Bernd Wunder

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Friedrich Bernhard (Bernd) Wunder (born August 30, 1938 in Düsseldorf ) is a German historian , professor of modern history , author and editor .

Life

Miracle was in 1968 with his thesis on the subject of France, Württemberg and the Swabian district during clashes over the reunions (1679-97) at the University of Tübingen Dr. phil. Doctorate and 1974 with his habilitation thesis Privileging and Disciplining. The emergence of the civil service in Bavaria and Württemberg (1780-1825) qualified as a professor at the University of Konstanz .

In 1977 he was appointed professor at the University of Konstanz. Until 2003 he taught modern history in the history department of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Konstanz. His main research interests are the history of Franco-German relations as well as the constitutional and administrative history of the modern era .

He has authored a number of specialist books and was among other things co-editor and co-founder of the yearbook for European administrative history .

Bernd Wunder comes from a well-known family: He is the son of the librarian Gerd Wunder and the brother of the trade unionist Dieter Wunder .

Research priorities

Wunder examines the emergence and change of the professional civil service in the entire public service up to the 1980s. Initially originated in Bavaria, the professional civil service prevailed as a new, artificial state until after the revolution of 1848. This initially very closed class expanded considerably in the Bismarckian Empire, changed in its social composition and developed into a profession. The time after the First World War until 1945 was mainly determined by loyalty problems. After 1945, the concept of civil service was further weakened: the reservation of function fell away, party political activity and patronage of office endangered neutrality, the performance principle was broken by the career principle. Wunder therefore comes to the conclusion that the special status of public service law is no longer justified and advocates “sectorally differentiated service law”.

Publications

  • The imperial city of Hall during the French invasion in 1688 . 1964.
  • Ludwig XIV. And the Constance bishop's election in 1689 . 1966.
  • France, Württemberg and the Swabian District during the disputes over the reunions (1679–97). A contribution to Ludwig XIV's policy on Germany (= publications by the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg , Series B Volume 64), Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1971.
  • Privilege and discipline . (= Studies on Modern History , Volume 21), Oldenbourg, Munich 1978.
  • The recruitment of civil servants in Germany . 1979.
  • Parish widow funds and civil servant widow institutions from 16. – 19. Century: the emergence of state pension for survivors in Germany . 1985.
  • History of the bureaucracy in Germany . suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1986.
  • The Baden civil service in the 48 revolution . 1986.
  • From village schoolmaster to state official. The civil service of the Baden teachers in the 19th century . 1993.
  • The civil service as a pillar of the Grand Duchy of Baden . 1995.
  • The Baden civil service between the Confederation of the Rhine and the founding of the Empire (1806–1871) . 1998.
  • The failure of the Hecker train in 1848. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. 117th vol., 1999, pp. 227-243 ( digitized version ).
  • Public Sector Pension Systems in Western Europe (19th / 20th Centuries) . 2000.
  • "Artificial Cities" and "Artificial Stands" from Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl . 2001.
  • European history in the age of the French Revolution. 1789-1815 . 2001.
  • In the fight against the authoritarian school - the reform pedagogue Ludwig Wunder (1878–1949). A representative of the Landerziehungsheim movement between H. Lietz, G. Kerschensteiner and L. Nelson . 2008.
  • A short history of the Duchy of Württemberg . 2009.
  • A short history of the wars and fortresses on the Upper Rhine . 2011.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erk Volkmar Heyen (Ed.) With changing co-editors, 20 volumes, Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 1989–2008, ISSN  0937-7107 : in addition yearbook for European administrative history .
  2. ↑ Hans Fenske : The history of the bureaucracy. Has the civil service outlived itself? In: Die Zeit of May 15, 1987.
personal data
SURNAME Wonder, Bernd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wunder, Friedrich Bernhard (full name); Wonder, Friedrich Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor for modern history
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf