Karsten Rudolph

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Karsten Rudolph

Karsten Rudolph (born May 21, 1962 in Witten ) is a German historian with a focus on social and political history of the 19th and 20th centuries and a social democratic politician . Since May 14, 2017, he has represented the south and south-west of Bochum as a directly elected member of the Bochum II state electoral district . He is also a professor at the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr University in Bochum. Between 2002 and 2010, Rudolph was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Education and professional activity

After graduating from high school in 1981 and doing community service until 1988 , Karsten Rudolph studied history , German studies , social sciences and education at the Ruhr University in Bochum . After the first state examination in 1988, he did his doctorate there in 1992 under Hans Mommsen and Helga Grebing on the history of Saxon social democracy in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic . From 1992 to 1994 Rudolph was the head of a research project at the Institute for Social Movements (formerly the Institute for Research on the European Labor Movement ) at the Ruhr University. Between 1994 and 2001 Rudolph was a research assistant and employee. In 2001 he received his habilitation in Bochum with a thesis on economic diplomacy during the Cold War and has been a private lecturer since then. His teaching activities focus on the history of the labor movement , the rise of National Socialism in the Weimar Republic and the history of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Cold War.

In 2011 he became Head of Political Communication at the Essen chemical company Evonik . He worked as a lobbyist for the company at the European Parliament . In 2012 he became a professor at the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr University Bochum.

Mandates

In the state election on May 14, 2017, Rudolph won a direct mandate in the Bochum II constituency (south and southwest) and is a member of the 17th North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament. He is a full member of the Science Committee and the Committee for Digitization and Innovation.

Rudolph was a member of the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament from 2002 to 2010. During this time he was a member of the main and interior committees of parliament. Rudolph was also the internal policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group and was a member of the parliamentary group's executive committee. As a successor, he became a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia on November 7, 2002 after Wolfgang Clement's move to the federal government . In the 14th electoral term (2005–2010) he was elected via the state list. He represented the constituency Hochsauerlandkreis II - Soest III ( Meschede , Marsberg , Bestwig , Olsberg , Winterberg , Medebach and Rüthen ). In the state elections in 2010, he was not re-elected to the state parliament. Rudolph was put up by the SPD in the Hochsauerlandkreis as a candidate for the 2009 Bundestag election, but failed to make it into the Bundestag.

Political party

Rudolph has been a member of the SPD since 1978 and was chairman of the Young Socialists in the district of Western Westphalia from 1985 to 1991 . He was also chairman of the Wetter- Wengern local association from 1990 to 1996 and vice-chairman of the Ennepe-Ruhr sub-district from 1992 to 1998. Between 1985 and 1997 Rudolph was a member of the board of directors of the Western Westphalia district, and from 1997 until the district was dissolved in 2000 he was its deputy chairman. From 2001 to 2012 Rudolph was a member of the state executive board and presidium of the North Rhine-Westphalian SPD. He belonged to the program commission of the federal party and is a member of the historical commission of the party executive committee of the SPD . Until 2012 he was also chairman of the Hochsauerland sub- district. In June 2015 he was elected chairman of the SPD sub-district of Bochum.

engagement

Rudolph is on the board of trustees of the Wilhelm Dröscher Prize, which supports new ideas and approaches to civic politics, as well as the Gustav Heinemann Citizens Prize , which has been awarded to people, groups or organizations who have made an independent contribution to freedom and justice . Since 2004 Rudolph has been on the board of trustees of the Institute for German and International Party Law and Party Research at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf.

In 2019 Karsten Rudolph was elected to the WDR Board of Directors. He was also a member of the WDR Broadcasting Council between 1999 and 2017 and a member of the WDR mediagroup's board of directors from 2010 to 2017 . He has also been a member of the editorial board of the Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte magazine since 2010 .

Writings and publications (selection)

Monographs

  • The Saxon Social Democracy from Empire to Republic (1871–1923) . Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1995.
  • Bibliography on the history of the democracy movement in Central Germany (1789–1933) , Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1995 (together with Iris Weuster).
  • Willy Brandt. Berlin edition, vol. 5: The party of freedom. Willy Brandt and the SPD 1972–1992 (arr.), Bonn 2002.
  • Economic diplomacy in the Cold War. The Ostpolitik of West German industry. Frankfurt am Main, New York 2004.
  • The Leipzig Trade Fair in the East-West Conflict. Big politics and small encounters , Berlin 2006 (together with Jana Wüstenhagen).
  • The Thuringian labor movement from the German Empire to the end of the Weimar Republic . Erfurt 2018. ISBN 978-3-946939-23-8

editor

  • Democratic Movements in Central Germany (10 volumes) Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 1995-2005 (together with Helga Grebing and Hans Mommsen ).
  • History as a possibility. About the chances of democracy. Festschrift for Helga Grebing , Essen, 1995 (together with Christl Wickert ).
  • Reform on the Rhine and Ruhr. North Rhine-Westphalia Path into the 21st Century , Bonn 2000 (together with Tanja Busse and others).
  • Social democracy in transition. The district of Western Westphalia 1893-2001 , exp . Edition Essen 2001 (together with Bernd Faulenbach, Stefan Goch and Günther Högl).
  • From the rule of law to the prevention state . (together with Stefan Huster). Frankfurt, 2008 ISBN 978-3-518-12543-4
  • Change has a home. North Rhine-Westphalia in the past and present , edited together with Stefan Goch, Oberhausen 2009.
  • Euro Brussels from the inside. Insights and prospects. Published together with Werner Wobbe, Projektverlag , Bochum / Freiburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-89733-333-8
  • My local club. Projektverlag , Bochum / Freiburg 2016. ISBN 978-3-89733-390-1
  • Albert Quinkert's War Diary (1914–1919). Münster 2018. ISBN 978-3-402-13308-8

literature

  • 60 years of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. The country and its deputies . Düsseldorf, 2006. p. 540

Web links

Commons : Karsten Rudolph  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Employee page Karsten Rudolph. Retrieved December 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Karsten Rudolph leads the SPD , Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , Bochum local section, June 9, 2015
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ^ State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia: State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia : Deputy Prof. Dr. Karsten Rudolph. Retrieved December 5, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Board of Trustees of the Institute for German and International Party Law and Party Research on pruf.de, accessed on June 10, 2015
  6. ↑ The election of the WDR board of directors. May 3, 2019, accessed October 22, 2019 .
  7. ↑ List of WDR Broadcasting Council members on wdr.de, accessed on June 10, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Rudolph, Karsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten