Bärbel Holtz

Bärbel Holtz (* 1958 ) is a German historian and archivist .

Holtz studied history from 1977 to 1981 at the Humboldt University in Berlin (graduate historian 1981). Then she was a research student at the History Section / Chair for the History of Russia and the USSR ( Günter Rosenfeld ). In 1985, she was with the dissertation The struggle of the CPSU (b) enforce the Leninist general line of socialist construction in the evaluation of social forces in Germany (end 1923 - end 1927) to Dr. phil. PhD. From 1984 to 1993 she was a research assistant or aspirant at the Chair of State History Berlin-Brandenburg ( Ingo Materna ). She also studied postgraduate a. a. Archival Studies at the HU Berlin (specialist archivist 1993).

In 1994 she became a research assistant in the academy project “Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1810 / 17–1934 / 38” of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . In 1998 she became the job manager. Since 2004 she has also been responsible for the academy project “Prussia as a cultural state”. In addition, since 2011 she has been teaching at the Chair of History of Prussia / Alfred Freiherr v. Oppenheim endowed professorship ( Wolfgang Neugebauer ) at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Holtz is a member of the Prussian Historical Commission (member of the executive board), the Working Group on the History of Prussia and the Historical Commission in Berlin . She brought out several editions.

Fonts (selection)

• with Dieter Weigert (Ed.): Frei und einig !. Portraits from the revolution of 1848 [Publication by the Friends of the Alter Berliner Garnisonsfriedhof eV] Haude and Spener, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-7759-0423-9 .
• as revision: The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934. Volume 3: June 9, 1840 to March 14, 1848. Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2000.
• with Hartwin Spenkuch (Ed.): Prussia's way into political modernity. Constitution - administration - political culture between reform and reform blockade (= reports and treatises of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, special volume 7). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-003580-3 . With a contribution by Reinhold Zilch : Economic and socio-political reform approaches in the Prussian State Ministry during the First World War and the Weimar Constitution. On the question of continuity in the ministerial bureaucracy. Pp. 387-396.
• with Wolfgang Neugebauer (Ed.): Do you know Prussia - really ?. The "Prussia-Berlin" center introduces itself . Commissioned by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-05-004655-6 .
• with Wolfgang Neugebauer (ed.): Kulturstaat und Bürgergesellschaft. Prussia, Germany and Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries . Commissioned by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-05-004616-7 .
• (Ed.): Crisis, reforms - and culture. Prussia before and after the catastrophe of 1806 (= research on Brandenburg and Prussian history . Supplement 11). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-13313-0 .
• with Constanze Breuer , Paul Kahl (Ed.): The Musealisierung der Nation. A cultural-political model of the 19th century . De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin a. a. 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-036242-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Bärbel Holtz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Bärbel Holtz  in the German Digital Library
• Bärbel Holtz at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences