Karin Zachmann

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Karin Zachmann (born April 29, 1956 in Görlitz ) is a German historian .

She mainly teaches and researches in the field of the history of technology and holds the professorship for the history of technology at the Technical University of Munich . Zachmann began her career at the TU Dresden , where she first studied economics and then did her doctorate. Until 2000 she did research in Dresden and then moved to the TU Darmstadt , where she qualified as a professor in 2002 and was then professor for the history of technology. In 2003 she accepted a position at the Technical University of Munich, since 2012 she has been part of the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS).

Zachmann's research focuses on nuclear technology, engineering training in the GDR , industrial history and the role of gender in technology during the Cold War .

Life

Zachmann was born in Görlitz in 1956 . She studied political economy at the University of Leipzig and graduated in 1979 with a diploma. From 1980 she was employed as a lecturer at the TU Dresden and worked on her dissertation at the same time. In 1983 she received her A-PhD with the thesis The development of the German chemical fiber industry and its state monopoly regulation from 1900 to 1933 . In 1985 she received the René Kuczynski Prize from the Yearbook for Economic History . Until 1991 she worked as a lecturer in Dresden , from 1992 as a research assistant. In 2000 she moved to the Technical University of Darmstadt, where she completed her habilitation in 2002 with technology, gender and the Cold War for a thesis on gender in the GDR engineering course. In 2004 she was appointed as the successor to Ulrich Wengenroth to the professorship for the history of technology at the Technical University of Munich, which in 2012 was affiliated to the newly founded Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS). Zachmann has three children.

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Karin Zachmann's research focuses primarily on the Cold War era and the interweaving of technology, economy and politics in this era, especially in the context of nuclear and food technology. In addition, she researches the change in gender roles during this time. She is co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Technikgeschichte .

Monographs

  • Risky rays for an improved food supply? National and Transnational Food Irradiation Research as a Cold War Recipe. Deutsches Museum, Munich 2013.
  • Mobilizing women. Technology, Gender and the Cold War in the GDR. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004.
  • Technology, Gender and the Cold War. TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt 2002.
  • For shaping the gender-specific division of labor in the industrialization process. State Museum for Technology and Work, Mannheim 1993.
  • The development of the German chemical fiber industry and its state monopoly regulation from 1900 to 1933. TU Dresden, Dresden 1983.

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literature

  • Karin Zachmann: The development of the German chemical fiber industry and its state monopoly regulation from 1900 to 1933 . TU Dresden, Dresden 1983.
  • Karin Zachmann: Mobilization of Women: Technology, Gender and the Cold War in the GDR . In: "History and Gender" series . Campus, Frankfurt / Main, New York 2004, ISBN 978-3-593-37629-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zachmann 1983, p. Ii.
  2. ↑ a b Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte eV 2012. Accessed on February 11, 2018.
  3. ↑ Zachmann 2004, p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Zachmann, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz