Cornelia Rauh

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Cornelia Rauh

Cornelia Rauh (-Kühne) (born March 1, 1957 in Karlsruhe ) is a German historian . She has been teaching German and European contemporary history at the University of Hanover since 2005 .

Life

After graduating from high school in Ettlingen , Cornelia Rauh studied history, German, political science and economics at the universities of Heidelberg , Bonn and Tübingen . In 1982 she passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools (secondary level II) in the subjects of history and German and studied communication science at the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim from 1983 to 1985 as a postgraduate course . She did her doctorate in 1989 with Bernhard Mann in Tübingen with the dissertation Fragmented Small Town Society and National Socialism: Ettlingen 1918–1939 to the Dr. phil. From 1988 to 2001 she was a research assistant and later assistant at Dieter Langewiesche's chair for modern history . In 2001 she qualified as a professor at Langewiesche with the work between “Weltfreihandel” and “Autarkiewahn” - Die Aluminum Industrie AG, a Swiss multinational in Hitler’s Europe, and on July 18, 2001 received the Venia legendi for the subject “Modern History”. She represented Langewiesche in 2001/2002, and in 2003/2004 Rauh was a visiting fellow at the History Department of Princeton University. Since April 1, 2005, she has been Professor of German and European Contemporary History at the University of Hanover, succeeding Adelheid von Saldern . In 2010 she turned down the offer to the University of Bamberg , Chair of Modern and Contemporary History, including regional history.

She has written numerous publications on company history as well as on the subject of “bourgeoisie and middle class” in the 20th century. On behalf of Siemens , she and Hartmut Berghoff edited the history of the company from 1981 to 2011. The manuscript has not yet been published. Siemens announced in 2017 that this should no longer happen either. She is currently researching ethnic minorities, the city in the course of social change in the second half of the 20th century, and corporate history, especially questions of corruption. Rauh prefers the micro-historical approach.

She is a member of the advisory board of the “Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg” foundation and the Society for Company History.

reception

Your biography of the (NSDAP) functionary and entrepreneur Fritz Kiehn has been recorded as a “historiographical masterpiece (and) a successful example of the fertility of interdisciplinary historical research” or “unusually insightful and clever book about German normality in the 20th century”.

In 2003, her habilitation thesis received the first prize from the Society for Company History. Based on the Swiss aluminum industry, it shows that it was not Swiss neutrality that prevented the Wehrmacht from attacking the country during World War II, but the fact that Switzerland was important to the Nazi regime as an arms supplier, reliable transit partner and functioning currency trading center. Rauhs "political corporate history" due to the state penetration of the economy by the Nazi regime shows that Alusuisse was increasingly integrated into the German armaments apparatus as the war progressed. The work is considered an "important contribution to the writing of corporate history, which is institutionally rather weakly anchored in Switzerland".

Fonts

Monographs
  • Catholic milieu and small town society. Ettlingen 1918–1939. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1991 (dissertation, University of Tübingen, 1989).
  • with Hartmut Berghoff : Fritz K. A German Life in the 20th Century. DVA, Stuttgart / Munich 2000 (Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 and 11 by C. Rauh-Kühne, introduction and conclusion together).
    • Completed and completely revised English version: The Respectable Career of Fritz K. The Making and Remaking of a Provincial Nazi Leader, 1885–1980. Berghahn, New York / London 2015.
  • Swiss aluminum for Hitler's war? On the history of Alusuisse 1918–1950 (= series of the magazine for corporate history. Vol. 19). Beck, Munich 2009 (habilitation thesis 2001).
Anthologies
  • Cornelia Rauh-Kühne, Michael Ruck (Hrsg.): Regional elites between dictatorship and democracy. Baden and Württemberg 1930–1952. Oldenbourg, Munich 1993.
  • Thomas Kühne, Cornelia Rauh-Kühne (ed.): Space and history. Regional traditions and federal orders from early modern times to the present. [ Bernhard Mann on his 65th birthday] (= writings on Southwest German regional studies. Vol. 40). DRW, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2001.
  • Mathias Beer , Dietrich Beyrau , Cornelia Rauh (eds.): Being German as a borderline experience. Minority policy in Europe between 1914 and 1950. Klartext, Essen 2009.
  • Gunilla Budde , Eckart Conze , Cornelia Rauh (eds.): Bourgeoisie after the bourgeois age. Guiding principles and practice since 1945 (= bourgeoisie. New series, vol. 10). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010.
  • Cornelia Rauh, Dirk Schumann (ed.): States of exception. Limitations and regulation in Europe during the Cold War (= publications of the contemporary history working group Lower Saxony. Vol. 28). Wallstein, Göttingen 2015.
  • Cornelia Rauh, Arnd Reitemeier , Dirk Schumann (eds.): The beginning of the war in Northern Germany. On the development of a "war culture" in 1914/15 from a transnational perspective (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Vol. 284). Wallstein, Göttingen 2015.
Essays

Numerous essays on everyday and political social history (especially using Ettlingen's example) in the 20th century, on forced labor / denazification, on corporate history, on economic bourgeoisie and bourgeoisie, on national identity formation and the history of memory in the 20th century.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scientists examine three decades of Siemens contemporary history , press release, Siemens AG website, December 17, 2012, accessed on January 5, 2013.
  2. ↑ Joachim Hirzel: "The situation was threatening!" In: Focus magazine . No. 51 (2012), December 17, 2012, accessed January 5, 2012.
  3. ↑ But no publication: Siemens keeps the bribe study under lock and key. In: Spiegel Online . March 17, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Hartmut Berghoff, Cornelia Rauh: Corruption does not pay off , FAZ Online from February 6, 2013.
  5. ↑ M. Salewski, FAZ June 14, 2000 - www.perlentaucher.de/buch/1220.html
  6. ↑ M. Wildt, Die Zeit, November 16, 2000 - http://www.zeit.de/2000/47/44438
  7. ↑ http://www.unternehmensgeschichte.de/?seite=preistraeger
  8. ↑ R. Walther, Tages-Anzeiger (Zurich) of July 7, 2009
  9. ↑ M. Bank, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, September 2, 2010 - http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensions/2010-3-12
personal data
SURNAME Rauh, Cornelia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rauh-Kühne, Cornelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe