Peter Theiner

Peter Theiner (* 1951 ) is a German historian and foundation manager .

Life

Peter Theiner attended elementary school in Solingen and passed his matriculation examination at the Schwertstraße high school in Solingen in 1970 . After his military service in the Federal Air Force (most recently: Lieutenant) he studied history, Romance studies, philosophy, sociology and educational science at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (HHU), the Université Dijon and, with a scholarship from the French Embassy, from 1972 to 1978 the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris . In 1978 he completed his studies at the HHU with the first state examination "with distinction" and became a research assistant at the history seminar. In the winter semester 1981/82 he received his doctorate “summa cum laude” with the support of his academic teacher Wolfgang J. Mommsen ; the title of his dissertation on the liberal politician Friedrich Naumann was "Social Liberalism and German World Politics".

From 1985 to 1990 Peter Theiner was in the Carl Duisberg Group (CDG / CDC), an organization for international professional training and personnel development, as head of department responsible for programs in cooperation with China, Iran and Egypt as well as the preparation of German executives abroad, finally as Deputy Head of Department for Corporate Communications. From 1991 to 1995 he was program director and member of the executive board of the Deutsche Management Akademie Niedersachsen gGmbH (DMAN), Celle , an organization for further training for managers from Central and Eastern European countries. In 1995 he became head of the international understanding France, USA, Central and Eastern Europe division of the Robert Bosch Stiftung , since 2000 director of the international understanding Western Europe, America, Turkey, Japan, India division, managing director of its subsidiary DVA-Stiftung , 2013–2016 division director history of philanthropy . Since 2008 he has been a lecturer in modern and contemporary history at the Historical Institute of the University of Stuttgart . His biography of the entrepreneur and founder Robert Bosch received a lot of attention.

Peter Theiner is married; he has two daughters with his wife.

Awards

• 1974 Strasbourg Prize from the FVS Foundation , awarded by the University of Strasbourg
• 1982 Wolf-Erich-Kellner Prize for the promotion of scientific work on liberalism
• 2006 Officier dans l ' Ordre des Palmes Académiques , French Republic
• 2013 Chevalier dans l ' Ordre national du Mérite , French Republic

Publications (selection)

• Social liberalism and German world politics. Friedrich Naumann in Wilhelminian Germany (1860-1919) , Nomos, Baden-Baden 1983, ISBN 978-3-7890-0729-3 .
• Central European plans in Wilhelmine Germany , in: Helmut Berding (ed.): Economic and political integration in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries , Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, Göttingen 1984, ISBN 978-3-525-36409-3 , pp. 128-148.
• Friedrich Naumann and Max Weber. Stations of a political partnership , in: Wolfgang J. Mommsen, Wolfgang Schwentker (Ed.): Max Weber and his contemporaries , Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, Göttingen 1988, ISBN 978-3-525-36306-5 , pp. 419-433; English version in: Wolfgang J. Mommsen, Jürgen Osterhammel (Eds.): Max Weber and his Contemporaries , Allen & Unwin, London 1987, ISBN 0-04-301262-0 ; Japanese: Kyoto 1994, ISBN 4-623-02391-5 .
• Friedrich Naumann and social liberalism in the German Empire , in: Karl Holl , Günter Trautmann (ed.): Social Liberalism , Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, Göttingen 1986, ISBN 978-3-525-01333-5 , pp. 72-83.
• Management know-how transfer through development programs for managers , in: Claus Steinle (Ed.): Management in Central and Eastern Europe. Concepts, practice, perspectives , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, publishing area business books, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-929368-50-1 , pp. 208-219.
• Ed. (With Robert Picht , Vincent Hoffman-Martinot, René Lasserre ): Stranger Friends. Germans and French before the 21st century , Piper, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-492-03956-1 .
• Elites in France and Germany , in: Angela Hausner (Hrsg.): Thoughts 2000. A reading book from philosophy, culture and science , Piper, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-492-22799-6 , pp. 63–71; French: Elites , in: Jacques Leenhardt (Ed.): Au jardin des malentendus. Le commerce franco-allemand des idées , Actes Sud, Arles 1997, ISBN 2-7427-1377-8 , pp. 325–333.
• Central Europe - historically , in: Walter Kosiminal , Marek Nekula, Joachim Rogall (ed.): Germans and Czechs. With a foreword by Václav Havel , CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-406-45954-2 , pp. 133-145; Czech: Prague 2001, ISBN 80-7185-370-4 .
• France , in: Andreas Lawaty , Hubert Orlowski (eds.): Deutsche und Polen , CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-49436-6 , pp. 227-233; Polish: Francja , in: Polacy i Niemcy , Wydawn. Poznańskie, Poznań 2003, ISBN 83-7177-175-4 , pp. 255-261.
• Clear the way for visions - the foundations , in: Kurt-Jürgen Maaß (Hrsg.): Culture and foreign policy. Handbook for Study and Practice , Nomos, Baden-Baden 2005, ISBN 3-8329-1404-8 , pp. 233-240; under the title: Free for ideas and new thinking. The foundations , in: Kurt-Jürgen Maaß (Hrsg.): Culture and foreign policy. Handbook for study and practice , Nomos, 3rd edition, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-1504-6 , pp. 300-307.
• Foundation purpose international understanding. Robert Bosch and the Robert Bosch Foundation, in: Stiftung & Sponsoring 5 (2009), pp. 1–20.
• La Fondation Bosch et son action dans le domaine des relations franco-allemandes. Colloque international, Bordeaux 2-3 février 2012 , in: Revue de l'Institut Français d'Histoire en Allemagne 4 (2012), pp. 124–132.
• Impressions from the history of the Robert Bosch Stiftung / Impressions from the History of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, in: 50 years of shaping the future = 50 years towards the future, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart 2014, pp. 154–181.
• Robert Bosch. Citoyen in the age of extremes , in: Wolfram Pyta , Carsten Kretschmann (Ed.): Bürgerlichkeit. Searching for traces in the past and present , Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-515-11249-9 , pp. 103-115.
• Robert Bosch. Entrepreneurs in the age of extremes. A biography. CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70553-3 .
  • Robert Bosch. An Entrepreneur in an Age of Extremes. A biography. CH Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978 3 406-74145 6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ So u. a. Pearl divers ; Handelsblatt , March 16, 2017; Review by Joachim Scholtyseck , in: Damals , October 18, 2017; Review by Ulla Fölsing , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 27, 2017; Review by Patrick Bormann, in: online reviews of the yearbook for research on liberalism 1/2017.