Gerhard Ahrens (historian)

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Gerhard Ahrens (born June 9, 1939 in Hamburg ) is a German economic historian.

Life

Ahrens studied business administration and modern history at the universities of Tübingen , FU Berlin and Hamburg . After graduating with a degree in business administration , he was in 1969 in Hamburg with an agricultural history work Caspar Voght to Dr. rer. pole. PhD. He qualified as a professor for economic and social history at the Hamburg University of the Federal Armed Forces .

He taught as a professor for social and economic history at the University of Hamburg. In 1991 he founded the Hamburg History Department . He was succeeded in 2003 by Franklin Kopitzsch .

Ahrens lives in Lübeck . He is involved in the Tuesday lectures of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities and in the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology .

He is the author of contributions to the Hamburg biography and participates in the Lübeck history published by Antjekathrin Graßmann .

Fonts

  • Caspar Voght and his model estate Flottbek: English agriculture in Germany at the end of the 18th century. Hamburg: Christians 1969, also Hamburg, Wirtsch.- u. social science F., Diss. V. Aug 13, 1969 (Contributions to the History of Hamburg 1).
  • (Ed.) Heinrich Sieveking: Career of a Hamburg Scholar: Memories 1871-1914. Hamburg: Society of Book Friends in Hamburg 1977.
  • (Ed.) Gustav Schiefler: A Hamburg cultural history 1890–1920: observations of a contemporary. Hamburg: Association for Hamburg History 1985, ISBN 3-923356-05-6 .
  • Crisis management 1857: State and business community in Hamburg during the 1st world economic crisis. Hamburg: Association for Hamburg History 1986, ISBN 3-923356-11-0 .
  • with Renate Hauschild-Thiessen: The shipowners Laeisz, Ballin, Hamburg: Association for Hamburg. History 1989, ISBN 3-923356-27-7 (Hamburgische Lebensbilder 2).
  • Text in: Joist Grolle (Ed.): The City Hall of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. L-und-H-Verlag, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-928119-25-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. After congratulations for Prof. Dr. Gerhard Ahrens on the occasion of his 60th birthday on June 9, 1999: the contributors with a heartfelt thank you for their cooperation presented as a souvenir by Franklin Kopitzsch and Daniel Tilgner. Hamburg 1999
  2. Exciting city history. Change in leadership: New head at the Institute for Social and Economic History. , accessed July 8, 2014
  3. VLGA review , accessed July 8, 2014
  4. ^ Antjekathrin Graßmann (ed.): Lübeckische Geschichte. 4th, verb. and additional ed., Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2008, ISBN 978-3-7950-1280-9