Heide Gerstenberger

Heide Gerstenberger (born July 21, 1940 in Heuchlingen as Heide Johannsen) is a German political and economic scientist . Since 1974 she has been professor for theory of civil society and the state at the University of Bremen . In 2005 she retired.

Life

Gerstenberger studied social sciences in Wilhelmshaven , Stellenbosch and Göttingen from 1960 to 1964 . After completing her studies, she initially worked as a contract teacher at the Reutlingen vocational school and later as an employee of the Düsseldorf Adult Education Center .

In 1966 she received a doctoral scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and returned to the University of Göttingen . In 1968 Gerstenberger was promoted to Dr. disc. pole. PhD with the subject of revolutionary conservatism . From 1966 to 1974 she was a research assistant at the Political Science Chair at the University of Göttingen.

In 1968, Gerstenberger was sent to the founding senate of the University of Bremen by the Federal Assistant Conference , which started work on September 19. Gerstenberger was chair of the founding senate from April 13, 1970 until the election of the founding rector Thomas von der Vring on June 29, 1970.

In 1972 Gerstenberger qualified as a professor with her work The Political Economy of Civil Society. Your constitution in the USA . 1974 Gerstenberger received the call to the University of Bremen for the position theory of civil society and the state.

Gerstenberger is a member of Attac's scientific advisory board .

Focus of work

Heide Gerstenberger works on a broad spectrum of socio-theoretical and socio-historical topics. They range from work on local social history to work on poor and social policy to research on the functioning of National Socialist rule. The focus was consistently on the analysis of the historical development and current structures of modern states.

Heide Gerstenberger is currently working on problems of globalization , on different forms of capitalist societies and on processes of impoverishment on a global scale.

Ongoing research project: Market and Violence.

Since 1992 Heide Gerstenberger has also been involved in research on historical and current practice in merchant shipping .

Publications since 1995

• La violence dans l'histoire de l'Etat, ou la puissance de définir . In: Lignes No. 25 (1995), pp. 23-33.
• Regarding ship service . In: H. Gerstenberger & U. Welke, eds. 1994, pp. 76-120.
• The craft of seafaring in the age of industrialization . Bremen 1995.
• Saint Peter, guidance, goal . In: Heide Gerstenberger & Ulrich Welke, eds. (1995), pp. 8-16.
• With prayer and without schnapps. About peace on board in times of upheaval . In: Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 18 (1995), pp. 49–56.
• Ancien Régime and New World. Elements of social and political formation in North America from the 16th to the 18th centuries . In: F. Edelmayer, B. Hausberger, M. Weinzierl (eds.): The two America . Frankfurt / M. 1996, pp. 81-95.
• ... that we know nothing at all outside of what is directly experienced. In: Mittelweg 36 , 5th year (1996), pp. 49-56.
• Social history of technology: from the art of navigation to the scientific-technical system of astro-navigation . In: Geschichte und Gesellschaft , 22nd year (1996) pp. 194–220.
• All-clear in poverty policy? . In: Mittelweg 36 , 5th year (1996), No. 3, p. 66 ff.
• German in the most daring sense of the word . In: Mittelweg 36 , 5th year (1996), No. 5, p. 36 ff.
• The concept of "total institution" in the analysis of seafaring . International Journal of Maritime History, 8th vol., H 1, 1996, pp. 173-182.
• From wind to steam. Social history of German merchant shipping in the age of modernization . Munster 1996.
• Edition of: Bremen Freedoms. On the past and present of the city-state of Bremen . Bremen 1997.
• My principles about Germanness and the different nationalities have shaken like the teeth of an old man, Victor Klemperer in his relationship to Germany and the Germans . In: Hannes Heer (Ed.): In the heart of the darkness. Victor Klemperer as a chronicler of the Nazi era . Berlin 1997, pp. 10-20.
• To the sea? Maritime businesses on the North and Baltic Seas . Munster 1999.
• Whole villages were mainly devoted to the nautical profession . In: H. Gerstenberger & U. Welke, eds. (1999), pp. 107-137.
• "Disembedding" - and "Re-Embedding"? Or: How up-to-date is Polanyi's analysis of "The Great Transformation"? . In: Festschrift for Jörg Huffschmid , Hamburg 2000.
• that this and that from the new navigation ... is completely unnecessary . In: 200 years of seafaring training in Bremen, published by the University of Bremen , Department of Nautical Science and International Economics, Bremen 2000 (no page references).
• The ship community . In: Yearbook 1999 of the German Society for Shipping and Marine History, 5th year, Düsseldorf 2000, pp. 73–79.
• Subjectless violence. Theory of the emergence of civil state power . 2nd, improved edition, Münster: Westphalian steam boat 2006 (first 1990)
• Market and violence. How historical capitalism works . Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot 2017, ISBN 978-3-89691-125-4 . (2nd corrected edition 2018).
• together with Claudia von Braunmühl, Ralf Ptak , Christa Wichterich (eds.): ABC of global (dis) order. From »Anthropocene« to »Civil Society« , Hamburg: VSA-Verlag 2019, ISBN 978-3-96488-003-1 .

Translations

• The state in France from 1789 to the present day . Add. with Hedwig Linden, translation (from the French) of L'état en France de 1789 à nos jours by Pierre Rosanvallon, Münster 2000, ISBN 3-89691-411-1 .

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1. ↑ see page about Gerstenberger at Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot , accessed March 29, 2019
2. ^ Research and cooperation center for shipping, career history Heide Gerstenberger ( Memento from June 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ History of the University of Bremen
4. ^ Members of the scientific advisory board. In: Attac. Retrieved July 13, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Review on hsozkult