Manfred Overesch

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Manfred Overesch (born November 17, 1939 in Burgsteinfurt ) is a German contemporary historian , retired university professor and author.

biography

Overesch completed a degree in classical philology, history and philosophy at the Universities of Münster , Tübingen and Vienna , which he completed with the first state examination. After the second state examination, he worked as a high school teacher from 1967 to 1977. In 1973 he was awarded a Dr. phil. did his doctorate and habilitation in 1978 in Münster for history. He then worked as a private lecturer at the Universities of Münster and the TU Braunschweig . From 1981 he was professor for history and didactics of history at the college or later University of Hildesheim , where he was director of the history seminar. In the meantime he was visiting professor at the Paris Sorbonne in 1987. After 24 years of education in Hildesheim, he was in February 2005 emeritus .

His research focus and his journalistic activities are in the field of contemporary history , especially recent German history.

He is married to Sigrun, nee Künne. The couple had three children.

Fonts (selection)

  • Press between control and freedom: Preussen and its semi-official newspaper from the revolution to the founding of the Reich (1848–1871 / 72) , Verlag Documentation, Pullach 1974
  • The integrated proseminar: an attempt at curricular practice in history , politics . Education at e. pedag. Hochsch., Pfeffer, Bielefeld 1975
  • All-German illusion and West German reality: on the preparations for a German peace treaty for the establishment of the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany 1946–1949/51 , Droste, Düsseldorf 1978
  • Germany 1945–1949: Prehistory a. Foundation d. Federal Republic. A guide to presentation and documents , Droste, Düsseldorf 1979
  • The Weimar Republic , Droste, Düsseldorf 1982 (together with Friedrich Wilhelm Saal )
  • The image of Germany and the German question in the historical teaching works of the Federal Republic of Germany and in the guidelines of the federal states 1949–1983 , Georg-Eckert-Inst. for boarding Textbook research, Braunschweig 1986 (together with Wolfgang Marienfeld)
  • Occupied Germany , Volume 1: 1945–1947 , Volume 2: 1948–1949 , Droste, Düsseldorf 1986
  • Hermann Brill in Thuringia 1895–1946: a fighter against Hitler and Ulbricht , Dietz, Bonn 1992 (Political and Social History series; Vol. 29)
  • Seizure of power from the left: Thuringia 1945/46 , Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 1993
  • Buchenwald and the GDR or the search for self-legitimation , Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1995
  • Renaissance of a cultural city - Hildesheim after World War II , Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 1998 (Landschaftsverband Hildesheim: Publications of the Landschaftsverband Hildesheim eV , Vol. 9) (with the assistance of Klaus Arlt)
  • St. Michaelis, the world cultural heritage in Hildesheim: a Christian-Jewish partnership for the reconstruction after the Second World War , Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2002
  • Quo vadis, Germany? Thoughts at the time. Hildesheim University Speeches 1989–2003 , Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2003
  • The moment and the story: Hildesheim on March 22, 1945 , Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2005
  • Hildesheim 1945–2000: new city on old walls , Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2006 (with the assistance of Stefan Oyen)
  • Bosch in Hildesheim 1937–1945: Free Entrepreneurship and National Socialist Armaments Policy , Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008
  • Heavenly Jerusalem in Hildesheim: St. Michael and the secret of sacred mathematics 1000 years ago , Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009 (together with Alfhart Günther)
  • St. Michael: God's city and Bernwards castle in Hildesheim. With a discourse on Bernwards bronze doors in St. Michael , Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2010
  • God, love and the gallows: Helmuth J. and Freya von Moltke in their last conversations in 1944/45, Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2015

literature

  • Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who . 41st edition 2002/2003, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2002, ISBN 3-7950-2034-4 , p. 1060.
  • Werner Weidenfeld , Wilhelm Bleek : Political culture and German question: Materials on state and national consciousness in the Federal Republic of Germany , Verl. Wiss. and Politics, Cologne 1989, p. 305.
  • Ennio Di Nolfo (Ed.): Power in Europe? Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy and the Origins of the EEC, 1952–1957 , Volume II, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1992, ISBN 3-11-012158-1 , p. 570.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ennio Di Nolfo (Ed.): Power in Europe? Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy and the Origins of the EEC, 1952–1957 , Volume II, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1992, ISBN 3-11-012158-1 , p. 570
  2. a b Who is who? , Das Deutsche who's who , Volume 41, Lübeck 2002, p. 1060
  3. ^ German studies , editions 125–128, Ost-Akademie, 1995, p. 417