ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an attempt to take stock of Hans Rosenberg’s seminal influence on recent historical writing about modern Germany. The nature of Rosenberg’s influence has to be related to the ‘interrupted’ and ‘displaced’ development of German historical studies since the 1930s. Rosenberg’s career has involved a systematic working-through of the discussions begun by Eckart Kehr before his death. In general, therefore, Hans Rosenberg has provided a living bridge to the Weimar Republic, where the beginnings of a left liberal and democratically inclined intellectual culture were brutally shattered by the catastrophe of 1933. The chapter deals with discussion of abiding problem of theoretical and historical analysis, which has been too easily suppressed in the turn to social and economic history, namely, that of how the relationship between politics and economics is best to be conceived.
