Harm-Hinrich Brandt

Harm-Hinrich Brandt (born January 22, 1935 in Stuttgart ) is a German historian who deals particularly with the German history of the 19th century.

Life

Harm-Hinrich Brandt, the son of a geodesist, grew up in Stuttgart, Hildesheim and Bremen , where he attended the modern language grammar school. After graduating from high school in Bremen on Dekanatsstrasse, he studied history, political science and German at the universities of Marburg and Freiburg im Breisgau from 1954 . During his studies he became a member of the AMV Fridericiana Marburg in 1954 . In 1960 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . His dissertation , which Fritz Wagner had supervised, dealt with the Hessian economic administration and economic policy.

After Brandt had passed the first state examination for higher education in 1961, he worked as a research assistant to Fritz Wagner at the Institute for Modern History at the University of Marburg. In 1966 he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he was appointed Academic Councilor and senior councilor and completed his habilitation in 1975 . In 1978 he was appointed associate professor. Professor . In 1980 Brandt accepted a call from the University of Würzburg , where he held the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History II until his retirement in 2000.

Brandt's research focus is the history of the 19th century, particularly the Habsburg monarchy . He also dealt with the social and economic history of the Hessian and Main Franconian area and with the political history of the German states from the revolution of 1848/1849 to the establishment of the Empire in 1871 . As a student historian, Brandt deals with the history of the Sondershäuser Association as well as the social and mentality history of German corporations since the 19th century.

Fonts (selection)

• Economic policy and commercial participation in the North Hessian area 1710–1960 . Marburg 1960 (dissertation).
  • published under the title: From the Fürstlich-Hessische Commercien-Cammer to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Kassel 1710-1960 . Kassel 1960.
• Economy and economic policy in the Hanau area 1597–1962. The history of the Hanau-Gelnhausen-Schlüchtern Chamber of Commerce and Industry and its predecessors . Hanau 1963.
• The Kassel Chamber of Commerce and Industry and its predecessors 1763–1963. For the development of commercial self-government . Kassel 1963.
• Austrian neo-absolutism. Public finances and politics 1848–1860 . 2 volumes, Göttingen 1978 (habilitation thesis).
• One hundred years of the Kitzingen synagogue. On the history of Judaism in Mainfranken . Wurzburg 1984.
• with Hans Steidle: Emancipation and Discrimination. Contributions to individual questions of Jewish existence . Wuerzburg 1988.
• with Rainer Olten and Herbert Marschelke: Economy and politics in North Hesse since the 18th century. The Kassel Chamber of Commerce and Industry and its predecessors . Melsungen 1991.
• "A capable organ of the trade and factory owner class". The Würzburg-Schweinfurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 150 years . Wuerzburg 1993.
• German history 1850–1870. Decision about the nation . Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne 1999.
• Würzburg local politics 1869–1918. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 64-166 and 1254-1267.

Editing

• Between patronage and emancipation. Studies on the history of the Main Franconian Jews in the 19th century . Wuerzburg 1987.
• with Matthias Stickler : “The lady's glory”. Past and present of student corporation . Wuerzburg 1998.
• Austrian neo-absolutism as a constitutional and administrative problem. Discussions about a controversial term of epoch . Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2014.

literature

• Who is who? The German Who's Who . 39th Edition (2000), p. 159.
• Rainer F. Schmidt (Hrsg.): Germany and Europe: Basic foreign policy lines between the founding of an empire and the First World War. Celebration for Harm-Hinrich Brandt on his seventieth birthday . Stuttgart 2004. ISBN 978-3-51-508262-4 .
• Brandt, Harm-Hinrich , in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X . P. 54.

Web links

• Literature by Harm-Hinrich Brandt in the catalog of the German National Library