Christian Lotz (historian)

Christian Lotz (* 1976 ) is a German historian .

Life

From 1996 to 2003 he studied history and social sciences at the Universities of Leipzig , Edinburgh , Vienna and Poznań . In 2003 he became a research assistant at the Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies at the University of Wrocław . Since 2003 he has carried out several exhibition and research projects as part of the Leipziger Kreis - Forum for Science and Art. After completing his doctorate in 2007 at the Historical Institute of the University of Stuttgart with the thesis “The interpretation of loss. Political Remembrance Controversies in Divided Germany about Flight, Expulsion and the Eastern Territories 1948–1972 ”he had various postdoctoral fellowships and research stays from 2008 to 2013, including a. at the Leibniz Institute for European History , at the German Historical Institutes in Warsaw and London , at the Herder Institute, at the Nasjonalbiblioteket , in the map collection of Harvard University and in the Gotha Research Library . He has been heading the Herder Institute's map collection since autumn 2014 . After completing his habilitation in June 2015 with the thesis “Rescaling sustainability. International forest science congresses and debates about the resource supply of the future in the North and Baltic Sea region, 1870–1914 ”he received the Venia legendi for modern and contemporary history and became a private lecturer at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen .

His main research interests are the history of Germany, East Central and Northern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, environmental history, the history of international congresses and organizations, the politics of memory and the history of cartography and the history of knowledge.

Fonts (selection)

• with Katja Naumann and Thomas Klemm: A Second Public? On the dissemination of underground literature in Leipzig during the 1980s . Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-9808435-2-1 .
• with Katja Naumann: A fragmented memory. The conflict-ridden dispute about the divided German history based on guest books from historical exhibitions . Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-9808435-3-X .
• The interpretation of the loss. Political memory controversies in divided Germany about flight, expulsion and the eastern territories 1948–1972 . Cologne 2007, ISBN 3-412-15806-2 .
• The demanding cards. Polish, East and West German representations abroad and the dispute over the Oder-Neisse border (1945–1972) . Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-941305-27-4 .
• Rescale sustainability. International forest science congresses and debates about the future resource supply in the North and Baltic Sea region (1870–1914) . Cologne 2018, ISBN 3-412-50025-9 .

Web links

• Lotz, Christian, PD Dr.