Günther Heydemann

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Günther Heydemann, 2016

Günther Heydemann (born March 14, 1950 in Burghausen ) is a German historian. From 1993 to 2016 he was Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Leipzig and from 2009 to 2016 Director of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism.

Life

Günther Heydemann made after high school in 1969 in Forchheim military service in the mountain units of the Bundeswehr . From 1970 he studied history , German , social studies and the Italian language at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . He became a member of the Bubenreuther fraternity . He moved to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the University of Pisa and the University of Florence . In 1976 he passed the state examination for higher teaching qualifications in Erlangen. Starting in 1977, a research associate of Hubert lumber and Karl-Heinz Ruffmann at Erlanger Institute of society and science, he was in 1979 summa cum laude for Dr. phil. PhD . From 1982, he served as Assistant Professor a. Currently working at the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History ( Adolf M. Birke ) at the University of Bayreuth until he moved to the German Historical Institute in London (DHIL) in 1985 . There he was employed as a research assistant until 1992. During this time he completed his habilitation in 1991 at the Faculty of Cultural Studies in Bayreuth. He then took over a professorship at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich ( Gerhard A. Ritter ) and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn ( Klaus Hildebrand ) and worked as a department head in the Potsdam branch researching the history of the Soviet zone / GDR in Munich Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ). In 1993 Heydemann finally accepted a professorship for modern and contemporary history at the History Department of the University of Leipzig ; he has been retired since 2016. In addition, in July 2009 he was appointed director of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism (HAIT) in Dresden. This activity ended on September 30, 2016.

Heydemann's main research interests are the history of the German Democratic Republic , dictatorship and the history of Italy . Heydemann is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Foundation for the Study of the SED Dictatorship , Board Member of the Society for Research on Germany , Member of the Scientific Advisory Boards of the German Historical Museum , the Institute for Contemporary History and the Ettersberg Foundation , and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Saxon Memorials Foundation in Memory of the Victim of political tyranny , member of the scientific selection committee "Pro Lower Saxony", member of the board of trustees of the Horst Springer Foundation in the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and member of the design committee for the Dresden Revolutionary Path 1989/90 . He is the liaison professor of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom . He is also editor of the journal Totalitarismus und Demokratie and co-editor of Processi Storici e Politiche di Pace . He is chairman of the jury of the Association of Liberal Academics for the Arno Esch Prize .

Honors

Fonts

  • History in divided Germany. Development history, organizational structure, functions, theory and method problems in the Federal Republic of Germany and in the GDR (= Erlanger historical studies . Volume 6). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1980, ISBN 3-8204-6179-5 .
  • Carl Ludwig Sand. The deed as an assassination attempt (= Upper Franconian heads ). Oberfränkische Verlagsanstalt, Hof 1985, ISBN 3-921615-66-6 .
  • Constitution against Revolution. British policy on Germany and Italy 1815–1848 (= publications by the German Historical Institute, London . Volume 36). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen et al. 1995, ISBN 3-525-36321-4 .
  • The internal politics of the GDR (= Encyclopedia of German History . Volume 66). Oldenbourg, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-55770-X .

Editorships

  • with Alexander Fischer : History in the GDR (= series of publications by the Society for Research in Germany . Volume 25). 2 volumes, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1988/90, ISBN 3-428-06560-3 .
  • Volume I: Historical development, theoretical discussion and history didactics ;
  • Volume II: Prehistory and early history to the latest history .
  • with Adolf M. Birke : The Challenge of the European State System. National ideology and state interest between restoration and imperialism (= publications of the German Historical Institute, London . Volume 23). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen et al. 1989, ISBN 3-525-36308-7 .
  • with Lothar Kettenacker : Churches under dictatorship. Third Reich and SED state. Fifteen contributions (= Vandenhoeck Collection ). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-01351-5 .
  • with Alexander Fischer: The political "turning point" in Saxony in 1989/90. Review and interim balance (= writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism . Volume 1). Böhlau, Weimar et al. 1995, ISBN 3-412-07995-2 .
  • with Eckhard Jesse : Comparison of dictatorships as a challenge. Theory and Practice (= series of publications by the Gesellschaft für Deutschlandforschung . Volume 65). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-428-09715-7 .
  • with Gunther Mai and Werner Müller : Revolution and Transformation 1989/90 in the GDR (= series of publications by the Gesellschaft für Deutschlandforschung . Volume 73). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-10003-4 .
  • with Eckart Klein : Staatsräson in Deutschland (= publication series of the Society for Germany Research . Volume 78). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11133-8 .
  • with Heinrich Oberreuter : Dictatorships in Germany - Comparative Aspects (= series of publications . Volume 398). Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-89331-482-2 .
  • with Eckhard Jesse: 15 years of German unity. German-German encounters, German-German relations (= series of publications by the Gesellschaft für Deutschlandforschung . Volume 89). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-428-12130-9 .
  • with Francesca Weil: First the party secretary was greeted, then the rector…. Contemporary witness reports from members of the University of Leipzig (1945–1990) (= contributions to the history of Leipzig university and science . Series B, Volume 16). Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-374-02705-7 .
  • with Karel Vodička : From the Eastern Bloc to the EU. System transformations 1990–2012 in comparison [with 17 tables] (= writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism . Volume 49). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-36960-9 .
  • with Jan Erik Schulte and Francesca Weil: Saxony and National Socialism [with 5 tables] (= writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism . Volume 53). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-647-36964-8 .
  • with Karl-Heinz Paqué (Ed.): Planned economy - privatization - market economy. Economic order and development in the Soviet zone / GDR and the new federal states 1945–1994. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017 (= writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research , Volume 63), ISBN 978-3-525-36975-3 .

literature

  • Andreas Kötzing, Francesca Weil, Mike Schmeitzner , Jan Erik Schulte (eds.): Comparison as a challenge. Festschrift for Günther Heydemann's 65th birthday (= writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism . Volume 57). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen et al. 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-36969-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Adam: The representation of the Jenaer Urburschenschaft in the German history from 1949 to 1989/90. (PDF; 384 kB). Jena 2006, p. 51.
  2. ^ Habilitation thesis: Constitution against Revolution. British policy on Germany and Italy, 1815–1848 .
  3. ^ Arno Esch Prize - Association of Liberal Academics . In: Association of Liberal Academics . ( liberale-akademiker.de [accessed on January 22, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Prize winners of the Wolf Erich Kellner Prize. (PDF) Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Gedächtnisstiftung, accessed on December 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Heydemann, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Burghausen