Friedrich-Wilhelm Henning

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Friedrich-Wilhelm Henning (born March 22, 1931 in Trebitz ; † December 14, 2008 in Heimerzheim ) was a German economic and social historian .

Live and act

The son of a doctorate in agriculture completed an agricultural education after graduating from high school. From 1952 he then studied agriculture, law, economics and history at the University of Göttingen . Since 1952 he was a member of the Göttingen Wingolf student union . In 1963, with a dissertation on the influence of the estates on the state and court constitution in Germany, he was awarded a Dr. jur. doctorate and in the same year Dr. rer. pole. with a dissertation on domination and peasant subservience. In 1967 the habilitation followed with a thesis on the services and taxes of farmers in the 18th century. Henning was initially a lecturer in Göttingen and in 1971 was appointed to the chair of economic and social history at the University of Cologne , which he held until his retirement in 1996. From 1972 to 1996 Henning was also the Scientific Director of the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv in Cologne. After his retirement, Henning remained editor of the economic and social history series, the quarterly journal for social and economic history and the Scripta Mercaturae .

Henning's main work is the handbook of economic and social history in Germany . Henning was also active in the field of agricultural history , including as editor of the German agricultural history. In this series, Henning published the volume on the German agricultural history of the Middle Ages in 1994 . Henning also worked on financial and tax history, banking and stock exchange history as well as entrepreneurial and corporate history. Regional focal points were East Prussia , Silesia and Westphalia . With his three-volume economic and social history, Henning wrote a standard textbook that is still widely used today. Since 1976 he has been a member of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research , from 1988 also of the Historical Commission for Silesia.

Fonts

  • Agriculture and Rural Society in Germany. 2 vols. Schöningh, Paderborn 1978/79.
  • Handbook of the economic and social history of Germany. 3 vols. Schöningh, Paderborn 1991-2003.

literature

  • Karl Heinrich Kaufhold : Obituary for Friedrich-Wilhelm Henning (1931–2008). In: Research on Brandenburg and Prussian History NF 20 (2010), pp. 131–133.
  • Günther Schulz u. a. (Ed.): Social and economic history. Areas of work - problems - perspectives (= quarterly for social and economic history. Volume 169). Steiner, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-515-08435-5 , p. 657.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Joachim Menzel: 1988 annual report of the Historical Commission for Silesia . In: Yearbook of the Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau 39 (1989), p. 357.
personal data
SURNAME Henning, Friedrich-Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economic and social historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Trebitz (experts)
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 2008
Place of death Heimerzheim