Franklin Kopitzsch

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Franklin Kopitzsch in November 2018

Franklin Kopitzsch (born September 11, 1947 in Neustadt an der Orla ) is a German historian and former member of the Hamburg Parliament .

Franklin Kopitzsch, born in Thuringia, has lived in Hamburg since 1956 and has been a member of the SPD since 1965 . After studying Middle and Modern History, Political Science and Literature in Hamburg, he worked as a publishing clerk from 1983 to 1992, then as a research assistant at the Hamburg University's Department of History . For his fundamental work outlines of a social history of education in Hamburg and Altona was Kopitzsch 1978 Rainer Wohlfeil Dr. phil. PhD . He wrote his habilitation in 1993. From 1998 to 2003 he was professor of early modern history at the University of Bremen . From 2003 until his retirement in 2013 he was Professor of Social and Economic History at the History Department of the University of Hamburg with a focus on North German regional history. He is also the head of the Hamburg History Office and has been a member of the Board of the Association for Hamburg History since 1997 .

From 1991 to 2001 he was represented in the Hamburg parliament. He was the spokesman for culture in his group . Among other things, Kopitzsch was active in the culture committee, the committee for science and research and the legal committee. His brother Wolfgang Kopitzsch , who was two years his junior and also a historian, was police chief in Hamburg from January 18, 2012 to April 30, 2014.

Kopitzsch works on the history of the early modern period , on the 19th and 20th centuries, on urban and regional history and on the history of literature in the 18th century. Kopitzsch made relevant contributions to the Hamburg Enlightenment , in particular to the work of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing . He also provided work on the comparative urban and regional history of northern Germany. Kopitzsch was awarded the renowned Lappenberg Medal by the Association for Hamburg History . Together with Daniel Tilgner he is the editor of the Hamburg Lexikon and together with Dirk Brietzke he is the editor of the multi-volume Hamburg biography .

literature

  • Dirk Brietzke, Norbert Fischer , Arno Herzig (eds.): Hamburg and its northern German area. Aspects of change since the early modern period. Festschrift for Franklin Kopitzsch (= contributions to Hamburg history. Volume 3). DOBU-Verlag, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-934632-24-0 .
  • Birgit Steinke, Sabine Todt (eds.): “What you researched, you experienced.” Alternative Festschrift for Prof. Franklin Kopitzsch on the occasion of his 60th birthday. 2nd revised edition, self-published, Hamburg 2007.
  • Dorothee Stapelfeldt : Franklin Kopitzsch - Member of the Hamburg Parliament from 1991 to 2001. In: Dirk Brietzke, Norbert Fischer, Arno Herzig (ed.): Hamburg and its northern German area. Aspects of change since the early modern period. Festschrift for Franklin Kopitzsch (= contributions to Hamburg history. Volume 3). DOBU-Verlag, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-934632-24-0 , pp. 20-26.
  • Citizens Handbook of the Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. 14th electoral term, editor Hinnerk Fock , Hamburg 1992.

Web links

Commons : Franklin Kopitzsch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ See the review by Carl Haase in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 56 (1984), pp. 388–391 ( online )
  2. ^ The board of directors of the Association for Hamburg History
personal data
SURNAME Kopitzsch, Franklin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt an der Orla