Gerold Ambrosius

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Gerold Ambrosius (born February 4, 1949 in Bremerhaven ) is a German economic historian .

Life

From 1997 until his retirement in 2014 he held the professorship for economic and social history at the University of Siegen , whose institute for European regional research he was director.

Ambrosius studied economics at the University of Tübingen from 1968 to 1972 . In 1976 he was with the thesis "The enforcement of the social market economy in West Germany after the Second World War (1946-1949)" doctorate . The work is considered to be the first major source-critical work on the subject. As part of his assistantship at the Free University of Berlin (1977–1982), he completed his habilitation with the thesis “The Public Economy in the Weimar Republic” in the subject of economic and social history.

From 1982 to 1991 Ambrosius represented professorships at the Universities of Marburg , Siegen, Berlin, Bochum and Hamburg . Research stays took him to Cambridge and Tokyo . In 1991 he held the professorship for economic and social history at the University of Konstanz ; since 1997 he has taught in Siegen.

Ambrose's most recent research priorities included the history of (European) integration of economies , also in comparison (such as the two integration phases before the First and after the Second World War), also with a focus on the integration of infrastructure systems and standardizations, as well as history of public companies, public service systems, institutional competition and the new institutional economics as a methodological approach in economic history.

Fonts (selection)

as an author
  • The establishment of the social market economy in West Germany 1945–1949 (= Studies on Contemporary History , Vol. 10). DVA, Stuttgart 1977 (also dissertation, University of Tübingen 1976).
  • The state as an entrepreneur. Public economy and capitalism since the 19th century (= Kleine Vandenhoeck-Reihe , vol. 1498). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1984, ISBN 3-525-33496-6 .
  • State and Economy in the 20th Century. Oldenbourg, Munich 1990 (= Encyclopedia of German History , Vol. 7), ISBN 3-486-55481-6 .
  • The public economy in the Weimar Republic. Municipal utilities as instruments of economic policy . BWV, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-8305-0704-6 (plus habilitation thesis, University of FU Berlin 1982).
as editor
  • European common good. Historical dimension and current importance . Nomos VG, Baden-Baden 2006, ISBN 3-8329-1724-1 .
  • Modern economic history. An introduction for historians and economists . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57878-2 .
  • Liberals vs. institutional integration of economic politicians in Europe. The 19th and 20th centuries in a systematic and historical comparison . Nomos VG, Baden-Baden 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-4988-4 .
  • International Politics and Integration of European Infrastructures Past and Present . Nomos VG, Baden-Baden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8329-5747-6 .

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