Cord Arendes

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Cord Arendes (* 1971 ) is a German contemporary historian and professor of public history .

From 1992 to 1998 he studied political science, history and economics at the Free University of Berlin . In 2003/2004 Arendes received his doctorate at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald . His dissertation was a collective biography of German political scientists from 1949 to 1999. He also worked as a freelance lecturer. In 2004 he came to the Department of History at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , where he was appointed Academic Councilor in 2008 and completed his habilitation in 2010 with a thesis on regional legal proceedings against National Socialists after the Third Reich. In 2010/2011 Cord Arendes represented the professorship for modern history in Heidelberg. Since 2012 he has held the first professorship for applied history / public history in Germany. Together with Edgar Wolfrum he leads the “Heidelberg Public History” project. From 2014 to 2016 he was managing director of the Center for European History and Cultural Studies at the Ruprecht-Karls-University, which includes the historical seminar.

In addition to public history, his research focuses on West German and West European history after the Second World War, the subsequent examination of the Third Reich, the history of technology and environmental history, as well as visual history .

Publications

  • Political Science in Germany. Locations, courses and professorships 1949–1999. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14488-X (also dissertation, University of Greifswald 2003/2004).
  • as ed. with Edgar Wolfrum and Jörg Zedler: Terror nachinnen. Crimes at the end of the Second World War (= Dachau Symposia on Contemporary History. Volume 6). Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0046-0 .
  • as ed. with Jörg Peltzer : War. Comparative perspectives from art, music and history (= Heidelberg Treatises on Middle and Modern History. Volume 17). Winter, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8253-5400-8 .
  • with Edgar Wolfrum: Global History of the 20th Century ( Basic History Course ). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-17-018975-1 .
  • Between the judiciary and the daily press. “Average offender” in regional Nazi proceedings. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-77320-3 (also habilitation paper, University of Heidelberg 2010).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anna Weiland: Learning to convey history. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 22, 2012, accessed on November 10, 2016.
  2. ↑ Kathrin Fromm: Applied History: "We don't want to produce 'dead' knowledge". The time of January 16, 2014, accessed on November 10, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Arendes, cord
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German contemporary historian and professor of public history
DATE OF BIRTH 1971