Ekkehard Westermann

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Ekkehard Westermann (* 26. November 1940 in Trachenberg , Silesia ; † 18th January 2015 in Rantrum , Schleswig-Holstein ) was a German coal and steel, agriculture and economic historian of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period .

Ekkehard Westermann studied economics and social history from 1960 to 1966 at the universities of Münster , Freiburg and Marburg , where he passed his first state examination for teaching at grammar schools in 1966. From 1966 to 1970 he was a research assistant at the seminar for economic and social history at the University of Marburg, where he received his doctorate in 1970 with a study on Eisleben cookware and its importance for the European copper market around 1500.

In 1971 he passed the second state examination for teaching at grammar schools and worked at the Laubach College of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau until 1973 . Then in July 1973 he switched to teaching at the Karlsruhe University of Education , where he became professor of history and its didactics in 1977. He taught at this university until his retirement after 2000.

He was married to the historian Angelika Westermann . The couple researched and published a lot together.

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Monographs

  • Eisleben Garkupfer and its importance for the European copper market from 1460–1560. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1971 (at the same time: Marburg / Lahn, university, dissertation, 1970).
  • with Anne Reuter-Rautenburg and Katrin Simons: Karlsruhe children in the “Third Reich”. Exhibition in the Children's Museum, October 2nd, 1982 - July 31st, 1983. State Art Gallery, Karlsruhe 1982.
  • Silver rush and the thunder of cannons. German silver and copper at the cradle of European world domination (= trade, money and politics from the early Middle Ages to today. Vol. 4). Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2001, ISBN 3-7950-4503-7 .

Editorships

  • International ox trade. (1350-1750). Files of the 7th International Economic History Congress, Edinburgh 1978 (= contributions to economic history. Vol. 9). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-12-912690-2 .
  • Problems of quantification when researching the European coal and steel industry from the 15th to the 18th century. Scripta Mercaturae, St. Katharinen 1988, ISBN 3-922661-37-8 .
  • with Karl Heinrich Kaufhold , Hans-Jürgen Gerhard: European Montanregion Harz (= Montanregion Harz. Vol. 1). German Mining Museum, Bochum 2001, ISBN 3-921533-83-X .
  • with Rudolf Tasser: Tyrolean mining and the depression of the European coal and steel industry in the 14th and 15th centuries (= publications of the South Tyrolean State Archives. Vol. 16). StudienVerlag, Innsbruck et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7065-1887-2 .

literature

  • Christoph Bartels , Markus A. Denzel (ed.): Business cycles in European mining in pre-industrial times . Festschrift for Ekkehard Westermann on his 60th birthday. (= Quarterly for social and economic history . Supplements. No. 155). Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07684-0 , pp. 11-19 (academic career and complete catalog raisonné).
  • Markus A. Denzel: Ekkehard Westermann (1940-2015). In: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 102 (2015), pp. 3–4.

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personal data
SURNAME Westermann, Ekkehard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mining, agricultural and economic historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Trachenberg , Province of Silesia , Prussia , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 2015
Place of death Rantrum , Schleswig-Holstein