Kurt Duwell

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Kurt Düwell (born July 28, 1937 in Düsseldorf ) is a German historian and professor emeritus of the History Department of the University of Düsseldorf , Chair VI (Modern History).

academic career

Düwell studied at the University of Cologne , where he with a thesis on the Rhine areas in the 1968 anti-Jewish policy of the Nazis before 1942 a PhD . He then worked as an academic adviser at the Historical Institute of RWTH Aachen University , where he de facto organized the actual university archive from 1970 onwards, following a resolution by the academic senate in 1967. In 1974 he completed his habilitation in Cologne with a thesis on German foreign cultural policy. In 1977 he was offered a chair for modern and contemporary history at the University of Trier . 1985 to 1989 he was vice dean and dean. In 1995 he followed a call to the University of Düsseldorf to succeed Peter Hüttenberger .

Düwell is a member of the Association of German Historians , the Prussian Historical Commission Berlin and the Working Group on the History of Prussia , a member of the Düsseldorf History Association and a founding member of the Brauweiler Circle for regional and contemporary history . In addition, he worked as a member and chairman of the social science study group for international problems , the Association for historical regional studies of the Rhineland and the Society for Rhenish History (chairman 1998–2002).

In addition to the ancient historian Hans Kloft and the medievalist Egon Boshof, Düwell is the author of the foundations of the study of history , which have been published in numerous editions , in which he wrote the chapter on Modern History . For all three historians, emphasis was placed on manual skills.

His successor to the Düsseldorf chair and chairman of the Brauweiler circle has been Christoph Nonn since 2003 .

Others

Düwell was a member of the presbytery of the Evangelical Luther Church Congregation in Düsseldorf from 1997 to 2007 and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Association for Rhenish Church History.

Works (in selection)

As an author
  • The Rhine regions in the Jewish policy of National Socialism before 1942: Contribution to a comparative contemporary history. Bonn, L. Röhrscheid, 1968, 328 pages (dissertation, University of Cologne, 1968).
  • Establishment and development of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen up to its rebuilding after the Second World War: Presentation and documents. In: Hans Martin Klinkenberg: Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen 1870/1970. Stuttgart 1970, pp. 19–176 (with a separate, chronological-synoptic annex volume on the relationship between technology and university history).
  • State and science in the Weimar era. On the cultural policy of the Minister CH Becker. In: Historical magazine . Supplement, New Series 1 (1971), pp. 31-74.
  • With Egon Boshof , Hans Kloft : Basics of the study of history. An introduction. Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1973, ISBN 3-412-08183-3 ; 5th edition 1995.
  • Germany's foreign cultural policy: 1918–1932; Baselines and documents. Cologne 1976 (habilitation thesis, University of Cologne, 1974).
  • Origin and Development of the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1961: A Documented Introduction. Cologne 1981.
  • Between Propaganda and Peace Work: 100 Years of German Foreign Cultural Policy. In: Kurt-Jürgen Maaß (Ed.): Culture and foreign policy. Handbook for study and practice. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Baden-Baden 2015, pp. 57–98.
  • Surviving Behemoth's Fury Inside the Cage: Stephan Prager, Philipp Rappaport and Others in the Years Before and After 1945. In: David Cesarani et al. (Ed.): Survivors of Nazi Persecution in Europe after the Second World War (= Landscapes after Battle. Vol. 1). Vallentine & Mitchell, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-85303-902-0 , pp. 126-146.
  • Stresemann's European policy and the Rhineland question after World War I. Preliminary stages to a new Franco-German relationship. In: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter, year 80, 2016, pp. 175–210.
  • Prussian maritime trade and Austrian Lloyd. Two variants of closeness to the state (1772-1947). In: Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann (ed.), On the way to the constitutional state. A comparison of Prussia and Austria 1740-1947. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2018, pp. 189–230 (= sources and research on Brandenburg and Prussian history, volume 48).
As editor
  • Helmut Berding, Kurt Düwell, Lothar Gall u. a. (Ed.): From the state of the Ancien Régime to the modern party state. Festschrift for Theodor Schieder. Munich and Vienna 1978.
  • German foreign cultural policy since 1871: history and structure; Lectures and discussions at an interdisciplinary symposium. Cologne 1981.
  • With Wolfgang Köllmann : Rhineland-Westphalia in the industrial age. Contributions to national history in the 19th and 20th centuries. 4 volumes. 1983-1985.
  • With Tilmann Buddensieg , Klaus-Jürgen Sembach: Sciences in Berlin. 3 volumes. Berlin 1987.
  • With Herbert A. Strauss , Tilmann Buddensieg: Emigration. Berlin 1987.
  • Trier in modern times. Trier 1988.
  • End of the war and a new beginning: West Germany and Luxembourg between 1944 and 1947. Stuttgart 1997.
  • With Ottfried Dascher : The Cabinet Minutes of the State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia 1954–1958. Third term. Publications of the State Archives of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 3/1 + 2. Düsseldorf 1997.
  • Expulsion of Jewish artists and scientists from Düsseldorf 1933–1945. Publication of the historical seminar of the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (chair for modern national history and modern history). Düsseldorf 1998.
  • With Ottfried Dascher: The cabinet minutes of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia 1958–1962. Fourth legislative term. Publications of the State Archives of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 4/1 + 2, Düsseldorf 1999.
  • With Wolf-Rüdiger Schleidgen : The cabinet minutes of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia 1962–1966. Fifth legislative term. Publications of the State Archives of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 5/1 + 2. Düsseldorf 2002.
  • With Manfred Rasch : Beginnings and effects of the coal and steel union on Europe. The steel industry in politics and economy. Food 2007.
  • With Jürgen Brautmeier , Ulrich Heinemann, Dietmar Petzina : Heimat Nordrhein-Westfalen: Identities and regionality in transition. Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0155-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Hildebrandt: The archive of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen, in: Archivar, 1991 (3) u. Kurt Duwell. The RWTH Aachen University Archive. First interim balance, in: Alma Mater Aquensis, 1973/74; RWTH University Archives ( Memento from June 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ http://www.uni-konstanz.de/FuF/Philo/Geschichte/Tutorium/Themenkomplexe/Grundlagen/Einfuhrungen/Quellenorientiert/hauptteil_quellenorientiert.html
personal data
SURNAME Düwell, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf