Rainer Elkar

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Rainer S. Elkar (born March 10, 1945 in Neustadt an der Aisch ) is a German historian. He taught economic and social history at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich . His research areas are craft, educational, monetary and regional history.

Life

From 1965 Elkar studied history , German , art history and political science in Würzburg and Freiburg . He was a scholarship holder of the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst. In 1970 he passed the teaching examination for grammar schools in Baden-Württemberg. From 1973 he worked as a technical school teacher for politics in training for curative education professions at the Alsterdorfer Anstalten in Hamburg and as a research assistant at the University of Hamburg , where he received his doctorate in 1978 under Rainer Wohlfeil with the work Young Germany in Polemical Age .

Before that, in 1975 he became an assistant and later academic councilor and senior counselor at the chair for economic and social history (Harald Witthöft) at the University of Siegen and, from 1977, a member of the founding senate and the senate of the University of Siegen as well as deputy chairman of the convention. He stayed that way until 1992. In 1990 he was one of the co-founders of the Institute for European Regional Research, of which he was appointed Academic Director. In 1994 he completed his habilitation in Siegen with studies on the history of handicrafts.

He then took over a professorship at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich . From 1998 to 2010 he held a full professorship for economic and social history at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich . He has also been a member of the Advisory Board of the Bavarian Economic Archives since 1998. In 2007 he took part in an information defense exercise as a first lieutenant at sea . Finally, in 2010 he became a member of the University Council of Schleswig-Holstein .

He gained nationwide attention when he took a stand against Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg as his former supreme employer, when he warned in his doctoral affair: “Officers act in leadership positions. You must be committed to the principle of truth and act in an exemplary manner. Of course, this also applies to the defense minister. "

selected Writings

  • Young Germany in a polemical age. The Schleswig-Holstein educated middle class in the first half of the 19th century. Droste, Düsseldorf 1979. 597 pages. ISBN 3-7700-0535-X .
  • Rainer S. Elkar (Ed.): Europe's restless regions. Historical awareness and European regionalism . Klett, Stuttgart 1981.
  • Rainer S. Elkar (Hrsg.): German craft in the late Middle Ages and early modern times. Social history - folklore - literary history. (= Göttingen Contributions to Economic and Social History, Vol. 9). Verlag Otto Schwartz, Göttingen 1983. 328 pages. ISBN 3-509-01318-2 .
  • Ulf Dirlmeier, Rainer S. Elkar, Gerhard Fouquet: Public building in the Middle Ages and early modern times: accounts as sources for the financial, economic and social history of the building industry. Scripta Mercaturae, 1991.
  • Detlef Briesen, Gerhard Brunn, Rainer S. Elkar, Jürgen Reulecke: Social and economic history of Rhineland and Westphalia. (= Writings on the political geography of North Rhine-Westphalia, Vol. 9). W. Kohlhammer, Cologne 1995, 326 pages. ISBN 3-17-013320-9 .
  • People-houses-fates. Hilchenbach between monarchy, dictatorship and republic. Kreuztal 1992 323 pages. ISBN 3-925498-41-9 .
  • Rainer S. Elkar, Jürgen Schawacht (Ed.): Siegen 1896. Pictures and notes from the Prussian province . Vorländer Verlag, Siegen 1996. 176 pages. ISBN 3-923483-21-X .
  • Rainer S. Elkar, Werner Mayer: Handicraft - A career. Crafts on the Rhine and Ruhr in the 20th century. Droste, Düsseldorf 2000. 168 pages. ISBN 3-7700-1126-0 .
  • Rainer S. Elkar with the assistance of Katrin Keller u. Helmuth Schneider : Crafts - From the beginning to the present. Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2014. 224 pages. ISBN 978-3-8062-2783-3 .
  • Studying in Kiel. A historical-political journey through time from the beginning to the present. (= Special publications of the Society for Kiel City History, edited by Jürgen Jensen, vol. 77). Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2015. 207 pages. ISBN 978-3-89876-795-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rüdiger Scheidges: Committed to the principle of truth . In: Handelsblatt . February 21, 2011, accessed February 23, 2011 .
  2. ↑ a b c Brief CV of Prof. Dr. Rainer Elkar . University of Siegen , accessed on March 2, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Elkar, Rainer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elkar, Rainer S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt an der Aisch