Hans-Georg Fleck

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Hans-Georg Fleck (left), next to Ewald Grothe and Jürgen Frölich

Hans-Georg Fleck (born July 15, 1953 in Trier ) is a German historian and former employee of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom .

Life

Fleck attended the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium Neuwied and graduated from high school there in 1972. Interrupted from civil service, he studied history, political science and philosophy at the Universities of Bonn and Würzburg in 1972/73 and from 1975 to 1979 and completed his studies with a Magister Artium. From 1979 to 1982 he was a research assistant at the Department of History at the University of Cologne . He received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation , which also supported him during his doctorate in the subjects of Medieval and Modern History, Eastern European History and Scandinavian Studies. He received his doctorate with a thesis on the liberal trade union movement , for which he received the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Prize in 1991 .

From 1985 to 1990 Fleck worked as a research assistant in the Political Archives of the Foreign Office in Bonn as a member of the group of editors of the "Files on German Foreign Policy". In 1990 he was seconded as an employee of the FDP federal office to prepare for the Volkskammer election campaign in the GDR (March 1990) and the state elections (May 1990). In 1990 he became project manager of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and worked from 1991 to 1997 in Poland (seat: Warsaw ), from 1997 to 2005 in the former Yugoslavia , and (since 1999) in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina (seat: Zagreb ), from 2005 to 2012 in Israel and the Palestinian Territories (seat: Jerusalem ) and from 2012 to 2019 in Turkey (seat: Istanbul ).

From 1989 to 2011 Fleck was co-editor of the yearbook on research on liberalism .

Publications

  • Social liberalism and social reform since the founding of the Reich. In: Detlef Lehnert (Ed.): Social liberalism in Europe. Origin and development in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Böhlau, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2012, pp. 51–65.
  • Against the "licentiousness of social law of thumb". Trade union social liberalism and the German Progressive Party. In: Detlef Lehnert (Ed.): Social liberalism in Europe. Origin and development in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Böhlau, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2012, pp. 83-107.
  • Departure - to opposite shores. An exchange of letters from the young Karl-Hermann Flach. In: Yearbook for Liberalism Research 22 (2010), pp. 215–250.
  • Benevolence, disregard, mistrust despite “community of fate” - organized left-wing liberalism and social-liberal social reform in the time of Eugen Richter. In: Jahrbuch zur Liberalismus-Forschung 19 (2007), pp. 47–82.
  • In Search of a Liberal Identity: Transition to Democracy, Liberal Heritage, and Liberal Parties in Eastern Europe. In: Jahrbuch zur Liberalismus-Forschung 18 (2006), pp. 203-238.
  • O Dijalogu povjesničara / istoričara: kritička povijesna znanost, politico obrazovanje I društveni pluralizam. (German: About the Historians' Dialogue: Critical History, Political Education and Social Pluralism ). In: Mile Bjelajac, Andre Feldman et al .: Čemu dijalog povjesničara / istoričara? Zagreb 2005, pp. 17-37.
  • Social liberalism and trade union movement in Prussia. In: Jahrbuch zur Liberalismus-Forschung 14 (2002), pp. 259–280.
  • with Igor Graovac (ed.): Dijalog povjesničara - istoričara 1. – 8. Zagreb 2000-2004.
  • (Ed.): Prošlost je teško pitanje (German: The past is a difficult matter ). Dvorac Brezovica, 5th Prosinca 1998. Zagreb 2000.
  • with Tomasz G. Pszczółkowski (Ed.): Nowoczesny Liberalizm. Materiały z konferencji Warszawa May 26-28, 1992. Warszawa 1997 (also published in the German version: Moderner Liberalismus. Warsaw 1997).
  • with Ryszard Kołodzieczyk (Ed.): Liberal Traditions in Poland. Warsaw 1994.
  • Social liberalism and trade union movement. The Hirsch-Duncker trade associations 1868–1914. Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1994 (also: University of Cologne, phil. Diss. 1991).
  • with Ryszard Ławniczak (Ed.): Alternative Models of Market Economy for Transition Economies. Warszawa 1993 (Polish edition: Alternatywne modele gospodarki rynkowej dla krajów transformacji gospodarczej. Warszawa 1993).
  • About the inconvenience of dealing with social reality. Liberal reactions to socio-political challenges in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. In: Liberalism and Social Question (s). 5th Rastatt Day on the History of Liberalism, November 7th / 8th, 1992. Comdok, Sankt Augustin 1993, pp. 27-56.
  • Social justice through organizational power and balance of interests. Selected aspects of the history of social liberal trade unions. In: Erich Matthias , Klaus Schönhoven (ed.): Solidarity and human dignity. Stages in German trade union history from the beginning to the present. Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn 1984, pp. 83-106.

Web links

Commons : Hans-Georg Fleck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the regional office of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom .
  2. ^ Based on documents from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in the Archives of Liberalism in Gummersbach .
personal data
SURNAME Fleck, Hans-Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fleck, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH trier