Clemens Wischermann

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Clemens Wischermann (born August 6, 1949 in Oberhausen ) is a German historian .

Life

After high school and military service, Wischermann studied history , German , economics and social sciences in Freiburg and Münster . After the first state examination , he became a research assistant at the History Department of the University of Münster. There he received his doctorate in 1981 and qualified as a professor in 1989. In 1986/87 he did a one-year research stay at the Maison des Sciences de l´Homme in Paris.

Since 1989 he has been a university lecturer and professor in Münster. Further teaching and research stays in Bielefeld , Düsseldorf and Munich followed in the 1990s . From 1999 to 2017 he was professor of economic and social history at the University of Konstanz , where he helped organize the German Historians' Day in 2006 . From 1992 to 2008 he was a member of the International Committee of the European Association of Urban Historians (EAUH).

His research interests lay primarily in the social history of urbanization and an institutional economics -oriented economic and corporate history of the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition, there was a new focus on research on the history of human-animal relationships in modern times under the heading “Animate History”. He co-founded the historical forum animals and history (since 2011) and the interdisciplinary research initiative Animal Theory (FITT) since 2012. His current research is the history of childhood as an experience of violence.

Fonts (selection)

  • Clemens Wischermann, Aline Steinbrecher, Philip Howell (eds.): Animal History and the Modern City. Exploring Liminality , Bloomsbury London 2018
  • Clemens Wischermann: Between “cattle” and “friend”. Historical approaches to the self of an animal, in: Viktoria Krason, Christoph Willmitzer (ed.): Tierisch Beste Freunde , Berlin 2017, pp. 49–87.
  • Lena Kugler, Aline Steinbrecher, Clemens Wischermann (eds.): Animals and history (s). Literary and historical sources of an Animate History , Steiner Stuttgart 2017.
  • Gesine Krüger , Aline Steinbrecher, Clemens Wischermann (eds.): Animals and history. Contours of an Animate History , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2014.
  • Stefan Haas, Clemens Wischermann (ed.): The reality of history. Philosophical, media and lifeworld aspects of a (post-) constructivist concept of reality in the historical sciences, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015.
  • Clemens Wischermann, Katja Patzel-Mattern , Martin Lutz, Thilo Jungkind (eds.): Arbeitsbuch Institutionelle Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensgeschichte, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015.
  • (Ed. Of the main topic): Information on modern city history: Animals in the city, Volume 2/2009.
  • with Gert Kollmer-v. Oheimb-Loup (ed.): Entrepreneurial Succession in Past and Present , Ostfildern 2008.
  • with Armin Müller, Rudolf Schlögl and Jürgen Leipold (eds.): Geschichtsbilder , 46th Deutscher Historikertag from 19 to 22 September in Konstanz, report volume, Konstanz 2007.
  • with Miriam Gebhardt (ed.): Family socialization since 1933, negotiations on continuity , Stuttgart 2007.
  • (Ed.): Of cats and people. Social history on quiet feet , Konstanz 2007.
  • with Anne Nieberding: The Institutional Revolution. An introduction to German economic history in the 19th and early 20th centuries , Stuttgart 2004.
  • with Karl-Peter Ellerbrock (ed.): Economic history before the challenge posed by New Institutional Economics , Dortmund 2004.
  • (Ed.): Corporate communication of German medium and large companies , Dortmund 2003.
  • (Ed.): From collective memory to the individualization of memory , Stuttgart 2002.
  • (Ed. Of the main topic): Culture of remembrance in Westphalia: The passing on of the past, Westphalian research , volume 51 (2001).
  • with Stefan Haas (ed.): Body with history. The human body as a place of self and world experience , Stuttgart 2000.
  • with Peter Borscheid and Karl-Peter Ellerbrock (eds.): Corporate communication in the 19th and 20th centuries. New paths in company history , Dortmund 2000.
  • with Elliott Shore (ed.): Advertising and the European City: Historical Perspectives , London a. a. 2000.
  • Myths, Power and Defects: The German Housing Market in the Urbanization Process, in: Geschichte des Wohnens , Vol. 3, ed. by Jürgen Reulecke , Stuttgart 1997, pp. 333–502.
  • Together with Peter Borscheid (ed.): The world of images of everyday life. Advertising in the consumer society of the 19th and 20th centuries , Stuttgart 1995.
  • (Ed.): The legitimacy of memory and the science of history , Stuttgart 1996.
  • Prussian state and Westphalian entrepreneurs between late mercantilism and liberalism , Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1992 (Münstersche Historische Forschungen, Vol. 2).
  • with Hans J. Teuteberg: Everyday living in Germany, 1850–1914. Pictures, data, documents , Münster 1985 (studies on the history of everyday life, vol. 3).
  • On the threshold of industrialization (1800–1850), in: Westfälische Geschichte , ed. by Wilhelm Kohl , Vol. 3: The 19th and 20th centuries. Economy and Society, Düsseldorf 1984, pp. 41–162.
  • Living in Hamburg before the First World War , Münster 1983.

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SURNAME Wischermann, Clemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen