Gert Zang

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Gert Zang (* 1941 in Memmingen ) is a German historian and archivist . He is known for numerous book publications on regional history.

Zang studied sociology, history, philosophy and criminology in Munich , Tübingen and Konstanz . In 1972 he received his doctorate from the University of Konstanz with a study of the social structure and socialization of the nobility in the 18th century to the Dr. phil.

From 1972 he led the project “Political and Social Conditions in the Province” as a lecturer for history at the University of Konstanz and from 1980 the project “Regional Social History / Oral History”. As part of the last-named project, not only was Dieter Schott's dissertation (now Professor of History at the University of Darmstadt ), but also Zang's study The Unstoppable Approach to the Individual. Reflections on the theoretical and practical benefits of regional and everyday history . Zang was an archivist in the cultural office of the Lake Constance district.

Zang lives on the island of Reichenau and is the manager of the Museum Reichenau . He was chairman of the SPD local association Reichenau.

In 1978 he was awarded the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Prize .

Publications

  • Province as a political problem. In: Kursbuch . No. 39/1975, pp. 81-127.
  • The new constancy. The beginnings of social democracy in the constancy of the liberal era (1869–1878). Constance 1980.
  • An afternoon interviewing (an interviewer's associations about the sense and usefulness of oral history). In: Seegründe. Contributions to the history of the Lake Constance area. Weingarten 1984.
  • The unstoppable approach to the individual. Reflections on the theoretical and practical benefits of regional and everyday history (= series of publications by the working group for regional history. Volume 6). Constance 1985.
  • with other authors: Oral history. A new instrument for approaching historical reality? Life stories from the Lake Constance region. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Volume 103, 1985, pp. 165-210.
  • Constance in the grand ducal era. Volume 2: Upswing in the German Empire . Constance 1993.
  • Constance in the grand ducal era. Volume 1: Restoration, Revolution, Liberal Era . Constance 1994.
  • The two faces of National Socialism. Singing at the Hohentwiel in the Third Reich. Sigmaringen 1995.
  • A short history of the city of Konstanz. Karlsruhe 2010.

literature

  • Information on modern city history. No. 1, 1986, pp. 35-37.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association. In: Museum Reichenau eV Accessed on December 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Prize winners of the Wolf Erich Kellner Prize. (PDF) Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Gedächtnisstiftung, accessed on December 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Zang, device
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Memmingen