Anne Christine Nagel

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Anne C. Nagel at the award ceremony of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Prize , 2018

Anne Christine Nagel (born January 15, 1962 in Hilfarth ) is a German historian . The historian, who researches and teaches at the University of Gießen , has emerged in the professional world primarily with studies on the history of universities and science in the 19th and 20th centuries. One focus of the work is the role of medieval research during National Socialism and in the post-war period.

Life

Anne Christine Nagel grew up in Mönchengladbach and, after graduating from high school, studied Medieval and Modern History, Russian and Ancient History at the Philipps University of Marburg from 1981 to 1989 until she passed her master's degree. She then worked at the Research Center for University and Scientific History at the University of Marburg until 1992 and was a scholarship holder of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation until 1995 . Nagel's doctorate took place in Marburg in the winter semester of 1994/95 with the thesis on the liberal theologian and brother-in-law of Friedrich Naumann , Martin Rade , supervised by Hellmut Seier and Peter Krüger . In 1995, she received the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Prize for research into the history and politics of liberalism for her dissertation .

From 1995 to 1997, Nagel worked as a research assistant at the Research Center for University and Scientific History at the University of Marburg and from 1997 to 2002 at the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) “Cultures of Remembrance” at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . In 2003 she completed her habilitation in Gießen and was a research assistant at the historical institute there from 2004 to 2009. In 2010 she was appointed adjunct professor. From 2011 to 2015 she was a research assistant at the contemporary history chair of the Historical Institute of the University of Gießen in the DFG project Johannes Popitz (1884–1945), Prussian finance minister and representative of the conservative resistance against Hitler . Nagel represented the Chair of Contemporary History at the University of Giessen from 2016 to 2018. Since 2018 she has been employed at the Dimitris Tsatsos Institute for European Constitutional Studies at the Distance University in Hagen .

Nagel has been a co-opted scientific member of the Historical Commission for Hesse since 2013 and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Memorial Foundation for the award of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Prize since 2016 .

Research priorities

Nagel's research interests are the history of liberalism and Protestantism , the history of universities and science in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the history of the conservative resistance to National Socialism . In 2000 , with the collaboration of Ulrich Sieg, she published a volume with documents on the University of Marburg during the National Socialist era . In its 70-page introduction, it gives an overview of the Marburg conditions in Nazi university and science policy.

With her habilitation thesis in 2005, Nagel presented a first study of German medieval studies in the first decades after 1945. The work was inspired and supervised by Peter Moraw . For her study, Nagel primarily evaluated the bequests of Hermann Aubin , Herbert Grundmann , Theodor Mayer and Walter Schlesinger . In her analysis, she takes into account 27 university professors and scholars who were in office before 1945. The initial question of the work is "in what form West German research on the Middle Ages has developed since 1945 in continuity with the preceding". Her most important thesis is: "The new beginning after the catastrophe of the Third Reich consisted largely of restoring continuity and not of consciously turning away from an attitude that had largely succumbed to the seductions of National Socialism". Nagel observed a high degree of personal continuity in university research on the Middle Ages before and after 1945 (p. 300). In numerous researches in medieval studies in the 1950s, she emphasized the tendency towards continuity with the time before 1945, such as B. Gerd Tellenbach's personal research (p. 151) or the conference practice of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History (p. 176–177). For Nagel the years between 1945 and 1955 were “a decade of reprints” for medievalist publications (pp. 51–52).

Nagel presented numerous other studies on institutions and people in West German post-war media studies. She dealt with Herbert Grundmann, Gerd Tellenbach, Theodor Mayer and the Constance working group for medieval history.

In 2012, Nagel published an institutional story about "Hitler's Educational Reformer". In doing so, Nagel attempted to subject the Reich Ministry of Science, Education and National Education to a revision: "With the previously dominant interpretation pattern that it was a weak department with a concept without a concept," their findings could not be reconciled. Its minister, Bernhard Rust , saw her as an assertive politician. Nagel also researched the modern historian Wilhelm Mommsen .

In 2015, Nagel presented a biography of the Prussian Finance Minister Johannes Popitz . In their opinion, Popitz's "unrestrained commitment" as finance minister was "a perfect camouflage for years for the busy minister who was active in the resistance".

Most recently, Nagel wrote a biography of the Hessian Minister of Education and Federal Constitutional Justice Erwin Stein .

Fonts

Monographs

  • Martin Rade - theologian and politician of social liberalism. A political biography (= Religious Cultures of Modern Age. Vol. 4). Chr. Kaiser / Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 1996, ISBN 978-3-579-02603-9 (also: Marburg, University, dissertation, 1995).
  • In the shadow of the Third Reich. Medieval research in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945-1970 (= forms of memory. Vol. 24). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-525-35583-1 (at the same time: Gießen, University, habilitation paper, 2003).
  • Hitler's educational reformer. The Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education 1934–1945. Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-596-19425-4 .
  • Johannes Popitz (1884-1945). Goering's finance minister and conspirator against Hitler. A biography. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22456-1 .
  • One person and two lives: Erwin Stein (1903–1992). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2018, ISBN 978-3-412-50370-3 .

Editorships

  • together with Peter Krüger : Mechterstädt - 25.3.1920. Scandal and crisis in the early phase of the Weimar Republic (= studies on the history of the Weimar Republic. Vol. 3). Lit, Münster 1997, ISBN 978-3-8258-3061-8 .
  • together with Ulrich Sieg (edit.): The Philipps University of Marburg under National Socialism. Documents on their history (= Pallas Athene. Vol. 1; = Academia Marburgensis. Vol. 7). Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 978-3-515-07653-1 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Homepage of the Chair of Contemporary History at the University of Giessen .
  2. ^ Homepage of the Dimitris Tsatsos Institute .
  3. ↑ Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Preis of the WEK-Gedächtnisstiftung , Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Preis on the side of the archive of liberalism .
  4. ↑ Peter Herde : Medieval Research in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945-1970. In: Maria Stuiber, Michele Spadaccini (ed.): Building blocks for German and Italian history. Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Horst Enzensberger. Bamberg 2014, pp. 175-218 ( online ). Reviews published by Bernd Schneidmüller in: Archiv für Sozialgeschichte online 47 (2007) ( online ); Julian Führer in: H-Soz-Kult , December 6, 2005. ( online ); Rudolf Schieffer in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 62 (2006); Pp. 660-661 ( digitized version ); Edgar Liebmann in: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 94 (2007), pp. 339–340; Hedwig Röckelein in: Westfälische Forschungen 57 (2007), pp. 738–742; Thomas Vogtherr in: Das Mittelalter 10/2 (2005), pp. 177–178; Thomas Kleinknecht in: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 90 (2008), pp. 244–248; Michael Borgolte in: Historische Zeitschrift 283/1 (2006), pp. 261–264; Hans-Christof Kraus in: Das Historisch-Politische Buch 54 (2006), p. 341; Stephanie Irrgang in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 54 (2006), pp. 1009-1010; critical review: Rudolf Schieffer: In the shadow of the Third Reich. A first book on German medieval studies after the Second World War. In: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 71 (2007), pp. 283–291 ( online ).
  5. ^ Anne Christine Nagel: In the shadow of the Third Reich. Medieval research in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1970. Göttingen 2005, p. 300.
  6. ^ Anne Christine Nagel: In the shadow of the Third Reich. Medieval research in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1970. Göttingen 2005, p. 18.
  7. ↑ Anne Christine Nagel: "With the heart, the will and the mind": Herbert Grundmann and National Socialism. In: Hartmut Lehmann , Otto Gerhard Oexle (ed.): National Socialism in the Cultural Studies, Vol. 1: Subjects, Milieus, Careers. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, pp. 593–618.
  8. ^ Anne Christine Nagel: Gerd Tellenbach. Science and Politics in the 20th Century. In: Ulrich Pfeil (Ed.): The German Historical Institute Paris and its founding fathers. A personal history approach. Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, pp. 79-99 ( digitized version ).
  9. ^ Anne Nagel: Between leadership and self-administration. Theodor Mayer as rector of the University of Marburg 1939–1942. In: Winfried Speitkamp (Ed.): State, Society, Science. Contributions to modern Hessian history. Elwert, Marburg 1994, pp. 343-364.
  10. ^ Anne Christine Nagel: "Summit of Medievalists". The Constance Working Group for Medieval History. In: Ulrich Pfeil (Hrsg.): The return of German history to the “ecumenism of historians.” An approach to the history of science. Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, pp. 73-89 ( digitized version ).
  11. ↑ Reviews of Gerhard Kluchert in: H-Soz-Kult , May 21, 2013, ( online ); Bernward Dörner in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 61 (2013), pp. 775–777.
  12. ^ Anne Christine Nagel: Hitler's educational reformer. The Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education 1934–1945. Frankfurt am Main 2012, p. 17 ff.
  13. ↑ Anne Christine Nagel: “The prototype of the people to be removed is Mommsen”. Provincial denazification or the ambiguity of moral certainty. In: Yearbook on Liberalism Research . 10: 55-91 (1998); Anne Christine Nagel: On the difficulty of being liberal in times of crisis. The Wilhelm Mommsen case. In: Ewald Grothe , Ulrich Sieg (Ed.): Liberalism as enemy image. Wallstein, Göttingen 2014, pp. 229–251.
  14. ^ Discussions by Rainer Blasius : The only active minister in the resistance. Anne C. Nagel does not solve the riddle about finance expert Johannes Popitz. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 58, March 10, 2015, p. 7; Reinhard Mehring in: H-Soz-Kult , March 26, 2015, ( online ). Wolfgang Benz in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 63 (2015), pp. 905–907; Jan Schleusener in: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 103 (2016), pp. 329–330.
  15. ^ Anne Christine Nagel: Johannes Popitz (1884–1945). Goering's finance minister and conspirator against Hitler. A biography. Cologne et al. 2015, p. 167.
  16. ^ Anne Christine Nagel: One man and two lives: Erwin Stein (1903-1992). Cologne et al. 2018; In 2016 she organized an exhibition about Erwin Stein in the University Library of Giessen .
personal data
SURNAME Nagel, Anne Christine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nagel, Anne Chr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Hilfarth