Alfons Kenkmann
Alfons Kenkmann (born March 13, 1957 in Waltrop ) is a German historian .
Life
Alfons Kenkmann studied history and German at the Universities of Bochum and Münster . In 1994 he was at the University of Siegen with his thesis "Wild Youth. Living environment of urban youth between the global economic crisis and currency reform ”.
From 1993 to 1994 Kenkmann was a research associate in the Workshop of Remembrance project at the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg . From 1995 to 1998 he taught as a history teacher at the Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium in Münster and since 1998 has also been a lecturer at the Universities of Dortmund and Münster. From 1994 to 1998, he worked as a university assistant at the Institute for History Didactics at the History Seminar of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, before becoming Scientific Director and Managing Director of the historical town of Villa ten Hompel in Münster in 1998 .
In 2003 he was appointed professor for history didactics at the University of Leipzig and has been active in various university committees since then. Alfons Kenkmann was one of the founding directors of the Center for Teacher Training and School Research (ZLS) at the University of Leipzig and headed the institute as managing director.
His main research interests are history didactics, oral history , the history of youth, methodology, and police and administrative history.
Alfons Kenkmann has conceived several international conferences and directed various contemporary history exhibition projects. He is a member of numerous boards of trustees of German museums and memorials. Among other things, he is chairman of the working group of Nazi memorials and places of remembrance in North Rhine-Westphalia and scientific advisory board of the archive of the German youth movement , the Berlin Wall Foundation and the Federal Foundation for the coming to terms with the SED dictatorship .
In 2010 he received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his commitment to historical and political education .
Web links
- Literature by and about Alfons Kenkmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Alfons Kenkmann at the University of Leipzig
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kenkmann, Alfons |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Waltrop |