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Horst Walter Lademacher (born July 13, 1931 in Ründeroth ) is a German Dutch historian and historian . He was a professor at German and Dutch universities and director of the Center for Dutch Studies at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster.

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Lademacher comes from a working class family . During a school exchange in England he discovered an interest in languages. He studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster a. a. with Franz Petri and Georg von Raumer . In 1957 he was at Werner Hahlweg with the dissertation The position of the Prince of Orange as governor in the Netherlands from 1572 to 1584 to the Dr. phil. PhD .

During his studies, like Werner Krause and Dieter Schuster, he became a member of the SDS in Münster, where he was confronted with the issues of the labor movement and class struggle . From 1958 to 1962 he was a research assistant at the International Institute for Social History (IISG) in Amsterdam. He occupied himself with the bibliography on the history of the German labor movement. He also worked for two years as an official at the EEC in Brussels . In 1969 he completed his habilitation with Franz Petri with the thesis Belgian neutrality as a problem of European politics 1830–1914 in Bonn.

He was then a deputy professor at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken and a research assistant at the University of Bonn. a. to the Zimmerwald conference , in the field of peace research and the history of the German resistance . During the West German student movement in the 1960s, he was an important point of contact for critically thinking students. He warned against a political radicalization that was unrealistic.

Lademacher taught modern and contemporary history at the Free University of Amsterdam from 1972 to 1979 . He again sought proximity to Germany and was a full professor at the Kassel University from 1979 to 1990 . In 1982 he founded the series of Kassel research on contemporary history . After doing some research on the trade union movement, he moved Dutch history to the fore. In 1983, he wrote to one of the Scientific Buchgesellschaft misplaced standard work . In 1990 he went to the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, where he took over the then newly founded Center for Dutch Studies as director. He was there co-editor a. a. of the Netherlands Studies and the Yearbook of the Center for Netherlands Studies . Until his retirement in 2000 he headed the Center for Dutch Studies in Münster. From 1992 to 1994 Lademacher was visiting professor for history at the University of Nijmegen . His academic students include: a. Bert Altena , Friedhelm Boll , Walter Mühlhausen , Cornelia Regin and Boris Schilmar .

In 1994 he became chairman of the Federal Association for German-Dutch cultural work. In 1996, the North Rhine-Westphalian state government appointed Lademacher as the representative for the Benelux countries of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Lademacher is described as a "political person", but not as a "politicizing science [ler]".

Honors

Lademacher was appointed an officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in 1996 .

Fonts (selection)

  • The position of the Prince of Orange as governor in the Netherlands from 1572 to 1584: A contribution to the constitutional history of the Netherlands. Röhrscheid, Bonn 1958. (Dissertation, University of Münster, 1957)
  • Belgian neutrality as a problem of European politics 1830–1914. Röhrscheid, Bonn 1971, ISBN 3-7928-0287-2 . (Habilitation thesis, University of Bonn)
  • From the provincial estates to the regional association. On the history of the landscape self-government of the Rhineland. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1973, ISBN 3-7927-0166-9 .
  • Moses Hess in his time (= Publications of the Bonn City Archives , Volume 17). Röhrscheid, Bonn 1977, ISBN 3-7928-0392-5 ; 2nd, significantly expanded and supplemented edition. City Archives and City History Library, Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-922832-51-5 .
  • History of the Netherlands. Politics - Constitution - Economy. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-534-07082-8 .
  • Two unequal neighbors. Paths and changes in German-Dutch relations in the 19th and 20th centuries. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1990, ISBN 3-534-10266-5 .
  • The Netherlands: Political Culture Between Individuality and Adaptation. Propylaea, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-549-05220-0 .
  • Where there is glamor, there is also gloria: travelers in the Netherlands of the golden century. (= Netherlands Studies , Smaller Writings, Book 1) Lit, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-8258-2904-9 .
  • Politics and science. About the disadvantage and necessity of a controversial relationship . In: Burkhard Dietz, Helmut Gabel, Ulrich Tiedau (eds.): Reach for the West. The "West Research" of the ethnic-national sciences on the north-western European area (1919–1960) . Waxmann, Münster 2003, pp. 1–26.
  • Phoenix from the ashes? Politics and Culture of the Dutch Republic in Europe of the 17th Century (= Studies on the History and Culture of Northwestern Europe , Volume 16). Waxmann, Münster a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8309-1683-3 .
  • Crossing boundaries. My way to the science of history. Memories and experiences. In conversation with Burkhard Dietz and Helmut Gabel. Waxmann, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-8309-2630-6 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Friedhelm Boll: A life for German-Dutch understanding. Laudation to Horst Lademacher . In: Nicole Eversdijk, Helmut Gabel, Georg Mölich, Ulrich Tiedau (eds.): Horst Lademacher: The European Northwest. Historical influences and relationships. Selected essays . Waxmann, Münster a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-8309-1058-4 , p. 17 ff.
  2. ↑ Press release of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster ( Memento of the original from February 22nd, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , July 12, 2006, accessed July 14, 2011.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-muenster.de
personal data
SURNAME Loader, Horst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lademacher, Horst Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Ründeroth