Peter Huettenberger

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Peter Hüttenberger (born July 15, 1938 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , † March 12, 1992 in Mönchengladbach ) was a German historian.

Life

Hüttenberger studied history, economics, political science and oriental studies in Tübingen, Bordeaux and Bonn from 1960 to 1966. In 1966 he received his doctorate with the work Die Gauleiter. Study on the change in the power structure in the NSDAP with Karl Dietrich Bracher in Bonn for Dr. phil. From 1967 to 1971 he worked as a research assistant at the main state archive in Düsseldorf , where he gathered sources for the reconstruction of politics and administration and the early history of North Rhine-Westphalia through interviews with contemporary witnesses (especially leading politicians and civil servants) and the acquisition of legacies . These later served as the basis for his habilitation thesis North Rhine-Westphalia and the emergence of his parliamentary democracy (1973 in Bonn with Karl Dietrich Bracher). From 1974 to 1975 he headed the project Resistance and Persecution in Bavaria during the Nazi era at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich .

In 1975 Hüttenberger became professor of contemporary history at Bielefeld University ; in the following year he took over the newly established chair for modern history with special consideration of the history of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia at the University of Düsseldorf . There he also served as Dean of the Philosophical Faculty from 1979 to 1980 and as Rector from 1980 to 1983.

In addition to the regional history of North Rhine-Westphalia, the focus of his research was the history of National Socialism , the history of the Federal Republic and European unification, as well as cultural and social-historical questions and the theory of history. Peter Hüttenberger is the founder of the series of regional and urban history publications, Düsseldorfer Schriften on recent regional history and the history of North Rhine-Westphalia, which has existed since 1980 .

In April 1989, Hüttenberger was elected a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia .

Fonts

  • Peter Hüttenberger: The Gauleiter. Study on the change in the power structure in the NSDAP (= series of the quarterly books for contemporary history . 19, ISSN  0506-9408 ). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1969.
  • Peter Hüttenberger: North Rhine-Westphalia and the emergence of its parliamentary democracy (= publications of the state archives of North Rhine-Westphalia. Series C: sources and research. 1). Respublica, Siegburg 1973, ISBN 3-87710-061-9 (at the same time: Bonn, Universität, habilitation paper, 1972).
  • Peter Hüttenberger: Bibliography on National Socialism (= work books on modern history. 8). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1980, ISBN 3-525-35484-3 .
  • Peter Hüttenberger, Hein Hoebink (Hrsg.): History of the European unification movement and the European communities. Working material for secondary level II. Bayerischer Schulbuch-Verlag, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-7627-6114-0 .
  • Peter Hüttenberger, Hansgeorg Molitor (ed.): French and Germans on the Rhine. 1789–1918–1945 (= Düsseldorfer Schriften zur recent regional history and the history of North Rhine-Westphalia. 23). Klartext, Essen 1989, ISBN 3-88474-133-0 .
  • Peter Hüttenberger: The industrial and administrative city (20th century) (= Hugo Weidenhaupt (Hrsg.): Düsseldorf. History from the origins to the 20th century. 3). Schwann in Patmos-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-491-34223-6 .

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SURNAME Huettenberger, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1992
Place of death Mönchengladbach