Dirk Schaal

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Dirk Schaal (born January 20, 1970 in Weimar ) is a German economic historian . Schaal has been head of the Central Custody and the University Archives of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg since 2019 and honorary professor at the University of Technology, Economics and Culture in Leipzig since 2015 .

Life

Schaal began studying history and German at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , which he completed in 1997 with a master's degree . In 2003 he received his doctorate from the University of Halle with a dissertation on the beet sugar industry and regional industrialization. The industrialization process in central Germany, 1799–1930 as Dr. phil. His work was published two years later by Lit Verlag in the research series on the latest history as the fourth volume.

From 2003 to 2010 Schaal headed the historical archive of Südzucker AG and set up the historical archive and museum of the Polish subsidiary Südzucker Polska SA in Poland . Since 2011 he has been a consultant , later head, of the Saxon Industrial Culture Coordination Office at the Saxon State Ministry for Science and Art and an employee of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony . As such, he accompanied numerous exhibitions on the subject of industrial culture . In April 2015 he received his appointment certificate as honorary professor in the Faculty of Media in the museology and archival studies course at the University of Technology, Economics and Culture in Leipzig. In the same month he gave his inaugural lecture . In 2019, Schaal moved to the Martin Luther University in Halle as head of the Central Custody and the University Archives .

His main research interests are economic and corporate history, especially the sugar industry and the electricity industry . Dirk Schaal is the author and editor of numerous specialist publications and co-author of the Neue Deutsche Biographie .

Publications (selection)

author

  • Beet sugar industry and regional industrialization. The industrialization process in Central Germany 1799–1930. ( Dissertation ), LIT, Münster 2005, ISBN 978-3-8258-8347-8 .
  • Sweets from Halle. History of sugar in the salt city. Hasenverlag, Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-939468-13-4 .
  • Sweet made from beets. 200 years of Central German sugar history. Hasenverlag, Halle 2011, ISBN 978-3-939468-69-1 .
  • Ernst Höltzer . Life Paths Volume 3. Siemens Historical Institute, Munich 2015. ( digitized )
  • Cooperative management - modern building. The architecture of the cooperatives in Saxony. with Enrico Hochmuth, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2018, ISBN 978-3-96311-051-1 .
  • Industrial architecture in Saxony. Receive, experience, remember. January 18 - May 18, 2014 An exhibition in two museums. City History Museum Leipzig, Leipzig 2019.

editor

  • Electricity in historical photographs by Emil Leitner and Hans Finsler . 1920-1930. (with Jo Schaller), Stekovics, Halle 2001, ISBN 978-3-932863-83-7 .
  • The two Lausitzes. Economy, history and industrial culture in Brandenburg and Saxony. (with Björn Berghausen), LIT, Münster / Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-643-12929-1 .
  • Banks in Leipzig. From baroque to modern. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2015, ISBN 978-3-95462-474-4 .

literature

  • Dirk Schaal: Sugar from beet - impulses from the beet sugar industry for industrialization processes and the modernization of German agriculture (1830–1870). German Historical Museum, Berlin 2008, with short biography, ( digitized )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detlef Färber: Returners. Dirk Schaal: The historian who studied in Halle is the new head of the university museum and the archive . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (Halle / Saalekreis) . October 19, 2019, p. 19 .
personal data
SURNAME Schaal, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economic historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th January 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar