Günther Grünthal

Günther Grünthal (born April 4, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German historian and university professor .

Life

At the green valley studied from 1957 to 1963 Georg-August University of Göttingen and the Free University of Berlin , the subjects history , German language and literature , philosophy and pedagogy . In 1963 he passed the first state examination for higher teaching qualifications , followed by his doctorate in 1966 . He then worked as a research assistant at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute at the Free University of Berlin. In the same year he switched to the chair of Walter Bußmann at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He stayed there until 1970 and then went to the University of Karlsruhe . In 1975 habilitated he and received a teaching license for newer and newest history.

In 1980 Grünthal was appointed professor . From 1986 to 1989 he was Vice Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. In 1993 he accepted a professorship for modern and contemporary history at the Technical University of Chemnitz . There he was dean of the newly founded philosophical faculty and member of the Senate from 1994 to 1997 . In October 2000 he became rector of the TU Chemnitz. After his retirement in 2003, he lives in Ettlingen .

The academic works of Grünthal include numerous monographs and essays, particularly on the history of the German constitution and political parties in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as the history of Prussia and the Weimar Republic. In addition to the research and teaching tasks as well as intensive administrative obligations, Grünthal has rendered outstanding services to the promotion of Central and Eastern European contacts and above all to the introduction of new, inter-faculty courses as part of the expansion of the new Philosophical Faculty at the Technical University of Chemnitz .

Works

• Reich School Law and Center Party in the Weimar Republic. Droste, Düsseldorf 1968 ( contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Vol. 39).
• The constitutionalization of Prussia. A contribution to the Prussian constitutional and parliamentary history. Machine-written habilitation thesis, University of Karlsruhe, 1975.
• Parliamentarism in Prussia 1848 / 49–1857 / 58. Prussian Constitutionalism - Parliament and Government in the Reaction Era. Droste, Düsseldorf 1982, ISBN 3-7700-5117-3 ( Handbook of the History of German Parliamentarism ).
• Siegfried A. Kaehler. Letters 1900–1963. Edited by Walter Bußmann and Günther Grünthal with the assistance of Joachim Stemmler. Boldt, Boppard a. Rh. 1993, ISBN 3-7646-1930-9 ( German historical sources of the 19th and 20th centuries. Vol. 58).
• (with Jelena Schmitt) As the strongest parliamentary group in the town hall from 1918/19 to 1932/33. In: The SPD in Chemnitz Town Hall 1897–1997. Edited by the SPD parliamentary group in the Chemnitz city council. Fackelträger, Hannover 1997, ISBN 3-7716-2517-3 , pp. 53-110.
• Constitution and constitutional change. Selected treatises. Festschrift for Günther Grünthal on his 65th birthday. Edited by Frank-Lothar Kroll , Joachim Stemmler and Hendrik Thoß . Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11140-0 ( Historical Research. Vol. 78).

Web links

• Historian Prof. Dr. Günther Grünthal is the new rector of the TU Chemnitz from October , press release of the TU Chemnitz from May 23, 2000.