Ernst Wolfgang Becker

Ernst Wolfgang Becker (born July 27, 1966 in Kiel ) is a German historian and archivist .

Life

From 1988 to 1994 Becker studied history, philosophy and German in Passau , Tours and Tübingen , which he completed with the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools. In 1997 he was trained at the University of Tübingen in Modern History with Dieter Langewiesche with a study on “The time of revolution! - Revolution of the time? Experiences of Time in Germany in the Era of the Revolutions 1789–1848/49 ”. Subsequently, he completed a legal clerkship at the Saxon Main State Archives in Dresden until 1999 , which he completed with the archival state examination.

Becker has been working as a research assistant at the Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation in Stuttgart since July 1999 and has been its deputy managing director since 2002. His work focuses on the history of the 20th century, in particular the historical research on liberalism and the biography of Theodor Heuss , the scientific director of the edition “Theodor Heuss. Stuttgarter Ausgabe ”and looking after the foundation's archives.

Becker has been a member of the board of trustees of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Memorial Foundation since 2019 .

Fonts

• Time of revolution! - Revolution of the time? Experiences of time in Germany in the era of the revolutions 1789–1848 / 49 , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 1999 (= critical studies on historical science , vol. 129), ISBN 3-525-35792-3 (also: University of Tübingen, dissertation 1997).
• Empowerment to Political Error. The approval of the "Enabling Act" of 1933 and the politics of remembrance in the first Wuerttemberg-Baden investigative committee of the post-war period (= Foundation Federal President Theodor Heuss House , Kleine Reihe, 8), Foundation Federal President Theodor Heuss House, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3 -9807404-0-4 .
• Edited together with Thomas Rösslein: Political error in the witness stand. The minutes of the committee of inquiry of the Württemberg-Baden state parliament from 1947 for the approval of the “Enabling Act” of March 23, 1933 , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt , Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-421-05793-1 .
• Ed .: Theodor Heuss: Educators for Democracy. Letters 1945–1949 , Saur , Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-25125-2 .
• Ed .: Theodor Heuss - Father of the Constitution. Two speeches in the Parliamentary Council on the Basic Law 1948/49. With an essay by Jutta Limbach , Saur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-11791-6 .
• Theodor Heuss. Citizens in the Age of Extremes , Kohlhammer , Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021490-3 .
• Ed. Together with Martin Vogt and Wolfram Werner: Theodor Heuss: Der Bundespräsident. Letters 1949–1954 , de Gruyter , Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023236-3 .
• Ed. Together with Martin Vogt and Wolfram Werner: Theodor Heuss: Der Bundespräsident. Letters 1954–1959 , de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029842-0 .
• How much consensus does democracy need? Theodor Heuss and the future of the Basic Law (= Stiftung Bundespräsident-Theodor-Heuss-Haus , Kleine Reihe, 37), Stiftung Bundespräsident-Theodor-Heuss-Haus, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-942302-15-9 .

Web links

• Website of Ernst Wolfgang Becker at the Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation