Josef Becker (historian)

Josef Becker (born February 6, 1931 in Buchen (Baden )) is a German historian and former president of the University of Augsburg .

Life

Becker studied history, German and Romance languages at the universities of Freiburg , Munich , Paris and Heidelberg . In 1957 he received his doctorate under Walther Peter Fuchs in Heidelberg. He then worked as a research assistant at the TH Karlsruhe and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . In 1969 he completed his habilitation in Erlangen. Since 1973 he has taught as a full professor for modern and contemporary history at the University of Augsburg. From 1983 to 1991 he was President of the University of Augsburg. In 1996 Becker retired. Becker has been a member of the Swabian Research Association since 1986 .

Works

Liberal state and church in the era of the establishment of an empire and the Kulturkampf. History and structures of their relationship in Baden 1860–1876 , Mainz 1973.
(Ed. With Theo Stammen and Peter Waldmann ): Prehistory of the Federal Republic of Germany. Between surrender and the Basic Law , Munich 1979, 2nd revised. 1987 edition.
(Ed.), Thirty Years of the Federal Republic - Tradition and Change , Munich 1979.
(Ed. With Klaus Hildebrand ): International Relations in the World Economic Crisis 1929–1933 , Munich 1980.
(Ed. With Ruth Becker): Hitler's seizure of power in 1933. Documents from Hitler's rise to power January 30, 1933 to the sealing of the one-party state July 14, 1933 , Munich 1983, 2nd passed. Edition Munich 1992.
(Ed. With Andreas Hillgruber ): The German question in the 19th and 20th centuries , Munich 1983.
(Ed.): 1933 - Fifty Years After. The National Socialist seizure of power in historical perspective , Munich 1983.
(Ed. With Franz Knipping ): Power in Europe? Great Britain, France, Italy and Germany in a Postwar World 1945–1950 , Berlin a. a. 1986.
(Ed. With Rainer-Olaf Schultze ): In the field of tension of the Atlantic triangle: Canada's foreign policy after the Second World War , Bochum 1989.
(Ed.): Reunification in Central Europe. Exterior and interior views of the national unity of Germany , Munich 1992.
(Ed.): Bismarck's Spanish "Diversion" 1870 and the Prussian-German war for the establishment of an empire. Sources on the pre- and post-history of the Hohenzollern candidacy for the throne in Madrid 1866–1932 , 3 volumes, Paderborn 2002–2008.

Awards

1981 Honorary doctorate from the University of Metz (Lorraine)
Honorary President of the Franco-German Committee for Research into German and French History of the 19th and 20th Centuries
2010 Ordre des Palmes Académiques

literature

Walther L. Bernecker et al. Volker Dotter Weich (Hrsg.): Germany in the international relations of the 19th and 20th century. Festschrift for Josef Becker on his 65th birthday , Munich 1996.
Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 17th Edition (1996), Vol. 1, p. 179.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ List of members of the Swabian Research Association; Retrieved September 26, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Becker, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian
DATE OF BIRTH	February 6, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH	Book (Baden)

[1] List of members of the Swabian Research Association; Retrieved September 26, 2015.