Dirk Peters

This article is about technology historian Dirk Peters; on the jazz musician see Dierk Peters .

Dirk Johann Peters (* 1949 ) is a German technology historian .

Life

After graduating from high school, Peters did a shipyard apprenticeship and served in the German Navy . He then studied history , German literature , education and philosophy at the University of Hanover . After the two state examination, he was in 1980 with a social science doctorate at the University of Hanover to Dr. phil. PhD . In the same year he entered the service of the German Maritime Museum . From 2004 until his retirement (2014) he headed the shipping department in the industrial age . He held teaching positions at the University of Hanover (1984–1991), the University of Osnabrück and the University of Hamburg .

Honorary positions and committees

• Chairman of the Maritime History Society of Bremerhaven
• Board of the Men of the Morning Star
• The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage
• Member of the research diving committee
• German Water History Society
• German Society for Shipping and Naval History
• Georg Agricola Society at the Deutsches Museum

Publications

• The historic barque SEUTE DEERN. 50 years in the old harbor and museum harbor in Bremerhaven . In: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 797 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven May 2016, p. 3 ( digital version [PDF; 814 kB ; accessed on July 27, 2019]).
• The barque SEUTE DEERN gave the impetus. 50 years of the Bremerhaven Shipping History Society (1966–2016) . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 802 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven October 2016, p. 1–2 ( digitized version [PDF; 10.1 MB ; accessed on July 23, 2019]).
• Museum ship GRÖNLAND celebrates its 150th birthday. The Nordic Hunt was built in Norway 150 years ago . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 810 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven June 2017, p. 2–4 ( digitized version [PDF; 2.4 MB ; accessed on July 15, 2019]).
• 125 years of the Schiffdorfer water lock. A technical monument to the history of hydraulic engineering in the Elbe-Weser triangle . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 817 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven January 2018, p. 1–2 ( digitized version [PDF; 5.4 MB ; accessed on July 3, 2019]).
• From armament to peace economy. Seagoing shipbuilding in the Lower Weser towns after the First World War from 1918 to 1923 . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 830 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven February 2019, p. 1–2 ( digitized version [PDF; 4.6 MB ; accessed on July 5, 2019]).

literature

• Hartmut Bickelmann : An era is coming to an end. The historian Dr. Dirk J. Peters has retired . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 778 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven October 2014, p. 3 ( digital copy [PDF; 5.4 MB ; accessed on July 3, 2019]).
• Hans-Walter Keweloh: Industrial archeology and shipping research. At the beginning of the retirement of Dr. Dirk J. Peters . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 778 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven October 2014, p. 4 ( digital copy [PDF; 5.4 MB ; accessed on July 3, 2019]).

Web links

• Literature by and about Dirk Peters in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dirk Peters ( doctoral thesis ): Seagoing shipbuilding in Bremerhaven from the founding of the city to the First World War . Ed .: Burchard Scheper, Hartmut Bickelmann (=  Publications of the Bremerhaven City Archives . Volume 7 ). 2nd Edition. Self-published, Bremerhaven 1992, ISBN 3-923851-07-3 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Research Associate - Dr. phil. Dirk J. Peters. In: German Maritime Museum website. Archived from the original on October 22, 2014 ; accessed on July 15, 2019 .