Birthe Kundrus

Birthe Kundrus (born June 20, 1963 in Hamburg ) is a German historian .

Birthe Kundrus attended the Sachsenwald School in Reinbek from 1973 to 1982 . From 1983 to 1989 she then studied Medieval and Modern History, Political Science and Social and Economic History at the University of Hamburg . In 1993 she completed her doctorate at Bielefeld University with the dissertation supervised by Klaus Saul and Gisela Bock Warrior Women - Social Policy and Gender Relations in the First and Second World Wars in Germany . From 1994 to 1998 Kundrus was a research assistant at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg . In 2002, she completed her habilitation with Saul at the University of Oldenburg, studying Modern Imperialists. The empire in the mirror of its colonies . Kundrus was a research assistant at the University of Oldenburg from 1994 to February 2003. From 2003 to 2009 she was a research assistant at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research . Since January 1, 2010 Kundrus has been teaching as professor for social and economic history / social history at the University of Hamburg .

Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries, the gender history , the theory and history of violence Colonial / Postcolonial Studies and the cultures of memory . Kundrus is a member of the Association of Historians in Germany , a member of the scientific advisory board of the Historische Zeitschrift (since 2011), the advisory board of the Research Center for Contemporary History (since 2013), and a member of the specialist commission of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial (since 2016). She is co-editor of the series Contributions to the History of National Socialism and the journal Historical Anthropology .

Fonts

Monographs

• "This war is the great race war". War and Holocaust in Europe. Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-67521-8 .
• Modern imperialists. The empire in the mirror of its colonies. Böhlau Cologne et al. 2003, ISBN 3-412-18702-X (also: Oldenburg, University, habilitation paper, 2002).
• Warrior women. Family politics and gender relations in the First and Second World War (= Hamburg contributions to social and contemporary history. Volume 32). Christians, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-7672-1246-3 (partly at the same time: Bielefeld, University, dissertation, 1993).

Editorships

• with Sybille Steinbacher : Continuities and discontinuities. National Socialism in the History of the 20th Century (= Contributions to the History of National Socialism . Volume 29). Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-383-53130-2-6 .
• with Dierk Walter: Arms - Knowledge - Change. Adaptation and learning in transcultural initial conflicts. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 3-86854-241-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Birthe Kundrus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Site of Kundrus at the University of Hamburg

Remarks

1. ↑ See the review by Horst founder in: Historische Zeitschrift 278 (2004), pp. 501–502.