Heiner Timmermann

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Heiner Timmermann (2010)

Heiner Timmermann (born April 26, 1940 in Duisburg ; † August 29, 2018 in Nonnweiler ) was a German historian .

Life

Timmermann completed an administration apprenticeship with a health insurance company, passed the Abitur at the evening grammar school and began a wide range of studies. He studied history, English, education, philosophy and geography at the universities of Cologne, Bonn, Tübingen and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. This was followed by study and research stays a. a. at Harvard University , Cambridge / Mass. and Yale University , New Haven / Conn., the University of Hull in the UK, archives in New York, Boston , Oxford , London , Berlin , Budapest , Brussels and other locations. In 1976 he received his doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Tübingen , and in 1992 he completed his habilitation at the Historical Faculty of the University of Krakow . As a student, Timmermann became an active member of the Catholic student associations K.St.V. Winfridia Cologne and Rechberg Tübingen in the KV .

Since 1978 he lived in Nonnweiler in Saarland . He was married and had two sons and two daughters.

job

From 1978 on, Timmermann was director of studies at the European Academy in Otzenhausen (Saarland); In 1991 he founded the Social Science Research Institute (SFI) there, which he headed as director until 2005. During this time, he conducted numerous specialist conferences and congresses with scientists from many countries. The focus of these events was on international politics and in particular on East-West relations. Timmermann also organized regular conferences on GDR research . At these meetings there were lasting encounters between historians, political and social scientists as well as diplomats from both sides of the “ Iron Curtain ”. This achievement was recognized, among other things, by the fact that Timmermann was invited as a keynote speaker in the Hungarian Parliament in 2007 on the occasion of the first commemoration for the opening of the Hungarian border to Austria in September 1989, alongside former German Foreign Minister Genscher and other leading politicians involved in the opening of the border.

He was also very involved in youth exchanges within Germany . In 1984 he and 25 students from the Peter-Wust-Gymnasium in Merzig were received by Erich Honecker , then Chairman of the State Council of the GDR . It was the only time that Honecker welcomed a West German school class into his office.

Since 1990, Professor Timmermann has taught European history of the New and Modern Times at the University of Jena . At the same time he was visiting professor for European studies at the University of Economics in Moscow, honorary professor at the Corvinus University in Budapest and since 2013 visiting professor at the Shanghai Jioa Tong University.

Timmermann was an advisor to several South Korean universities and institutes on reunification issues .

In 2005 he became chairman of the board of the Rosenhof Academy . V. elected in Weimar . Until his death he headed this educational institution, which sees itself as an institute for social management, social science, political education and public relations.

Honors

  • In 1989 Timmermann received the Merentibus Medal from the University of Krakow.
  • In 2000, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon by the then Federal President Johannes Rau in Berlin .
  • Since 2001 he has been the recipient of the Cavalier's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.

Publications (selection)

  • Peacekeeping movements in the United States of America and in Great Britain during the First World War (= Modern History and Politics. Volume 7). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1978, ISBN 3-261-02371-6 (also dissertation, University of Tübingen, 1977).
  • Federal Republic - GDR: Basics in comparison. Prehistory - politics - economy - social affairs - law - foreign and security policy (= analyzes. Volume 3). Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1984, ISBN 3-8100-0431-6 .
  • as editor: The French Revolution and Europe 1789–1799 (= documents and writings of the European Academy Otzenhausen . Volume 6). Dadder, Saarbrücken 1989, ISBN 3-926406-27-5 .
  • Nationalism and National Movement in Europe 1914–1945 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-08896-4 .
  • The GDR - Analysis of an abandoned state . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10416-1 .
  • as editor: Building the Wall and Foreign Policy. 2nd Edition. Lit, Münster / Berlin 2011 (first edition 2002), ISBN 978-3-8258-6293-0 .
  • as editor: The GDR between the construction and fall of the Berlin Wall. 2nd Edition. Lit-Verlag, Münster / Berlin 2012 (first edition 2003), ISBN 978-3-8258-6751-5 .
  • as editor: The Cuban Missile Crisis 2012. Between mice and mosquitoes, disasters and tricks, Mongoose and Agadir. 2nd Edition. Lit, Münster / Berlin 2012 (first edition 2003), ISBN 978-3-8258-6676-1 .
  • The Beneš Decrees . Post-war order or ethnic cleansing? Can Europe give an answer? Lit, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8258-8494-5 .
  • The transatlantic relationship to the test. Europe and the USA between rupture - irritation - cooperation . Lit, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8258-8445-7 .
  • as editor: The GDR in Europe - between isolation and opening. Lit-Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 978-3-8258-8884-8 .
  • Military Interventions in Europe in the 20th Century . 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-1072-6 .
  • with Michael Salewski : 1804–2010. Between the imperial coronation and the reform treaty. Lit, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-1087-0 .
  • The role of political Catholicism in Europe in the 20th century. Volume I. With a foreword by Abbot Makarios Hebler. Lit, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-10187-7 .
  • with Martin Sieg: International Dilemmas and European Visions. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Helmut Wagner. Lit, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10481-6 .
  • Europe - ideas instead of financial markets. Lit, Münster / Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-11467-9 .
  • The Himmeroder memorandum of October 9, 1950. Dewies, Nonnweiler 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-041322-3 .
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx on Revolution and Peace. Dewies, Nonnweiler 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-041837-2 .
  • The Future a Memory. The Cold War and the Intelligence Sercives - Aspects , Lit, Vienna / Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-90442-3 .
  • A memory for memory. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and its relevance for future generations. Lit, Berlin / Münster 2016, ISBN 978-3-643-13054-9 .

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Saarbrücker Zeitung: Family notices / obituaries . 206 / G6028. Saarbrücken / St. Wendel September 5, 2018, p. C 7 .
personal data
SURNAME Timmermann, Heiner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Timmermann, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH 29th August 2018
Place of death Nonnweiler