germany", pp. 406–407.
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Weber, "Ernst Jäckh and the National Internationalism of Interwar Germany", pp. 412ff.
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underwent a political purge, lost its independence, and was put under control of the
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Anderson, "Who Still Talked about the Extermination of the Armenians?", pp. 203–204.
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Weber, "Ernst Jäckh and the National Internationalism of Interwar Germany", p. 418.
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Ernst Jackh papers (MS 467). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Archives.
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Starting in 1908, Jäckh promoted the German-Turkish Alliance and he founded the
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Eisfeld, "Émigré Scholars and the Genesis of International Relations", p. 114.
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Eisfeld, "Émigré Scholars and the Genesis of International Relations", p. 113.
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A journalist during his early years, Jäckh worked as an editor for the paper
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A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire
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Jäckh was said to have become a British citizen and to have represented the
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Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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Jäckh, like other German academics, witnessed first-hand the demise of the
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started in 1939, Jäckh was named head of the Southeastern Division of the
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Ernst Jäckh played an active role in German diplomatic efforts during the
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German journalist, diplomat, author, academic, and Turkophile
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The Rising Crescent: Turkey Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
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He became international director of the newly founded
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Academic staff of the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik
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Korenblat, "A School for the Republic?", pp. 398–399.
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Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
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Under the overall guidance of pastor and politician
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Urach
German Empire
New York City
Great Britain
Turkey
Deutsche Hochschule für Politik
Berlin

Urach
Germany
theological seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren
Stuttgart
University of Breslau
University of Geneva
University of Munich
Heidelberg University

Neckar-Zeitung
de
Heilbronn
Friedrich Naumann
liberal movement in Germany
German Turkish Association
de
University of Berlin
First World War
German Foreign Office
Fritz Fischer
Margaret Lavinia Anderson

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