Klaus Gestwa

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Klaus Gestwa (born May 15, 1963 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German historian and since 2009 director of the Institute for Eastern European History and Regional Studies at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. After Werner Markert , Dietrich Geyer and Dietrich Beyrau , he is the fourth holder of the professorship for Eastern European History at the University of Tübingen.

Klaus Gestwa, 2017
Klaus Gestwa, lecture at the University of Tübingen, May 2017

Career

Klaus Gestwa studied history and Slavic studies from 1984 to 1991 in Marburg , Norwich , Moscow and Leningrad . He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Frankfurt / Main until 1994 , before moving to the University of Tübingen. In 1996 he did his doctorate under Hans Lemberg and Dietrich Beyrau with a thesis on proto-industrialization in rural Russia, published in 1999 by the Göttingen publishing house Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht under the title “Proto-industrialization in Russia. Economy, rule and culture in Ivanovo and Pavlovo 1741–1932 ” appeared.

Between 1996 and 2006 Klaus Gestwa was a research assistant in Tübingen with interruptions . After research stays at the University of Chicago between 2004 and 2005 , he qualified as a professor at the History Faculty of the University of Tübingen in 2007 with a technical and environmental-historical thesis on the history of Soviet hydropower plants , published in 2010 by Oldenbourg Verlag under the title “Die Stalinschen Großbauten des Kommunismus. Soviet history of technology and the environment, 1948–1967 ”was published.

Since the summer semester of 2009, Klaus Gestwa has been a full professor at the University of Tübingen. His main research interests include the history of science , technology and the environment of the Soviet Union , the cultural history of the Cold War , the history of disasters in Eastern Europe and the history of perestroika . Since 2013 he has been a member of the scientific advisory boards of the Research Center for Eastern Europe at the University of Bremen and the Tübingen Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies . In addition, he is co-editor of several series and magazines and, since 2013, has also been a liaison professor at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The Russian Revolution Cycle . Munich 2019.
  • The large Stalin buildings of communism. Soviet technical and environmental history 1948–1967 . Munich 2010.
  • Proto-industrialization in Russia. Economy, rule and culture in Ivanovo and Pavlovo 1741–1932 . Göttingen 1999.

Editorships

  • Soviet Nuclear Modernity. Transnational dimensions, decentering dynamics and enduring legacies . Edited together with Stefan Guth, Tanja Penter and Julia Richers (= Cahiers du Monde Russe , 60, 2 - 3/2019).
  • Disasters in Eastern Europe . Edited together with Marc Elie. Stuttgart 2014 (= yearbooks for the history of Eastern Europe , 2/2014).
  • Social inequality in state socialism . Edited together with Jens Gieseke and Jan-Holger Kirsch. Göttingen 2013 (= contemporary historical research , 2/2013).
  • Visual history of Russia in the 19th century . Edited together with Katharina Kucher. Stuttgart 2012 (= yearbooks for the history of Eastern Europe , 4/2012).
  • Departure from the GULag. Stuttgart 2009 (= yearbooks for the history of Eastern Europe , 4/2009).
  • Cooperation despite confrontation. Science and Technology in the Cold War . Edited together with Stefan Rohdewald. Berlin 2009 (= Eastern Europe , 10/2009).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dietrich Beyrau: 2003: The 50th anniversary of the Institute for Eastern European History and Regional Studies. The Institute for Eastern European History and Regional Studies at the University of Tübingen is 50 years old. (No longer available online.) Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, archived from the original on December 1, 2017 ; accessed on November 27, 2017 .
  2. ↑ NewsFullview updates. Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, accessed on November 27, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Professor Dr. Klaus Gestwa. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen - Philosophical Faculty, Eastern European History and Regional Studies, accessed on November 27, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Klaus Gestwa: Proto-industrialization in Russia. Economy, rule and culture in Ivanovo and Pavlovo, 1741–1932 (=  publications of the Max Planck Institute for History . No. 149 ). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 978-3-525-35464-3 ( dnb.de [accessed on November 27, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Klaus Gestwa: The large Stalin buildings of communism: Soviet technology and environmental history, 1948-1967 (= systems of  order . Volume 30 ). Oldenbourg, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-58963-4 ( dnb.de [accessed November 27, 2017]).
  6. ^ Research Center for Eastern Europe Bremen: Research Center for Eastern Europe Bremen - Board of Directors & Advisory Board. Retrieved November 27, 2017 .
  7. ↑ IDGL: Scientific Advisory Board. Retrieved November 27, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Liaison professors. Retrieved November 27, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Gestwa, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen