Burkhard Dietz

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Burkhard Dietz (* 1954 in Schwelm ) is a German historian , publicist and cultural manager .

Life

Burkhard Dietz grew up in the Rhineland and in Guatemala and studied history , German and pedagogy in Aachen and Bochum from 1976 to 1982 . After the first state examination, he became a research assistant with Hans Mommsen in 1983 and with Wolfgang Köllmann at the Ruhr University in Bochum in 1984 . This was followed from 1987–1989 as a publishing editor and 1989–1994 as an archivist at the Ruhr University in Bochum. In 1992 he received his doctorate under Jürgen Reulecke and Harald Witthöft at the University-Polytechnic wins Dr. phil. with an intellectual biography of the early modern mathematician Erich Philipp Ploennies (1672–1751) and his work in the early Enlightenment . In 1995 he became managing director of the Institute for European Regional Research (IFER) at the University of Siegen, in 1996 science editor and congress manager of the management of the German Medical Association in Cologne and in 2004 research assistant at the history seminar of Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . He has been a freelance author and editor since 2008, and in 2013 he founded Med & Art-Media Filmproduktion with the German filmmaker Christoph Böll . Since 2017 he has been heading the culture and congress management at Tunzenberg Castle in Bavaria.

Burkhard Dietz's research and publication focus is on the history of science and ideas, the history of technology and culture, and economic and social history. Until about the mid-1990s, the early modern era and the industrialization period were in the foreground of his journalistic interest, since then he has increasingly turned to questions of contemporary history, in particular the history of National Socialism and the history of the German Democratic Republic . Recently he has also become involved in journalistic interview creation and biography research .

Burkhard Dietz was awarded the Albert Steeger Prize of the Rhineland Landscape Association in 1996, and has been an honorary member of the main association of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein e. V. , from which he was awarded the Crecelius Medal, and he is a member of the Göttingen Literary Center , the Forum Wissen support group at the University of Göttingen and the Goethe Society in Kassel. He currently lives in the Göttingen district.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Anselm Faust and Bernd-A. Rusinek (edit.): Situation reports of the Rhenish Gestapo offices. Volume I: 1934. Düsseldorf 2012, ISBN 978-3-7700-7638-3 , Volume II / 1: Jan.-Jun. 1935. Düsseldorf 2014, ISBN 978-3-7700-7643-7 , Volume II / 2: Jul.-Dec. 1935. Düsseldorf 2015, ISBN 978-3-7700-7646-8 , Volume III: Jan.-March 1936. Düsseldorf 2016, ISBN 978-3-7700-7647-5
  • Crossing boundaries: my way to the science of history; Memories and experiences. Horst Lademacher in conversation with Burkhard Dietz and Helmut Gabel. Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-8309-2630-6 .
  • with Helmut Gabel and Ulrich Tiedau (eds.): Griff nach dem Westen. The "West Research" of the ethnic-national sciences on the north-western European area (1919–1960). 2 volumes, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8309-1144-0 .
  • with Jost Biermann (ed.): Fritz Helling : My life as a political educator. Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-53310-9 .
  • as publisher: Fritz Helling: Enlightenment and "political educator" in the 20th century. Interdisciplinary contributions to intellectual biography, history of science and education. Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-631-51546-4 .
  • with Stefan Ehrenpreis (Ed.): Three denominations in one region. Contributions to the history of denomination in the Duchy of Berg from the 16th to the 18th century. Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-7927-1759-X .
  • with Jörg Engelbrecht (ed.): Charles Schmidt: Das Großherzogtum Berg, 1806–1813. A study of French supremacy in Germany under Napoleon I (1905). Translated into German by Lothar Kellermann. Neustadt / Aisch 1999, ISBN 3-87707-535-5 .
  • with Michael Fessner and Helmut Maier (eds.): Technical Intelligence and “Culture Factor Technology”. Cultural ideas of technicians and engineers between the German Empire and the former Federal Republic of Germany. Münster 1996, ISBN 3-89325-447-1 .
  • with Ute Lange and Manfred Wahle (eds.): Youth between self and foreign determination. Historical youth research on the industrial area on the right bank of the Rhine in the 19th and 20th centuries. Bochum 1996, ISBN 3-924517-37-1 .
  • Erich Philipp Ploennies (1672–1751), life and work of a mathematical practitioner of the early enlightenment. Neustadt / Aisch 1996, ISBN 3-87707-491-X . (also Diss. phil., Siegen 1992)
  • as editor: Erich Philipp Ploennies. Topographia Ducatus Montani (1715). 1st part: Country description and views. Part 2: The Cards. Neustadt / Aisch 1988, ISBN 3-87707-073-6 and ISBN 3-87707-074-4 .
  • with Winfried Schulze and Wolfhard Weber (eds.): University and politics. Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the Ruhr University Bochum. Volume 1, Bochum 1990. ISSN  0557-8981

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burkhard Dietz homepage accessed on June 16, 2017.
  2. ↑ Burkhard Dietz. In: Who is who? The German who's who. 52nd edition. Essen 2015, p. 178.

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personal data
SURNAME Dietz, Burkhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwelm