Helga Schultz

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Helga Schultz (2009)

Helga Schultz (born August 16, 1941 in Schwerin , † March 7, 2016 in Berlin ) was a German historian specializing in the economic and social history of Europe.

Life

From 1960 on , Schultz studied history , German literature and education at the University of Rostock . In 1964 she passed the state examination as a teacher of history and German. A year later she received her diploma in history and became a research assistant and later senior assistant at the history section of the university. In 1969 she completed her doctorate in Rostock with the dissertation “The crisis of the feudal council constitution. Shown using the example of Rostock 1748-1788 ”. 1978 habilitation they are just there with the habilitation thesis "The country crafts in the period of transition to capitalism. Comparative study and regional investigation Mecklenburg-Schwerin ”( Dissertation B ).

In 1977 Schultz became an employee at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (AdW) in Berlin for the field of feudalism . At the academy in 1983 she became head of the “Regional History” research center at the Central Institute for History and held this position until the AdW was wound up in 1991. In 1986 she was appointed professor at the AdW.

From 1990 to 1993 she was employed by the "KAI eV - coordination and processing facility for the institutes of the Academy of Sciences in the GDR". In 1992 she was visiting professor at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. In 1993, she followed a call from the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) to a chair for modern economic and social history . In 2006 she retired when she reached retirement age. From 2007 to 2009 Schultz was visiting professor at the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland).

Schultz was a member of the Johann Gottfried Herder Research Council . Since 1997 she was a member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin . She was the editor of the Frankfurt Studies on the Border Region (later Frankfurt Studies on the Economic and Social History of Eastern Central Europe ) of the Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag .

Schultz died in Berlin in 2016. She has published an extensive scientific work, including more than 30 book publications.

Fonts (selection)

  • Social and political conflicts in Rostock in the 18th century. Böhlau, Weimar 1974 (dissertation, University of Rostock, 1969).
  • Rural crafts in the transition from feudalism to capitalism - comparative overview and case study Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1984 ( Dissertation B , University of Rostock, 1978).
  • Berlin 1650-1800. Social history of a residence. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 978-3-05-000310-8 , 2nd, revised edition 1992, ISBN 978-3-05-002171-3 .
  • The honorable craft. Guild life in old Berlin at the time of absolutism. Böhlau, Weimar 1993, ISBN 978-3-7400-0820-8 .
  • Craftsmen, merchants, bankers. Economic history of Europe 1500–1800. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 978-3-596-60128-8 .
  • Population Transfer and System Change - East Central European Borders after the Second World War. Berlin-Verlag Spitz, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-87061-807-0 (as publisher).
  • Borders in the Eastern Bloc and how to overcome them. Berlin-Verlag Spitz, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-8305-0081-0 (as publisher).
  • East Prussia - West Poland - The breaking of a neighborhood. Berlin-Verlag Spitz, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-8305-0261-6 (as publisher).
  • Spanish: Historia económica de Europa, 1500–1800. Artesanos, mercaderes y banqueros. Siglo Veintiuno, Madrid 2001.
  • Helga Schultz, Jürgen Wagener (ed.): The GDR in retrospect - politics, economy, society, culture. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86153-440-2 .
  • European socialism - always different. Karl Kautsky - George Bernard Shaw - Jean Jaurès - Józef Piłsudski - Alexander Stambolijski - Wladimir Medem - Leo Trotsky - Otto Bauer - Andreu Nin - Josip Broz Tito - Herbert Marcuse - Alva and Gunnar Myrdal. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8305-3310-8 .
  • Janus head. Neoliberalism and the New Left. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-8305-3634-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The BWV mourns the loss of its author , website of the Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag , accessed on March 8, 2016.
  2. ^ Michaela Grün: European University Viadrina mourns the loss of historian Prof. em. Dr. Helga Schultz. Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), press release of March 8, 2016 from the Science Information Service (idw-online.de), accessed on March 8, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Schultz, Helga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 2016
Place of death Berlin