Karl Heinz Schneider (historian)

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Karl Heinz Schneider (* 1953 in Wiedenbrügge ) is a German modern historian with a focus on "applied regional history".

Life

Karl Heinz Schneider grew up in Wiedenbrügge. He completed his studies in history and German at the Technical University of Hanover in 1977 with the state examination for higher teaching qualifications and received his doctorate here in 1981 with his dissertation on agricultural reforms in Schaumburg-Lippe, written by Karl Heinz Manegold.

Until 1991 he was mainly active in adult education, especially with advanced training events of the Lower Saxony Homeland Association (NHB) . For the NHB he prepared several handouts on scientific work in local research . At the same time he was involved in the practice-oriented, interdisciplinary university working group “Village and Rural Areas” at the University of Hanover. From 1991 to 1994 he devoted himself to the research project "Schaumburg in the Industrialization". This resulted in a two-volume work with which he completed his habilitation at the University of Hanover. Since his studies, Schneider worked closely with the regional historian Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer , in whose area of ​​work he became a research assistant for "Applied Regional History" in 1994. In 1998 Schneider was a visiting professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln . In 2001 he was appointed Associate Professor at the University of Hanover.

Schneider is a member of numerous scientific commissions and committees, including the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen and the Historical Working Group for Schaumburg . From 2007 to 2010 he was Dean of Studies at the Philosophical Faculty and from 2010 to 2012 Scientific Director of the Center for Teacher Education at Leibniz University in Hanover. For several years he headed the history department in the Lower Saxony Homeland Association. In his scientific research he always remained connected to the Schaumburg area , especially Schaumburg-Lippe .

Publications

Monographs

  • Agricultural conditions and agrarian reforms in Schaumburg-Lippe in the 18th and 19th centuries (Schaumburger Studien H. 44), Rinteln 1983.
  • Working with specialist literature (building blocks for local and regional history, Vol. 1), Hanover 1987.
  • Sources and archive work (building blocks for home and regional history, Vol. 2), Hanover 1987.
  • (with HH Seedorf) The Liberation of the Peasants in Lower Saxony (Building Blocks for the Local and Regional History of Lower Saxony, Vol. 4), Hanover 1989.
  • Instructions for researching village and local history , Wiesbaden 1991.
  • (with Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer, Jürgen Rund and Ulrike Begemann) Sources on village and agricultural history in central Lower Saxony , Hanover 1992.
  • Schaumburg in industrialization . Part 1: From the beginning of the 19th century to the establishment of an empire , Part 2: From the establishment of an empire to the First World War , (Schaumburger Studien 52/53), Melle 1994/95.
  • History of the peasant liberation , Stuttgart 2010.
  • White and yellow town history: Obernkirchen between Stift, Kohlen & Gas , Vol. 1, Obernkirchen 2018.

Editorships

  • (Ed. :) Hagenburger Stories , Issue 1: Special Issue Searching for Traces, Stadthagen 1983.
  • (Ed.): The end of the Weimar Republic in Schaumburg / 1933 - Schaumburg turns brown . Classroom and extracurricular educational materials. Stadthagen 1983.
  • (Ed. :) School history and village life in Schaumburg-Lippe , Stadthagen 1984.
  • (Ed. :) Experienced history - a project of the district adult education center Schaumburg , Stadthagen 1984.
  • (Ed. :) Hagenburg Stories Volume 2: Handicraft Issue, Stadthagen 1984.
  • (Ed. :) Hagenburg Stories Volume 3: Special Issue Hagenburger Moor and Wilhelmsteiner Feld, Stadthagen 1987.
  • Gender roles in history from a Polish and German perspective (Politics and History, Vol. 4), Hamburg 2004.

Articles (selection)

  • The war, the village and the refugees , in: Marlis Buchholz, Claus Füllberg-Stolberg and Hans-Dieter Schmid (eds.), National Socialism and Region. Festschrift for Herbert Obenaus (Hannoversche Schriften zur Regionalgeschichte Vol. 11) Bielefeld 1996, pp. 295–314.
  • The slow farewell to agricultural land, in: Bernd Weisbrod (Ed.), From the currency reform to the economic miracle: Reconstruction in Lower Saxony. (Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen 38, 13) Hanover 1998, pp. 133–160.
  • Paths to modernity. Variants of village development between 1945 and 1970 , in: Daniela Münkel (Ed.), The Long Farewell to Agricultural Land. Agricultural policy, agriculture and rural society between Weimar and Bonn, Göttingen 2000, pp. 69–92.
  • The American colonies before 1776 , in: Hans-Heinrich Nolte (Ed.), History of the USA I. From its origins to the end of the 19th century, Schwalbach / Ts. 2005, pp. 7-28.
  • Emigration to America in the 18th and 19th centuries: entanglement of factors , in: Sabine Liebig (Ed.), Migration und Weltgeschichte, Schwalbach / Ts., 2007, pp. 37–57.
  • Economic history of Lower Saxony after 1945 , in: History of Lower Saxony. Vol. 5: From the Weimar Republic to reunification, ed. by Gerd Steinwascher , Hannover 2010, pp. 809–920.
  • Liberation of farmers in Lower Saxony from the end of the Old Empire to the Prussian period, in: Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History 79 2007, pp. 77–98.
  • The Battle of Minden - a local event with global significance? , in: Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte 14, 2013, pp. 31–52.
  • Rural Society , in: History of Lower Saxony. Vol. 4: From the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the First World War, ed. by Stefan Brüdermann , Göttingen 2016, pp. 785–825.

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personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Karl Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German modern historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiedenbrügge