August Hermann Leugers-Scherzberg

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August Hermann Leugers-Scherzberg , b. Leugers (born April 15, 1958 in Freren , Emsland ) is a German historian .

Life

Leugers-Scherzberg has been publishing the theologie.geschichte magazine with Lucia Scherzberg since 2005 . Since the winter semester 2010/11 he has been acting as a substitute for the history of church and theology at Saarland University .

Scientific career

Leugers-Scherzberg studied education, history and Catholic theology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. In 1990 he received his doctorate in Münster with a dissertation on the central politician Felix Porsch . Between 1984 and 1993, Leugers-Scherzberg initially worked as a research assistant at the Department of Middle and Modern Church History at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Münster and later as a research assistant in history at the University of Essen . From 1993 to 1996 he was a fellow of the German Research Foundation . He completed his habilitation in 2001 with The Changes of Herbert Wehner. From the Popular Front to the Grand Coalition in Modern History at the University of Essen. Leugers-Scherzberg was the first scientist to have unrestricted access to the estate of the SPD politician Herbert Wehner .

Research priorities

Leugers-Scherzberg's scientific focal points include political Catholicism , Herbert Wehner and the history of the SPD after 1945 as well as the history of churches and orders in the 20th century. In the DFG project Catholic Mission Schools in Germany 1887-1941 , he worked in particular on the development of possible uses of databases in research on church and educational history.

Fonts

Book publications

  • Felix Porsch 1853-1930. Politics for Catholic Interests in the Empire and Republic. Mainz 1990, ISBN 3-7867-1491-6 .
  • as editor: Herbert Wehner: Self-reflection and self-criticism. Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-462-02340-3 .
  • as editor, with Wilfried Loth : The center faction in the constituent Prussian state assembly 1919–1921: meeting minutes. Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5179-3 .
  • The changes of Herbert Wehner. From the Popular Front to the Grand Coalition. Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-549-07155-8 .
  • with Holger Gast and Antonia Leugers : Optimizing historical research through databases. The exemplary database “Mission Schools 1887–1940”. Bad Heilbrunn 2010, ISBN 978-3-7815-1720-2 .
  • with Holger Gast and Antonia Leugers : Catholic Mission Schools in Germany 1887–1940. Bad Heilbrunn 2013, ISBN 978-3-7815-1939-8 .

Editorships

Essays

  • Attitudes to war and peace in German Catholicism before 1914 , in: Jost Dülffer / Karl Holl (ed.), Ready for war. War mentality in Wilhelmine Germany 1890–1914, Göttingen 1986, pp. 56–73.
  • Latent culture war mood in the Wilhelmine Empire. Confessional polemics as a denominational and domestic political weapon , in: Johannes Horstmann (Ed.), The entanglement of domestic, confessional and colonial politics in the German Reich before 1914, Schwerte 1987, pp. 13–37.
  • The election of Adolf Bertram as Prince-Bishop of Breslau in 1914. A step towards the depoliticization of the episcopal office in Prussia , in: Archive for Silesian Church History 47/48 (1990), pp. 117–129.
  • The modernization of Catholicism in the Empire. Considerations using the example of Felix Porsch , in: Wilfried Loth (Hrsg.), German Catholicism in transition to modernity, Stuttgart a. a. 1991, pp. 219-235.
  • German Catholicism and its end , in: Johannes Horstmann (Ed.), End of Catholicism or Shape Change of the Church ?, Schwerte 1993, pp. 9–35.
  • Wehner's files , in: Die Zeit No. 8 of February 18, 1994.
  • Panel contribution on the subject of "Carrier and disciplinarian. Herbert Wehner's role in party and parliament", Bonn, September 23, 1996, printed in: Dieter Dowe (Ed.), Herbert Wehner (1906–1990) and the German Social Democracy, Bonn-Bad- Godesberg 1996, pp. 37-40.
  • Herbert Wehner (1906-1990) , in: Deutsche Politiker 1949-1969, ed. by Torsten Oppelland, Vol. 2, Darmstadt 1999, pp. 41-51.
  • Herbert Wehner and the resignation of Willy Brandt on May 7, 1974 , in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 50 (2002), pp. 303–322.
  • Herbert Wehner , in: Biographical Manual of the Members of the German Bundestag 1949–2001, ed. v. Rudolf Vierhaus and Ludolf Herbst, Munich 2002, pp. 927f.
  • From the Stalin Notes to the Germany Plan: German Social Democracy and Neutralism in the 1950s , in: Dominik Geppert / Udo Wengst (eds.), Neutrality - Chance or Chimera? Third Way Concepts for Germany and the World 1945-1990, Munich 2005, pp. 45–58.
  • Reluctant historians. The reappraisal of the past in German history since the 1990s , in: Lucia Scherzberg (ed.), Theology and coming to terms with the past. A critical inventory in an interdisciplinary comparison, Paderborn u. a. 2005, pp. 89-102.
  • Adenauer's secret statements in the Claridge Hotel in London or the latent anti-Semitism of the Federal German founding chancellor , in: theologie.geschichte 1 (2006), pp. 343–349.
  • "Vocation experiences" in the Catholic milieu of the interwar period. The curriculum vitae of St. Wendel missionary students from 1930 to 1938 , in: Gisela Fleckenstein / Michael Klöcker / Norbert Schloßmacher (eds.), Church history. Old and new ways. Festschrift for Christoph Weber, Vol. 2, Frankfurt a. M. 2008, pp. 763-773.
  • Describe the social whole. Mutualization concepts in German historical studies from folk history to social history , in: Lucia Scherzberg (ed.), Community concepts in the 20th century between science and ideology, Saarbrücken 2010 ( theologie.geschichte , supplement 1), pp. 195-217.
  • Herbert Wehner's examination of National Socialism and Stalinism in the years 1942/3 to 1947 , in: Lucia Scherzberg (Ed.), “Double Coping with the Past” and the Singularity of the Holocaust, Saarbrücken 2012 ( theologie.geschichte , Supplement 5), p. 319– 331.
  • Catholic Church, forced laborers and the discovery of the "cooperative antagonism" in the "National Socialist war society" , in: theologie.geschichte 3 (2008). (published: March 2013) ( online ).
  • Herbert Wehner, the Monnet Committee and the European political turnaround of the SPD 1956/57 , in: Michaela Bachem-Rehm, Claudia Hiepel, Henning Türk (ed.), Overcoming divisions. European and International History in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Festschrift for Wilfried Loth, Munich 2014, pp. 491–505.
  • with Lucia Scherzberg , The outbreak of the First World War and Catholic theology in Germany , in: Concilium 50 (2014) 328–332.

