Klaus Kempter

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Klaus Kempter (* 1964 in Stockach ) is a German historian and science administrator.

Kempter studied Middle and Modern History in Tübingen and Heidelberg and received his doctorate in 1996 from the University of Heidelberg with a collective biography of the German-Jewish family of scholars Jellinek, which is widely accepted internationally as a highly regarded standard work. He dedicated a biographical study to the union leader Eugen Loderer, which "opens up a look at the power-political foundations of the 'Model Germany'" and the internal structure of IG Metall.

With a biography of the Holocaust researcher Joseph Wulf, he completed his habilitation in 2013 at the Philosophical Faculty of Heidelberg University. Kempter is the managing director of the New Philology Faculty at Heidelberg University, where he teaches as a private lecturer at the Department of History.

From 2009 to 2011 he was a research fellow at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig , funded by the German Research Foundation .

In his research on contemporary history and the history of ideas, Kempter focuses in particular on economic and social history issues.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Jellineks 1820-1955. Düsseldorf: Droste-Verlag, 1998 (= dissertation)
  • Judaism, liberalism, nationalism: Biographical influences on Georg Jellinek's political personality. In: Stanley L. Paulson, Martin Schulze (ed.): Georg Jellinek. Contributions to life and work. Tübingen, 2000, pp. 53-65.
  • Eugen Loderer and IG Metall : biography of a trade unionist. Filderstadt: Verlag Weinmann, 2003.
  • with Peter Meusburger (ed.): Education and knowledge society. Berlin / Heidelberg / New York: Springer, 2006.
  • Idea or structure? Martin Broszat , Saul Friedländer and Holocaust Research. In: Journal for the History of Ideas , Issue II / 2, 2008, pp. 114–117.
  • A humanist without illusions: on the 75th birthday of Louis Begley . In: The Political Opinion , No. 467, October 2008, pp. 49–51.
  • Joseph Wulf . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013.
  • Contribution in: Katharina Rauschenberger (Ed.): Return to Feindesland ?: Fritz Bauer in German-Jewish Post-War History. Frankfurt / New York: Campus-Verlag, 2013.
  • Robert Kurz, the »critique of values« and radical social theory or: Is Karl Marx still relevant to history after all ?, WerkstattGeschichte 72 (2016), 65–76.
  • with Martina Engelbrecht (Ed.) .: Crisis (s) of modernity. About literature and diagnosis of the times, Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Abelshauser: The functionary. Review by Klaus Kempter, Eugen Loderer and IG Metall . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung v. June 2, 2004 . https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/politik/der-funktionaer-1163702.html .
  2. ↑ a b Review by Jörg Später in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ; Review by Hendrik Niether on H-Soz-u-Kult .
  3. ↑ http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/neuphil/dekanat/
  4. ^ Profile on the website of Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
personal data
SURNAME Kempter, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockach