Adelheid von Saldern

Adelheid von Saldern (2009)

Adelheid von Saldern (born December 28, 1938 in Munich as Adelheid von Schmaedel ) is a German historian . From 1978 to 2004 she taught as a professor of modern history at the History Department of the Leibniz University in Hanover .

Life

Adelheid von Saldern studied history and literature at the universities of Munich and Mainz from 1957 to 1963. She did her doctorate in 1964 under Franz Schnabel in Munich on the Reich Finance Minister Hermann Dietrich . From 1967 to 1970 she had a research assignment from the German Research Foundation , and in 1970/71 a teaching assignment at the University of Hanover. On the basis of the DFG project, she completed her habilitation in 1972 at the University of Hanover with the book: Vom inhabitant zum Bürger. For the emancipation of the urban lower class of Göttingen 1890–1920. From 1972 she was a university lecturer, from 1977 professor at the History Department of the University of Hanover. She undertook empirical research mainly on the problems of medium-sized businesses, workers' organizations and issues of local history in the late 19th and 20th centuries.

In 1989, 1994 and 1998 von Saldern spent several months as visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, at the University of Chicago and at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University . She belonged to the group of founders of the Society for Urban History and Urbanization Research (deputy chairwoman, 2000–2004) and the journal Werkstatt Geschichte . She has been a member of the advisory board since the beginning of the journal Zeithistorische Forschungen (Center for Contemporary History Research, Potsdam) in 2003. She is also one of the editors of the Docupedia contemporary history (also ZZF, Potsdam). From 2000 to 2006 she was chairwoman of the advisory board of the Research Center for Contemporary History at the University of Hamburg and member of the board of trustees of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg (2000–2007). In 2017 she became a member of the Independent Commission of Historians of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Planning under National Socialism. Requirements, institutions, effects (since November 2017; originally: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation; Building and Nuclear Safety ).

Adelheid von Saldern has written numerous works on political, economic, socio-historical and historiographical topics of the 19th and 20th centuries. Particular consideration was given to the labor movement , gender history and housing policy, including social rationalization. Your recent research focuses in the field of media history , cultural history and on the city's history and transatlantic history.

Scientific work

"Adelheid von Saldern is one of the most interesting historians currently working in Germany. (S. IX) During the 1980s and 1990s, she became one of the best practitioners of the approaches Alltagsgeschichte helped to pioneer, in ways that both realized some of their best purposes and pushed them into new and exciting terrain. (S. XV) Adelheid von Saldern has become one of the most challenging and experimental twentieth-century historians currently working in Germany: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany is delighted to bring this excellent historian's work into wider circulation. "

- Geoff Eley

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

Americanism. Cultural demarcation between Europe and US nationalism in the early 20th century , Stuttgart 2013.
Network Economy in the Early 19th Century. The example of the Schoeller Houses , Stuttgart 2009.
The Challenge of Modernity. German Social and Cultural Studies, 1890–1960 , Ann Arbor 2002.
House life. On the history of urban workers' housing from the Empire to the present day, Bonn 1995 , 2nd edition Bonn 1997.
New living. Housing policy and living culture in Hanover in the twenties , in the series Hannoversche Studien , Volume 1, published on behalf of the state capital Hanover, Hanover: Hahn, 1993, ISBN 3-7752-4951-6
On the way to workers reformism. Everyday party life in social democratic provinces, Göttingen 1870 to 1920 , Göttingen 1870–1920, Frankfurt a. M. 1984.
Middle class in the Third Reich. Craftsmen, retailers and farmers , Frankfurt a. M./New York 1979, 2nd edition 1985.
From resident to citizen. For the emancipation of the urban lower class of Göttingen 1890–1920. A social and communal historical study , Göttingen 1890–1920, Berlin 1973.
Hermann Dietrich. A statesman of the Weimar Republic , Boppard aR 1966.

Anthologies

Contemporary historical research : Fordismus issue (as ed. Together with Rüdiger Hachtmann / Jan-Holger Kirsch) , 6 (2009), no. 2.
City and communication in times of upheaval in the Federal Republic of Germany , Stuttgart 2006.
Staged pride. City representations in three German societies (1935–1975) , Stuttgart 2005.
Staged unity. Representations of power in GDR cities , Stuttgart 2003.
Radio times. Dominion , Everyday Society, Potsdam 1999 together with Inge Marßolek).
Listening and being heard, Vol. 1: Radio in National Socialism. Between steering and distraction , Tübingen 1998, (together with Inge Marßolek; employees: Daniela Münkel . Monika Pater, Uta C. Schmidt).
Listening and being heard, Vol. 2: Radio in the GDR in the 1950s. Between steering and distraction , Tübingen 1998 (together with Inge Marßolek; employees: Daniela Münkel. Monika Pater, Uta C. Schmidt.
Americanization. Dream and Nightmare in Germany in the 20th Century , Stuttgart 1996 (together with Alf Lüdtke / Inge Marßolek).
City and modernity. Hanover in the Weimar Republic , Hamburg 1989.
Ulfert Herlyn , Adelheid von Saldern, Wulf Tessin (ed.): New housing estates of the 20s and 60s. A historical-sociological comparison . Frankfurt / New York 1987

literature

Inge Marßolek / Michael Wildt: Introduction , in: Adelheid von Saldern, Politics - City - Culture. Essays on the history of society in the 20th century , Hamburg 1999, pp. 7-14.
Rüdiger Hohls / Konrad H. Jarausch (eds.): Missed questions. German historians in the shadow of National Socialism , Stuttgart / Munich 2000, pp. 342–357.
Geoff Eley: Foreword , in: Adelheid von Saldern (Ed.): The Challenge of Modernity. German Social and Cultural Studies, 1890-1960 , Ann Arbor 2002, pp. IX – XX.
Daniela Münkel / Jutta Schwarzkopf: Introduction , in: Dies. (Ed.): History as an experiment. Studies on politics, culture and everyday life in the 19th and 20th centuries , Frankfurt / M. 2004, pp. 1-14.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Historians' Commission of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Planning under National Socialism. Requirements, institutions, effects
↑ Geoff Eley: Foreword, in: Adelheid von Saldern (ed.): The Challenge of Modernity. German Social and Cultural Studies, 1890–1960. Ann Arbor 2002, pp. IX – XX, here: p. XX.

personal data
SURNAME	Saldern, Adelheid von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schmaedel, Adelheid von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian
DATE OF BIRTH	December 28, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich

[1] Historians' Commission of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Planning under National Socialism. Requirements, institutions, effects

[2] Geoff Eley: Foreword, in: Adelheid von Saldern (ed.): The Challenge of Modernity. German Social and Cultural Studies, 1890–1960. Ann Arbor 2002, pp. IX – XX, here: p. XX.