Eckart Conze

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Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Preis 2011. Volker Stalmann (left), laudator Eckart Conze (right)

Eckart Conze (born October 17, 1963 in Coburg ) is a German historian . Since 2003 he has been teaching as professor for modern and contemporary history at the seminar for modern history at the Philipps University of Marburg .

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After graduating from secondary school Casimirianum in 1982, Conze studied history, political science and public law at the Universities of Erlangen , Bonn and Cologne and at the London School of Economics from 1984 to 1989 . From 1989 to 1991 he was a research assistant at the Science and Politics Foundation . In 1993 he started at the University of Erlangen with Michael Stürmer with the work Hegemony through Integration. Doctorate in Franco-German Relations in American European Policy.

Since 1993 Conze has been a research assistant at the Contemporary History Seminar at the University of Tübingen . In 1999 his habilitation took place with the thesis Adel im Niedergang? Family biographical studies of the Counts von Bernstorff in the 20th century . From 1999 to 2003 he was a visiting professor and visiting professor in Tübingen, Erlangen and Toronto . Since 2003 he has held a professorship for modern and contemporary history at the University of Marburg . Conze was visiting professor at the Universities of Bologna (2006), Cambridge (2007/2008), Toronto (2015), Utrecht (2017) and at the Richard Koebner Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2020). From 2009 to 2010 he was Dean of the Department of History and Cultural Studies at the University of Marburg.

Conze's research focuses on German, European and international history of the 19th and 20th centuries. He also heads the Marburg International Research and Documentation Center for War Crimes Trials . In 2005, then Federal Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer appointed Conze to the Independent Commission of Historians - Foreign Office , which examined in detail the history of the office under National Socialism and how it dealt with this past after 1945. Conze acted as committee spokesman during the research. The results of the commission appeared in October 2010 as a book publication under the title The Office and the Past .

For his book The Search for Security , Conze was awarded the 2009 Prize for the Promotion of the Translation of Humanities Works by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association.

Alongside Dominik Geppert , Joachim Scholtyseck , Elke Seefried , Jürgen Frölich and Ewald Grothe, Conze has been the editor of the yearbook on research on liberalism , which is published on behalf of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom , since 2012 .

He is deputy chairman of the board of trustees of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Gedächtnisstiftung and a member of the main committee of the Historical Commission for Hesse . In 2018 he was appointed to the scientific advisory board of the Garrison Church Foundation in Potsdam for four years. Furthermore, he is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Ministry of Defense for the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr .

Eckart Conze is married and has three children.

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Monographs

  • The Gaullist Challenge. Franco-German relations in American European policy 1958–1963. Oldenbourg, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-486-56106-5 (at the same time: Erlangen, Nuremberg, University, dissertation, 1992-1993).
  • Of German nobility. The Counts of Bernstorff in the twentieth century. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart et al. 2000, ISBN 3-421-05344-8 .
  • The search for security. A history of the Federal Republic from 1949 to the present. Siedler, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-88680-919-6 .
  • The Foreign Office. From the empire to the present (= Beck'sche Reihe. Volume 2744, C.-H.-Beck-Wissen ). Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-63173-3 .
  • History of security. Development - Topics - Perspectives. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-525-30094-7 .
  • The great illusion. Versailles 1919 and the reorganization of the world. Siedler, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-8275-0055-7 .

Editorships

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Independent Commission of Historians . In: Auswärtiges-Amt.de , October 28, 2010, accessed on December 17, 2010. See the website of the Historians' Commission: Independent Commission of Historians to review the history of the Foreign Office during the Nazi era and in the Federal Republic ( Memento from February 3 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: Uni-Marburg.de , accessed on December 17, 2010.
  2. ^ Awarded the German Book Trade Association Prize.
  3. ↑ Wolf Erich Kellner Prize of the WEK Memorial Foundation .
  4. ^ Potsdamer Garrison Church: Controversial reconstruction project now has a scientific advisory board . In: Tagesspiegel , July 19, 2018.
  5. ↑ About us / Advisory Boards. Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr .
personal data
SURNAME Conze, Eckart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 17th October 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg