Dorothea Minkels

Margret Dorothea Minkels (born 1950 in Bitburg ) is a German author of non-fiction books on the history of Prussia in the 19th century.

Life

Dorothea Minkels attended grammar school in Bitburg and studied chemistry and biology at Saarbrücken University and Mainz University . From 1972 to 2008 she worked as a secondary school teacher in Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg and Berlin. During this time she wrote didactic articles for educational journals such as Teaching Chemistry and Der Biologieunterricht .

Since 1998 Minkels has published on various aspects of Berlin's history in the period before and after the March Revolution in Berlin in 1848 . She has written articles in various periodicals focused on regional history as well as monographs on Friedrich-Ludwig Urban , Julius von Minutoli , Alexander von Minutoli and Elisabeth von Prussia as books on demand .

Fonts (selection)

• Nawi practice: science lessons using a few examples according to the framework plan for Berlin primary schools . DeMi-Verlag, 2006 (Book on demand)
• 1848 a barricade hero: from the life of the veterinarian Friedrich Ludwig Urban (1806–1879) . Berlin: Self-published, 1998 (Book on demand)
• Between the palace and Alexanderplatz: 33 significant hours in German history . Berlin: DeMi-Verlag, 2001 (Books on Demand, Norderstedt), new edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-8370-1589-8 .
• The historical significance of pictures using the example of the great barricade on Alexanderplatz in 1848 . In: Berlin in the past and present, yearbook of the state archive 2001
• The veterinarian Friedrich Ludwig Urban (1806–1879) - Berlin barricade hero and mediator between people and crown . In: Helmut Bleiber, Walter Schmidt , Susanne Schötz (Hrsg.): Actors of upheaval. Men and Women of the Revolution 1848/49 , Vol. 1, Berlin 2003, pp. 871–919.
• Drawn in 1848: the Berlin police chief Julius von Minutoli . Berlin: DeMi-Verlag, 2003 (Books on Demand, Norderstedt), ISBN 3-8334-0096-X .
• Julius von Minutoli (1804–1860) - Berlin police chief in the revolutionary year of 1848 . In: Helmut Bleiber, Walter Schmidt, Susanne Schötz (Hrsg.): Actors of upheaval. Men and Women of the Revolution 1848/49 , Vol. 2, Berlin 2007, pp. 427–472.
• Elisabeth of Prussia: Queen in the time of the marching out . Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2007/2008.
• Portraits of the Prussian Queen Elisabeth in the collection of the Stadtmuseum Berlin . in: Yearbook Stadtmuseum Berlin 2004/2005, pp. 278–304
• Queen Elisabeth of Prussia (1801–1873) in Berlin . In: Berlin in Past and Present , Yearbook of the State Archives 2009:
• Prussia's royal couple Friedrich Wilhelm IV and Elisabeth, the Fouqués and von Rochows: with an appendix: From the correspondence between Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué and Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm and King Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia 1820–1839 . In: Yearbook of the Fouqué Society Berlin-Brandenburg. Dillenburg: Edition M&N, 2011, pp. 5–124.
• The founders of the Neues Museum Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Von Preussen and Elisabeth von Baiern , Norderstedt 2012, ISBN 978-3-8448-0212-2 .
• Journeys on behalf of Prussian kings drawn by Julius von Minutoli , Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-7322-7919-7 .
• Alexander von Minutoli, the founder of the 1st Museum of Decorative Arts in the world (1844), BoD Norderstedt 2018, ISBN 978-3-7460-6982-1 .
• Joachim S. Karig, Dorothea Minkels: Heinrich Menu von Minutoli and his outstanding family, BoD Norderstedt 2019, ISBN 978-3-7481-7568-1 .
• Minkels, Dorothea (Ed .; Queen Elisabeth von Preussen Gesellschaft eV, Berlin): Correspondence between the royal couple Friedrich Wilhelm IV. And Elisabeth von Preussen , Vol. 3: 1844–1845. The industrial and art sponsor & the protector of social institutions, BoD Norderstedt 2020, ISBN 978-3-7494-0294-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Dorothea Minkels in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Dorothea Minkels in the bibliographic database WorldCat