Michael Grüttner

Michael Grüttner (born February 10, 1953 in Baden-Baden ) is a German historian . Since 2003 he has been an adjunct professor for modern history at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin .

Live and act

Michael Grüttner was born as the son of the doctor Gunda and the doctor and university professor Rolf Grüttner. After graduating from the Hamburg Johanneum , Grüttner studied history, philosophy and sociology at the University of Hamburg from 1972 . In 1983 he was awarded a doctorate at the historical seminar in Hamburg (with Klaus Saul ). phil. PhD . In 1984 he went to Berlin, where he initially worked as a research assistant (with Reinhard Rürup ) and then as a university assistant. In 1994 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin. Between 1998 and 2002 he was Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley . In 2003 he was appointed adjunct professor for modern history at the TU Berlin.

Grüttner's research and teaching focuses on the social history of the 19th and 20th centuries, university history , the history of National Socialism and Spanish history . Many of his publications deal with the history of universities during National Socialism. These include his habilitation thesis Students in the Third Reich (1995) and the Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy from 2004. For the 10th edition of the classic manual of German history, the Gebhardt , he wrote the volume on the Third Reich in 1933 -1939.

Grüttner is married and has two children.

Fonts (selection)

Books

• Who Owns the City - Urban Planning and Urban Development in Hamburg 1965–1975. Verlag Association, Hamburg 1976, ISBN 3-88032-042-X .
• Working world at the water's edge. Social history of the Hamburg port workers 1886–1914 (= critical studies of historical science . Volume 63). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1984, ISBN 3-525-35722-2 (dissertation, University of Hamburg, 1983).
• Students in the Third Reich. History of the German student body 1933–1945. Schöningh, Paderborn 1995, ISBN 3-506-77492-1 .
• Edited with Rüdiger Hachtmann and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt : History and Emancipation. Festschrift for Reinhard Rürup . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-593-36202-3 .
• Edited with John Connelly: Between Autonomy and Adaptation. Universities in the dictatorships of the 20th century. Schöningh, Paderborn 2003, ISBN 978-3-506-71941-6 (English edition 2005).
• Biographical lexicon on National Socialist science policy. Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 .
• Edited with Rüdiger Hachtmann , Konrad H. Jarausch , Jürgen John : Broken Science Cultures. University and Politics in the 20th Century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-35899-3 .
• The Berlin University between the World Wars 1918–1945 (= History of the University of Unter den Linden. Volume 2). In collaboration with Christoph Jahr , Sven Kinas, Anne Christine Nagel and Jens Thiel. Academy, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-05-004667-9 .
• The Third Reich 1933–1939 (= Gebhardt. Handbook of German History . Volume 19). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-608-60019-3 . Almost identical to the text as arsonists and honest men. Germany 1933–1939. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-608-94916-2 . Licensed edition of the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2016.

Essays

• Social hygiene and social control. The redevelopment of Hamburg's Gängeviertel 1892–1936. In: Arno Herzig , Dieter Langewiesche , Arnold Sywottek (ed.): Workers in Hamburg. Lower classes, workers and the labor movement since the late 18th century. Verlag Erziehungs und Wissenschaft, Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-8103-0807-2 , pp. 359–371.
• The huts of poverty and vice. In: Volker Plagemann (ed.): Industrial culture in Hamburg. The German Empire's gateway to the world. Beck, Munich 1984, ISBN 978-3-406-09675-4 , pp. 224-243.
• with Sven Kinas: The Expulsion of Scientists from German Universities 1933–1945. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . ISSN  0042-5702 , Vol. 55 (2007), H. 1, pp. 123-186.

literature

• Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. A bio-bibliographical directory. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X , pp. 122–124.
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 24th edition (2012), vol. 1, p. 1262.

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Grüttner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the TU Berlin about Michael Grüttner
• Interview with Michael Grüttner at Spiegel Online, May 9, 2005 (with photo)

Remarks

1. ^ Friedhelm Golücke: Author's lexicon on student and university history. A bio-bibliographical directory. Cologne 2004, p. 122 ff.
2. ↑ Short biography of Michael Grüttner in: Michael Grüttner, Rüdiger Hachtmann , Konrad H. Jarausch , Jürgen John (eds.): Broken Science Cultures. University and Politics in the 20th Century . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-35899-3 , p. 380.
3. ↑ Review: Niels Beintker on Deutschlandfunk , Michael Grüttner's History of the Third Reich .