Klaus Saul

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Klaus Saul (born January 1, 1939 in Stade ) is a German historian .

The son of a retailer had been attending grammar school since Easter 1950 and graduated from high school in 1959. Until 1964, Saul studied history, German, pedagogy and philosophy at the Universities of Göttingen , Bonn and Hamburg . In 1964 he passed the state examination for teaching at grammar schools. He was then a research assistant at Egmont Zechlin (1964–1972) and an employee (1967–1972) at the Department of History at the University of Hamburg . In 1971 he received his doctorate from Zechlin and Günter Moltmann with the summa cum laude work State, Industry, Labor Movement in the Empire. On the domestic and social policy of Wilhelmine Germany 1903–1914 . In 1973 he became a "Scientific Councilor and Professor" in Hamburg. From 1977 until his retirement in 2004 he taught as professor for social history of the 19th and 20th centuries at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg . There he was also active in academic self-government and held the office of dean . In 1990 he was appointed honorary professor in Hamburg.

Saul researched in particular the history of the empire and the relationship between state and workers. Further research interests were the history of youth care and teacher education. Saul published important source editions on the Weimar Republic , on working-class families and on everyday history in the Empire. Academic students of Saul are Karl Christian Führer , Michael Grüttner , Karen Hagemann , Birthe Kundrus and Patrick Wagner .

Fonts

Monographs

  • State, industry, labor movement in the empire. On the domestic and social policy of Wilhelmine Germany 1903–1914. Düsseldorf 1974, ISBN 3-571-05034-7 .

Editorships

  • together with Jens Flemming , Dirk Stegmann and Peter-Christian Witt : Working families in the Kaiserreich. Materials on social history in Germany 1871–1914. Athenaeum, Königstein 1982.
  • together with Jens Flemming, Peter-Christian Witt: Family life in the shadow of the crisis. Documents and analyzes on the social history of the Weimar Republic 1918–1933. Droste, Düsseldorf 1988.
  • together with Jens Flemming and Peter-Christian Witt: Sources on the everyday history of Germans 1871–1914 , Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1997.
  • together with Jens Flemming and Peter-Christian Witt: Lebenswelten in a state of emergency. The Germans, Everyday Life and the War, 1914–1918 , Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Main 2011.

literature

  • Karl Christian Führer, Karen Hagemann, Birthe Kundrus (Ed.): Elites in Transition. Social leaders in the 19th and 20th centuries. For Klaus Saul on his 65th birthday. Münster 2004, ISBN 3-89691-550-9 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ The title On the Interior and Foreign Policy of Wilhelminian Germany 1903–1914 mentioned on the cover of the book is a technical oversight.
personal data
SURNAME Saul, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Stade