Elke Seefried

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Elke Seefried (* 1971 in Otting ) is a German historian . Since 2020 she has held the chair for modern history (19th - 21st centuries) with its knowledge and technology cultures at RWTH Aachen University. Before that, she was Professor of Modern History at the University of Augsburg and at the same time deputy director of the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) in Munich and Berlin.

Career

Seefried first studied business administration and graduated with a diploma (FH). She then studied history and political science and graduated with an MA in 1999 . Her master's thesis The Influence of Remigrants on the Bavarian Constitution in 1946 received the sponsorship award from the Herbert and Elsbeth Weichmann Foundation (Hamburg). Until 2004, he completed a doctoral degree at the University of Augsburg. Your dissertation Empire and Estates. The ideas and work of German political exile in Austria 1933–1938 from 2004 was awarded the Austrian State Prize for the History of Social Sciences in 2010 . From 2004 to 2007 she edited the volume Theodor Heuss for the Foundation Federal President Theodor Heuss House in Stuttgart . On the defensive. Letters 1933–1945 in the Stuttgart Theodor Heuss edition. In 2009 she received the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Prize for this work .

From 2007 to 2012 Seefried was a research assistant at the University of Augsburg and worked on her habilitation . In 2010 she was a fellow at the German Historical Institute in London and from 2010–2011 at the Historical College in Munich. Your habilitation thesis Futures. The rise and crisis of futurology 1945–1980 was accepted in 2013 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 2014 she was awarded the Carl Erdmann Prize of the German Association of Historians and in 2015 the Max Weber Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 2016 she received the translation award "Geisteswissenschaften International" from the German book trade association for the book.

Seefried was a research assistant at the IfZ from 2012 to 2014, and in 2014 she received the newly established professorship for Contemporary History at the University of Augsburg, which is associated with the position of deputy director of the Institute for Contemporary History and the interlinking of history in Augsburg with the IfZ should strengthen. She stayed in Augsburg and Munich until 2020.

In the 2020/21 winter semester, she accepted an offer at RWTH Aachen University , where she holds the newly designed Chair for Modern History (19th – 21st centuries) with its knowledge and technology cultures.

The IfZ names the history of ideas of political Catholicism in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of German liberalism , the history of the Weimar Republic , Austrian history of the interwar period , exile and remigration research , the history of the Federal Republic of Germany , the history of science and the environment from a transnational perspective as their main focus of work .

Alongside Eckart Conze , Dominik Geppert , Joachim Scholtyseck , Jürgen Frölich and Ewald Grothe, Seefried has been the editor of the yearbook on research on liberalism , which is published on behalf of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom , since 2017 . She is a member of the board of trustees of the Wolf Erich Kellner Memorial Foundation for the award of the Wolf Erich Kellner Prize and a member of the advisory board of the Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation in Stuttgart.

Works

  • Empire and Estates. Ideas and effects of German political exile in Austria 1933–1938 (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties , vol. 147), Droste, Düsseldorf 2006, ISBN 978-3-7700-5278-3 .
  • Theodor Heuss. On the defensive. Letters 1933–1945 (= Stuttgart edition , vol. 3), De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-25124-5 .
  • (Ed.) Politics and Time from the 1960s to the 1980s . Special issue of the Journal of Modern European History , Vol. 13 (2015), no.3.
  • Futures. The rise and crisis of futurology 1945–1980 . De Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-034816-3 .
  • (Ed. Together with Bernhard Gotto ): Men with "blemishes". Masculinity and social change in the early Federal Republic (= contemporary history in conversation , vol. 25), De Gruyter, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-045210-5 .

Web links

Commons : Elke Seefried  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Award for Dr. Elke Seefried . Article in the Augsburger Allgemeine from January 19, 2010, accessed on May 4, 2017.
  2. ^ Pearl divers: Elke Seefried .
  3. ^ A b c d Institute for Contemporary History: Elke Seefried .
  4. ^ Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties : Temporary Refuge: Exilland Austria ( Memento of August 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), press release of September 27, 2006.
  5. ↑ Freiheit.org: Wolf Erich Kellner Memorial Prize .
  6. ^ University of Augsburg: Chair of Recent History .
  7. ↑ RWTH Aachen: Equipment of the chair
  8. ↑ Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (ed.): Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Preis | WEK Memorial Foundation . ( freiheit.org [accessed December 12, 2017]).
  9. ^ Website of the Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation .
personal data
SURNAME Seefried, Elke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Otting