Frank Uekötter

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Frank Uekötter (born July 15, 1970 in Münster ) is a German historian of the environment , technology , science and agriculture .

Life

Frank Uekötter put 1990 on school Laurentianum in Warendorf his High School and studied from 1990 to 1997: History, Social Studies and Political Science at the Universities of Freiburg , Bielefeld and at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore . He received his doctorate from Bielefeld University in 2001. His dissertation was entitled From the smoke plague to the ecological revolution. A History of Air Pollution in Germany and the United States, 1880–1970 . For this he received the dissertation award of the Faculty of History and Philosophy in 2002. As a research assistant, he worked from 2003 to 2006 at the Faculty of History at Bielefeld University, where he carried out a research project on the priority program “Science, Politics and Society. Germany in an International Context in the Late 19th and 20th Centuries ”of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft .

From 2006 Uekötter was a Dilthey Fellow at the Deutsches Museum in Munich . In 2009 , Uekötter completed his habilitation in Bielefeld with a study entitled “The truth is in the field. A history of knowledge in German agriculture ”. From 2008 to 2011 Uekötter was Deputy Director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and then an LMU Fellow. In the winter semester 2009/10 and in the summer semester 2012 Uekötter held substitute professorships at the LMU Munich.

Since 2013 he has been teaching at Birmingham University .

Publications (selection)

  • From the smoke plague to the ecological revolution. A history of air pollution in Germany and the USA 1880–1970 , Klartext Verlag, Essen 2003.
  • with Joachim Radkau (Ed.): Nature conservation and National Socialism. With a foreword by Jürgen Trittin . Campus, Frankfurt / New York 2003, ISBN 3-593-37354-8 .
  • The Green and the Brown. A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York 2006.
  • Environmental history in the 19th and 20th centuries (= Encyclopedia of German History , Vol. 81), R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2007.
  • The truth is in the field. A history of knowledge in German agriculture (= Environment and Society , Vol. 1), Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010.
  • At the end of the certainties. The ecological question in the 21st century , Campus, Frankfurt am Main and New York 2011.
  • Germany in green. An ambivalent success story , Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015.
  • The German Channel. A mythology of the old Federal Republic , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3-515-12603-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prize winners of the habilitation award and the dissertation award 2002 .
  2. ↑ a b Curriculum vitae of Frank Uekötter ( memento of the original from August 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 120 kB) accessed on May 26, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.frank-uekoetter.de
  3. ^ Website at Birmingham University .
personal data
SURNAME Uekötter, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian of the environment, technology, science and agriculture
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster