Johannes Koll

Johannes Koll (* 1964 in Cologne ) is a German historian and archivist. His main research interests are German, Austrian, Belgian and Dutch modern history, nationalism and National Socialism as well as university and scientific history.

Life

Growing up in Cologne, Johannes Koll studied medieval and modern history, musicology, philosophy and political science at the university there from 1986. His master's thesis (unpublished) dealt with liberalism and nationalism with Paul Achatius Pfizer (1801–1867) , his dissertation dealt with "The Belgian Nation". Patriotism and National Consciousness in the Southern Netherlands at the End of the 18th Century . In June 1999, he was the second doctoral student at the Historical Institute of the University of Cologne to be able to use the newly introduced form of the disputation instead of the rigorosum. In December 2013 he completed his habilitation for modern and contemporary history at the historical and cultural studies faculty of the University of Vienna on the basis of the habilitation thesis on the occupation policy of the "Greater German Reich", which the Austrian National Socialist Arthur Seyß-Inquart in his function as Reich Commissioner between 1940 and 1945 was responsible in the occupied Netherlands.

Following employment as a research assistant and research assistant at the University of Cologne , Koll was a research assistant at the Center for Dutch Studies at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (2000–2005), visiting professor for the history of the Benelux region at the University of Vienna ( 2005–2007) and postdoc at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (2007–2014). Since 2015 he has headed the then newly founded university archive at the latter university. In addition, Koll is Senior Scientist at the Institute for Economic and Social History and, since 2016, scientific director of the provenance research project at the University Library of Vienna University of Economics and Business .

Koll has taught at universities in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands, has held several scholarships and fellowships and was visiting researcher at research institutions in Amsterdam, Berlin, Warsaw and Wassenaar. He is a member of the scientific advisory boards of international journals such as the Journal of Belgian History and the Studies on National Movements and has worked as a freelancer for the Süddeutsche Zeitung since 2016 . He has also regularly presented the results of his historical research in newspapers, radio and television broadcasts. He occasionally acts as an international reviewer for specialist journals, foundations and publishers. On New Year's Eve 1999, he gave up a part-time job as an organist, in the course of which he had won a 2nd prize at an international organ competition in the Dutch city of Elburg in June 1990 .

Historiographical work

Johannes Koll's list of publications covers a wide range of topics, regions and research fields, covering the period from the 18th to the 20th century.

In his dissertation, based on Belgian history, he put up a model for a typology of patriotism in the age of transition from the "ancien régime" to the modern age. Accordingly, during the Brabant Revolution and the short-term United Belgian States (1789/90) a class-corporate patriotism, a dynastic-princely state patriotism, a reform patriotism and a constitutional patriotism competed for influence on the society of the Austrian Netherlands .

Like the dissertation, the print version of his habilitation thesis has also been discussed in numerous reviews. In his review, Magnus Brechtken emphasized the “mindfulness of the author”, “to keep a suitable balance in his style between scientific detail and linguistic clarity.” The book offers “an almost encyclopedic analysis of the practice of domination, administration and persecution. "

Fonts (selection)

• Johannes Koll / Alexander Pinwinkler (eds.): Too much honor? Interdisciplinary perspectives on academic honors in Germany and Austria. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2019, ISBN 978-3-205-20680-4 (print), ISBN 978-3-205-23228-5 (e-book).
• Johannes Koll (Ed.): 'Cleansing' at Austrian Universities 1934–1945. Requirements, processes, consequences. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2017, ISBN 978-3-205-20336-0 .
• Johannes Koll: Arthur Seyß-Inquart and the German occupation policy in the Netherlands (1940–1945). Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-79660-2 .
• Johannes Koll (Hrsg.): National movements in Belgium. A historical overview. 2nd edition, Waxmann, Münster a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-8309-2152-3 .
• Johannes Koll (Ed.): Belgium. History - politics - culture - economy. Aschendorff, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-402-00408-1 .
• Johannes Koll: 'The Belgian Nation'. Patriotism and National Consciousness in the Southern Netherlands in the Late 18th Century. Waxmann, Münster a. a. 2003, ISBN 978-3-8309-1209-5 .

Web links

Johannes Koll at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (with list of publications ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of November 10, 2015 .