'''Hermann Greive''' (7 April 1935 - 25 January 1984) was a West German professor of Jewish studies. He was shot dead by a former student with mental issues.<ref name=HGlautAJR>{{cite web|url=http://www.ajr.org.uk/journalpdf/1984_april.pdf|title=Professor murdered in Cologne|page=5|publisher=The Association of Jewish Refugees, London|volume=XXXIX|work=AJR Information|date=4 April 1984|accessdate=8 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905072054/http://www.ajr.org.uk/journalpdf/1984_april.pdf|archive-date=5 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=HGlautEG>{{cite web|url= https://lizaswelt.net/2010/10/05/deutsche-seelenwanderungen/|title= Die Banalität der Guten ... Protokoll einer Verwandlung|publisher=Lizas Welt, Losheim am See|work=Aus: Eike Geisel: Die Banalität der Guten. Deutsche Seelenwanderungen, Berlin 1992 (Edition Tiamat), pp. 23-27| author=Eike Geisel|date= 5 October 2010|accessdate=8 January 2017}}</ref>
==Life== Hermann Greive was born in Walstedde, a small town in the Warendorf district, a short distance to the east of Münster. He received his doctorate in theology in 1967 and his habilitation (higher academic qualification) from Cologne University.
The focus of his research was on the history of Judaism and its philosophy on the context of research on antisemitism.<ref name="Rensmann2013">{{cite book|author=Lars Rensmann|title=Footnote 176|work=Demokratie und Judenbild: Antisemitismus in der politischen Kultur der Bundesrepublik Deutschland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OQ_0BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA75|date=8 March 2013|publisher=Springer-Verlag|isbn=978-3-322-80454-9|page=75}}</ref> He was a co-producer of the seven-volume published edition of diaries and letters of Theodor Herzl.<ref>Briefe und Tagebücher. 7 Bände Hrsg. von Alex Bein, Hermann Greive, Moshe Schaerf und Julius H. Schoeps. Propyläen, Frankfurt am Main/Berlin 1983–96</ref>
By 1973 he was teaching as a professor at Cologne University's Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies,<ref name="Greive1973">{{cite book|author=Hermann Greive|title=Studien zum jüdischen Neuplatonismus: die Religionsphilosophie des Abraham Ibn Ezra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lDc8gZFuF00C&pg=PP9|year=1973|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-004116-3|page=9}}</ref> where most of the students were actually, like him, non-Jewish.<ref name=HGlautEW>{{cite news|date=6 April 1984|author=Erika Wantoch|title=Protokoll einer Krankheit|newspaper=Die Zeit |url=http://www.zeit.de/1984/15/protokoll-einer-krankheit/komplettansicht|publisher=Die Zeit (on line)|accessdate=8 January 2017}}</ref>
==Death== On 25 January 1984, while Greive was holding a seminar with eleven students, the door opened and Sabine S. Gehlhaar entered the room with an old-fashioned pistol and shot him in the head.<ref name=HGlautEW/> He died the next day.<ref name=HGlautEW/> A younger colleague, {{Interlanguage link multi|Hans-Georg von Mutius|de}}, alerted by the shot, ran across from a nearby seminar room to investigate. He was confronted by Gehlhaar who shot him, but he was only injured and he managed to overpower the mentally disturbed assassin. The police were called and Gehlhaar, a former student at the institute, was taken away.<ref name=HGlautEW/> <!---
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Category:People from Warendorf (district) Category:Academic staff of the University of Cologne Category:Historians of Jews and Judaism
Category:1935 births Category:1984 deaths Category:School shootings in Germany Category:Deaths by firearm in Germany Category:German murder victims Category:People murdered in Germany