Dieter Ziegler (historian)

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Dieter Ziegler (born January 3, 1956 in Minden ) is a German historian and university professor .

academic career

Ziegler studied history , German and sociology at Bielefeld University . In 1988 he received his doctorate from the European University Institute in Florence with a thesis on the Bank of England , which was published in 1990 under the title "The Corset of the" Old Lady ". The Business Policy of the Bank of England, 1844–1913 ”was published. In 1995 he completed his habilitation with a study on “Railways and the State in the Age of Industrialization. The railway policy of the German states in comparison ”.

He was active as a lecturer at the universities in Bielefeld, Tübingen, Paderborn, Stockholm, Berlin and Bochum. From 1998 to 2002 he worked as a research assistant at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism . Since 2003 he has been professor for economic and corporate history at the Ruhr University Bochum . His research focuses on company history, particularly banking history, the history of currency policy , the industrialization of Europe and the history of the coal and steel industry . In addition , the history of transport , the social history of the economic bourgeoisie and the economic history of the “ Third Reich ” are among his research areas.

Ziegler is the author of the third edition of the textbook “The Industrial Revolution”. In addition, together with Rainer Fremdling , Toni Pierenkemper and Werner Plumpe and other historians, he is co-editor of the yearbook for economic history .

In 2009 he was elected a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia .

Publications (selection)

  • The industrial revolution , Darmstadt 2012³, ISBN 978-3-534-25604-4 .
  • Railways and the state in the age of industrialization. The railway policy of the German states in comparison , Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-515-06749-3 .
  • The corset of the "old lady". The business policy of the Bank of England 1844-1913 , Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-7819-0463-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Ziegler, in: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar online , accessed on June 4, 2014.
  2. ↑ Yearbook for Economic History . Website of the Humboldt University of Berlin.Retrieved on June 4, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Ziegler, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Minden , Westphalia