Bernd Weisbrod

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Bernd Weisbrod (born March 27, 1946 in Heidelberg ) is a German historian and was a professor at the University of Göttingen.

Life

Weisbrod studied history, politics and English in Heidelberg and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1976 from the Ruhr University Bochum . He was then a research assistant in Bochum and a fellow at the German Historical Institute in London . After substituting professorships in Hagen and Bielefeld , he was Professor of Medieval and Modern History at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 1990 until his retirement in 2011 . Dirk Schumann took over his chair . In Göttingen, Weisbrod headed the Lower Saxony Contemporary History Working Group (ZAKN) and between 2005 and 2011 was the spokesman for the DFG Graduate School "Generational History". His academic students include Frank Bösch and Habbo Knoch .

Fonts (selection)

  • Heavy industry in the Weimar Republic. Interest politics between stabilization and crisis. Hammer, Wuppertal 1978, ISBN 3-87294-123-2 (Revised version of the dissertation, Bochum, University, 1976).

Editorships

  • with Christian Jansen and Lutz Niethammer : On giving up freedom. Political Responsibility and Civil Society in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Festschrift for Hans Mommsen on November 5, 1995. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-05-002835-1 .
  • From currency reform to economic miracle. Reconstruction in Lower Saxony (= publications of the historical commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Vol. 38; Sources and studies on the history of Lower Saxony after 1945. Vol. 13). Hahn, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-7752-5829-9 .
  • Academic politics of the past. Contributions to the scientific culture of the post-war period (= publications of the Contemporary History Working Group Lower Saxony. Vol. 20). Wallstein, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-89244-595-8 .
  • The politics of the public - the public of politics. Political medialization in the history of the Federal Republic (= publications of the contemporary history working group Lower Saxony. Vol. 21). Wallstein, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89244-691-1 .
  • with Alf Lüdtke : No Man's Land of Violence. Extreme Wars in the 20th Century (= Göttingen Talks on History. Vol. 24). Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89244-825-6 .
  • Historical contributions to generation research (= Göttingen studies on generation research. Vol. 2). Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0570-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Weisbrod, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg