Ernst Köhler (historian)

Ernst Köhler (* 1939 in Stolberg ) is a German historian and publicist .

Köhler studied German and history in Freiburg. After receiving his doctorate in 1968 ( educated middle class and national politics , Gehlen 1970), he first worked on the history of psychiatry in the 19th century. He completed his habilitation at the University of Konstanz with a thesis on the history of German psychiatry ( Arme und Irre , 1977) and took up a temporary teaching position there. After this position expired, Köhler lived from various activities as a regional historian in the Lake Constance area and as a high school teacher; at the same time he taught in Konstanz as a private lecturer in modern history until 2009 .

Köhler's current historical and journalistic focus is the history of the successor states of Yugoslavia . He publishes the results of numerous information trips and a DAAD guest lecturer at the two universities of Mostar (Bosnia) in newspaper articles, essays and lectures. As a freelancer, he writes a column with political comments for Südkurier . Occasionally Köhler also writes glosses, poems and stories about the bizarre things in his life.

Köhler is married and has two children. He lives in Constance .

Works

• The bourgeois democracy in Germany. University Press Konstanz 1998. ISBN 3879401500
• Ivan Glaser , Ernst Köhler: For the smaller whole. To a different understanding of the end of Yugoslavia. Westphalian steam boat, Münster 1993, ISBN 3-924550-80-8 .
• And he comes and finds her sleeping. A story. Drumlin, Weingarten 1986, ISBN 3-924027-32-3 .
• The city and its flavor. A report from the south of our welfare state. Wagenbach, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-8031-2097-7 .
• Sign of life from Tuttlingen. Notes about a school in Baden-Württemberg. Rotbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-88022-233-9 .
• Poor and mad. The liberal welfare policy of the bourgeoisie. Wagenbach, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-8031-1079-3 .
• Educated middle class and national politics. Study of Otto Hintze's political thinking . Gehlen Publishing House, Bad Homburg 1970.
• Resistance is always personal. (Texts from the 1980s from the 'Freibeuter' et al., New edition) Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2017, ISBN 978-3-7448-9699-3 .
• From the post-war period: Stolberger Notes. Self-published, 2019, ISBN 978-1790122547 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Köhler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Private homepage