Hans-Peter Becht

Hans-Peter Becht, 2019

Hans-Peter Becht (born May 7, 1955 in Pforzheim ) is a German historian and adjunct professor at the University of Stuttgart .

Life

Becht completed a degree in history, political science and German at the University of Mannheim . In 1981 he became a research assistant at the Institute for Social and Economic History at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1985 he received his doctorate from the University of Mannheim. From 1986 to 2013 he was director of the Pforzheim City Archives . He has been teaching since 1997 and qualified as a professor at the University of Stuttgart in 2008. Since 2011 he has been an adjunct professor of modern history, recent history and national history there.

Bechts research focuses on the history of parliamentarianism and political parties, the modern city history , the social and economic history, the media and cultural history as well as the southwestern German state history .

From 1993 to 2003, Becht was deputy chairman of the Southwest German Working Group for Urban History Research and co-editor of the series “City in History”. He is also a member of the board of trustees of the Institute for Comparative Urban History ( Münster ) and the Association for Constitutional History .

Publications

Monographs

• The Baden Second Chamber and its members, 1819 to 1841/42. Investigations into the structure and functioning of an early German parliament , Heidelberg 1985 (also Mannheim, Univ., Diss., 1985).
• Pforzheim, as it was , Droste, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 978-3-7700-0748-6 .
• Parliamentarians of Baden 1867–1874. Historical photographs and biographical handbook , Droste, Düsseldorf 1995 (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism , 3), ISBN 978-3-7700-5187-8 .
• Pforzheim 1880 to 1945. Living spaces and living worlds in an industrial city , Sutton, Erfurt 1999, ISBN 978-3-89702-103-7 .
• Baden parliamentarism 1819 to 1870. A German parliament between reform and revolution , Droste, Düsseldorf 2009 (= Handbook of the history of German parliamentarism ), ISBN 978-3-7700-5297-4 .
• "Fuehrer commands ...". The National Socialist Pforzheim 1933–1945 , Verlag Regionalkultur, Heidelberg, Ubstadt-Weiher, Neustadt adW, Basel 2016, ISBN 978-3-89735-972-7 .

Anthologies

• (Ed.): Pforzheim in the Middle Ages. Studies on the history of a sovereign city , Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1983, ISBN 978-3-7995-6044-3 .
• (Ed.): Pforzheim in the early modern times. Contributions to the history of the city from the 16th to the 18th century , Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1989, ISBN 978-3-7995-6045-0 .
• (Ed.): Moments of the city's history. Pforzheim 1966–1985. Retired Lord Mayor Dr. rer. pole. Willi Weigelt on his 70th birthday on September 19, 1990 , Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1990, ISBN 978-3-7995-4151-0 .
• (Ed.): Roger Riblet-Buchmann: Unexpected encounter. As a young “foreign worker” in Pforzheim 1944/45 , Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1993, ISBN 978-3-7995-4167-1 .
• (Ed. With Bernhard Kirchgässner ): Residences des Rechts , Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1993 (= City in History , 19), ISBN 978-3-7995-6419-9 .
• (Ed. With Bernhard Kirchgässner): Vom Städtebund zum Zweckverband , Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1994 (= city ​​in history , 20), ISBN 978-3-7995-6420-5 .
• (Ed. With Bernhard Kirchgässner): Stadt und Handel , Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1994 (= city ​​in history , 22), ISBN 978-3-7995-6422-9 .
• (Ed. With Bernhard Kirchgässner): City and Representation , Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1995 (= City in History , 21), ISBN 978-3-7995-6421-2 .
• (Ed. With Hans-Jürgen Kremer): The "Chronicle of the City of Pforzheim" 1891–1939 , Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 1996, ISBN 978-3-929366-41-9 .
• (Ed.): Pforzheim in the 19th and 20th centuries. Building blocks for modern city history , Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1996, ISBN 978-3-7995-6046-7 .
• (Ed. With Bernhard Kirchgässner): Stadt und Mäzenatentum , Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1999 (= city ​​in history , 23), ISBN 978-3-7995-6423-6 .
• (Ed. With Bernhard Kirchgässner): City and Education , Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1999 (= City in History , 24), ISBN 978-3-7995-6424-3 .
• (Ed.): New contributions to city history . Part 1, Thorbecke, Ostfildern 1999, ISBN 978-3-7995-6160-0 .
• (Ed. With Jörg Schadt ): Economy - Society - Cities. Festschrift for Bernhard Kirchgässner on his 75th birthday , Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 1998, ISBN 3-929366-82-7 .
• (Ed. With Bernhard Kirchgässner): Stadt und Theater , Thorbecke, Stuttgart 1999 (= City in History , 25), ISBN 978-3-7995-6425-0 .
• (Ed. With Bernhard Kirchgässner): City and Archeology , Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2000 (= City in History , 26), ISBN 978-3-7995-6426-7 .
• (Ed. With Bernhard Kirchgässner): City and Revolution , Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2001 (= City in History , 27), ISBN 978-3-7995-6427-4 .
• (Ed. With Kurt Hochstuhl, Clemens Rehm): Baden 1848/49. Coping with and aftermath of a revolution , Stuttgart 2002 (= Oberrheinische Studien , 20), ISBN 3-7995-7820-X .
• (Ed.): Millenium. Contributions to the turn of the millennium , Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2002, ISBN 978-3-89735-198-1 .
• (Ed. With Bernhard Kirchgässner): Städtische Mythen , Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2003 (= City in History , 28), ISBN 978-3-7995-6428-1 .
• (Ed. With Carsten Kretschmann, Wolfram Pyta ): Politics, communication and culture in the Weimar Republic , Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2009, ISBN 978-3-89735-554-5 .
• (Ed. With Ewald Grothe ): Karl von Rotteck and Karl Theodor Welcker. Liberal professors, politicians and publicists. Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2018 (= State Understandings , 108), ISBN 978-3-8487-4551-7 .

Web links

• Website at the University of Stuttgart