Mathias Beer

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Mathias Beer (born September 27, 1957 in Sibiu ) is a Romanian-German historian . Since 2007 he has been managing director and deputy head of the Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies (IdGL) in Tübingen .

Beer studied history and German at the University of Sibiu and later at the University of Stuttgart . In 1984 he passed his first state examination, after which he received a doctoral scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation between 1985 and 1988 . In 1989 he received his doctorate with a thesis on "Parents and children of the late Middle Ages in their letters".

Then Beer was a research assistant at the Historical Institute of the University of Stuttgart. From 1990 he was head of the "Contemporary History Research Department" at the Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies in Tübingen. Since 2007 he has been managing director and deputy head of the IdGL.

His main research interests are the history of mentality, administration, politics, science and, in particular, the history of migration in German and Southeast European modern times and contemporary history, including Baden-Württemberg as a country of immigration.

He is also the spokesman for the Center for Research on German History and Culture in Southeastern Europe at the University of Tübingen , member of the board of the Society for Historical Migration Research , Chairman of the Commission for the History and Culture of Germans in Southeastern Europe and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Transylvania Institute .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Flight and expulsion of the Germans. Requirements, course, consequences. Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-61406-4 .
  • Refugees and displaced persons in the German south-west after 1945. An overview of the archives in the state and municipal archives of the state of Baden-Württemberg (= Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies. Series of publications by the Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies. Vol. 2). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1994, ISBN 3-7995-2502-5 .
  • Parents and children of the late Middle Ages in their letters. Family life in the city of the late Middle Ages and the early modern times with special consideration of Nuremberg (1400–1550) (= Nuremberg workpieces for city and state history. Vol. 44). City Archives, Nuremberg 1990, ISBN 3-87432-115-0 .

Editorships

  • Baden-Württemberg - a story of immigration. (= Writings on political regional studies of Baden-Württemberg. Vol. 40). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-945414-00-2 .
  • with Stefan Dyroff: Political strategies of national minorities in the interwar period (= book series of the Commission for the History and Culture of Germans in Southeastern Europe. Vol. 42). Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-035148-4 .

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