Heinrich Volkmann

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Heinrich Volkmann (born April 16, 1938 in Bochum ; † September 1, 2014 ) was a German social historian.

Life

Volkmann studied history, German and philosophy in Münster , Würzburg and at the Free University of Berlin . He was a scholarship holder of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and received his doctorate in 1968 with a dissertation on the worker question in the Prussian House of Representatives at the Free University of Berlin. From 1967 he worked as an assistant at the Institute for Social and Economic History at the Free University of Wolfram Fischer . In 1975 Volkmann completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin with an unpublished work on The Crisis of 1830. Form, cause and function of social protest in the German pre-March period. In 1978 Volkmann was appointed professor in the economic and social history department of the Central Institute for Social Science Research at the Free University of Berlin. He had been retired since 2003.

Volkmann's research focused on the social protest in Vormärz , state social policy in the 19th century and the history of the industrial action in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Works

  • The workers question in the Prussian House of Representatives. Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 1968.
  • with Rudolf Braun a . a. (Ed.): Industrial Revolution. Economic aspects (= New Scientific Library. Volume 50). Kiepenheuer and Witsch: Cologne / Berlin, 1972, ISBN 3-462-00871-4 .
  • with Rudolf Braun a. a. (Ed.): Society in the industrial revolution (= New Scientific Library. Volume 56). Kiepenheuer and Witsch: Cologne, 1973, ISBN 3-462-00925-7 .
  • with Hartmut Kaelble u. a .: Problems of modernization in Germany. Social-historical studies of the 19th and 20th centuries. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1978, ISBN 3-531-11430-1 .
  • with Klaus Tenfelde (Ed.): Strike. On the history of the labor dispute in Germany during industrialization. Munich: Beck, 1981, ISBN 3-406-08130-4 .
  • with Jürgen Bergmann (ed.): Social protest. Studies on traditional resistance and collective violence in Germany from the Vormärz to the founding of the Reich. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1986, ISBN 3-531-11638-X .
  • with Hasso Spode u. a .: Statistics of labor disputes in Germany. St. Katharinen: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, 1992, ISBN 978-3-922661-96-2 .
  • with Manfred Gailus (ed.): The struggle for daily bread. Food shortage, supply policy and protest 1770–1990. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-531-12560-5 .

literature

personal data
SURNAME Volkmann, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 2014