Joachim Scholtyseck

Joachim Scholtyseck at the Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Preis award in 2016.

Joachim Scholtyseck (born August 18, 1958 in Bonn ) is a German historian . He teaches since 2001 as a professor for the history of the modern era at the University of Bonn .

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After graduating from high school and doing military service, Scholtyseck studied history, political science, art history and sociology at the University of Bonn from 1980. In 1991 he received his doctorate (with Klaus Hildebrand ), then from 1993 to 1999 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Karlsruhe , where he qualified as a professor in 1998 with a thesis on Robert Bosch and the liberal resistance to National Socialism . Also in 1998 Scholtyseck received the Baden-Württemberg State Teaching Prize . In 2001 he accepted an appointment at the University of Bonn, where he is a professor in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History (from 2010 to 2018 together with Dominik Geppert ).

Scholtyseck is a member of the advisory board of the “Research Center Resistance to National Socialism in the German Southwest” of the University of Karlsruhe, since 2004 deputy chairman of the “Research Foundation July 20, 1944”, since 2005 chairman of the board of trustees of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Memorial Foundation for the award of the Wolf- Erich-Kellner Prize and since 2011 chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Contemporary History .

Scholtyseck's main research interests are the German Empire , Italian history in the 19th and 20th centuries, American history in the 20th century, fascism / National Socialism , the resistance to National Socialism , the Cold War , the foreign policy of the GDR as well as corporate and Banking history. In 2011 he presented the first company history of Freudenberg & Co. KG . He describes the development of the company from its beginnings to the early 1950s. With 14 of 19 chapters, the focus is on the time of National Socialism .

Alongside Eckart Conze , Dominik Geppert , Elke Seefried , Jürgen Frölich and Ewald Grothe, Scholtyseck has been the editor of the yearbook on research on liberalism , which is published on behalf of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom , since 2012 .

Fonts (selection)

• Ally or vassal? Italy and Germany in the time of the Kulturkampf and the “war-in-sight” crisis in 1875. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1994, ISBN 978-3-412-08993-1 .
• Robert Bosch and the liberal resistance against Hitler 1933–1945. CH Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-406-45525-4 .
• The foreign policy of the GDR (= Encyclopedia of German History . Vol. 69). Oldenbourg, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-486-55748-0 .
• The rise of the Quandts. A German entrepreneurial dynasty. CH Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62251-9 .
• The history of the National Bank from 1921 to 2011. 2nd unchanged edition. Steiner, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-515-10004-5 .
• Freudenberg. A family company in the empire, democracy and dictatorship. CH Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-68853-9 .
• Together with Carsten Burhop , Michael Kißener , Hermann Schäfer : Merck. From a pharmacy to a global corporation. CH Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-70040-8 .
• Otto Beisheim . Youth, soldier days and development to become a trading pioneer. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2020, ISBN 978-3-506-70429-0 .

Web links

Commons : Joachim Scholtyseck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Joachim Scholtyseck in the catalog of the German National Library
• Joachim Scholtyseck in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Page from Scholtyseck at the University of Bonn

Remarks

1. ↑ Wolf Erich Kellner Prize of the WEK Memorial Foundation .
2. ↑ See the review by Johannes Bähr in: Historische Zeitschrift. Vol. 306, 2018, pp. 248-249.