Karl Ditt

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Karl Ditt (born March 9, 1950 in Berlin ) is a German historian.

Life

Ditt studied German, history and philosophy in Münster, Göttingen and Bielefeld. In 1980 he received his doctorate at Bielefeld University (with Jürgen Kocka ) with a thesis on industrialization, the workforce and the labor movement in Bielefeld. In the 1988/89 winter semester, he completed his habilitation at Bielefeld University with a thesis on Westphalian cultural history. Since the 1980s, Ditt has worked as a research assistant at the LWL Institute for Westphalian Regional History . He has been retired since November 2015.

Ditt's research focuses on German social and cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Works (selection)

author

  • Second industrialization and consumption. Energy supply, household technology and mass culture in Northern English and Westphalian cities 1880-1939 , Schöningh, Paderborn 2011.
  • Space and folklore. The cultural policy of the Provincial Association of Westphalia 1923-1945 , Aschendorff, Münster 1988.
  • Social Democrats in the Resistance. Hamburg in the initial phase of the Third Reich , VSA, Hamburg 1984.
  • Industrialization, workers and labor movement in Bielefeld 1850-1914 , Ardey, Dortmund 1982.

editor

  • (with Thomas Küster and others), Westphalia in der Moderne 1815-2015. History of a region , Aschendorff, 2nd edition, Münster 2015.
  • (with Cordula Obergassel), From the educational ideal to the location factor. Urban culture and cultural policy in the Federal Republic , Schöningh, Paderborn 2012.
  • (with Klaus Tenfelde ), The Ruhr area in Rhineland and Westphalia. Coexistence and competition of spatial awareness in the 19th and 20th centuries , Schöningh, Paderborn 2007.
  • (with Rita Gudermann and Norwich Rüße ), agricultural modernization and ecological consequences. Westphalia from the late 18th to 20th centuries , Schöningh, Paderborn 2001.
  • (with Sidney Pollard ), From home work to the factory. Industrialization and workers in the cotton and linen regions of Western Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries , Schöningh, Paderborn 1992.
  • (with Dagmar Kift ), 1889. Miners' strike and the Wilhelminische Gesellschaft , Linnepe, Hagen 1989.
  • (with Peter Lundgreen and Margret Kraul ), Educational Opportunities and Social Mobility in Urban Society in the 19th Century, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1988.

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personal data
SURNAME Ditt, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin