Joachim Radkau

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Joachim Radkau ( Frankfurt Book Fair 2013)

Joachim Radkau (born October 4, 1943 in Oberlübbe in the Minden district ) is a German historian .

Life

The son of a Protestant pastor studied history in Münster , Berlin and Hamburg from 1963 to 1968 , including with Fritz Fischer , who made a great impression on him. In 1970 Radkau received his doctorate from Fischer's history seminar in Hamburg on the role of German-speaking emigrants from 1933 to 1945 in the environment of the then US President Franklin D. Roosevelt . From 1971 he taught at the Pedagogical University in Bielefeld .

From 1972 to 1974 Radkau wrote the overview work on German Industry and Politics from Bismarck to the Present together with George WF Hallgarten . He himself took over the representation of the time from 1933 to around 1968. The Deutsche Bank enforced against the publisher that several passages Radkau about their role in the prehistory of the Second World War and in the controversy of 1952 about the Luxembourg agreement of the government of Konrad Adenauer blackened with Israel . The latter was mainly about the role of Hermann Josef Abs .

1980 habilitation Radkau with one at Hans-Ulrich Wehler filed study of the rise and crisis of the German nuclear industry . In the words of his student Frank Uekötter, this work is considered “unsurpassed to this day”. Jens Hohensee and Michael Salewski describe Radkau as “probably the best expert on the history of German nuclear energy”. In 1981 he became Professor of Modern History at Bielefeld University . Then Radkau turned mainly to the history of technology and environmental history . He researched the history of the German forest and the (according to Radkau alleged) wood shortage in the 18th and 19th centuries, the history of nature conservation (including its role in National Socialism) and the relationship between nervousness and the history of technology in the Wilhelmine Empire. In this context he also began biographical studies of Thomas Mann and Max Weber .

Radkau became known to a wider public when he wrote the work Nature and Power in 2000 . A world history of the environment published. In 2005, a widely acclaimed biography of Max Weber followed. In 2009 he retired. In 2012 he received the UmweltMedienpreis for his life's work .

In 2013 he published the work Aufstieg und Fall der deutschen Atomwirtschaft , written together with Lothar Hahn , which is "a revised, partially rewritten and continued version of his habilitation thesis". In 2015 Radkau was awarded the Einhard Prize for his biography Theodor Heuss . The monograph History of the Future , published two years later, was chosen by the Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues in the magazine proZukunft in the top ten future literature of 2017.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • German emigration in the USA. Your Influence on American Policy on Europe 1933–1945. Dissertation . Bertelsmann University Press , Düsseldorf 1971, ISBN 3-571-09190-6 .
  • with Orlinde Radkau: Practice of historical science. The disorientation of historical interest. Bertelsmann University Press , Düsseldorf 1972, ISBN 3-571-09057-8 .
  • with George WF Hallgarten : German Industry and Politics from Bismarck to Today. European Publishing House, Frankfurt / Cologne 1974, ISBN 3-499-17450-2 ; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1981, ISBN 3-499-17450-2 ; Revised new edition: German Industry and Politics from Bismarck to the Present. Athenaeum, Frankfurt 1986, ISBN 3-434-46081-0 .
  • with Bernd Hey : National Socialism and Fascism. (= Political World Studies. II). Klett, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-12-407500-5 .
  • with Jochim Varchmin: strength, energy and work. Energy and society. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1981, ISBN 3-499-17701-3 .
  • The rise and crisis of the German nuclear industry. 1945-1975. Replaced Alternatives in Nuclear Technology and the Origin of the Nuclear Controversy. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983, ISBN 3-499-17756-0 .
  • War and peace. (= Political World Studies. II). Klett, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-12-408300-8 .
  • with Ingrid Schäfer: wood. A natural substance in the history of technology. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1987, ISBN 3-499-17728-5 .
  • Technology in Germany. From the 18th century to the present. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1989, ISBN 3-518-11536-7 ; extended new edition: Technology in Germany. From the 18th century until today. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-38689-8 .
  • The age of nervousness. Germany between Bismarck and Hitler. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-446-19310-3 ; Propylaen-Taschenbuch, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-612-26710-8 .
  • Nature and power. A world history of the environment. Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-48655-X .
  • Man and nature in history. Historical-political world studies. Klett, Stuttgart / Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-12-456190-2 .
  • Max Weber. The passion of thinking. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-446-20675-2 .
  • Wood. How a natural substance makes history. Oekom-Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-86581-049-6 . New edition: Oekom, Munich, 2018, ISBN 978-3-96238-068-7 .
  • The era of ecology. A world story. Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-61372-2 .
  • with Lothar Hahn : The rise and fall of the German nuclear industry . Oekom-Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86581-315-2 .
  • Theodor Heuss . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24355-2 .
  • History of the future. Forecasts, visions, errors in Germany from 1945 until today. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25463-3 .

Editorships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Uekötter : Environmental history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Munich 2007, p. 57.
  2. ↑ Jens Hohensee, Michael Salewski (ed.): Energy - Politics - History. National and international energy policy since 1945. Stuttgart 1993, p. 13.
  3. ↑ Farewell party for Professor Dr. Joachim Radkau . Bielefeld University's website. Retrieved June 17, 2014.
  4. ↑ An overview of all award winners and laudators. In: UmweltMedienpreis. On DUH.de, accessed on November 1, 2019.
  5. ↑ Joachim Radkau, Lothar Hahn : Rise and fall of the German nuclear industry. Munich 2013, p. 10.
  6. ↑ JBZ team selected the top ten future literature 2017 . In: The Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues (JBZ) . November 29, 2017 ( jungk-bibliothek.org [accessed January 10, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Manfred Funke : Industry, the military and politics - an ominous alliance . Review. In: The time . No. 46, November 7, 1975.
  8. ↑ Klaus Traube : A pile of broken glass in the atomic scene . Review. In: Der Spiegel . No. 4, January 23, 1984.
  9. ↑ Robert Leicht : Sensitive Genius . Review. In: The time. No. 42, October 13, 2005.
  10. ↑ Dirk Kaesler : Nature, Nerves and Pollutions . Review. In: Der Spiegel. January 23, 2006.
  11. ↑ Magnus Schlette: The sufferings of the great weaver . Review. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . December 7, 2005.
  12. ↑ Nils Minkmar : The wild advertising . Review. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 19, 2005.
  13. ↑ Johannes Kaiser: History of the wood . Review. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur . December 24, 2007.
  14. ↑ Joachim Müller-Jung: From the woods to the summit . Review. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. March 17, 2011.
  15. ↑ Dirk van Laak : Bird Conservationists and Cat Lovers . Review. In: The time. No. 12, March 16, 2011.
  16. ^ Felix Ekardt : The world and its history . Review. In: the daily newspaper . March 17, 2011.
  17. ↑ Sonja Ernst: Imposing world history of the green movement . Review. In: Deutschlandfunk . March 28, 2011.
  18. ↑ Mathias Greffrath : World history of environmental movements - ecological enlightenment . Review. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . April 11, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Radkau, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberlübbe , Minden district