Klaus Goebel

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Klaus Goebel in December 2009

Klaus Wilhelm Goebel (born April 24, 1934 in Wuppertal ) is a German historian .

Life

Goebel was born as the son of the married couple Hildegard and Wilhelm Goebel. After graduating from high school in 1954 and studying at the Pädagogische Akademie Wuppertal , he worked from 1956 to 1970 as a primary and secondary school teacher. In addition to his job, he studied at the University of Bonn and received his doctorate there in 1965 (major: constitutional, social and economic history).

In 1970 he began his academic work at the Pädagogische Hochschule Ruhr in Dortmund as an assistant, qualified as a professor in 1975 (New History and its Didactics) and was appointed professor in 1977. After the merger of the college of education and the university, he became a professor at the University of Dortmund in 1980 , where he also participated in the university self-administration bodies. From 1990–1996 he headed the Historical Institute as managing director. In 1999 he retired. The scientific papers and dissertations he oversees are primarily dedicated to the history of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Goebel has been born with Bärbel Goebel since 1966. Behrendt married. The couple have four sons (Christoph, Daniel, Tobias and Andreas).

Professional activity

Decades of teaching and research with a focus on social, ecclesiastical, educational and economic issues, most recently on the history of literature. Goebel was one of the initiators of the Historical Center / Museum for Early Industrialization in Wuppertal, which he, at that time still a department of the Natural Science and City History Museum Wuppertal, headed on a voluntary basis in the founding phase 1965–1967. At first he turned his particular historical interest to his hometown Wuppertal along with its further Bergische surrounding area and the Rhenish [ev.] Church. Motivated by the fate of his own ancestors, he described the development of the Wupper region with the rapidly growing cities of Barmen and Elberfeld from the 18th century. He examined in detail individual migration flows as contributions to German internal migration in modern times and industrialization. Klaus Goebel devoted himself extensively to local and regional history under National Socialism, initiated the first project to portray Nazi history in Wuppertal and made his own contributions to it. In addition, he researched the history of the Confessing Church, which was persecuted at times . With the “Oberbergische Geschichte”, which was developed by several authors under his direction and published in three volumes in 1998/2002, the Oberbergische Kreis was one of the first districts in the Federal Republic to receive a comprehensive account of its history. Goebel was a co-founder and member of the Scientific Advisory Board and the central jury of the history competition for the Federal President's Prize (Kurt.-A.-Körber-Stiftung Hamburg-Bergedorf) from 1974 to 1989. He is a member of the scientific commission of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Else Lasker Schüler Foundation for Persecuted Arts.

Goebel took part in research on the history of education in the 19th and 20th centuries, worked through the pedagogues Friedrich Wilhelm Dörpfeld (first complete edition of his letters in 1976) and Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm Diesterweg, among other things, as co-editor for the DFG-supported project of the Complete Works Diesterweg, therein chief editor of the letters. He dealt with Luther's contributions to the school and enabled the Brandenburg School and Education Museum in Kloster Lehnin-Reckahn, which was founded after the fall of the Wall, to receive technical and financial support. In his academic work, Klaus Goebel dealt biographically with other historical personalities from the fields of politics, education, literature, theology and the church. In addition to Diesterweg and Dörpfeld, we would like to highlight: Johann Victor Bredt , Samuel Collenbusch , Gerhard Dürselen , Friedrich Engels , Hermann Enters , Else Lasker-Schüler , Thomas Mann , Rudolf Alexander Schröder , Heinrich Wolfgang Seidel , Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling , Matthias Claudius and Gerhard Tersteegen . At times he was in charge of the DFG research project on Tersteegen's letters. The memories of the youth of the worker Hermann Enters (1846–1940), which he published with the work of the worker Hermann Enters (1846–1940), which are now available in their fifth edition, were considered a rare socio-historical evidence of the lower classes.

Political activity

Goebel was mainly active in cultural and school politics. 1964–1977 Goebel was a member of the CDU district executive committee in Wuppertal and was district chairman 1970–1973, 1968–1970 and 1973–1975 vice chairman. For the CDU he was 1975–1989 member of the council of the city of Wuppertal and the landscape assembly of Rhineland, Cologne and already from 1961–1975 a civic member in committees of the Wuppertal council. Most recently he held the office of chairman in Cologne and vice chairman of the cultural committee in Wuppertal.

Goebel was involved in school and administrative reforms as well as the founding of museums, including the Xanten Archaeological Park, the Rhenish Industrial Museum and the Bergisches Freilichtmuseum. Until 1989 he was chairman of the coordination commission of the landscape associations for the industrial museums of Rhineland and Westphalia. From 1988–1993 he was an honorary member of the board of the Rheinische Kulturstiftung of the Sparkassen- und Giroverband Nordrhein.

In 1997, Goebel founded the Wuppertal local association of the Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection (RVDL) with monument protector Michael Metschies , of which he is still a member of the board, temporarily as chairman. Goebel had campaigned for monument protection in Wuppertal since his youth and arranged the first building for the Mechernich-Kommern Rhenish Open-Air Museum, which was being prepared at the time, as early as 1958. He was also able to record successes in his - partly club-supported (RVDL) - commitment to goals of landscape protection. The founding of the local association was preceded by a citizens' initiative to protect the Wuppertal suspension railway , which he and friends launched in 1996 when, as part of a general renovation, the destruction of the still preserved historical stations of the rapid transit railway, built around 1900, threatened to be destroyed and the demolition and New construction work in 2007 continues. After the fall of the Wall, he accompanied the renovation of the church of St. Marien auf dem Berge in Boitzenburg / Uckermark, which he initiated by founding a support association, primarily by raising donations and focused on the preservation of Brandenburg village churches as a whole, as they were done by the support group Alte Churches Berlin / Brandenburg is sought.

In 2004 he left the CDU. He founded the Voting Association for Wuppertal (WfW), which is committed to local political reforms and the fight against local political grievances such as corruption. In the 2004 local elections, a few months after the WfW was founded, Goebel received 13 percent of the vote in his constituency.

In 2004 he was appointed to the board of trustees of the foundation for burned and exiled poets / artists of the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft .

Awards

literature

  • Prof. Dr. phil. Klaus Goebel . In: Valentin Wehefritz (Hrsg.): CVs from your own hand . Biographical archive of Dortmund university professors. No. 7 . Dortmund 2000 ( tu-dortmund.de [PDF; accessed on November 17, 2010]).

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personal data
SURNAME Goebel, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goebel, Klaus Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal