Hans-Liudger Dienel

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Hans-Liudger Dienel (born May 7, 1961 in Münster ; also called Lutter Dienel ) is a doctor of history who researches and teaches primarily in the field of the history of technology . He is known for numerous scientific publications in his field. Since December 1995 he has worked as Scientific Director of the Center for Technology and Society at the Technical University of Berlin .

Life

Hans-Liudger Dienel is the second oldest son of the sociologist Peter Dienel and his wife Dorothea, née Mallau. He spent his childhood and youth in Loccum , Mettmann , Dover and Wuppertal-Cronenberg . The civil service was followed by an apprenticeship as a central heating and ventilation engineer in Rendsburg , which he completed with a journeyman's certificate. From 1983 to 1989 he studied mechanical engineering , history and philosophy at the universities of Hanover and Munich . He supplemented his university education with a research stay of several months in the United States and a four-month internship in Brazil . In April 1988 he passed his master's degree in Medieval History , Modern History and Philosophy. In 1990 he received his diploma in mechanical engineering and a doctorate in March 1993 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Dr. phil. The subject of his doctoral thesis was the interactions between universities and industry in Germany and the USA in technical sciences .

From January 1989 to December 1992 Dienel worked as a research assistant at the Deutsches Museum and at the Central Institute for the History of Technology (TU Munich). A visiting professorship took him to the Technical University of Vienna in the summer semester of 1997 and to UC Berkeley in the winter semester of 2018/19 . From 1995 to 2013 Hans-Liudger Dienel was Scientific Director of the Center for Technology and Society at the Technical University of Berlin. Since August 2013, it has been Professor (W3) for Work Studies , Technology and Participation at the Institute for Vocational Education and Training at the Technical University of Berlin . Dienel is also the founder, managing director and owner of the nexus Institute for Cooperation Management and Interdisciplinary Research . Dienel has been the publisher of Innovation magazine since 2018 . European Journal of Social Science Research (Routledge). In addition, he holds numerous other offices and honorary posts. In 2015 he was elected a member of the learned society Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin .

Hans-Liudger Dienel is married to Christiane Dienel , Professor of Applied Social Sciences and Health Policy. The couple has three children. The ecclesiastical home of the family is the Evangelical Free Church Community of Berlin-Steglitz.

Awards (selection)

  • 1989: Wilhelm Dettmering Prize for the History of Technology and Science from the Georg Agricola Society (Master's thesis)
  • 1993: Rudolf Kellermann Prize for the history of technology from the Association of German Engineers (doctoral thesis)
  • 1993 and 1995: Prize of the Deutsches Museum for publications in the history of science and technology
  • 2008–2014: President of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility
  • 2012: Visiting Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Shimla
  • 2018–2019: Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley (USA)

Publications (selection)

  • Dominion over nature? The German Engineers' Understanding of Nature 1871–1914 . Stuttgart 1992, 2nd edition 1997
  • with Helmut Hilz: Bavaria's way into the technical age. History of the Technical University of Munich 1868–1993 . Munich 1993
  • with Wolfgang Meighörner : The pedal crane . Munich 1995
  • Engineers between university and industry. Refrigeration technology in Germany and America, 1870 to 1930 . Goettingen 1995.
  • The Deutsches Museum and its history . Munich 1998
  • (Ed.): The Optimism of Engineers. Triumph of technology in the crisis of modernity around 1900 . Stuttgart 1998
  • with Gunter Heinickel (Hrsg.): Mobility and traffic research. Newer empirical methods in comparison . Berlin 2001
  • with Hans-Joachim Harloff, Kees Christiaanse , Gabriele Wendorf and Klaus Zillich (eds.): Sustainable living. Findings and concepts for sustainable urban quarters . Heidelberg 2002
  • with Jenny Schmithals (Ed.): Handbuch Eventverkehr. Planning, design, work aids . Berlin 2004
  • with Hans-Peter Meier-Dallach (Ed.): The new proximity. Space partnerships connect contrasting spaces . Stuttgart 2004
  • (Ed.): City and traffic. Information on modern city history . 2006
  • (Ed.): Transport history on new ways (Transport Infrastructure and Politics) . In: Yearbook Economic History . Volume 1, 2007.
  • with Martin Schiefelbusch (Ed.): Public Transport and its Users. The Passenger's Perspective in Planning and Customer Care . Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, 2009.
  • u. a. (Ed.): The quality of citizen participation procedures. Evaluation and securing of standards using the example of planning cells and citizen reports . Munich: Oekom 2014.
  • with Martin Schiefelbusch (Ed.): Linking Networks: The Formation of Common Standards and Visions for Infrastructure Development (Transport and Society) . Abingdon: Ashgate 2014.
  • with Dorothee Keppler, Birgit Böhm (Hrsg.): The citizens' exhibition. Citizens' perspective as an object of qualitative social research and practical participation . Munich: Ökom 2013.
  • with Raj Kollmorgen, Frank-Thomas Koch: Discourses of German Unity: Criticism and Alternatives . Wiesbaden, VS Verlag 2011.
  • with Christine von Blanckenburg (ed.): Old and young in the craft. Training mentors and intergenerational responsibility as a success factor for professional practice . Stuttgart: Steiner 2011.
  • with Hans-Ulrich Schiedt (Ed.): The modern road. Planning, construction and transport from the 18th to the 20th century . Frankfurt / New York: Campus 2010.
  • u. a. (eds.): Terrorism and the Internet. Threats, target groups, deradicalization strategies . Amsterdam / Berlin / Tokyo: IOS Press 2010.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The data and facts in the following section are based, unless otherwise stated, on the website of the Technical University of Berlin ( TU-Berlin.de: Professor Dr. Hans-Liudger Dienel ; accessed on October 11, 2019)
  2. ↑ Nexus Institute: nexusinstitut.de: Prof. Dr. Hans-Liudger Dienel 1 ; accessed on March 1, 2016
  3. ↑ Nexusinstitut.de: Professor Dr. Christiane Dienel ; accessed on October 11, 2019

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personal data
SURNAME Dienel, Hans-Liudger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dienel, Lutter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German technical historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster