Heinz Reif

Heinz Reif in 2007

Heinz Reif (born October 31, 1941 in Oberhausen ) is a German historian .

Heinz Reif initially worked as a mechanical engineer. From 1968 to 1973 he studied history, literature and sociology at the Universities of Bochum , Münster and Bielefeld . From 1973 to 1983 he was research assistant and research assistant at the University of Bielefeld with Jürgen Kocka . Reif received his doctorate in 1977 on the subject of Westphalian nobility 1770-1860. From the ruling class to the regional elite . In 1981 he was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize . He completed his habilitation on industrialization, urban development and the workforce in the Ruhr area town of Oberhausen from 1850 to 1914 under Jürgen Kocka, Hans-Ulrich Wehler and Christoph Kleßmann . From 1983 to 1986, Heinz Reif headed the Ruhrland Museum (now the Ruhr Museum) on the industrial and social history of the Ruhr area in Essen. From 1986 to 2009 Reif was Professor of Modern History at the Technical University of Berlin . In 1995, Reif did research as a visiting fellow at the University of Essex and the University of Leicester . In 2003 he founded the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the TU Berlin. His successor was Dorothee Brantz in 2009 .

His main focus of work is the history of the city in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of the nobility from the 18th to the 20th century, industrialization, de-industrialization and transformation of industrial regions, the history of transport in the 20th century, museum conception, exhibition design and media advice. Reif was editor of the series “Elite Change in Modernity” (until 2016), co-editor of “Information on Modern City History” (until 2011), the “ Yearbook for Economic History ” (until 2007) and “Contributions to Urban History and Urbanization Research ” (up to 2014). Reif is a member of the Historical Commission in Berlin .

Fonts

Monographs

• Nobility, aristocracy, elite. Social history from above (= elite change in modernity. Vol. 13). De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin et al. 2016, ISBN 978-3-05-005066-9 .
• with Bariş Ülker: challenge and inspiration. Ernst Reuter as a city reformer in Turkey. = Challenges and Inspirations (= contemporary history in focus. Vol. 3). Bebra Wissenschaft Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95410-102-3 .
• Nobility in the 19th and 20th centuries (= Encyclopedia of German History . Vol. 55). Oldenbourg, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-55022-5 (2nd edition expanded to include a supplement. Ibid 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-70700-7 ).
• The belated city. Industrialization, urban space and politics in Oberhausen 1846–1929 (= writings of the Rheinisches Industriemuseum. Vol. 7). 2 volumes. Rheinland-Verlag et al., Cologne et al. 1992–1993, ISBN 3-7927-1316-0 .
• with Michael Winter: Essen collieries. Evidence of mining history. City of Essen, Essen 1986.
• Westphalian nobility 1770–1860. From the ruling class to the regional elite (= critical studies on historical science . Vol. 35). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1979, ISBN 3-525-35991-8 (also: Bielefeld, University, dissertation, 1977).

Editorships

• with Marie-Paule Jungblut and Michel Pauly : Luxembourg, a city in Europe. Spotlights on more than 1000 years of European urban history. Germagz-Verlag, Chemnitz 2014, ISBN 978-3-9815545-3-3 (Musée d´Histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg - catalog for the permanent exhibition).
• with Wiebke Porombka and Erhard Schütz: Supply and Modernity. Logistics and infrastructures of the 1920s and 1930s. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-59962-4 .
• with Moritz Feichtinger: Ernst Reuter. Local politician and social reformer. 1921–1953 (= Political and Social History series. Vol. 81). Dietz, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-8012-4187-2 .
• with Moritz Feichtinger: Berlin villa life. The staging of bourgeois living spaces on the green edge of the city around 1900 (= series of publications by the Berlin State Archives. Vol. 12). Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-7861-2589-1 .
• Nobility and bourgeoisie in Germany. 2 volumes. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2000–2001;
  • Volume 1: Lines of development and turning points in the 19th century (= change of the elite in the modern age. Volume 1). ISBN 3-05-003448-3 ;
  • Volume 2: Lines of development and turning points in the 20th century (= change in the elite in modern times. Volume 2). ISBN 3-05-003551-X .
• East Elbian agricultural society in the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic. Agricultural crisis - Junk politics of interests - modernization strategies. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-05-002431-3 .
• Robbers, people and authorities. Studies on the history of crime in Germany since the 18th century (= Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft. Vol. 453). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-518-28053-8 .
• The family in history (= Kleine Vandenhoeck series. Bd. 1474). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1982, ISBN 3-525-33460-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinz Reif in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Reif at the TU Berlin