Dietmar Petzina

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Heinz Dietmar Petzina (born September 15, 1938 in Prague ) is a German economist , economic historian and former rector of the Ruhr University Bochum .

Petzina grew up as the son of German Bohemia in Plan and Gangkofen / Ndb. on. After graduating from high school in Pfarrkirchen in 1957, he studied economics, history and sociology at the University of Munich . After graduating in economics in 1961, Petzina worked for the Rationalization Curatorium of the German Economy (RKW) in Munich and at the same time continued his studies in economics and history. In September 1962 he moved to the chair for economic and social history at the Mannheim Business School as a research assistant , where he worked in 1965 with Knut Borchardt 's work The National Socialist Four-Year Plan of 1936. Development, course, effects on Dr. rer. pole. received his doctorate. Petzina's work on the National Socialist four-year plan is still an indispensable representation of the economic history of National Socialist Germany. From 1962 to 1970 he was a research assistant at the University of Mannheim and at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich.

From 1970 until his retirement in 2003, Petzina taught as a professor for social and economic history at the Ruhr University in Bochum . Petzina took on numerous positions in academic self-government. He was Dean of the Faculty of History and Vice Rector for Planning and Financial Affairs from 1973 to 1977 . From 1998 to 2002 he was rector of the Ruhr University Bochum. From 1973 to 2002, Petzina supervised 38 doctorates as the first reviewer. Important students of Petzina include Werner Abelshauser , Lutz Budraß , Jan-Otmar Hesse , Christian Kleinschmidt , Werner Plumpe and Wolfgang Zank .

His main research interests are the economic history of the 20th century, especially the Weimar Republic and National Socialism . Further focal points are the economic and crisis history, the regional history and history of the Ruhr area as well as the history of services. From 1991 to 2003 he was editor of the yearbook for economic history and also edited Schmoller's yearbook .

Fonts

Monographs

  • The German economy in the interwar period (= Scientific Paperbacks. Volume 11). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-515-02173-6 .
  • Autarky Policy in the Third Reich. The National Socialist four-year plan (= series of the quarterly books for contemporary history . No. 16). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1968.

Editorships

  • Problems of the financial history of the 19th and 20th centuries (= writings of the Verein für Socialpolitik. New series. Volume 188). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-428-06698-7 .
  • together with Walter Euchner : Economic Policy in the British Occupation Area, 1945–1949 (= Düsseldorfer Schriften zur Modern Landesgeschichte and the history of North Rhine-Westphalia. Volume 12). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1984, ISBN 3-590-18124-9 .
  • Economy, crisis, society. Economic change and social development in the 19th and 20th centuries (= history and society. Bochum historical studies. Volume 25). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-12-913200-7 .

literature

  • Werner Abelshauser, Jan-Otmar Hesse, Werner Plumpe (eds.): Economic order, state and companies. New research on the economic history of National Socialism. Festschrift for Dietmar Petzina on her 65th birthday. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2003, ISBN 978-3-89861-259-3 . ( Review )

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Werner Abelshauser, Jan-Otmar Hesse, Werner Plumpe (eds.): Economic order, state and companies. New research on the economic history of National Socialism. Festschrift for Dietmar Petzina on her 65th birthday. Essen 2003, pp. 389–391.
personal data
SURNAME Petzina, Dietmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petzina, Heinz Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague