Klaus Große Kracht
Klaus Große Kracht (* 1969 ) is a German historian . His research focuses on the history of religion in the 19th and 20th centuries, cultural history, and the theory and history of historical studies .
Life
From 1990 to 1996, Klaus Große Kracht studied history, philosophy and education at the University of Bielefeld and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris . In 2000 he received his doctorate in history at Bielefeld University and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (German-French "co-tutelle"). From 1999 to 2001, Große Kracht was a research assistant with Friedrich Wilhelm Graf at the Protestant Theological Faculty of the University of Munich . From 2001 to 2008 he worked as a research assistant at the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam.
Since 2008, Klaus Große Kracht has been a junior research group leader at the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics in the Cultures of Pre-Modernism and Modernity” at the University of Münster and mentor of the graduate school integrated into it. In 2013 he completed his habilitation in modern and contemporary history at the University of Münster. In the meantime he represented the professorship for modern and contemporary history at the History Department of the University of Münster and was appointed adjunct professor in 2019. Since November 2019, he has been working in a research team at the University of Münster that deals with the processing of the sexual abuse of minors by priests of the diocese of Münster.
Klaus Große Kracht is married and has a daughter. His brother is the social ethicist Hermann-Josef Große Kracht .
Honors
In 2013 Klaus Große Kracht received the Wuppertal Teaching Lion from the Bergische Universität Wuppertal , a prize for particularly good teaching.
Publications (selection)
- Monographs
- Between Berlin and Paris: Bernhard Groethuysen (1880–1946). An intellectual biography . Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 2002.
- The quarreling guild. Historical controversies in Germany after 1945. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005.
- The hour of the layman? Catholic Action in Germany in the European Context 1920–1960 . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2016.
- as editor
- with Martin Sabrow , Ralph Jessen : Contemporary history as a history of controversy. Great controversy since 1945. Beck, Munich 2002.
- with Vera Ziegeldorf: Effects and perceptions of the First World War. (Historical Forum, 3) Clio-online , Berlin 2004.
- with Friedrich Wilhelm Graf : Religion and Society. Europe in the 20th century . Böhlau, Vienna 2007.
- with Jörg Baberowski , Jan-Holger Kirsch: Violence: Spaces and Cultures . Contemporary historical research , 5, volume 1. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008.
- with Thomas Großbölting and Jan-Holger Kirsch: Religion in the Federal Republic of Germany. Zeithistorische Forschungen, 7, no.3, ibid. 2010.
- with Hermann-Josef Große-Kracht: Religion, Law, Republic. Studies on Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde . Schöningh, Paderborn 2014.
- with Thomas Großbölting and Meik Woyke: “Say what is”. Walter Dirks in the intellectual and political constellations of Germany and Europe, JHW Dietz Nachf., Bonn 2019.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the University of Münster .
- ↑ Project page of the project "Coming to terms with the abuse of minors by Catholic priests .."
- ^ Lehrlöwe ( Memento from December 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Big bang, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1969 |