Wolfgang Jacobmeyer

Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (born July 27, 1940 in Hanover ) is a German historian and history teacher .

resume

Wolfgang Jacobmeyer studied history and German at the University of Hamburg , the Georg-August University of Göttingen and the University of Oxford . He passed the first and second state exams for teaching at grammar schools. With his dissertation “Home and Exile. The beginnings of the Polish underground movement in World War II ”, he received his doctorate in 1971 in Bochum . His habilitation took place in 1985 at the University of Hanover . Between 1971 and 1978 Jacobmeyer worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. He then worked at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig as deputy director until 1991. From 1991 to 2005 he was professor for modern and contemporary history and history didactics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster.

Research priorities

Wolfgang Jacobmeyer is particularly concerned with German-Polish relations and population movements in the 20th century. In addition, his research focuses on modern educational history and historical didactic textbook research.

Functions and bodies

Wolfgang Jacobmeyer served on the scientific advisory board of the Georg Eckert Institute for international textbook research for many years . He also works on the Advisory Board for Memorial Work of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture. Jacobmeyer has been a member of the federal jury for many years as part of the German History Schoolchildren's Competition for the Prize of the Federal President of the Körber Foundation , and he is a board member of the “Friends of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation ”.

Fonts (in selection)

Monographs

• Home and exile. The beginnings of the Polish underground movement in World War II , Hamburg, Leibniz-Verlag, 1973, ISBN 3-87473-006-9 .
• From forced laborer to homeless foreigner. The Displaced Persons in West Germany 1945–1951 , Göttingen, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1985, ISBN 3-525-35724-9 (also habilitation, University of Hanover 1985).
• The German school history book 1700–1945. The first epoch of its genre history in the mirror of the forewords , 3 volumes, Berlin et al., Lit, 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-11418-1 .

Editorships

• with Werner Präg: The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939–1945 , Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1975, ISBN 3-421-01700-X .
• The German-Polish textbook recommendations in the public discussion in the Federal Republic of Germany. A documentation , Braunschweig, Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, 1979, ISBN 3-88304-226-9 .
• with Imanuel Geiss: German Politics in Poland 1939–1945. From the service diary of Hans Frank, Governor General in Poland , Opladen, Leske and Budrich, 1980, ISBN 3-8100-0296-8 .
• The image of Germany and the German question in the historical, geographical and social science teaching books of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic from 1949 to the 1980s , Braunschweig, Georg Eckert Institute, 1986, ISBN 3-88304-243-9 .
• The Federal Republic of Germany and the United States of America , 5 parts, Frankfurt a. M., Diesterweg, 1982–1988, ISBN 3-88304-230-7 ( inter alia) (= Studies on international textbook research , Vols. 30, 36, 48).
• with Holger Thünemann : Foundation and development of German history teaching . School discourses on didactics and history in the 19th century , Berlin, Lit, 2018, ISBN 978-3-643-14165-1 .

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• Contemporary history - understanding of time , 21 volumes, Münster / Berlin, Lit , 1997–2009.

literature

• Karl-Ernst Jeismann : Introduction. In: Sabine Mecking , Stefan Schröder (Eds.): Counterpoint. Discourses of the past and understanding of the present. Festschrift for Wolfgang Jacobmeyer on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2005, ISBN 3-89861-268-6 , pp. 17-23.
• List of publications by Wolfgang Jacobmeyer. In: Sabine Mecking, Stefan Schröder (Eds.): Counterpoint. Discourses of the past and understanding of the present. Festschrift for Wolfgang Jacobmeyer on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2005, ISBN 3-89861-268-6 , pp. 419-428.
• Wolfgang Jacobmeyer: Encounter with Polish history or: What happens to the historian when personal interest becomes professional? (Lecture at the general meeting on December 9, 2005). Published by Friends and Alumni of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation Gummersbach, Rommert 2007, ISBN 978-3-9804392-1-3 (= series of publications of the Association of Friends and Alumni of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation 1).

Web links

• Website at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster