Günther Schulz (historian)

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Günther Schulz (born November 27, 1950 in Morsbach ) is a German social and economic historian.

Life

Günther Schulz received his doctorate in 1977 at the University of Bonn with a socio-historical study of the workers and employees of the Cologne wire and cable manufacturing company Felten & Guilleaume 1800 to 1914. He completed his habilitation in 1990 with a study on housing policy in the western zones and the Federal Republic of Germany from 1945 to 1957. In 1991/92 he was a visiting lecturer at the TU Dresden , and since 1992 professor for economic and social history at the University of Cologne . In 2000 he was offered a professorship at the University of Bonn, where he was head of the department for constitutional, social and economic history at the institute for historical studies there until his retirement in early 2016. From 2004 to 2008 he was Finance Vice Dean, from 2008 to 2011 Dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn. He has been co-editor since 1997, and from 2002 to 2018 he was the lead editor of the quarterly journal for social and economic history . Since 2016 he has been chairman of the Bonn University Club .

His main areas of work are the social and economic history of the 19th and 20th centuries with a focus on the history of the economic and social order, social and housing policy, workers and employees, entrepreneurs and companies as well as the credit industry. He is a full member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature . From 2008 to 2016 he was chairman of the Society for Social and Economic History. He is chairman of the advisory board of the Federal Chancellor Adenauer House Foundation , Bad Honnef / Rhöndorf and of the working group for savings bank history , science promotion of the savings bank finance group, German savings bank and giro association .

Fonts

  • as editor (together with Reinhold Reith ): Economy and the environment from the late Middle Ages to the present. On the way to sustainability? (= Quarterly for social and economic history. Supplement 233). Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-515-11064-8 .
  • as editor: poor and rich. On social and economic inequality in history (= quarterly journal for social and economic history. Supplement 229). Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-515-10693-1 .
  • as editor (together with Mathias Schmoeckel and William J. Hausman): Regulation between Legal Norms and Economic Reality. Intentions, Effects, and Adaption: The German and American Experiences (= legal order and economic history. Vol. 8). Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-16-152248-2 .
  • Introduction to the study of modern history (= UTB 1553). 7th, completely revised edition. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-8252-1553-8 (in continuation of Opgenoorth / Schulz).
  • as editor: Konrad Adenauer 1917–1933. Documents from the Cologne years (= Rhine Province. Vol. 15). SH-Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-89498-161-7 .
  • as editor and contributing author: Federal Republic of Germany. 1949-1957. Coping with the consequences of war, return to normal social policy (= history of social policy in Germany since 1945. Vol. 3). Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2005, ISBN 3-7890-7317-2 .
  • with Hans Pohl , Bernd Rudolph : Economic and social history of the German savings banks in the 20th century (= savings banks in history. Department 3: Research. Vol. 18). Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-09-303000-5 .
  • as editor: Social and Economic History. Areas of work - problems - perspectives. 100 years quarterly for social and economic history (= quarterly for social and economic history. Supplement 169). Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08435-5 .
  • The employees since the 19th century (= Encyclopedia of German History . Vol. 54). Oldenbourg, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-55045-4 .
  • Reconstruction in Germany. Housing construction policy in the western zones and the Federal Republic of Germany from 1945 to 1957 (= research and sources on contemporary history. Vol. 20). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-0975-4 (also: Bonn, University, habilitation paper, 1991).
  • The workers and employees at Felten & Guilleaume. Social historical investigation of a Cologne industrial company in the 19th and beginning of the 20th century (= magazine for company history . Supplement. No. 13). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1979, ISBN 3-515-02885-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry of Günther Schulz at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz.
personal data
SURNAME Schulz, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social and economic historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Morsbach