Hans-Walter Schmuhl

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Hans-Walter Schmuhl (born May 8, 1957 in Oberhausen ) is a German historian who is predominantly freelance and works at Bielefeld University . Schmuhl has presented and edited numerous books and articles on the history of the 19th and 20th centuries, especially the history of euthanasia and the history of various institutions.

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Schmuhl studied history, Latin and German at the universities in Bochum and Bielefeld. He then worked as a research assistant at the Faculty of History in Bielefeld, where he received his doctorate from Hans-Ulrich Wehler in 1986 on the history of "euthanasia" from 1890 to 1945 . After that he was a research associate at the Bielefeld Collaborative Research Center "Social history of the modern middle class: Germany in international comparison" until 1991 . In 1995 he completed his habilitation again with Hans-Ulrich Wehler with a text “The Lords of the City. Bourgeois elites and municipal self-government in Nuremberg and Braunschweig from the 18th century to 1918 ”. From 1997 to 1999 he was a substitute professor at the Universities of Bielefeld and Halle-Wittenberg , and in 1999 he was a visiting scholar at the research program “History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism” in Berlin. Since 2005 he has been an adjunct professor at the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology at Bielefeld University.

With Ulrike Winkler he founded a scientific working group. Schmuhl volunteers for indigenous peoples in Mexico and has founded an aid organization Kórima eV in this context. Kórima eV runs a museum in Bielefeld.

In 2014 Schmuhl was elected a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia .

Memberships in committees

  • Deputy chairman of the Institute for Diakonie and Social History at the Church University of Wuppertal / Bethel
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for People, Ethics and Science

Publications (selection)

  • The Society of German Neurologists and Psychiatrists during National Socialism. Springer, Berlin et al. 2016, ISBN 978-3-662-48743-3 .
  • with Ulrike Winkler: Diakonie in the Diaspora. The Evangelical Diakoniewerk Gallneukirchen from the Habsburg Monarchy to the Second Republic (= writings of the Institute for Diaconal and Social History at the Church University of Wuppertal, Bethel. 26). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-89534-986-7 .
  • as editor: cultural relativism and anti-racism. The anthropologist Franz Boas (1858–1942). Transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1071-0 .
  • Crossing boundaries. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics 1927–1945 (= History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism. 9). Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-799-3 (English edition: The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, 1927–1945. Crossing Boundaries (= Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. 259). Springer, Dordrecht 2008, ISBN 978-1-4020-6599-6 ).
  • Friedrich von Bodelschwingh (= Rororo. 50687 Rowohlt's monographs. ). Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-499-50687-4 .
  • as editor: Race research at Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes before and after 1933 (= history of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism. 4). Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89244-471-4 .
  • Brain research and homicide. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research 1937–1945 (= research program History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism. 1, ISSN  1616-380X ). Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin 2000, ( preprint ).
  • Doctors at the Bethel asylum. 1870-1945. Bethel-Verlag, Bielefeld 1998, ISBN 3-922463-88-6 .
  • The masters of the city. Bourgeois elites and municipal self-government in Nuremberg and Braunschweig from the 18th century to 1918. Focus-Verlag, Gießen 1998, ISBN 3-88349-468-2 (also: Bielefeld, University, habilitation thesis, 1995).
  • Sterilization, “euthanasia”, “final solution”. Hereditary health policy under the conditions of charismatic rule. In: Norbert Frei (Hrsg.): Medicine and health policy in the Nazi era. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1991 (= writings of the quarterly books for contemporary history. Special issue), ISBN 3-486-64534-X , pp. 295–308.
  • Racial hygiene, National Socialism, euthanasia. From prevention to the destruction of "life unworthy of life", 1890–1945 (= critical studies on historical science . 75). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1987, ISBN 3-525-35737-0 (2nd, revised edition. Ibid 1992. At the same time: Bielefeld, University, dissertation, 1986: The synthesis of doctor and executioner. ).

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SURNAME Schmuhl, Hans-Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German modern historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen