Alexander Gallus (historian)

Alexander Gallus (* 1972 in Berlin ) is a German historian and political scientist . He is particularly interested in the history of the times and ideas of the 20th century.

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Between 1991 and 1994, Gallus studied history, political science and economics at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Oxford , where he completed a master’s degree. Then he was 1995-1998 Scholarship holder of studienstiftung and was 1999 Eckhard Jesse at the Technical University of Chemnitz for "Dr. phil. " doctorate .

Gallus has worked as a research assistant or assistant at the Institute for Political Science at the TU Chemnitz since 1998 , before he accepted a call from the University of Rostock for a junior professorship for contemporary history and the history of political thought in 2006 . At the same time , Gallus completed his habilitation in 2011 at the TU Chemnitz and received the double Venia Legendi for political science as well as modern and contemporary history . Since the summer semester 2012 he was on leave of absence from the University of Rostock and represented the professorship for political theory and the history of ideas at the TU Chemnitz. Since the winter semester 2013 he has held the chair for political theory and the history of ideas at the TU Chemnitz.

Alexander Gallus advocates a rapprochement between historical and political science. He is one of the representatives of a (time) historically informed and contextualized "Intellectual History". His main research interests include a .: Intellectuals and politics, political thinking in the 20th century, models of a “ third way ”, public and public opinion , the history of ideas in the Federal Republic, interrelationships between the knowledge society and the age of ideology as well as revolutions in theory and history.

Since 2009 he has been co-editor of the yearbook Extremism & Democracy , and since 2014 of the series "Revolutions in Past and Present" (together with Andreas Fahrmeir and Klaus Schlichte ), also published by Nomos-Verlag . He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Center Weimar Republic at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Buddenbrookhaus in Lübeck. He is also a member of the selection committee of the German-American Fulbright Commission . He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Weimar Republic Association for the House of the Weimar Republic . Since 2019 he has been a member of the board of trustees of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Memorial Foundation .

In 2016 he published the files of the German National Academic Foundation of the former scholarship holders Ulrike Meinhof , Horst Mahler and Gudrun Ensslin , which had been kept under lock and key . DIE ZEIT counted this edition among the most important publications of the autumn of 2016.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Public opinion and polling . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1998, ISBN 3-8100-2063-X .
• The neutralists. Advocate of a united Germany between East and West (1945–1990) . 2nd Edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 2006, ISBN 978-3-7700-5273-8 .
• Home world stage . An intellectual story in the 20th century . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1117-6 .

Editorships

• with Eckhard Jesse : Forms of government. Models of political order from antiquity to the present. A manual . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-412-07604-X . (2nd edition 2007, also published by the Federal Agency for Civic Education )
• German turning points. System change since 1806 . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-412-30305-4 .
• with Eckhard Jesse: Democracy in Germany: Diagnoses and Analyzes . Edited with Uwe Backes , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20157-9 .
• with Werner Müller : Sonde 1957. A year as a symbolic turning point for processes of change in divided Germany (= series of publications by the Society for German Research . Vol. 98). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-13449-6 .
• The forgotten revolution of 1918/19 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-36386-7 (also published by the Federal Agency for Civic Education ).
• with Peter Burschel , Markus Völkel : Intellectuals in Exile . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0781-0 .
• with Axel Schildt : Looking back into the future. Political public and intellectual positions in Germany around 1950 and around 1930 (= Hamburg contributions to social and contemporary history . Vol. 48). Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0871-8 .
• Helmut Schelsky - the political anti-sociologist. A new reception . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1297-5 .
• with Thomas Schubert , Tom Thieme : German controversies. Festschrift for Eckhard Jesse . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-8487-0114-8 .
• with Axel Schildt , Detlef Siegfried : Deutsche Zeitgeschichte - transnational (= Hamburg contributions to social and contemporary history . Vol. 53). Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1708-6 .
• Political science passages. German forays to explore a subject . Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2016, ISBN 978-3-8487-1898-6 .
• Meinhof, Mahler, Ensslin. The files of the German National Academic Foundation . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-525-30039-8 (paperback special edition, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-525-30126-5 ).
• with Sebastian Liebold , Frank Schal : Measurements of an Intellectual History of the Early Federal Republic, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-8353-3472-4 .

Web links

• Literature by Alexander Gallus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Alexander Gallus  in the German Digital Library
• Search for "Alexander Gallus" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Entry on Alexander Gallus in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
• Alexander Gallus at the TU Chemnitz

Individual evidence

1. ^ House of the Weimar Republic • House of the Weimar Republic. Weimarer Republik eV, accessed on July 29, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Recommended reading: The most important books of autumn . In: The time . October 18, 2016, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed November 15, 2017]).