Carl Bethke

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Carl Bethke (* 1969 in Celle ) is a German Eastern European historian and university professor .

Life

Bethke grew up in Hanover . He studied history and archeology at the Free University of Berlin and at the University of Hamburg . His work for the Magister Artium from 1996 was entitled “Nationality Policy in Bosnia and Hercegovina after 1945”. From 1996 to 1998 he received a scholarship from the German Research Foundation at the Chair of Eastern European History at the University of Regensburg , where he conducted research on the Vojvodina region on the subject of “Regional Identity and Political Integration” . Between 1997 and 1999 he was given teaching positions at the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek in Croatia. In 1998/99 he was a Fellow at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) .

In 1998/99 and again in 2007 he worked as a freelancer for the Danube Swabian Central Museum in Ulm . Since 1999, Bethke has been a research assistant to Professor Holm Sundhaussen at the Eastern European Institute of the Free University of Berlin . With his dissertation “German and Hungarian minorities in Croatia and Vojvodina 1918–1941: Identity drafts and ethno-political mobilization” published in Wiesbaden in 2009 , he received his doctorate in 2006. From 2006 to 2007 he worked on the postdoctoral project “(K) a common language : Aspects of German-Jewish Relationship History in Croatia ”at the Free University of Berlin, which was funded by the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media . From 2007 to 2011 he was Academic Councilor at the History Department, Chair for Southeast European History at the University of Leipzig . His habilitation project was: “The Austro-Hungarian Administration in Bosnia and Hercegovina (1878–1918): Experiences in Rule and Interculturality at the Beginning of Modernity”.

Since 2012 he has been a junior professor for culture and history of Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries - with a focus on interethnic relations with special consideration of the German minorities in Southeast Europe - with support from the Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media at the "Institute for Eastern European History und Landeskunde ”at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen .

Bethke's main research interests are:

  • History of Southeast Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries
  • Micro and everyday historical perspectives
  • Social history and social change

His work topics are:

  • German minorities in Croatia , Vojvodina and Northern Bosnia
  • German minorities in the interwar and Nazi era in the South Slavic area
  • Holocaust and German-Jewish Relations in Southeast Europe
  • Bosnia and Hercegovina during the Habsburg era. Migration, cultural contact, interethnic relationships between “locals” and “foreigners”.

Memberships

  • Member of the international advisory board of Časopis za suvremenu povijest in Zagreb
  • Member of the Southeast Europe Society
  • Member of the Association of Eastern European Historians

Publications

  • German and Hungarian minorities in Croatia and Vojvodina 1918–1941: Drafts of identity and ethnopolitical mobilization. Wiesbaden 2009
  • (K) A common language? Aspects of German-Jewish Relationship History in Croatia. From Coexistence to the Holocaust, 1900–1950. Lit publishing house.
  • German "colonists" in Bosnia. Imaginations, ideology and social practice in sources of the Evangelical Church. In: Bosna i Hercegovina u okviru Austro-Ugarske 1878-1918.
  • Zbornik radova. Filozofski Facet (Izd.), Sarajevo 2011, pp. 235-266
  • The Loborgrad women's and children's concentration camp in Croatia 1941–1942. In: Logori, zatvori i prisilni rad u Hrvatskoj / Jugoslaviji 1941–1945, 1945–1951. Zbornik radova. Hrvatski institut za povjest (Izd.), Zagreb 2010, pp. 57–74
  • Christian Schwarz-Schilling and the war against Bosnia and Herzegovina. In: Carl Bethke, Erich Rathfelder : Bosnia in focus . Berlin 2010, 61–95
  • The Germans of Vojvodina 1918–1941. In: Christian Glass, Vladimir Mitrović (ed.): Daheim an der Donau. Germans and Serbs living together in Vojvodina. Ulm / Novi Sad 2009, pp. 196–209 (exhibition catalog)
  • The Prud and Banja Luka declarations and their political context: Steps to deepen the division of Bosnia-Herzegovina or to overcome it? In: Südosteuropa 56, 2008, pp. 584–608
  • From “resettlement” to “resettlement”: On the destructive dynamic of “ethnic land consolidation” using the example of the Germans in Bosnia and Croatia 1941–1948, in: Mariana Hausleitner (Ed.): From Fascism to Stalinism. Germans and other minorities in East Central and Southeast Europe 1941–1953. Munich 2008, pp. 23–39
  • Harlem is in Istria: the Bosnian miners from Labin. In: Yearbooks on the culture and history of Southeast Europe 8 , 2006, pp. 203–219

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personal data
SURNAME Bethke, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Eastern historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle