Dieter Schott

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Dieter Schott (born June 10, 1954 in Stuttgart ) is a German historian and since 2004 Professor of Modern History with a focus on urban and environmental history at the Institute for History at the Technical University of Darmstadt .

Life

Dieter Schott studied history, English literature and political science at the University of Konstanz and at the Free University of Berlin from 1974 to 1980 . In 1987 he received his doctorate in Constance with a thesis on the "Constance Society 1918-1924". Since 1985 he has been a research assistant to Helmut Böhme (historian) (from 1990: research assistant, from 1996: senior assistant) at the Institute for History of the TU Darmstadt, where he received his habilitation in 1996 with the thesis "The Networking of the City". From 2000 to 2004 he held the chair "History of Urban Planning" at the Center for Urban History at the University of Leicester (Great Britain). In 2004 he was appointed to the professorship for modern history with a focus on urban and environmental history at the TU Darmstadt.

Schott is one of the leading European urban and environmental historians. Among other things, he is a member of the Council of the 'International Planning History Society', chairman of the Society for Urban History and Urbanization Research eV (GSU) and managing editor of the magazine "Informations zur modern Stadtgeschichte".

Publications (selection)

Monographs
  • European urbanization (1000-2000). An introduction to environmental history. UTB, Cologne 2014.
  • The networking of the city. Local energy policy, local public transport and the 'production' of the modern city. Darmstadt, Mainz, Mannheim 1880–1918 (= University Edition. Vol. 12). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1999 (habilitation thesis).
  • with Lothar Burchardt , Werner Trapp: Constance in the 20th century. The years 1914 to 1945 (= history of the city of Konstanz. Vol. 5). Constance 1990.
  • The Constance Society 1918–1924. The struggle for hegemony under the sign of the November Revolution and inflation. Constance 1989 (dissertation).
  • with Werner Trapp: The constancy of the 20s and 30s. Constance 1985.
Editorships
  • with Detlev Mares: The year 1913. New beginnings and perceptions of crises on the eve of the First World War. Transcript, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2787-9 .
  • with Michael Toyka-Seid: The European city and its environment. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2008.
  • with Bill Luckin, Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud; Resources of the City. Contributions to an Environmental History of Europe. Aldershot 2005.
  • with Georg G. Iggers , Hanns H. Seidler, Michael Toyka-Seid: University - History - City. Festschrift for Helmut Böhme. Darmstadt 2004.
  • City and catastrophe (= information on modern city history. 2003, no. 1).
  • with Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud, Harold Platt: Cities and Catastrophes / Villes et catastrophes. Coping with Emergency in European History / Réactions à l'urgence dans l'histoire européenne. Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern 2002.
  • The mental construction of the city (= Die Alte Stadt. Vol. 26, H. 4). 1999.
  • with Peter Hertner: Future technologies of the (last) turn of the century: Intentions - Visions - Realities (= Yearbook for Economic History . 1999, No. 2).
  • With the tram into the next millennium. History, present and future of the electric tram. Essen 1998.
  • with Helmut Böhme : Energy and City in Europe. From the pre-industrial wood shortage to the oil crisis of the 1970s (= quarterly journal for social and economic history . Supplement 135). Stuttgart 1997.
Articles available online
  • Smuggling, clearance sale, Swiss food. Relations between Constance and the surrounding area in Switzerland in the years 1919–1924. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Vol. 107 (1989), pp. 221-250 ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Hölzl Review: European Urbanization (1000–2000) Sehepunkte 15 (2015), No. 12
  2. ↑ Ralf Roth review on: Schott, Dieter: The networking of the city. Local energy policy, local public transport and the "production" of the modern city, Darmstadt - Mannheim - Mainz 1880-1918. Darmstadt 1999 H-Soz-Kult, September 20, 2001
personal data
SURNAME Schott, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart