Franz Knipping (historian)

Franz Knipping (born March 9, 1944 in Höxter ) is a German historian .

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Franz Knipping spent his school days in Dortmund and then studied history and Romance studies as well as politics and law in Münster and Tübingen from 1963 to 1968 . In 1973 he received his doctorate in Tübingen with a study of American policy towards Russia during the time of the Hitler-Stalin Pact . In 1984 he completed his habilitation there with a thesis on Franco-German relations during the world economic crisis. From 1970 to 1974 Knipping was co-editor of the Federal Foreign Office's file edition “Files on German Foreign Policy 1918–1945” in Bonn. After a 18-month research stay in Paris , followed by two years as Speaker of the Volkswagen Foundation in Hannover , he became 1978 Assistant Professor 1984 Professor at the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Tuebingen. From 1994 to 2010 he held the chair for modern and contemporary history at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and then took over the coordination of the university’s master’s degree in European Studies as a senior professor. In 1990 and 1996 he was awarded Jean Monnet Professorships by the European Commission (in Tübingen and Wuppertal). In 2007 he received the French Order of Palmes Académiques (Chevalier).

Knipping teaches and researches the history of international relations and European integration, with topics from German, French, European and American history as well as the history of Southeast Asia. He has presented numerous books and scientific articles on this. His teachers were Josef Engel , Gerhard Schulz , Andreas Hillgruber and Jean-Baptiste Duroselle . Together with Heinz Duchhardt , he is the editor of the Handbook of the History of International Relations , the ninth volume of which he wrote on The World in the Cold War .

Knipping has guest lectureships and teaching positions at the universities of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), Strasbourg, Florence (European University Institute), Bangkok (Chulalongkorn), Kaliningrad (Technical University), Berlin (Humboldt), Augsburg, Hanover, Rostock and at the Institut d ' Etudes Politiques perceived in Paris. He is the initiator, organizer, coordinator of numerous projects and scientific conferences. In particular, he headed the successful European Studies Program of the European Commission in Bangkok from 1992 to 1999 .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• American policy towards Russia during the Hitler-Stalin Pact, 1939–1941. Mohr / Siebeck, Tübingen 1974 (= Tübingen studies on history and politics. Vol. 30). ISBN 3-16-836031-7 (also: Tübingen, dissertation, 1973).
• Germany, France and the End of the Locarno Era, 1928–1931. Studies on international politics in the early stages of the Great Depression. Oldenbourg, Munich / Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-486-53161-1 (also: Tübingen, habilitation paper, 1984).
• Rome, March 25, 1957. The unification of Europe . dtv, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-30609-2 .

Editorships

• Files on German Foreign Policy 1918–1945. From the archive of the Federal Foreign Office. Series C: 1933-1937. The Third Empire. The first years . Vol. I, January – October 1933 , Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1971. Vol. II, October 1933 – June 1934 , ibidem 1973. Vol. IV (with Gerhard Rakenius): April 1935 – March 1936 , ibidem 1975.
• with Hans von Mangoldt and Volker Rittberger : The United Nations System and Its Predecessors. Volume I: The United Nations System . Volume II: Predecessors of the United Nations . Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 1997, ISBN 0-19-826596-4 (A bilingual edition - English-German and French-German - appeared in three volumes in 1995 and 1996 by Beck / Munich and Stämpfli / Bern) .
• with Klaus-Jürgen Müller : Awareness of Power in Germany on the Eve of the Second World War , Schöningh, Paderborn 1984, ISBN 3-506-77470-0 .
• with Josef Becker : Power in Europe? Britain, France, Italy and Germany in a Postwar World, 1945–1950 . De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1986. ISBN 0-89925-261-3 .
• with Jacques Le Rider : France's cultural policy in Germany, 1945–1950 . Attempto, Tübingen 1987, ISBN 3-921552-47-8 .
• with Ernst Weisenfeld : An unusual story. Germany-France since 1870 . Preface by Lothar Späth. Europa Union Verlag, Bonn 1988, ISBN 3-7713-0310-9 .
• with Jürgen Heideking and Gerhard Hufnagel: Paths into contemporary history. Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Gerhard Schulz. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1989, ISBN 3-11-011738-X .
• Federal Conceptions in EU Member States: Traditions and Perspectives (= series of publications by the European Center for Research on Federalism. Vol. 1). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1994, ISBN 3-7890-3663-3 .
• with Klaus-Jürgen Müller: From powerlessness to alliance power. The problem of power in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1960 , Schöningh, Paderborn 1995, ISBN 3-506-77493-X .
• with Louis Dupeux and Rainer Hudemann : Elites in Germany and France in the 19th and 20th centuries. Structures and relationships / Elites en France et en Allemagne aux XIXème et XXème siècles. Structures et relations (= writings of the Franco-German Historical Committee. Vol. 2). Oldenbourg, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-486-56094-8 .
• Le fédéralisme personnaliste aux sources de l'Europe de demain / Personalist federalism and the future of Europe (= series of publications by the European Center for Research on Federalism. Vol. 7). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1996, ISBN 3-7890-4190-4 .
• with Piyanart Bunnag and Vimolvan Phatharodom : Europe and Southeast Asia in the Contemporary World: Mutual Influences and Comparisons . International Conference of Historians, Wuppertal, October 8-10, 1998 (= Asia-Europe Studies Series. Vol. 4). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1999, ISBN 3-7890-6252-9 .
• with Ralph Dietl: encounter between two continents. The United States and Europe since the First World War (= studies and texts on American culture and history. Vol. 8). Scientific publishing house WVT, Trier 1999, ISBN 3-88476-371-7 .
• with Piyanart Bunnag and Sud Chonchirdsin: Europe-Southeast Asia in the Contemporary World: Mutual Images and Reflections 1940s – 1960s. International Conference of Historians, Bangkok, 25. – 27. August 1999 (= Asia-Europe Studies Series. Vol. 6), Nomos, Baden-Baden 2000, ISBN 3-7890-6947-7 .
• with Suthiphand Chirathivat, Poul Henrik Lassen, Chia Siow Yue: Asia-Europe on the Eve of the 21st Century. Saksopha Press, Bangkok and Singapore 2001, ISBN 974-7227-64-9 .
• with Klaus Held : Europe from within and without. Universality and particularity (= European and International Studies. Vol. 1). Scientific publishing house WVT, Trier 2001, ISBN 3-88476-481-0 .
• with Matthias Schönwald: Departure to second generation Europe. European unification 1969–1984 (= European and International Studies. Vol. 3). Scientific publishing house WVT, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-88476-652-X .
• with Paul JJ Welfens , Suthiphand Chirathivat, Cillian Ryan: Integration in Asia and Europe. Historical Dynamics, Political Issues, and Economic Perspectives . Springer, Berlin / New York 2006, ISBN 3-540-28729-9 .
• with Gerrit Walther and Sabine Mangold : Europe and Science. Great research personalities and their work (= European and International Studies. Vol. 5). Scientific publishing house WVT, Trier 2007, ISBN 978-3-88476-905-8 .
• with Paul JJ Welfens, Cillian Ryan, Suthiphand Chirathivat: EU-ASEAN. Facing Economic Globalization . Springer, Berlin / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-87388-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Knipping in the catalog of the German National Library.
• Website of the University of Wuppertal, Faculty 1, History.
• Who is who in European Integration Studies, ed. Manuel Porto, Coimbra 2006, p. 130.
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar online, 29th edition.