Eberhard Demm

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Eberhard Demm (born January 11, 1943 in Istanbul ) is a German historian and specialist for Alfred Weber as well as for the Wilhelmine era and the First World War .

Eberhard Demm

academic career

After graduating from the Walther Rathenau School in Berlin, Demm studied history, political science and geography in Berlin and Munich from 1962 to 1967 . In 1969 he did his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin under Wolfgang H. Fritze on the life of Bishop Otto of Bamberg . As he said in an interview in 2009, he "had no desire to toil for years after completing his doctorate for his habilitation and for a full professor, only to be left with nothing as a private lecturer". For this reason, he went abroad just 4 weeks after completing his doctorate: first for two years as a postdoctoral fellow and sessional lecturer at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, then from 1971 to 1974 as a permanent researcher at the Universiteit van Amsterdam . From 1974 to 1976 he did his legal traineeship in Berlin and then went to the University of Paris-Nanterre as a DAAD lecturer, later as a civil servant assistant , where he completed his habilitation in 1986 with Pierre-Paul Sagave in Civilization allemande with a partial biography of Alfred Weber (Dr. ès lettres et sciences humaines). In 1988 he was appointed Maître de conférences at the Université Paris XII (Val de Marne) and in 1992 as a full professor at the Université Lyon III (Jean Moulin) .

In 2003, at the age of 60, he retired and was appointed associate professor at the Technical University of Koszalin , Poland, two years later , where he taught until 2012. Since 2013 he has been a member of the Center de recherche sur l'Allemagne et l'Autriche contemporaines (CERAAC / ILCEA4) at the Université Grenoble Alpes .

In Germany he was visiting professor at the Humboldt University Berlin from 1996 to 1997 , at the University of Heidelberg from 2001 to 2003 and in the winter semester 2004/2005 Mercator professor at the Free University of Berlin. He also taught for several months at Middlebury College , Vermont, USA (1980) and at the Latvijas Universitāte in Riga (1996). From 2006 to 2011 he taught every year at the Université Nancy II as part of the Erasmus program .

In 1988 he received the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Prize for his habilitation thesis .

Research priorities

As a result of his Medieval dissertation, he initially dealt with hagiography and thaumaturgics in the Middle Ages, but since his work in France has switched to the history of the early 20th century. He sees himself as a representative of modern cultural history and works primarily on Alfred Weber, the Wilhelmine era and the First World War. He is one of the few historians who publish in German, French and English alike.

Fonts

As an author
  • Reform monasticism and Slavic mission in the 12th century. Research on the sociology of values ​​and the history of ideas on the lives of Bishop Otto von Bamberg (= historical studies. Volume 419). Matthiesen, Lübeck 1970 (at the same time dissertation FU Berlin 1969).
  • The First World War in international caricature. Torchbearers, Hanover 1988.
  • A liberal in the empire and republic. Alfred Weber's political path up to 1920 (= writings of the Federal Archives. Volume 38). Boldt, Boppard 1990 (at the same time extended translation of the Thèse d'Etat (Habilitation) Université Paris X, Nanterre 1986).
  • Spanish colonial palaces in Mexico. Taschen, Cologne 1991.
  • From the Weimar Republic to the Federal Republic. Alfred Weber's political path from 1920 to 1958 (= writings of the Federal Archives. Volume 51). Droste, Düsseldorf 1999.
  • Mind and Politics in the 20th Century. Collected essays on Alfred Weber. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2000.
  • Nationalist propaganda and protodiplomacy as an ethnic business. Juozas Gabrys, the “Union des Nationalités” and the liberation of Lithuania (1911–1919). Lithuanian Cultural Institute, Lampertheim 2001.
  • Ostpolitik and propaganda in the First World War. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2002.
  • Mind and politics. The Heidelberg scholar and politician Alfred Weber (1868–1958). Catalog for the exhibition in the University Museum Heidelberg November 18, 2003 - March 31, 2004. Verlag Regionalkultur, Heidelberg et al. 2003.
  • Else Jaffé-von Richthofen. Fulfilled life between Max and Alfred Weber (= writings of the Federal Archives. Volume 74). Droste, Düsseldorf 2014.
  • From Wilhelm II to Wilhelm the Last - Streiflichter during the Wilhelminian era , ed. by Nathalie Chamba. Bautz, Nordhausen 2018.
  • Censorship and Propaganda in World War I. A Comprehensive History . Bloomsbury, London & New York 2019.
As editor
  • Alfred Weber as a politician and scholar. The presentations of the first Alfred Weber Congress in Heidelberg. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1986.
  • with Tilman Koops: Caricatures from the First World War. An exhibition of the Federal Archives Koblenz. Koblenz 1990.
  • with Roger Noel and William Urban: The Independence of the Baltic States. Origins, Causes and Consequences. A Comparison of the Crucial Years 1918/19 and 1990/91. Proceedings of the Conference at the University of Paris XII. Lithuanian Research and Studies Center, Chicago 1996.
  • with Richard Bräu, Hans G. Nutzinger and Walter Witzenmann: Alfred Weber-Gesamtausgabe. 10 volumes. Metropolis, Marburg 1997-2003.
    • Volume 1: Cultural history as cultural sociology. 1997.
    • Volume 7: Political Theory and Daily Politics (1903–1933). 1999.
    • Volume 9: Politics in Post-War Germany (1945–1958). 2001.
    • with Hartmut Soell : Volume 10.1–2: Selected Correspondence. 2003.
  • Alfred Weber in memory. Testimonies and memories of contemporaries. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2000.
  • German brain drain, European university systems and university reform. Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Bonn 2002.
  • Sociology, Politics and Culture. From Alfred Weber to the Frankfurt School. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2003.
  • with Jarosław Suchoples: Academic Worlds. Habitus and social profile of scholars in the 19th and 20th centuries. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011.
  • with Christina Nikolajew: On watch for the nation. Memories. The World War II agent Juozas Gabrys reports (1911–1918). Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013.
  • with Nathalie Chamba: Richard Ball: Wilhelm the Last. Balance of 25 years of reign of Wilhelm II . Bautz Verlag, Nordhausen 2017.

In addition, more than 120 articles in magazines, edited volumes and encyclopedias.

literature

  • Barbara Stambolis : Life with and in history. German historian born in 1943. Klartext, Essen 2010, pp. 81–93 (with interview on CD).
  • Eberhard Demm: As a migrant between university worlds. My teaching experience in Canada, the Netherlands, France and Germany (1969–2003). In: Journal of History . Volume 52, 2004, H. 10, pp. 11-18. ( PDF; 220 kB ).
  • Eberhard Demm: Un homme sans masque - mes souvenirs personnels d'Yves Bertrand. In: Jean Petit, René Métrich (Ed.): Didascalies. Mélanges Yves Bertrand. Nancy 2002, pp. 15-19.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stambolis, Life, p. 86.
  2. ↑ Prize winners of the Wolf Erich Kellner Prize. (PDF) Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Gedächtnisstiftung, accessed on December 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Demm, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul