Gertrud Pickhan

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Gertrud Pickhan (born August 27, 1956 in Dortmund ) is a German historian . Her research focus is Eastern European history.

Scientific career

Gertrud Pickhan studied history, Slavic studies and educational science at the universities of Münster , Vienna and Hamburg from 1975 to 1982 and graduated with a qualification for teaching at grammar schools.

From 1985 to 1992 she was a research assistant at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg; at the University of Hamburg she received her doctorate in 1989. This was followed by several years as a research assistant at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw (1993–1997). She then worked as a scientist and deputy to the founding director at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture in Leipzig (1997–2000). In 1999 she completed her habilitation in Modern and Eastern European History at the University of Hamburg with a paper on the Jewish workers' association in Poland in the interwar period.

In the following year Pickhan was professor for Polish regional and cultural studies at the Technical University of Dresden , from where she moved in 2003 to the chair for the history of East Central Europe at the Free University of Berlin .

Memberships (selection)

  • Member of the Baltic Historical Commission
  • Member of the editorial board of the Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe

Fonts (selection)

  • Ed. Together with Rüdiger Ritter: Jazz Behind the Iron Curtain , Frankfurt am Main 2010 (Jazz under State Socialism Vol. 1).
  • "Well-deserved lessons in liberalism and separation of powers". The Russian public and the Dreyfus affair . In: J'Accuse…! I accuse! About the Dreyfus affair. A documentation. Edited by Elke-Vera Kotowski and Julius H. Schoeps , Berlin 2005, pp. 143–152.
  • Levitan-Liebermann-Gottlieb. Three Jewish painters in their historical context , in: Eastern Europe 8–10 / 2008, pp. 247–264.
  • From the Kiever Rus to the Moscow Empire. Transcultural entanglements in Eastern Europe 1240–1533, in: Die Welt 1250–1500 , ed. by Thomas Ertl and Michael Limberger (Globalgeschichte series. Die Welt 1000–2000), Vienna 2009, pp. 113–137.
  • "No mans land". The letters of Greta Schiffmann and the fate of a Jewish family, expelled from Dortmund in October 1938 , in: Contributions to the history of the city of Dortmund and the county Mark 91 (2001), pp. 170–201.
  • Ed. Together with Ortwin Pelc : Between Lübeck and Novgorod. Economy, politics and culture in the Baltic Sea region from the early Middle Ages to the 20th century. Norbert Angermann on his 60th birthday. Lueneburg 1996.
  • "Against the current". The General Jewish Workers' Union (“Bund”) in Poland 1918–1939 (Writings of the Simon Dubnow Institute Leipzig Vol. 1), Munich / Stuttgart 2001.
  • together with Maximilian Preisler: driven out by Hitler, persecuted by Stalin. The jazz musician Eddie Rosner , Berlin 2010.
  • with Verena Dohrn (ed.): Transit and Transformation: Eastern European Jewish Migrants in Berlin 1918 - 1939 . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2010 ISBN 978-3-8353-0797-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the information in this section, see Pickhan's page on the FU Berlin website, as indicated in the web links.
  2. ↑ A detailed review can be found e.g. B. Cornelia Aust at http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensions/id=716 .
personal data
SURNAME Pickhan, Gertrud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German modern historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund