Peter Winzen

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Peter Winzen (2013)

Peter Heinrich Mathias Winzen (born June 23, 1943 in Parsberg / Upper Palatinate ) is a German historian .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1963, Winzen studied history, English and political science in Heidelberg, Munich and Cologne, where he passed the state examination in 1969. In the same year he received a doctoral scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (until 1972). In 1973 he received his doctorate from the University of Cologne (doctoral supervisor: Theodor Schieder ). 1974/75 he worked as a Leverhulme Fellow at the University of East Anglia / Norwich (visiting professor). Between 1976 and 1998 he worked in higher education (Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium Bergisch Gladbach ). He has been a reviewer for the historical magazine since 1977 . Until 2003 he held a teaching position for didactics of history at the historical seminar of the University of Cologne. From 1989 to 2002 he was a research assistant at the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Section: German Historical Sources of the 19th and 20th Centuries). From 1999 to 2014 he was a member of the SPD on the City Council of Bergisch Gladbach.

Winzen is considered an expert of the Wilhelmine leadership elite and has written three standard scientific works on late Wilhelmine foreign and domestic policy. For his publications (including numerous articles) he used material from over 30 European archives. His 1977 dissertation in Cologne on “Bülow's concept of world power” brought it “from the start to a standard work”. In it he advocates the much discussed "thesis that German foreign policy, at least in the era of State Secretary of the Foreign Office and later Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow (1897–1909), was based on a stringent concept". According to this, Bülow "possessed a concept of 'world power' directed against Great Britain and aimed at the overthrow of the British world empire". In 2013 he presented a biography of Chancellor Bülow (1849–1929), which, beyond its narrower subject, is a standard work on the history of the Empire.

Works

  • Friedrich von Holstein's policy on England 1895-1901. Phil. Dissertation, University of Cologne, 1975.
  • Bülow's world power concept. Investigations into the early phase of his foreign policy 1897-1901 (= writings of the Federal Archives. Volume 22). Harald Boldt Verlag, Boppard am Rhein 1977, ISBN 3-7646-1643-1 .
  • Personalities and structures in history (= tenses. Sources on history and politics ). Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-12-490180-0 .
  • Bernhard Fürst von Bülow: German politics. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1992, ISBN 3-416-80662-X .
  • The empire on the edge. The Daily Telegraph Affair and the Hale Interview of 1908. Presentation and documentation. (= Historical communications from the Ranke Society. Supplement 43). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-515-08024-4 .
  • Bernhard Prince von Bülow. World power strategist without fortune - pioneer of the great catastrophe (= personality and history. Volume 163). Muster-Schmidt Verlag, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-7881-0154-7 .
  • The end of imperial glory. The scandal processes surrounding the homosexual advisers of Wilhelm II. 1907-1909. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20630-7 .
  • Love of friends at the court of Kaiser Wilhelm II. BOD, Norderstedt 2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-5760-2 .
  • In the shadow of Wilhelm II. Bülow and Eulenburg's poker for power in the empire. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-89498-261-4 .
  • Imperial Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow. With world power fantasies in the First World War. A political biography. Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7917-2546-8 .
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell. Memories of the end of the imperial era and political correspondence (= writings of the Federal Archives, vol. 75). Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2016, ISBN 978-3-7700-1633-4 .
  • A "lost battle". The Daily Telegraph affair and the wavering of the Hohenzollern throne in November 1908. Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8440-6106-2 .
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell (1855-1931). A life against the tide of time. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-50177-8 .
  • Quo vadis Africa? The demographic time bomb in sub-Saharan Africa - once the cradle of humanity, soon its grave? BoD, Norderstedt 2020, ISBN 978-3-7519-6365-7 .

Awards

  • Herzog von Arenberg Prize for Cultural History, Brussels 2012 (For the work: "In the shadow of Wilhelm II. Bülow and Eulenburg's poker for power in the Empire.")
  • Badge of honor in gold from the city of Bergisch Gladbach, April 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Winzen: The England policy of Friedrich von Holstein . Diss. Cologne 1975, p. 413, curriculum vitae from Dec 1974.
  2. ↑ Peter Winzen: Bernhard Fürst von Bülow . (= Personality and History. Volume 163). Göttingen 2003, p. 4.
  3. ^ Marquis Who's Who in the World , 21st ed., New Providence 2004, pp. 2534f.
  4. ^ A b Gregor Schöllgen: Historical magazine . tape 299 , no. 2 . Oldenburg Verlag, Munich October 23, 2014, p. 519 .
  5. ^ Gregor Schöllgen: The Age of Imperialism (= Oldenbourg outline of history, volume 15). Munich 1986, p. 147.
  6. ^ Gregor Schöllgen: Escape to War? The foreign policy of imperial Germany. Darmstadt 1991, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Winzen, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winzen, Peter Heinrich Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Parsberg