Philipp-Christian Wachs

Philipp-Christian Wachs (born May 3, 1967 in Hamburg ) is a German historian and managing director of companies and institutions in the non-profit sector. Since 2008 he has been director and since 2011 board member of Haus Rissen Hamburg - Institute for International Politics and Economics , a civic education institution .

Life

Philipp-Christian Wachs grew up in Hamburg and, after training as a reserve officer , studied modern history, economics and public law with the 1st Mountain Division in Mittenwald in Bamberg, Paris and Berlin. After receiving his doctorate on the Theodor Oberländer case , which triggered a mixed echo in the national press, he worked for several years for the Governing Mayor of Berlin and the federal-state consultancy Industrial Investment Council (IIC) in Berlin. After moving to the non-profit sector, he held a leading position at the ZEIT Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius and as managing director of Helmut Schmidtestablished German National Foundation (Weimar / Hamburg). Since 2008 he has headed the non-profit training company Haus Rissen Hamburg , of which he is the managing director today.

Philipp-Christian Wachs is married and has three children.

social commitment

His voluntary work includes a. Membership in the board of trustees of parliamentwatch.de and on the board of the non-profit Klaus Schümann Foundation in Hamburg. Philipp-Christian Wachs is also a founding member of the Atlantic Initiative , a member of the Tönisstein Circle and the Friends of Mars & Merkur.

Publications

Monographs

with Ton van Loon : State Building. Challenging Corruption, Organized Crime and Structural Problems , Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-9809508-1-7
The Theodor Oberländer case (1905–1998) - A didactic piece of German history , Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-593-36445-X
The land reform of 1945: The second expropriation of the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy family , Baden-Baden 1994, ISBN 3-928017-72-1

Editorships

with Wolfgang Buschfort and Falco Werkentin : Lectures on German-German history , Berlin 2007 (2nd edition), ISBN 978-3-934085-12-1

Essays

From charity to the most distant love. Foundations move Germany. A classification in the history and the socio-political life of the country in: Hanns-Stephan Haas , Jörg Verstl (Hrsg.): Foundations move. A change of perspective for shaping the social . Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-17-022027-0
Theodor Oberländer , in: Scandals in Germany after 1945. Book accompanying the exhibition in the House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany . Bonn 2007, pp. 30-40, ISBN 978-3-86678-122-1
with Franz Menges : Oberländer, Theodor in: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB), Volume 19, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , pp. 392–394.
Success model for Germany. Foreign examples of social franchising , in: Stiftung & Sponsoring, Issue IV / 2007. Verl 2007
with Kurt Biedenkopf : The new Berlin question: What role does the capital play in a federal state in: Law and Politics Book IV / 2004, Berlin 2004.
Prussian Junkers or Foreign Jews? Elsa von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and the fate of her estate Börnicke in 1945 , in: Mendelssohn studies. Contributions to recent German cultural and economic history. Berlin 1995, pp. 135-149

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME	Wachs, Philipp-Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian
DATE OF BIRTH	May 3, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg , Germany

[1] Philipp-Christian Wachs: The case of Theodor Oberländer (1905-1998). A lesson in German history , in: perlentaucher.de

[2] Haus Rissen: “Democracy is not inherited” , Klönschnack 10/2008, p. 12

[3] The board of trustees of ab altenwatch.de , ab altenwatch.de (August 21, 2013)