Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer

Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer, 2019

Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer in the New Town Hall of Hanover , 2014

Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer (born October 21, 1948 in Hanover ) is a German historian specializing in regional history.

Career

Hauptmeyer attended the Bismarckschule high school in Hanover and passed his Abitur there in 1967. He then studied history and geography as well as the accompanying subjects political science, education and philosophy at the Technical University of Hanover , and in December 1972 passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools. After receiving a graduate grant, in November 1973 he became a research assistant at the chair of Joachim Leuschner, historical seminar at the Technical University of Hanover. In February 1975 he received his doctorate and in May 1978 he qualified as a professor at the Hanoverian Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences for the subject of Medieval and Modern History. In 1979 he received a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation and was a professor for late medieval and early modern history at the University of Hamburg in 1980 and 1981 . In 1981 he was appointed to the University of Hanover , where he was responsible for the subject of History of the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age, including regional and local history, until he was released. In the fall of 1993 he was visiting professor at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln (USA). His subject areas in research and teaching are: theory and application of regional history, urban history, history of rural areas, economic and social history of Lower Saxony, history of the late Middle Ages and early modern times and, more recently, regional contemporary history. At an early stage, he held numerous positions in academic self-government, e.g. B. from 1995 to 2002 the University of Hanover at the Philosophical Faculty Day or 1995-1998 was Dean of the Department of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences at the University of Hanover. Since 1990 Hauptmeyer has repeatedly been able to acquire third-party funding for research projects on regional history. For example, from the funding line of the Volkswagen Foundation “Research in Museums” a project on the inner-German border in pictures and films.

Scientific activity

Hauptmeyer began his scientific work with social and constitutional studies on the late medieval and early modern urban history of Upper Germany. The focus was on his dissertation on rule in the former imperial city of Isny in the Allgäu . In the following years he also devoted himself time and again to the history of the city, using the example of Quakenbrück or Goslar , but above all of Hanover . While preparing for his habilitation thesis, he came across extensive records of a peasant revolt at the end of the 18th century in the Bückeburg State Archives . He then published various articles on early modern peasant opposition in northwest Germany and on the role of rural communities. His habilitation thesis was devoted to absolutism and the problem of sovereignty using the example of the Grafschaft Schaumburg and Schaumburg-Lippe . He deepened his studies in Lower Saxony with, among other things, an economic and social history of Lower Saxony in the Middle Ages, the question of how Lower Saxony should be located in the world system, especially in the early modern period, and with monographic overviews of Lower Saxony's history. Based on his studies of geography and his work on agricultural history, Hauptmeyer has been working on the development of rural areas and village renewal since the mid-1970s. Together with Gerhard Henkel from the University of Duisburg-Essen , he founded the lead scrubbing group, which he led with Henkel for thirty years until 2007. He implemented the various suggestions from the conferences with geographers, planners, politicians and administrative experts in various individual studies. So he worked in 1988 a. a. in the village development course at the German Institute for Distance Learning in Tübingen. The practical application of regional historical findings led to various contributions to the theory of small-scale history and applied regional history.

Voluntary work

He implemented his interdisciplinary regional historical work in various voluntary activities. Since 1975 he has been a member of the "Working Group for Genetic Settlement Research in Central Europe" (now ARKUM), and since 1979 a member of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen . From 2003 to 2012 he headed the “Economic and Social History Working Group ” founded by Ernst Hinrichs and Karl Heinrich Kaufhold . At the beginning of the 1980s, he set up the regional research contact point for local researcher training at the Lower Saxony Homeland Association (NHB), which existed until 1991. With brief interruptions, Hauptmeyer headed the history department at the NHB from 1983 to 2012. In 1998, Hauptmeyer founded the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Regional Research, which he headed until 2004. At the University of Hanover he co-founded the interdisciplinary “Regional History Working Group” (1982) and “Village and Rural Areas” (1986). As chairman, he finally united these and other working groups in 2010 to form the “Research Initiative Space and Region”, which carries out application-oriented research and teaching projects, today the TRUST research center at Leibniz University Hannover . In cooperation with the "Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning", he helped found the competence center for spatial research and regional development in the Hanover region in 2000 and headed it from 2007 to 2009. Hauptmeyer has been released from his duties since 2013, but continues to do research and scientific advice in many ways active. For the Friends of the City Archives Hannover he leads z. B. has been conducting regular public eyewitness interviews since 2013, and a. from 2015 to 2019 one of the directors of a project of the Wüstenrot Foundation on "successful regions far from the metropolis in Germany". Since 2016 he has coordinated the group of experts “Rotary in Germany from the mid-1920s to the mid-1950s”.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Constitution and rule in Isny. Investigations into the legal, constitutional and social history of the imperial city, primarily in the early modern period. Göppingen 1976 = Göppingen academic contributions 97 (dissertation)
• Sovereignty, participation and an absolutist small state. The county of Schaumburg (-Lippe) as an example. Hildesheim 1980 = sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony 91 (habilitation thesis)
• Calenberg. History and society of a landscape in Lower Saxony. Hanover 1983 (popular science)
• The royal seat of Hanover . From the taking of residence in 1636 to the beginning of the 19th century. In: History of the City of Hanover (ed. By Klaus Mlynek and Waldemar R. Röhrbein), Hanover 1991, pp. 137–264
• Economic and social history of Lower Saxony in the high and late Middle Ages (1000-1500). In: History of Lower Saxony (edited by Ernst Schubert) 2.1, Hanover 1997, pp. 1039-1378
• Lower Saxony. State history and historical regional development at a glance. Oldenburg 2004
• History of Lower Saxony. Munich 2009 = CH Beck knowledge
• Rotary under National Socialism . Lessons from history - for the future, Freiburg 2019 (together with Hermann Schäfer and others)
• Rotary under Nazi Rule. Learning from the past for a better future, Freiburg 2019 (together with Hermann Schäfer and others)
• Successful regions far from the metropolis . The Emsland and the Bodensee-Oberschwaben region, Ludwigsburg 2019 (together with Rainer Danielzyk and others)

Source edition

• Sources on village and agricultural history. The Hanover area in the Middle Ages and in modern times. Bielefeld 1992 = Hannoversche Schriften zur Regional- und Lokalgeschichte 3 (together with Jürgen Rund et al., Own contribution: Mittelalter, pp. 32-109)

Collections of articles

• Approaches to the village. History, change, future. Hanover 1983 (together with Heinar Henckel and others)
• State history today. Göttingen 1987 (= Kleine Vandenhoeck series 1522)
• Goslar and the city's history. Research and Perspectives 1399-1999. Bielefeld 2001 (= contributions to the history of the city of Goslar 48) (together with Jürgen Rund)
• EXPO 2000. The company - A company history. Hameln 2002 (together with Jürgen Rund)

Web links

Commons : Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer in the catalog of the German National Library