Armin Heinen

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Armin Heinen (born November 19, 1952 in Krefeld ) is a German historian of modern and contemporary history. He is u. a. Specialist in Romanian history of the 19th and 20th centuries and the history of the Saarland, 1945–1955. His publications focus on cultural and mentality-historical aspects of social action (physical violence; cultural misunderstandings; changing forms of celebration), comparative European history and the social history of European fascism. More recent publications deal with the history of the study of history.

Life

After studying history, political science and mathematics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , Heinen worked from 1981 to 1984 as a research assistant for the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich in the project of secularization and the sale of national goods in the area on the left bank of the Rhine between 1803 and 1813 in Trier . In 1984 Heinen became a research assistant at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken and in the same year completed his doctorate on the Romanian legion "Archangel Michael" at Trier University . In 1989 Heinen worked as a university assistant at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken, from 1993–1995 he was a research associate in the research project Economy, Society and Politics on the Saar, 1945–1955 . In 1995 he completed his habilitation with a study on the political and economic history of Saarland 1945–1955. 1996–1997 he represented the professorship for modern and contemporary history, regional history and didactics of history in Würzburg .

Heinen has been Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at RWTH Aachen University since 1998 . From 1999 to 2015 he was also head of the additional course in European Studies . From 2008 to 2014, Heinen and Victor Neumann were responsible for an international graduate school for conceptual history in Romania, which was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation .

In autumn 2019, Heinen retired from active service at RWTH.

Memberships / offices

  • 2000–2006: Member of the board of the German-French Committee for Research into German and French History of the 19th and 20th Centuries
  • 2002–2005: Vice Rector of RWTH Aachen University for Teaching and Evaluation
  • 2007: Vice Dean for Research, Philosophical Faculty of RWTH Aachen University
  • 2007: Speaker of the Technology and Society Forum at RWTH Aachen University
  • 2008: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for European Integration Research (ZEI) Bonn

Honors

Works

Monographs

  • The Archangel Michael Legion in Romania. Social movement and political organization. A contribution to the problem of international fascism , Munich 1986. Digitized . (Romanian-language edition: Bucharest 1997).
  • with Uwe Grund: How do I use a library? Basic knowledge - strategies - tools , Munich, 2nd edition 1996 (textbook UTB).
  • Saar years. Politics and Economy in Saarland 1945–1955 , Stuttgart, 1996 ( review ).
  • Romania, the Holocaust and the logic of violence , Munich 2007 ( review ).
  • Ways to the First World War. (Series Approaches to History , Volume 1), Berlin a. Boston, de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2017

Source editions

  • The Netherlands , in: Documents on the History of European Integration , Vol. 3: The struggle for European Union by Political Parties and Pressure Groups in Western European Countries, 1945–1950 , Berlin and New York 1988, pp. 347–440 (Die The introduction is reprinted in German in: Wilfried Loth (Ed.): The beginnings of European integration, 1945–1950 , Bonn 1990).
  • with Rainer Hudemann (ed.) in collaboration with Johannes Großmann and Marcus Hahn: The Saarland between France, Germany and Europe, 1945–1957. A source and work book , Saarbrücken 2007.

Editorial activities (selection)

  • with Rainer Hudemann (Ed.): Saarland University 1948–1988 , Saarbrücken 1989.
  • with Christian Bremen, Rüdiger Stotz (Hrsgg.): The European Union as legal and constitutional area. Future tasks and present. Lectures and discussions at a colloquium at the Universities of Aachen, Liège and Maastricht 3. – 4. April 2000 , Sankt Augustin 2001.
  • with Christian Bremen (Ed.): Studying Europe. Higher education didactic considerations for European studies. Festschrift for Kurt Hammerich , Sankt Augustin 2003.
  • with Jac van den Boogard, Luise Clemens, Johanna Jantsch, Herbert Ruland, Anika Schleinzer (eds.): Grenz-Controle / Grens-Kontroll. Aachen, Eupen, Maastricht - Oral Histories , Remscheid 2008.
  • with Dietmar Hüser (Ed.) in collaboration with Anne Günther: Tour de France. A historical tour. Festschrift for Rainer Hudemann on his 60th birthday , Stuttgart 2008.
  • with Vanessa Mai, Thomas Müller (eds.): Scenarios of the future. Technological visions and social designs in the age of global risks , Berlin 2009.
  • with Victor Neumann: Istoria României prin concepte. Perspective alternative asupra limbajelor social-politice , Iaşi 2010.
  • Historicity, materiality and narrativity. On the connection between technology culture and the history of historiography , in: zeitenblicke - August 12, 2011
  • with Ines Soldwisch (Ed.): The study of history. Lecture history and autobiographical stories, 1945–2017, Kassel 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Balthasar Waitz: Successful collaboration in historical research: Honorary doctorate from the Western University of Timisoara for Prof. Dr. Armin Heinen , Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung für Romania , December 20, 2011, accessed on November 17, 2012.
  2. ↑ Armin Heinen: The Legion "Archangel Michael" in Romania. Social movement and political organization. A contribution to the problem of international fascism , Munich 1986 (Romanian-language edition: Bucharest 1997).
  3. ↑ Armin Heinen: Saar years. Politics and economy in Saarland 1945–1955 , Stuttgart 1996.
  4. ^ VW graduate project "Conceptual History" as a deconstruction of social and political communication in Romania, 19th and 20th centuries. Trying out a German perspective on historiography
  5. ↑ Valeska Bopp-Filimonov: German-Romanian graduate college opened in Temesvar. (PDF; 1.0 MB) In: German-Romanian Hefts , Volume XI, Heft 2 (2008), p. 14.
  6. ↑ List of honorary doctorates from the Dunărea de Jos University Galați (PDF; 56 kB), accessed on November 17, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Heinen, Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld