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Hans W. Rosenhaupt
| Hans W. Rosenhaupt | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1911 Frankfurt Am Main, Germany |
| Died | 19 April 1985 New Brunswick, New Jersey |
| Nativity | Germany |
| Religion | Protestant |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  United States |
| Branch |  United States Army |
| Arm / service | Field Artillery |
| ASN | 01182239 |
| Rank | Second Lieutenant |
| Camp Ritchie | Class 9 (21 June – 18 August 1943) |
| Section | 5D |
| Specialty | Military intelligence; POW interrogation |
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Hans W. Rosenhaupt (1911 – 19 April 1985) was a German-born American educator and U.S. Army intelligence officer. A Camp Ritchie Class 9 graduate, he later directed the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in Princeton.
Biography[edit | edit source]
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 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[edit | edit source]
- Roster / research notes also record a rise from private to captain; the Classes 1–31 chart shows commissioning as 2nd Lt.
- See Timeline
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Technical record[edit | edit source]
| Field | Imported value |
|---|---|
| Approx Age at Death | 74 |
| Class_ASN | 182239 |
| Class_Name | ROSENHAUPT, Hans W. |
| match_method | asn_partial_name_exact |
| row_source | both |
Timeline[edit | edit source]
- 21 May 1877 — Father Heinrich Rosenhaupt born in Frankfurt am Main (pediatrician / city physician; died 15 April 1944 in Colorado Springs, Colorado).
- 1911 — Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- 1933 — Frankfurt doctorate examination interrupted after the Nazi seizure of power.
- 1935 — Ph.D., University of Bern; emigrates to the United States.
- 1938–1942 — Instructor (then assistant professor, 1942) in German, Colorado College; earlier teaching at Oak Park Junior College and Knox College.
- 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.
Sources[edit | edit source]
- The New York Times, “Dr. Hans Rosenhaupt, Ex-Head of Foundation,” 23 April 1985
- Colorado College Tutt Library — Hans Rosenhaupt Papers, 1934–42
- 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
- Dan Gross research spreadsheets, including original Excel timeline/roster work, combined with other research and records
- NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
- 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)
- Dan Gross, Timeline of Hans W. Rosenhaupt for Camp Ritchie (private research document; 1 source documents reviewed)
- Dan Gross, Timeline of Rosenhaupt, Hans W. for Camp Ritchie (private research files; selected non-private narrative findings; 1 source files: HANS W. ROSENHAUPT.doc)