Detlef Junker

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Detlef Junker (born June 20, 1939 in Pinneberg ) is a German historian . He was founding director and head of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies .

Scientific career

After training as a journalist and editor, Detlef Junker studied history, political science, philosophy and German studies in Kiel and Innsbruck from 1962 to 1967. In 1967 he received his doctorate from the University of Kiel with a thesis on the problem of political Catholicism before the beginning of the National Socialist dictatorship in Germany in 1932/33. After a time as a research assistant at the University of Stuttgart and research stays in the USA as well as a university professorship at the University of Stuttgart, he completed his habilitation in 1974 in Stuttgart with a paper on economic interest in US foreign policy 1933–1941.

In 1975 Junker accepted a call to Heidelberg University , where he was Professor of Modern History at the History Department until 1994. In the following five years until 1999 he was director of the German Historical Institute in Washington ; Afterwards he took over the Curt Engelhorn Endowed Professorship for American History at the University of Heidelberg until his retirement in 2004. Since 2003, Junker has been the founding director of the multidisciplinary Heidelberg Center for American Studies , which was created on his initiative. His research and teaching focuses on American history in the 20th century, international relations in the 20th century, the history of German-American relations, German history in the 20th century, and the theory of historical studies.

Junker retired in 2018 .

Honors

Junker received an honorary doctorate from the University of Maryland in 2005 . In 2007 he was appointed Distinguished Senior Professor of the University of Heidelberg . In 2010 Junker was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his services to German-American relations .

Fonts

  • The German Center Party and Hitler 1932/33. A contribution to the problem of political Catholicism in Germany. Stuttgart 1969 (= Stuttgart contributions to history and politics. Volume 4; extended version of the dissertation from 1967).
  • The indivisible world market. Economic Interest in US Foreign Policy 1933–1941. Habilitation thesis. Klett, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-12-904700-X (= Stuttgart contributions to history and politics. Volume 8).
  • The Struggle for World Power: The USA and the Third Reich 1933–1945. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-590-18170-2 .
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt. Power and vision. President in times of crisis. 2nd Edition. Muster-Schmidt, Göttingen 1989, ISBN 3-7881-0105-9 (= personality and history. Volume 105/106).
  • From world power to superpower. American Foreign Policy in the 20th Century. BI, Mannheim 1995, ISBN 3-411-10481-3 (= Meyers Forum. Volume 31).
  • with Philipp Gassert , Wilfried Mausbach, David B. Morris (eds.): The USA and Germany in the Age of the Cold War, 1945–1990. A manual. 2 vol. DVA, Stuttgart / Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-421-05299-5 (American edition: The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War. Volume 1: 1945–1968 ; Volume 2: 1968–1990 Cambridge University Press, New York 2004).
  • Power and Mission. What drives America. Herder, Freiburg 2003, ISBN 3-451-28251-8 .
  • with Martin Thunert, Wilfried Mausbach (Eds.): State and Market in a Globalized World. Transatlantic Perspectives. Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8253-5526-5 .
  • with Phillip Gassert, Wilfried Mausbach, Martin Thunert (eds.): What makes America off - multidisciplinary perspectives. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-515-09396-5 .
  • with Thomas W. Maulucci (Ed.): GIs in Germany. The Social, Economic, Cultural, and Political History of the American Military Presence . Cambridge University Press, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-107-55972-1 .

Editorships

  • since 1990 editor and editor of the biographical series "Personality and History" at Muster-Schmidt Verlag, Gleichen / Zurich
  • 1994–1999 editor of the "Transatlantic Historical Studies" at Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart
  • 1994–1999 editor of the "Publications of the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC" at Cambridge University Press, New York
  • 1994–1999 Editor of the "In-house Publications of the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC"
  • since 2003 editor of the Annual Report of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreword to: Manfred Berg, Philipp Gassert (Ed.): Germany and the USA in the international history of the 20th century. Festschrift for Detlev Junker. Steiner, Stuttgart, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-515-08454-1 , p. 15 ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.de%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DAg_AwfVzGfgC%26l%26pg%3DPA11~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ% 3D ~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D ).
  2. ↑ Communication from Heidelberg University , accessed on July 30, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Junker, Detlef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and Americanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Pinneberg