Margret Heitmann

Margret Heitmann (* 1948 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German teacher and research assistant at the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History at the University of Duisburg-Essen .

Scientific career

She studied pedagogy, sociology, psychology and Protestant theology at the University of Duisburg and the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg . In 1997 she received her doctorate.

Margret Heitmann is in charge of the Jonas Cohn archive in the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History at the University of Duisburg-Essen, an institute affiliated with the University of Duisburg-Essen, and has published several publications on Jonas Cohn and Neo-Kantianism .

Margret Heitmann teaches in a proseminar at the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History at the University of Duisburg-Essen on the subject of German-Jewish history and culture in a European context.

Publications

• "Keep away from the whole country any ruin ..." History and culture of the Jews in Pomerania. An anthology. Edited by Margret Heitmann and Julius H. Schoeps with the assistance of Bernhard Vogt. Olms, Hildesheim, Zurich, New York 1995, ISBN 3-487-10074-6 .
• Jonas Cohn (1869–1947): the problem of the infinite task in science and religion. Olms, Hildesheim, Zurich, New York 1999, ISBN 3-487-10882-8 .
• City of Faith: History and Culture of the Jews in Glogau. Olms, Hildesheim, Zurich, New York 1991, ISBN 3-487-09495-9 .
• Michael Brocke , Margret Heitmann, Harald Lordick (eds.): On the history and culture of the Jews in East and West Prussia. (= Netiva, Vol. 2), Hildesheim 1999. therein: "Love for the community arises from the feeling of security". The Association of West Prussian Synagogue Communities 1897–1922, pp. 217–237.
• The motives of his teaching are justified in the truth of his life. Jewish existence and German culture using the example of Leo Baeck. In: Ludger Heid , Joachim H. Knoll (Hrsg.): German-Jewish history in the 19th century. Festschrift for Julius H. Schoeps. Stuttgart, Bonn 1992, pp. 211-230.
• with Andreas Reinke with the participation of Harald Lordick and Heike Teckenbrock: Bibliography on the history of the Jews in Silesia. Munich 1995.
• with Harald Lordick: On the history of Judaism in Silesia. In: Wake up my heart and think. On the history of the relations between Silesia and Berlin-Brandenburg. Ed. Society for interregional cultural exchange, (German / Polish) Berlin / Opole 1995, pp. 52–60.
• Jonas Cohn: philosopher, educator and Jew. Thoughts on the career and fate of the Freiburg Neo-Kantian and his philosophy. In: Walter Grab and Julius H. Schoeps (eds.): Jews in the Weimar Republic, sketches and portraits. 2nd Edition. Darmstadt 1998, pp. 179-199.

Web links

• Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History at the University of Duisburg-Essen