Hans Günter Hockerts

Hans Günter Hockerts (born February 7, 1944 in Echternach ) is a German historian . Until the 2008/2009 winter semester he held the chair for contemporary history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Live and act

After graduating from high school (1963 in Trier ), Hans Günter Hockerts studied history, German and philosophy. After completing his doctorate in 1969 with Konrad Repgen , he passed the first state examination at Saarland University in 1970 . From 1975 to 1976 he was a habilitation fellow from the German Research Foundation and completed his habilitation in 1977 at the University of Bonn . In 1980 he received a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation, and in 1981 he received a professorship in the Department of Modern History and Contemporary History at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 1982 he accepted a chair for this subject at the University of Frankfurt am Main . In 1986 he returned to the Chair of Contemporary History in Munich. In the 1999/2000 college year he was a research fellow at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich. His academic students include Elisabeth Kraus, Dieter Pohl and Sybille Steinbacher .

Hockerts is a member of the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , where he heads the files department of the Reich Chancellery, Hitler government 1933–1945 . He serves on numerous scientific advisory boards and commissions, is a corresponding member of the parliamentary committee in Berlin and is a member of the jury of the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis and the board of trustees of the Collegium Carolinum .

Fonts (selection)

as an author

• The moral trials against Catholic religious and priests 1936/1937. A study of the National Socialist rule technique and the church struggle (= publications of the Commission for Contemporary History. Series B: Research. 6). Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, Mainz 1971, ISBN 3-7867-0312-4 (also: Saarbrücken, University, dissertation, 1969).
• Social Policy Decisions in Post-War Germany. Allied and German social security policy 1945 to 1957 (= research and sources on contemporary history. 1). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-12-912910-3 (also: Bonn, University, habilitation paper, 1977).
• Weimar Republic, National Socialism, Second World War (1919–1945). First part: files and documents (= source studies on German history in modern times from 1500 to the present. Volume 6 / I). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1996, ISBN 3-534-07085-2 .
• The German welfare state. Development and endangerment since 1945 (= critical studies on historical science. 199). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-37001-8 .
• A legacy for science. The Fritz Thyssen Foundation in the Bonn Republic . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2018, ISBN 978-3-506-78890-0 .

as editor

• The Adenauer image in the GDR (= Rhöndorfer Talks. Publications of the Federal Chancellor Adenauer House Foundation. 15). Bouvier, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-416-02627-6 .
• Three ways of German welfare state. Nazi dictatorship, Federal Republic and GDR in comparison (= series of the quarterly books for contemporary history. 76). Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-64576-5 .
• Coordinates of German history in the era of the East-West conflict (= writings of the Historisches Kolleg. Colloquia. 55). Oldenbourg, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-486-56768-3 ( digitized ).
• Federal Republic of Germany. 1966-1974. A time of varied awakening (= history of social policy in Germany since 1945. Vol. 5). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2006, ISBN 3-7890-7321-0 .

as co-editor

• together with Klaus Gotto : Konrad Repgen : From the Reformation to the Present. Contributions to basic questions of modern history. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 1988, ISBN 3-506-77207-4 .
• together with Richard Bauer , Brigitte Schütz, Wolfgang Till and Walter Ziegler : Munich - “Capital of Movement”. Bavaria's metropolis and National Socialism. Klinkhardt and Biermann, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7814-0362-9 .
• together with Christiane Kuller: After the persecution. Reparation for National Socialist injustice in Germany? (= Dachau Symposia on Contemporary History. 3). Wallstein, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89244-625-3 .
• together with Hans Maier : Christian Resistance in the Third Reich. Plöger, Annweiler 2003, ISBN 3-89857-162-9 .
• together with Claudia Moisel and Tobias Winstel: Limits of reparation. Compensation for victims of Nazi persecution in Western and Eastern Europe 1945–2000. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0005-9 .
• together with Winfried Süß: Social inequality in the welfare state. The Federal Republic of Germany and Great Britain in comparison (= contemporary history in conversation. 8). Oldenbourg, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-59176-7 .
• together with Ulrich Becker and Klaus Tenfelde : Sozialstaat Deutschland. Past and present (= Political and Social History series. 87). Dietz, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-8012-4198-8 .
• together with Bernhard Emunds: Taming capitalism: Oswald von Nell-Breuning's impulses for social policy. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-506-78117-8
• together with Günther Schulz: “Rhenish Capitalism” in the Adenauer era. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-78270-0 .
• together with Friedrich Wilhelm Graf: Distance and closeness at the same time? The Christian churches in the “Third Reich”. NS Documentation Center, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-946041-17-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Günter Hockerts in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hans Günter Hockers at the history seminar of the LMU Munich