Klaus Schönhoven

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Klaus Schönhoven (born July 19, 1942 in Würzburg ) is a German historian . From 1984 to 2007 he was Professor of Political Science and Contemporary History at the University of Mannheim .

Life

Schönhoven graduated from high school in Würzburg in 1963 and then studied history, political science and German at the universities of Würzburg and Munich. In 1971 he received his doctorate in Würzburg with a thesis on The Bavarian People's Party from 1924 to 1932 . From 1971 to 1979 he was a research assistant at the Institute for History at the University of Würzburg . After completing his habilitation, he studied expansion and concentration. Studies on the development of the free trade unions in Wilhelminian Germany 1890-1914 and the appointment as a private lecturer, he represented chairs for modern and contemporary history at the universities of Trier and Göttingen between 1979 and 1984. At the same time he was a fellow of the German Research Foundation in the Heisenberg program from 1980 to 1984 . In autumn 1984 he was appointed professor for political science and contemporary history at the University of Mannheim.

Schönhoven has made a name for himself as a social historian and historian of the German labor movement, whose research in the 19th and 20th centuries is the focus of his research. In addition to studies on the history of the trade unions and social democracy, he has written a number of contemporary historical works that illuminate the topics of German history in the 20th century (Weimar Republic, National Socialism, Federal Republic) in detail.

Memberships in scientific committees

Fonts

Monographs

  • The Bavarian People's Party 1924–1932. (= Contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties , Volume 46), Düsseldorf 1972.
  • Expansion and concentration. Studies on the development of the free trade unions in Wilhelmine Germany 1890–1914. (= Industrial World , Volume 30), Stuttgart 1980.
  • The German trade unions. (= edition suhrkamp , volume 1287), Frankfurt am Main 1987.
  • Reformism and radicalism. Split labor movement in the Weimar welfare state. Munich 1989.
  • Labor Movement and Social Democracy in Germany. Selected contributions. Bonn 2002.
  • Turning point. The social democracy in the time of the grand coalition 1966–1969. Bonn 2004.
  • Freedom and life can be taken from us, but not honor. The fate of the SPD members of the Reichstag elected in 1933. Dietz Verlag Bonn 2017, ISBN 978-3801205010 .

Small fonts

  • The Heidelberg program party congress of 1925. Social democratic position determination in the Weimar Republic. Heidelberg 1995.
  • Trade Unions and Social Democracy in the 20th Century. Bonn 1995.
  • History politics. About the public handling of history and memory. Bonn 2003.
  • Beacon of barbarism. The book burning in May 1933. Heidelberg 2003.
  • Risks and opportunities of a grand coalition from a historical perspective. Mainz 2006.
  • Herbert Wehner and the Grand Coalition. Bonn 2006.
  • Europe as a community of remembrance. Bonn 2007.
  • Freedom through Democratic Socialism. Willy Brandt's reflections on the programmatic self-image of the SPD. Bonn 2013.

Editor of edited volumes

  • Würzburg's Social Democrats. From workers' association to social democratic people's party 1868–1978 , Würzburg 1978 (together with Hans Werner Loew)
  • Workers in Germany. Studies on the way of life of the working class in the age of industrialization , Paderborn 1981 (together with Dieter Langewiesche )
  • Solidarity and human dignity. Stages in German trade union history from the beginning to the present , Bonn 1984 (together with Erich Matthias )
  • Socialism and Communism in Transition. Hermann Weber on his 65th birthday , Cologne 1993 (together with Dietrich Staritz )
  • Early warnings about Nazism. A historical reading book , Bonn 1998 (together with Hans-Jochen Vogel )
  • Generations in the Labor Movement , Munich 2005 (together with Bernd Braun)
  • The German welfare state in the 20th century. Weimar Republic, GDR and Federal Republic of Germany in comparison , Bonn 2012 (together with Walter Mühlhausen)

Editor and editor of source editions

  • Regional and local council organizations in Württemberg 1918/19 (sources on the history of the council movement in Germany, vol. 2), Düsseldorf 1976 (together with Eberhard Kolb )
  • The trade unions in World War and Revolution 1914–1919 (sources on the history of the German trade union movement in the 20th century, vol. 1), Cologne 1985
  • The metal industry union in the early Federal Republic of 1950–1956 (sources on the history of the German trade union movement in the 20th century, vol. 10), Cologne 1991 (together with Walter Dörrich)
  • Sources on the history of the German trade union movement in the 20th century, 15 vols., Cologne and Bonn 1994-2007 (together with Hermann Weber)
  • As editor and with an introduction: Willy Brandt : When in doubt for freedom. Speeches on social democratic and German history . Verlag JHW Dietz, Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-8012-0426-6 .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Review (sueddeutsche.de)
personal data
SURNAME Schönhoven, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg