Klaus Tenfelde

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Klaus Tenfelde (born March 29, 1944 in Erkelenz ; † July 1, 2011 in Bochum ) was a German historian , professor of social history and social movements and until March 31, 2011 director of the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr University Bochum .

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Klaus Tenfelde - son of a civil engineering worker - completed an apprenticeship at the Essen-Rossenray mines from 1958 to 1961 . He then worked as a squire for a year ; after that he worked for three years as a police enforcement officer in the federal border police .

After Tenfelde had made up his Abitur at the Braunschweig-Kolleg in 1967 , he studied history and German at the University of Münster until 1973 . As early as 1975, Klaus Tenfelde received his doctorate from Gerhard A. Ritter with his dissertation on the social history of miners in the Ruhr in the 19th century . In 1981 he received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize for Young Scientists.

Until 1985 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Munich . Tenfelde completed his habilitation there in 1981 with a thesis on the subject of the Proletarian Province. Radicalism and resistance in Penzberg / Upper Bavaria 1900 to 1945 . He received the Venia legendi for history. In 1985 he moved to the University of Innsbruck , where he took over a chair for economic and social history . In 1990 he went to Bielefeld University . Tenfelde was awarded the Fritz Thyssen Foundation Prize in 1994 . A year later, Klaus Tenfelde was able to take over the chair for social history and social movements at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In November of the same year he also became head of the Institute for Research into the European Labor Movement (IGA, since 1999 Institute for Social Movements , ISB) founded at the Ruhr University in the 1970s .

Tenfelde was considered an expert on the history of the Ruhr area and work or the labor movement . He was committed to the development of the Ruhr area into an urban “Ruhrstadt”. The Ruhr Area Library Foundation , which he initiated, has existed in the House of the History of the Ruhr Area in Bochum since 1998 . In 1999 Tenfelde was elected a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia .

In 2007 Tenfelde took over the publication of the handbook History of German Mining , the volumes of which appeared from 2012 to 2016.

Tenfelde was married to the doctor Ellen Tenfelde. The marriage has two children.

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Monographs

  • "Krupp remains Krupp". A centenary: the anniversary of the Fried company. Krupp AG in Essen 1912 , Klartext Verlag , Essen 2005, ISBN 978-3-89861-364-4 .
  • Workers in the German Empire (together with Gerhard A. Ritter ), Dietz , Bonn 1992.
  • Proletarian Province. Radicalization and resistance in Penzberg / Upper Bavaria 1900 to 1945 , first in: Bavaria in the Nazi era , vol. IV, ed. v. Martin Broszat u. a., Munich 1981, pp. 1–382; Revised and expanded new edition: Oldenbourg, Munich / Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-486-50701-X (also: University of Munich, Habil.-Schr. 1980/81).
  • Social history of miners in the Ruhr in the 19th century , Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1977, 2nd edition as a study edition, Bonn 1981, ISBN 3-87831-226-1 .

Editorships

  • History of German Mining , 4 volumes, Aschendorff-Verlag, Münster 2012–2016, ISBN 978-3-402-12900-5 .
  • Religious Socializations in the 20th Century. Historical and comparative perspectives , Klartext Verlag, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0227-5 .
  • The Ruhr region. A historical reading book (together with Thomas Urban), 2 volumes, Klartext Verlag, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0286-2 .
  • Welfare state Germany. Past and present (= politics and social history , 87) (together with Ulrich Becker and Hans Günter Hockerts ), Dietz, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-8012-4198-8 .
  • Religion in society. End or turning point? , Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-983-7 .
  • Forced Labor in Europe in the 20th Century. Coping and comparative aspects (together with Hans-Christoph Seidel), Klartext Verlag, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89861-588-4 .
  • The European city in the 20th century. Perception - Development - Erosion (together with Friedrich Lenger ), Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-412-17705-9 .
  • Forced labor in the mine. The work in the coal mining of the German Reich and the occupied territories in the First and Second World War. Volume 1: Research (together with Hans-Christoph Seidel), Klartext Verlag, Essen 2005, ISBN 978-3-89861-389-7 .
  • Forced labor in the mine. The work in the coal mining of the German Reich and the occupied territories in the First and Second World War. Volume 2: Documents (together with Hans-Christoph Seidel), Klartext Verlag, Essen 2005, ISBN 978-3-89861-390-3 .
  • Worker in state socialism. Ideological claim and social reality , (together with Peter Hübner and Christoph Kleßmann ), Böhlau , Cologne a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-412-18705-4 .
  • Liberated land. From the “Ruhrkessel” to the founding of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , (= SBR-Schriften , 17), Klartext Verlag, Essen 2005, ISBN 978-3-89861-585-3 .
  • Labor deployment and forced labor in occupied Europe , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005 (= GG , 31, no.1).
  • Handbook on Statistics of Parliaments and Parties in the Western Occupation Zones and in the Federal Republic of Germany , 4 vol., Droste, Düsseldorf 2002–2005.
  • Irish and Polish Migration in Comparative Perspective (together with John Belchem), Klartext Verlag, Essen 2003, ISBN 978-3-89861-095-7 .
  • Pictures from Krupp. Photography and history in the industrial age , Beck, Munich 1994, 2nd edition 2002, ISBN 3-406-38545-1 ; engl .: Pictures of Krupp. Photography and History in the Industrial Age , Wilson, London 2005.
  • Ruhrstadt - visions for the Ruhr area. Four discussion rounds , Klartext Verlag, Essen 2002.
  • Workers in the SBZ-GDR (together with Peter Huebner), Klartext Verlag, Essen 1999, ISBN 978-3-88474-730-8 .
  • Social history of German communism , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1995 (= GG 21, no.1).
  • Paths to the history of the bourgeoisie (together with Hans-Ulrich Wehler ), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994.
  • Social history of mining in the 19th and 20th centuries. Contributions of the International Congress on Mining History Bochum, Federal Republic of Germany, 3. – 7. September 1989 / Towards a Social History of Mining. Papers presented to the International Mining History Congress Bochum, Federal Republic of Germany, September 3rd – 7th, 1989 , Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-35118-2 .
  • Workers in the 20th Century (= Industrial World , 51), Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-608-91344-0 .
  • Mining workers, entrepreneurs and government. Industrial Relations in Comparison , (together with Gerald D. Feldman ), Beck, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-33987-5 ; Eng .: Workers, Owners and Politics in Coal Mining. An International Comparison of Industrial Relations , Berg, New York a. a. 1990.
  • Comparison of workers and labor movements. Reports on international historical research (= supplement to the historical journal , No. 13), Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-61750-8 .
  • Strike. On the history of the industrial action in Germany during industrialization (together with Heinrich Volkmann ), Beck, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-406-08130-4 .

literature

  • Dieter Langewiesche : Obituary for Klaus Tenfelde (March 29, 1944 - July 1, 2011). In: Geschichte und Gesellschaft , Volume 37, No. 4 (October - December 2011), pp. 649–656.

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personal data
SURNAME Tenfelde, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Erkelenz
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 2011
Place of death Bochum