Helmut Maier (science historian)

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Helmut Maier (* 1957 ) is a German science and technology historian. Since 2007 he has held a professorship for technical and environmental history at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

Life

Maier initially studied electrical engineering ; In 1985 he obtained his diploma in this subject at the TU Braunschweig . He then studied the history of natural sciences and modern history from 1986 to 1990, also in Braunschweig. In 1990 he was awarded a Dr. rer. nat. PhD. From 1992 to 1998 he was a research assistant at the Chair for Economic and Technical History at the Ruhr University in Bochum. From 1999 to 2004 he was a research associate in the research program “History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism” of the Max Planck Society , Berlin. In 2005 Maier completed his habilitation at the BTU Cottbusto the Dr. phil. habil .; he received the license to teach history of technology, science and the environment. In 2007 he was appointed to a professorship for technology and environmental history at the Ruhr University Bochum. Since 2008 he has been chairman of the "History of Technology" division of the VDI Committee on Profession and Society.

On behalf of the Society of German Chemists , he wrote a study on chemists under National Socialism, which the society saw as a contribution to the processing of the history of its predecessor organizations.

Fonts

  • as editor: Armaments research under National Socialism. Organization, mobilization and delimitation of the technical sciences. Wallstein, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-89244-497-8 .
  • Chemist in the "Third Reich". The German Chemical Society and the Association of German Chemists in the National Socialist Ruling Apparatus , Wiley, Weinheim 2015, ISBN 978-3-527-33846-7 .
  • Research as a weapon. Armaments research in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Metal Research 1900–1945 / 48 (= History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society during National Socialism. Volume 16). 2 volumes. Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0109-2 .
  • Erwin Marx (1893-1980). Engineering scientist in Braunschweig and research and development in the field of electrical energy transmission over long distances between 1918 and 1950. Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-928186-11-6 (also dissertation at TU Braunschweig 1990 ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the GDCh
personal data
SURNAME Maier, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1957