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|birth_year=1911
|birth_year=1911
|death_date=19 April 1985
|death_year=1985
|death_year=1985
|nativity=Germany
|nativity=Germany
|religion=Protestant
|religion=Protestant
|overseas=Y
|overseas=Y
|certificate=2732
|confidence=high
|confidence=high
|class_number=9
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|arm_or_service=Field Artillery
|arm_or_service=Field Artillery
|birth_place=Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany, Dr. Rosenhaupt was a
|birth_place=Frankfurt am Main, Germany
|death_place=New Brunswick, New Jersey
|rank_final=2nd Lt
|rank_final=2nd Lt
|specialty=Military intelligence; POW interrogation
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'''Hans W. Rosenhaupt''' (1911&ndash;1985) was a United States Army Second Lieutenant who trained at [[Camp Ritchie]], Maryland, in [[Class 9]].
'''Hans W. Rosenhaupt''' (1911 – 19 April 1985) was a German-born American educator and U.S. Army intelligence officer. A Camp Ritchie [[:Category:Class 9|Class 9]] graduate, he later directed the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in Princeton.
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== Biography ==
== Biography ==
On 27 June 1941, Rosenhaupt became a naturalized citizen. AFTER THE WAR, he resumed teaching at Colorado College before becoming associate director of admissions at Columbia University, a post he held for 10 years. He attended Director of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. He attended PRINCETON—Hans Rosenhaupt, 74, director of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship foundation for 23 years, died Friday after a lengthy illness. He attended University of Berne (PhD). He worked as Asst Prof of German (Colorado College). He taught German and French at Oak Park Junior College Knox College and Colorado College before joining the US Army in 1942. He served as an officer in military intelligence, interrogating German prisoners in England, France and Germany. He “How to Wage Peace” published by John Day, 1949. He later wrote a novel, “The True Deceivers’ (1954) about these experiences. He received his doctorate from the University of Bern in Switzerland, and in 1979 the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt awarded him the doctorate he should have received in 1933 from that university. He was national director and them president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation until his retirement in 1981. He published a novel based on his war experiences, “The True. He at that time, his dissertation had been accepted and his oral examination scheduled when Adolf Hitler’s rise to power postponed the examination. He published by: Vittorio Klostermann GmbH.
Hans W. Rosenhaupt was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1911. His father, Heinrich Rosenhaupt (1877–1944), was a Frankfurt pediatrician and later city physician in Mainz who was dismissed in 1933 because of his Jewish heritage, briefly held in Sachsenhausen in early 1939, and afterward emigrated via England to the United States, where he died in Colorado Springs.
 
Rosenhaupt studied at the universities of Frankfurt, Berlin, and Munich. His planned doctorate examination at Frankfurt was interrupted by the Nazi rise to power; he received a Ph.D. from the University of Bern in Switzerland in 1935 and came to the United States the same year. He taught German and French at Oak Park Junior College and Knox College, then joined Colorado College as an instructor in German (1938) and was made assistant professor in 1942.
 
He became a naturalized U.S. citizen on 27 June 1941. After entering the Army in late 1942, he was commissioned a second lieutenant on 20 May 1943 (ASN 01182239), trained at Camp Ritchie with [[:Category:Class 9|Class 9]], and on 31 August 1943 was assigned to the faculty (Section V). He served in military intelligence, including interrogation of German prisoners in England, France, and Germany, and remained on leave from Colorado College through 1946.
 
Rosenhaupt returned to Colorado College in 1946 as director of the Summer School of Languages, married Maureen Church of London in December 1946, and left the college in 1947. After a period as a lecturer for Rotary International, he became director of admissions at Columbia University in 1948 (later assistant provost for graduate admissions). In 1958 he moved to Princeton as national director of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, became president in 1969, and retired in 1981. He published ''How to Wage Peace'' (1949) and the war novel ''The True Deceivers'' (1954). In 1979 Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt awarded him the doctorate he had been unable to complete there in 1933.
 
Rosenhaupt died on 19 April 1985 at a nursing home in New Brunswick, New Jersey; he had lived in Princeton since 1958.


== Research notes ==
== Research notes ==
* from Pvt to Captain
* Roster / research notes also record a rise from private to captain
* See Timeline
* the Classes 1–31 chart shows commissioning as 2nd Lt


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* 27 June 1941 — Became naturalized citizen.
* 21 May 1877 — Father Heinrich Rosenhaupt born in Frankfurt am Main (pediatrician / city physician; died 15 April 1944 in Colorado Springs, Colorado).
* 20 May 1943 — OCS. Commissioned as 2nd Lt (ASN: 01182239).
* 1911 — Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
* 31 August 1943 — Assigned to Faculty. Section V.
* 1933 — Frankfurt doctorate examination interrupted after the Nazi seizure of power.
* Born PRINCETON—Hans Rosenhaupt, 74, director of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship foundation for 23 years, died Friday after a lengthy illness. Born in Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany, Dr. Rosenhaupt was a resident of Princeton since 1958. He attended the universities of Frankfurt, Berlin and Munich. He received his doctorate from the University of Bern.
* 1935 — Ph.D., University of Bern; emigrates to the United States.
* Assigned to MID.
* 1938–1942 — Instructor (then assistant professor, 1942) in German, Colorado College; earlier teaching at Oak Park Junior College and Knox College.
* PRINCETON—Hans Rosenhaupt, 74, director of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship foundation for 23 years, died Friday after a lengthy illness.
* 27 June 1941 — Naturalized U.S. citizen.
* November 1942 – 1946 — Leave from Colorado College for U.S. Army service.
* 20 May 1943 — Commissioned 2nd Lt (ASN 01182239) via OCS.
* 1943 — Camp Ritchie Class 9; 31 August 1943 assigned to Faculty, Section V.
* 1943–1945 — Military intelligence / POW interrogation in England, France, and Germany.
* 1946 — Returns to Colorado College; director, Summer School of Languages; December — marries Maureen Church.
* Fall 1947 — Leaves Colorado College; lecturer for Rotary International.
* August 1948 — Director of admissions, Columbia University.
* 1949 — Publishes ''How to Wage Peace'' (John Day).
* 1954 — Publishes novel ''The True Deceivers''.
* 1958 — National director, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (Princeton); resident of Princeton thereafter.
* 1969 — Becomes president of the foundation.
* 1979 — Goethe University Frankfurt awards the doctorate postponed in 1933.
* 1981 — Retires from the foundation.
* 19 April 1985 — Dies in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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== Sources ==
== Sources ==
* [https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/23/nyregion/dr-hans-rosenhaupt-ex-head-of-foundation.html ''The New York Times'', “Dr. Hans Rosenhaupt, Ex-Head of Foundation,” 23 April 1985]
* [https://libraryweb.coloradocollege.edu/library/specialcollections/Manuscript/Rosenhaupt.html Colorado College Tutt Library — Hans Rosenhaupt Papers, 1934–42]
* [https://frankfurter-personenlexikon.de/node/935 Frankfurter Personenlexikon — Rosenhaupt, Heinrich] (father; English summary from the lexicon entry)
* Reinhard Frost, article in ''Frankfurter Biographie'' 2 (1996), p. 212, via Frankfurter Personenlexikon
* Camp Ritchie Museum, Inc. (The Ritchie History Museum), Classes 1–31 roster data
* Camp Ritchie Museum, Inc. (The Ritchie History Museum), Classes 1–31 roster data
* Dan Gross research spreadsheets, including original Excel timeline/roster work, combined with other research and records
* Dan Gross research spreadsheets, including original Excel timeline/roster work, combined with other research and records
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