Christoph Buchheim

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Christoph Karl Buchheim (born April 18, 1954 in Munich ; † December 28, 2009 in Heidelberg ) was a German economic historian .

Life

As the son of the university professor Hans Buchheim and his wife Bernhild Weinheimer, he attended the Simmern School in Munich from 1960 to 1964. Then he went to the Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich until 1967 . After the family moved to Mainz , he graduated from the Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium and graduated from high school.

Between 1973 and the spring of 1978 he studied modern history, sinology and economics in Munich . He passed his diploma in economics in Munich in 1978. He then went to Oxford University for graduate studies until 1979. In 1982 he received his doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. in Munich on the subject of German commercial exports to England in the second half of the 19th century . The speaker was Knut Borchardt , co- speaker Wolfgang Zorn .

From 1979 to 1985 he worked as an assistant in the Department of Economic History in Munich at the university. From 1985 to 1989 he worked at the Institute for Contemporary History as a research assistant. At the University of Munich, he gained in 1989 with the issue of the reintegration of West Germany into the world economy from 1945 to 1958 the Habilitation .

From 1990 to 1991 he represented a chair for economic and social history in Saarland. He was appointed full professor for economic and social history at the University of Mannheim in 1991. He was Dean of the Faculty of Economics in Mannheim from 2001 to 2003. From 2001 to 2006 he was a member of the Senate of the University of Mannheim. In 2005 he was given a teaching position at the Scientific University for Management in Koblenz-Vallendar .

Publications (selection)

  • Currency reform and social market economy: retrospectives and prospects with Peter Hampe, Munich 1989
  • The reintegration of West Germany into the world economy 1945-1958 , Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55801-3 .
  • Industrial revolutions. Long-term economic development in Great Britain, Europe and overseas , dtv, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-423-04622-8 .
  • Torn between the wars. Economic history contributions. Knut Borchardt on his 65th birthday with Michael Hutter and Harold James, Baden-Baden 1994
  • Financial policy promotion of growth in the Federal Republic after 1948/49: Lessons for East Germany today , Mannheim 1994
  • Economic consequences of the war in the Soviet Zone / GDR , Baden-Baden 1995
  • Introduction to economic history , Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-41901-1 .
  • After the slump. Industry and Politics in 1930s Britain and Germany , with Redvers Garside, Frankfurt / Main 2000
  • The interplay of economy, population and prosperity from a historical perspective , Mannheim 2003
  • with Volker Zimmermann: Czechoslovakia and the two German states , plain text, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0452-1 (= publications of the German-Czech and German-Slovak historians' commission Volume 10 and publications on culture and history in Eastern Europe , Volume 36).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christoph Buchheim, German commercial exports to England in the second half of the 19th century, dissertation, Munich 1982
  2. ↑ Biographical data
personal data
SURNAME Buchheim, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buchheim, Christoph Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economic historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2009
Place of death Heidelberg