Translations

  • with Lucia Scherzberg from the American: Richard Wolin, Heidegger and Jünger: "The dangerous moment" , in: August H Leugers-Scherzberg / Lucia Scherzberg (ed.), Gender aspects in the coming to terms with the past, Saarbrücken 2014, pp. 55–82 .

Reviews

  • Ruppert, Karsten: In the service of the state of Weimar. The center as the ruling party in the Weimar democracy 1923–1930, Düsseldorf 1992, in: Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 34 (1994), p. 666
  • Scholz, Michael F .: Wehner in Sweden 1941-1946, Munich 1995, in: Die Neue Gesellschaft - Frankfurter Hefte 43 (1996), p. 91f.
  • Alberigo, Giuseppe (Ed.): History of the Second Vatican Council (1959–1965), Vol. 1–3, Mainz / Leuven 1997–2002, in: Concilium 41 (2005), pp. 466–469.
  • Wenzel, Knut: Brief History of the Second Vatican Council, Freiburg-Basel-Wien 2005, in: theologie.geschichte 1 (2006), pp. 357–359.
  • Dellwing, Michael: Globalization and Religious Rhetoric. Aspects of the history of salvation in the globalization debate, Frankfurt-New York 2008, in theologie.geschichte 4 (2009) ( online ).
  • Rößner, Susan: Writing the history of Europe. European historians and their image of Europe in the 20th century, Frankfurt / New York 2009, in: theologie.geschichte 7 (2012) ( online ).
  • Faber, Richard / Puschner, Uwe (eds.): Prussian Catholics and Catholic Prussians in the 20th Century, Würzburg 2011, in: theologie.geschichte 8 (2013) ( online ).
  • Winfried Eberhard / Christian Lübke (ed.): The diversity of Europe. Identities and Spaces, Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2009, in: theologie.geschichte 8 (2013) ( online ).
  • Knigge, Volkhard (Ed.): Research on Communism and Cultures of Remembrance in Eastern Central and Western Europe, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2013, in theologie.geschichte 9 (2014) ( online ).
  • Müller, Markus: The German Institute for Scientific Pedagogy 1922–1980. From Catholic Pedagogy to Catholic Pedagogy. Paderborn 2014, in: H-Soz-Kult , April 25, 2014 ( online ).
  • Zedler, Jörg (Ed.): "What holds the world together at its core". Social-state cohesion forces in the 19th and 20th centuries. Munich 2014, in: H-Soz-Kult , October 31, 2014 ( online ).
  • Zinser, Hartmut: Religion und Krieg, Paderborn 2015, in: theologie.geschichte 10 (2015) ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 24th edition (2012). Vol. 2, p. 2332.
  2. ↑ See the magazine history of the magazine theologie.geschichte .
  3. ↑ See the scientific career on the website of the Historical Institute of the University of Duisburg-Essen.
  4. ↑ See the article Die Wehner's files. In: The time . No. 8 of February 18, 1994.
  5. ↑ See the research focus on the website of the Historical Institute of the University of Duisburg-Essen.
  6. ↑ See the project results on the project page of the DFG project Catholic Mission Schools in Germany (1887-1941) .
personal data
SURNAME Leugers-Scherzberg, August Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leugers, August Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German modern historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Freren , Emsland