Kurt Juergensen

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Kurt Jürgensen (born August 20, 1929 in Flensburg ; † October 8, 1999 in Kronshagen ) was a German historian and history teacher .

Life

schooldays

Kurt Jürgensen grew up as the son of the teacher Johannes Jürgensen and his wife Helene (née Prehn) in a Protestant-Lutheran family in Flensburg. He attended the Alte Gymnasium in Flensburg from 1940 to 1950 , although his school years were interrupted in 1945 due to the Second World War.

academic career

After graduating from high school, he studied history, philosophy, Romance studies and education in Kiel, Marburg and Paris until 1954. The student Kurt Juergensen received a grant from the French government and attended the École normal supérieure in Paris in 1953/54 . He initially finished his studies in 1955 with the first state examination and then completed his legal clerkship at the Max Planck School in Kiel. He interrupted his legal clerkship for several months in 1956 and 1957 to do research in Belgium for his doctoral thesis. His doctorate was suggested by Otto Becker and Fritz Wagner and, after Otto Becker's death, supervised by Karl Dietrich Erdmann . In 1958 he first passed the second state examination and received his doctorate in the summer of the same year. In the following seven years he worked as a teacher at the Max Planck School. On the recommendation of Karl Dietrich Erdmann, in 1965 he switched to university teaching at the historical seminar of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU). In 1971, Jürgensen was offered a professorship at the Flensburg University of Education for the professorship of "History, Didactics and Methodology of History Lessons". Two years later he was appointed to the same professorship at the University of Education in Kiel. In 1974 he completed his habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty for Medieval and Modern History. Kurt Jürgensen taught at the University of Education in Kiel as well as at the history seminar of the Christian Albrechts University. After his retirement in the summer of 1994, he represented the chair for history and its didactics at the CAU for two more semesters.

His grave is in the Eichhof park cemetery .

plant

Kurt Jürgensen's range of research interests was diverse. He went on research trips to Bonn, Brussels, London and Ottawa. His special research areas include the state-political and church reorganization in Schleswig-Holstein after 1945, the nationality problem in Canada and liberal Catholicism and the constitutional movement of the 19th century.

His dissertation on the history of Belgium in the 19th century is still counted among the most important works in this area. As an employee of the Institute for European History in Mainz 1961/1962, he had the opportunity to expand research in the field of his dissertation and to publish an expanded version of it in 1963. The close connection with his homeland is the basis for his intensive research into the history of Schleswig-Holstein . In this context, his research on British occupation policy after the Second World War is particularly noteworthy, as he carried out an extensive analysis of files from both military and civil institutions in the London archive . In addition, he dealt with the history of Canada , in particular with the question of nationality. In 1966 and 1970, Jürgensen received invitations from the University of Ottawa to give courses on German history. Jürgensen also dealt intensively with history didactics and in the 1980s was head of the state working group “State History in Class” at the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs.

Act

In addition to his work at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kurt Jürgensen was involved in various scientific associations. He was the founder and chairman of the Kronshagen section of the Schleswig-Holstein University Society (SHUG). He headed the history department of the Lauenburg Academy for Science and Culture (FLA) until 1996. For a long time he worked for the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History (GSHG) on the scientific advisory board and on the editorial board of the Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Since 1991 he has also been a member of the board of trustees of the Institute for Schleswig-Holstein Contemporary and Regional History (IZRG) and co-founder of the Journal for Canada Studies , the organ of a scientific society of the same name.

Fonts (selection)

  • Lamennais and Belgium - The struggle for liberal Catholicism in Belgium up to the encyclical “Mirari Vos” by Pope Gregory XVI. (August 1832) . Kiel 1958. (Inaugural dissertation in 2 volumes.)
  • Contributions to the history of Schleswig-Holstein after the Second World War . Kiel 1974 (Habilitation thesis on obtaining the Venia legendi of the Philosophical Faculty of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Presented in two parts.)
  • The establishment of the state of Schleswig-Holstein after the Second World War - the establishment of the democratic order in Schleswig-Holstein under the first Prime Minister Theodor Steltzer . Neumünster 1969.
  • The founding of the state of Schleswig-Holstein after the Second World War. The establishment of the democratic order in Schleswig-Holstein during the British occupation 1945–1949 . Neumünster 1998.
  • The hour of the church. The Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Schleswig-Holstein in the first years after the Second World War . Neumünster 1976.

literature

  • Oliver Auge / Martin Göllnitz: State history magazines and university state history: The example of Schleswig-Holstein (1924–2008). In: Thomas Küster (Ed.): Media of limited space. National and regional historical journals in the 19th and 20th centuries. (Research on regional history, vol. 73). Paderborn 2013, pp. 69–125.
  • Manfred Jessen-Klingenberg , Kurt Jürgensen: University and State: History of the Schleswig-Holstein University Society 1918–1993 . Neumünster, 1995.
  • Sebastian Lehmann: List of publications by Prof. Dr. Kurt Juergensen (1929–1999) . Kronshagen, 2000.
  • Manfred Jessen-Klingenberg: Kurt Juergensen: August 20, 1929 to October 8, 1999 [obituary] . In: Christiana Albertina 50 (2000), pp. 231-232.
  • Peter Wulf: In memory of Kurt Jürgensen . In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History 125 (2000), pp. 7–8.

Archival material

Schleswig-Holstein State Archives in Schleswig:

  • Dept. 47 No. 6695 (1972–1974), No. 7243 (1971–1990)
  • Dept. 811 Nos. 42964 - 42968 (1963–1995)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Schleswig-Holstein State Archives: Section 47 No. 6695
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Schleswig-Holstein State Archives: Dept. 811 No. 42967
  3. ↑ In the course of his legal clerkship, Kurt Jürgensen also worked at the Hebbelschule in Kiel and at the Geesthacht grammar school. (Schleswig-Holstein State Archives: Dept. 811 No. 42967)
  4. ↑ a b Schleswig-Holstein State Archives: Dept. 811 No. 42965
  5. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein State Archives: Dept. 811 No. 42966
  6. ↑ At the same time, he had a teaching position at the historical seminar in Kiel for two to four hours a week for the history of the British Commonwealth with a focus on Canada (Schleswig-Holstein State Archives: Dept. 811 No. 42966)
  7. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein State Archives: Section 47 No. 7243
  8. ^ Manfred Jessen-Klingenberg, Kurt Juergensen: August 20, 1929 to October 8, 1999 [obituary] . In: Christiana Albertina 50 (2000), p. 231.
  9. ↑ Karl Dietrich Erdmann: "Mr. Jürgensen is an internationally recognized expert on the history of the origins of the Belgian constitution and in particular the influence exerted by liberal Catholicism and particularly Lamennais." (Schleswig-Holstein State Archives: Dept. 47 No. 7243)
  10. ^ Auge / Göllnitz: Landesgeschichtliche Zeitschriften und University Landesgeschichte. 2013, p. 96ff.
  11. ^ Sebastian Lehmann, List of publications by Prof. Dr. Kurt Juergensen (1929–1999) . Kronshagen, 2000. p. 7
  12. ↑ Peter Wulf, In memory of Kurt Jürgensen . In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History 125 (2000), p. 7
  13. ^ Lehmann, List of publications by Prof. Dr. Kurt Jürgensen , pp. 8, 9
personal data
SURNAME Juergensen, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and history teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1999
Place of death Kronshagen