Hedwig Richter

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Hedwig Richter (2017)

Hedwig Richter (* 1973 ) is a German historian . She is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich .

Life

After graduating from high school, Richter completed a voluntary social year in Israel. She then studied history, German literature and philosophy at the University of Heidelberg , Queen's University Belfast and the FU Berlin . In 2008 she received her doctorate from the University of Cologne . In the same year she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic . From 2009 to 2011 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology at Bielefeld University . From 2011 to 2016 she was a research assistant at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald . In 2005 and 2011 she was a fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington . After completing her habilitation in Greifswald in 2016, she was appointed private lecturer . From 2016 she worked as a historian at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and represented the Chair of Modern History at the University of Heidelberg in the 2018 summer semester . In 2019, he was offered the professorship for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich on January 1, 2020.

Her research focuses on European history, the history of the United States, democracy and dictatorship studies, gender, migration, and the history of religion.

Hedwig Richter writes for the daily newspapers Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Süddeutsche Zeitung and taz as well as for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit .

Democracy research

Democracy is in many ways an elite project, according to one of Hedwig Richter's central theses, which she unfolds in her habilitation thesis “Modern Elections” and other publications. At the beginning of the history of democracy around 1800 in particular, democratic practices such as elections were "imposed from above rather than demanded from below, and in the further course of the 19th century modern elections did not always turn out to be an elite project". In “Modern Elections” Richter explains that the history of democracy cannot be written as a tale of a few countries like the USA or Great Britain, but only as a common and transnational history. In all North Atlantic countries, elections often served not only to establish legitimacy, but also to discipline the population or as a rite of consent or even submission of citizens to state power.

Migration research

Hedwig Richter speaks of a “victim plot” with a view to discourses on labor migration to Germany. He is not only blind to the transnational entanglements of the migration process, but he also incapacitates the migrants, because they are by no means naively lured to Germany. The majority of migrant workers hoped for quick money for social advancement in their homeland - and were outraged if someone expected them to stay in Germany longer than planned. In fact, of the 14 million migrant workers who had entered, 12 million returned. To this day, the victim plot and the focus on integration shape the discussion about migration and distort the perspective, says Richter.

Awards

Hedwig Richter's dissertation Pietism in Socialism was awarded the Offermann Hergarten Prize by the University of Cologne . In 2018 she was awarded for her book Modern elections the price of democracy Foundation .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Democracy. A German affair. CH Beck , Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-406-75479-1 .
  • Modern elections. A history of democracy in Prussia and the USA in the 19th century. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-86854-313-1 (also habilitation, Univ. Greifswald 2016).
  • The GDR (= UTB. Volume 3252). Schöningh, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-8252-3252-8 .
  • Pietism in socialism. The Moravian Brethren in the GDR (= critical studies on historical science. Volume 186). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-37007-0 (also dissertation, Univ. Cologne 2008).
  • with Ralf Richter: The world of guest workers. Life between Wolfsburg and Palermo. Schöningh, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 3-506-77373-9 .

Editorships

  • with Tim B. Müller: Demokratiegeschichten (= history and society. Journal for historical social science. Volume 44, issue 3). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2018, ISSN 0340-613X.
  • with Kerstin Wolff: Women's suffrage. Democratization of Democracy in Germany and Europe. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86854-323-0 .
  • with Hubertus Buchstein : Culture and Practice of Elections. A history of modern democracy. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 3-658-16097-7 .
  • with Luise Güth, Niels Hegewisch, Dirk Mellies and Knut Langewand: Where's the Enlightenment? Enlightenment Discourses in Postmodernism. Festschrift for Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann (= historical messages. Volume 84). Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-515-10423-4 .
  • with Claudia Christiane Gatzka and Benjamin Schröder: Elections in the transatlantic modern age (= Comparativ. Journal for Global History and Comparative Social Research. Volume 23, Issue 1). Leipziger Universitätsverlag Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-86583-778-3 .
  • with Ralph Jessen : Voting for Hitler and Stalin. Elections under 20th Century Dictatorships . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39489-3 .
  • with Susanne Muhle , Juliane Schütterle: The GDR in view. A historical reading book. Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-940938-04-6 .
  • with Sibylle Berg , Simone Meier , Margarete Stokowski : You need to know these women , in: Spiegel Online and Watson.ch .

Web links

Commons : Hedwig Richter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Professorship at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich. Accessed January 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Research and teaching priorities. Accessed January 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Cf. for example We Subjects. German special route? , in: FAZ of June 22, 2018.
  4. ↑ See, for example, Streitbar. Is the end of democracy looming? , in: SZ of August 13, 2018.
  5. ↑ See, for example, Schnaps for the voters , in: Die Zeit from November 7, 2016.
  6. ^ Hedwig Richter: Disinterest and Discipline . In: History and Society . tape 44 , no. 3 , September 5, 2018, ISSN  0340-613X , p. 336–366 ( vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com [accessed September 18, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Modern elections. A history of democracy in Prussia and the USA in the 19th century . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2017, p. 10.
  8. ↑ Transnatioal reform and democracy: Election Reforms in New York City and Berlin around 1900 , in: Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 15 (2016), pp. 149–175. at academia.edu, accessed on February 28, 2018.
  9. ↑ Hedwig Richter, The Complexity of Integration. Labor migration to the Federal Republic of Germany from the fifties to the seventies , in: Zeitgeschichte-Online, November 2015.
  10. ↑ Hedwig Richter u. Ralph Richter, The Victim Plot. Problems and new fields of German labor migration research, in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 1 (2009), pp. 61–97.
  11. ^ Prize of the Democracy Foundation of the University of Cologne. Accessed January 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Hedwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1973