Jochen-Christoph Kaiser

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Jochen-Christoph Kaiser (born January 19, 1948 in Lüdenscheid ) is a German historian and Protestant theologian .

Life

Kaiser grew up in Eckardtsheim and Hemer and studied history and Protestant theology in Bethel , Tübingen and Münster . After his doctorate as Dr. phil. From 1979 to 1988 he was a research assistant to Professors Heinz Gollwitzer and Hans-Ulrich Thamer at the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History at the Department of History at the Westf. Wilhelms-Universität Münster. After working as a university lecturer with substitute professorships in Aachen and Düsseldorf, he taught from 1994 to 2012 as professor for contemporary church history , historical women's studies and diaconal history at the Department of Protestant Theology at the Philipps University in Marburg .

Kaiser is married and has three grown children.

research

Kaiser came out primarily with works on the history of Social Protestantism , especially on the Inner Mission . Further research focuses are historical gender research and the history of church associations in general. It represents an interdisciplinary approach Ecclesiastical History , Church history as the integration of theology and social and social history understands and is open to non-denominational and transnational approaches.

Kaiser has presented numerous publications on contemporary church history. He is the managing editor of the series “ Denomination and Society”, which he co-founded in 1988, and until 2008 was the managing editor responsible for the essay section of the magazine for church history . In addition, since 2005 he has been co-editor of the series “Historical-Theological Gender Research” and since 2007 has published the “Marburg Contributions to Contemporary Church History”.

Works (selection)

  • Labor movement and organized criticism of religion. Proletarian Freethinker Associations in the Empire and Weimar Republic , Stuttgart 1981 (= Diss. Phil. Münster 1979).
  • Women in church. Evangelical women's associations in the area of ​​tension between church and society 1890–1945. Sources and materials , Düsseldorf 1985.
  • Ed. (With Martin Greschat ), The Holocaust and the Protestants. Analysis of an entanglement , Frankfurt a. M. 1988.
  • Social Protestantism in the 20th Century. Contributions to the history of the Inner Mission 1918–1945 , Munich 1989 (= habilitation thesis Münster 1986).
  • Ed. (With Kurt Nowak and Michael Schwartz ), Eugenics - Sterilization -, Euthanasia '. Political Biology in Germany, 1895–1945. A documentation , Berlin 1992.
  • Ed. (With Martin Greschat), Social Protestantism and the Welfare State 1890–1938 , Stuttgart 1996.
  • Ed. (With Volker Herrmann and Theodor Strohm), bibliography on the history of German Protestant diakonia in the 19th and 20th centuries , Stuttgart 1997.
  • Ed., Social work in a historical perspective. To the historical place of diaconia in Germany. FS Helmut Talazko on his 65th birthday , Stuttgart 1998.
  • Ed. (With Andreas Lippmann and Martin Schindel), Marburg Theology in National Socialism. Texts on the history of the theological faculty of the Philipps University of Marburg in the Third Reich , Neukirchen-Vluyn 1998.
  • Ed. (With Ingolf Hübner), Diakonie in divided Germany. On diaconal work under the conditions of the GDR and the division of Germany , Stuttgart 1999.
  • Ed. (With Martin Greschat), The churches around June 17, 1953 , Stuttgart 2003.
  • Ed. (With Jan Cantow), Paul Gerhard Braune (1887–1954). A man of the church and diakonia in difficult times , Stuttgart 2005.
  • Ed., Forced Labor in Church and Diakonie, 1939–1945 , Stuttgart 2005.
  • Political Protestantism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Selected works on contemporary church history , ed. Rolf-Ulrich Kunze and Roland Löffler, Konstanz 2008.
  • Evangelical Church and Social State. Diakonie in the 19th and 20th centuries , ed. by Volker Herrmann, Stuttgart 2008.

supporting documents

  1. ^ Denomination and Society: The Program. Foreword by the editor before the title page of most of the volumes in the series.

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personal data
SURNAME Kaiser, Jochen-Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludenscheid