Jürgen C. Hess

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Jürgen C. Heß (born September 23, 1943 in Allenstein , East Prussia ) is a German historian .

Hess studied history, English and geography in Kiel and Tübingen . In 1970 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. Since 1982 he has taught as a full professor of modern history at the Vrijen Universiteit Amsterdam . His main focus is the history of liberalism in the interwar period, in particular the person of Theodor Heuss . In 1976, Heß received the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Prize for his study of the DDP , which was published as a book in 1978.

Publications

  • Theodor Heuss before 1933. A contribution to the history of democratic thinking in Germany , Klett, Stuttgart 1973 (also: Kiel, Univ., Philos. Fac., Diss. 1970), ISBN 978-3-12-903690-7 .
  • It should be all of Germany. Democratic nationalism in the Weimar Republic using the example of the German Democratic Party , Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 978-3-12-910820-8 .
  • (Ed. With E. van Steensel van der Aa): Bibliography on German Liberalism , Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1981, ISBN 978-3-525-35487-2 .
  • (Ed. With Hanna Schissler ): Neighbors between proximity and distance. Germany and the Netherlands , Diesterweg, Frankfurt 1988, ISBN 978-3-88304-252-7 .
  • (Ed. With Detlef Junker and Eike Wolgast ): Heidelberg 1945 , Steiner, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-515-06880-2 .
  • (Ed. With Thomas Hertfelder ): Disputes about the state fragment. Theodor Heuss and Thomas Dehler report on the creation of the Basic Law. With an introduction by Michael F. Feldkamp , Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 978-3-421-05220-9 .
  • Democratic engagement. Contributions from three decades , ed. by Herman Langeveld, Waxmann, Münster, New York, Munich, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-8309-1337-5 .
  • Constitutional work. Theodor Heuss and the Parliamentary Council , Liberal-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-920590-28-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vademecum of History 10 (2012/2013), p. 401.
  2. ↑ According to information from the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .
personal data
SURNAME Hess, Jürgen C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Allenstein