Bernd-Jürgen Wendt

Bernd-Jürgen Wendt (born October 6, 1934 in Hamburg ) is a German historian . His main research interests include German and English history of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Life

Wendt was a student at the Johanneum in Hamburg . In 1954 he passed the Abitur and then studied history , Latin , philosophy and education . In the early 1960s, Wendt received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg with a research project on ancient history . In his dissertation he dealt with Roman foreign policy in the 1st century AD. In the following period was Wendt assistant of Fritz Fischer . 1969 qualified as a professorhe wrote a paper on modern history at Hamburg University . This thematized the domestic and economic foundations of the British appeasement policy in the 1930s. In 1971, Wendt became senior scientific advisor at the history department of the University of Hamburg . In the same year he was appointed professor. A year later, Wendt was offered a full professorship at the Kassel University . During his work there, he continued to teach at the University of Hamburg. In the second half of the 1970s, Wendt succeeded Fritz Fischer in Hamburg. As assistants were Christiane Eisenberg and Frank Otto Wendt Chair assigned for modern history. After his retirement , Wendt remained connected to the history seminar at Hamburg University through events. Angelika Schaser succeeded him in 2001 .

Memberships

Wendt was a member of the German England Research Working Group (ADEF).

Fonts

• Appeasement 1938. Economic recession and Central Europe. Europ. Publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1966.
• Economic appeasement. Trade and Finance in British Policy on Germany 1933–1939. Bertelsmann, Düsseldorf 1971.
• Greater Germany. Foreign policy and war preparation of the Hitler regime. dtv, Munich 1987.
• British unions today. Structures and strategies. Schäuble, Rheinfelden / Berlin 1991.
• Contributions to 19th and 20th century English history. Schäuble, Rheinfelden / Berlin 1994.
• Germany 1933–1945. The Third Empire". History manual. Torch bearer, Hanover 1995.
• National Socialist Germany. Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2000.

Web links

• Literature by Bernd-Jürgen Wendt in the catalog of the German National Library
• WorldCat Identities: Bernd Jürgen Wendt , accessed February 23, 2017.
• Bernd-Jürgen Wendt in the Hamburg professor catalog (accessed on June 18, 2017) 
• Eckart Krause: People who made "history" , accessed on February 23, 2017.
• Clemens A. Wurm: Bernd Jürgen Wendt, Economic Appeasement. Trade and Finance in British Policy on Germany 1933–1939 , accessed on February 23, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview with Bernd Jürgen Wendt on Otto von Bismarck's 200th birthday . In: Das Johanneum , No. 2, September 2015, pp. 14–16 , accessed on February 23, 2017.
2. ↑ On the difficult growing together of Germans , accessed on February 23, 2017.