André Steiner (historian)

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André Steiner (* 1959 in Berlin ) is a German historian .

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André Steiner studied economic history at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1981 to 1986 . He then worked there as a research assistant until 1989 and received his doctorate in 1987 with a thesis on the history of automation in the GDR . From 1989 to 1992 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Economic History of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin and its successor institution. From 1993 to 1999 he worked as a research assistant at the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Mannheim . In 1997 he received his habilitation from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Mannheim and was awarded the Venia Legendi in economic and social history. Steiner taught from 1998 to 1999 as a substitute professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum . Since 2000 he has been project manager at the Center for Contemporary History Research Potsdam (ZZF). In 2001 he completed his habilitation at the University of Potsdam and was appointed adjunct professor there in 2005. From 2006 to 2013 he headed the Department of Economic and Social Changes in the 20th Century at the ZZF .

André Steiner researched and published extensively on the economic history of the GDR. In addition, he dealt with the economy during National Socialism and economic integration in Western and Eastern Europe after the Second World War. His current research interests include: the economic history of globalization and the economic and social history of post-war Germany and Eastern Europe. On television, for example, he gave lectures on these topics for Bavarian television , Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk and n-tv .

Fonts

  • From plan to plan. An economic history of the GDR. Updated and revised new edition, structure, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-421-05590-3 ; English edition: The Plans that Failed. An Economic History of the GDR . Berghahn Books, New York / Oxford 2010, ISBN 978-1-84545-748-8 .
  • The GDR economic reform of the sixties. Conflict between efficiency and power calculations . Oldenbourg Akademieverlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-05-003317-7 (also: University of Mannheim, habilitation paper, 1997).
  • (Ed.): 'Overtaking without overtaking. The GDR economy as a footnote in German history? ' , Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-86153-397-9 .
  • (Ed.): Price policy and standard of living. National Socialism, GDR and Federal Republic in comparison , Böhlau, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-30405-8 .
  • Statistical overviews of social policy in Germany since 1945. Volume SBZ / GDR (with the collaboration of Matthias Judt and Thomas Reichel). Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs , Bonn 2006. ( Available free of charge as PDF ).
  • with Werner Plumpe and Ray Stokes (eds.): Economic integration processes in Western and Eastern Europe after the Second World War / Economics and Integration in Western and Eastern Europe after the Second World War ( Yearbook for Economic History 2008/2), Akademie Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-05-004454-5 .
  • The planned economy in the GDR. Rise and fall . State Center for Civic Education Thuringia and Federal Foundation for Work-Up, Erfurt 2016, ISBN 978-3-943588-71-2 .
  • with Werner Plumpe (ed.): The myth of the post-industrial world. Economic structural change in Germany 1960 to 1990 . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-1809-0 .
  • (with Louis Pahlow ): The Carl Zeiss Foundation in Reunification and Globalization 1989–2004 . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3084-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anette Kolb: Deutscher Historikertag 2014. West and East Germany after 1970 , br.de, December 7, 2014
  2. ^ Economic situation in the GDR in 1989 - assessed by André Steiner , mdr.de., March 23, 2015
  3. ↑ Historians on trust funds: "In the GDR conditions were better" , n-tv.de, July 15, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Steiner, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin