Spectator-Briefe und Berliner Briefe (1919-1922)

In a series of 56 “letters” written between February 1919 and November 1922, Ernst Troeltsch commented extensively on the events of the day. He critically observed revolution, civil war, and the new order in Germany emerging from the terms of world politics and the Versailles peace treaty. Troeltsch was committed to offering the middle class a worldly perspective that would breathe life into the democracy of the Weimar Republic.


Gangolf Hübinger and Nikolai Wehrs, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.