Winfrid Halder

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Winfrid Halder (born December 3, 1962 in Dinslaken ) is a German historian .

Life

Halder grew up in Upper Bavaria . After graduating from high school at the Marquartstein State School Home , he was a reserve officer candidate from 1982 to 1984 with the Mountain Infantry Battalion 234 in Mittenwald .

From 1984 to 1992 he studied history and political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg . After completing his Magister Artium (1989), he received a grant from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation under Hugo Ott in 1992 with a dissertation on Catholic Associations in Baden and Württemberg, 1848-1914. A contribution to the organizational history of southwest German Catholicism in the context of the emergence of modern industrial society for Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1993 to 2003 Halder was a research assistant at the chair for economic and social history ( Ulrich Kluge ) at the Technical University of Dresden . In 1999 he completed his habilitation there with the thesis Model for Germany. Economic policy and administration in Saxony 1945–1948. A contribution to the history of the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany . From 2003 to 2007 he was a substitute professor and lecturer at the TU Dresden and the HTWK Leipzig . Since 2006 he has been the director of the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus foundation in Düsseldorf and a lecturer at the history seminar of the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf .

Halder is u. a. Member of the advisory board of the Görres Society , member of the Association of Historians in Germany , the Werner Bergengruen Society, the Society for Social and Economic History and the Prussian Historical Commission . In June 2015 he was elected director of the Foundation for Flight, Displacement and Reconciliation . In November 2015 it was announced that he would not take up the position.

Halder is married and has five children.

Fonts (selection)

  • Catholic associations in Baden and Württemberg, 1848–1914. A contribution to the organizational history of south-west German Catholicism in the context of the emergence of modern industrial society (= publications of the Commission for Contemporary History , Series B, Research , Vol. 64). Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 1995, ISBN 3-506-79967-3 .
  • "Model for Germany". Economic policy in Saxony 1945–1948 . Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2001, ISBN 3-506-73909-3 .
  • Exile calls to Germany. The radio speeches by Thomas Mann, Paul Tillich and Johannes R. Becher 1940–1945. Analysis, effect, meaning (= Tillich studies , supplements, vol. 3). Lit, Münster u. a. 2002, ISBN 3-8258-5875-8 .
  • German division. Prehistory and early years of the double founding of the state (= German history in the 20th century ). Pendo Verlag, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85842-552-4 .
  • Domestic Policy in the Empire, 1871–1914 (= compact history, modern times ). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2003, ISBN 3-534-15483-5 . (2nd edition 2006, 3rd edition 2011).
  • (Ed. With Michael Serrer): The long way west. Fled - expelled - arrived at the Rhine and Ruhr . Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-76683-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Winfrid Halder , in: Team Recent History of the Heinrich Heine University
  2. ↑ Rainer Blasius : Working up hard fates. Winfrid Halder and the displaced persons . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 1, 2015, p. 4.
  3. ↑ Patrick Bahners : The Expellees as Scapegoats , in: FAZ , November 14, 2015, p. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Halder, Winfrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Dinslaken