Rüdiger vom Bruch

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Rüdiger vom Bruch (born December 19, 1944 in Kohlow , Weststernberg district , † June 20, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German modern historian . From 1993 to 2011 he was full professor for the history of science at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Live and act

Rüdiger vom Bruch spent his childhood in Gevelsberg in Westphalia . He passed the Abitur in 1964 at the Schillergymnasium in Münster . From 1964 to 1969 he studied history, German and political science at the Free University of Berlin and the Westphalian Wilhelms University (WWU). After the state examination, he taught from 1971 to 1973 at the technical college for social education in Münster and from 1972 to 1987 as a research assistant at the institutes for modern history at the WWU and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU). In 1978 he received his dissertation science, politics and public opinion. Scholarly Policy in Wilhelmine Germany (1890–1914) with Gerhard A. Ritter at the LMU for Dr. phil. PhD. Ritter also suggested Bruch's preoccupation with critical social history and its connection with the history of science and universities.

Rüdiger vom Bruch completed his habilitation in 1987 at the LMU with the thesis From Cameralistics to Economics. Studies on the history of German national economy as a political science (1727–1923) . In the same year he was appointed Academic Senior Councilor. 1989/1990 he worked as a substitute professor at the University of Regensburg . He was then director of the German Institute for Distance Learning and Honorary Professor at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen until 1993 .

Rüdiger vom Bruch's tombstone in the Lichterfelde park cemetery

In 1993, Rüdiger vom Bruch was appointed professor for the history of science at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1996 to 1997 he held the Konrad Adenauer Chair at Georgetown University in Washington, DC

Rüdiger vom Bruch was President of the Society for the History of Science from 1998 to 2001 and he was a member of the board of the Society for the History of University and Science. Since 2002 he has been the coordinator of the DFG program “Science, Politics and Society” and, together with Ulrich Herbert, led a group of scientists to study the history of the German Research Foundation 1920–1970. In 2002, he took over the chairmanship of a working group that was commissioned by the Academic Senate of the Humboldt University in Berlin to develop proposals for the public handling of this university's involvement in the Nazi extermination policy . In 2006/2007 he was a research fellow at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich. In the college year he made the Berlin University the focus of his research in the “long” 19th century.

Rüdiger vom Bruch has been editor of the yearbook for university history since 1998 and co-editor of the Pallas Athene series of publications, published since 2001, and member of the advisory board of the journal Das Hochschulwesen . He was co-editor of the Reports on the History of Science .

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Vom Bruch wrote over 150 scientific articles and contributions for books and reference works as well as around 200 reviews for specialist journals, for Die Zeit and for Das Parlament .

author

  • Science, politics and public opinion. Scholarly Policy in Wilhelmine Germany (1890–1914). Dissertation. University of Munich. Matthiesen, Husum 1980, ISBN 3-7868-1435-X .
  • World politics as a cultural mission. Foreign cultural policy and the educated middle class in Germany on the eve of the First World War. Schöningh, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 1982, ISBN 3-506-73254-4 .
  • Notker Hammerstein (Hrsg.): German history around 1900. With contributions by Rüdiger vom Bruch. Steiner, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-515-05059-0 .
  • Klaus Heienbrok (ed.): Protestant business ethics and reform of capitalism. With contributions by Rüdiger vom Bruch. Bochum 1991, ISBN 3-925895-28-0 .
  • with Helmuth Trischler : Research for the market. History of the Fraunhofer Society. Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-44531-4 .
  • Hans-Christoph Liess (Ed.): Bourgeoisie, State and Culture in the Empire. Selected essays. Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08656-0 .
  • Björn Hofmeister (Ed.): Scholarly Policy, Social Sciences and Academic Discourses in Germany in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Selected essays. Steiner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-515-08869-5 .
  • with Sybille Gerstengarbe, Jens Thiel: The Leopoldina. The German Academy of Natural Scientists between the German Empire and the former GDR. be.bra, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95410-026-2 .

editor

  • “Neither communism nor capitalism.” Civil social reform in Germany from the Vormärz to the Adenauer era. Munich 1985, ISBN 3-406-30882-1 .
  • with Otto B. Roegele : From newspaper studies to journalism. Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-89228-039-8 .
  • with Gangolf Huebinger , Friedrich Wilhelm Graf : Culture and cultural studies around 1900. Stuttgart.
  • with Rainer A. Müller : Forms of extra-state research funding in the 19th and 20th centuries. Steiner, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-515-05337-9 .
  • with Rainer A. Müller: Historikerlexikon. From antiquity to the 20th century. Beck, Munich 1991. 2nd edition 2002, ISBN 3-406-47643-0 .
  • with Rainer A. Müller: Empire and First World War, 1871–1918. Stuttgart 2000.
  • Friedrich Naumann in his time. de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2000, ISBN 3-11-016605-4 .
  • with Björn Hofmeister: German history in sources and presentation. Volume 8: German Empire and World War I. Reclam, Stuttgart 2000. 2nd edition 2002, ISBN 3-15-017008-7 .
  • with Brigitte Kaderas: Sciences and Science Policy . Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-515-08111-9 ( Review by Arne Schirrmacher on hsozkult.de, November 2002)
  • with Christoph Jahr: The Berlin University during the Nazi era. Stuttgart 2005.
  • with Christoph Jahr: Studying in ruins. The reopening of the Berlin University in January 1946. R. Vom Bruch, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-00-018029-X .
  • with Uta Gerhardt , Aleksandra Pawliczek: Continuities and discontinuities in the history of science in the 20th century. Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-515-08965-9 .
  • with Sybille Gerstengarbe, Jens Thiel, Simon Renkert: Science academies in the age of ideologies. Political upheavals - scientific challenges - institutional adjustments. Scientific publishing company, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-8047-3243-8 .

literature

  • Marc Schalenberg, Peter Th. Walther (eds.): “... always keep researching.” Rüdiger vom Bruch on his 60th birthday. Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08607-2 .
  • Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. A bio-bibliographical directory (= treatises on student and higher education. Volume 13). SH, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X , pp. 64-67.
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , Issue 17 (1996).
  • Matthias Stickler : Obituary for Rüdiger vom Bruch (1944–2017). In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research. Volume 63, 2018, pp. 420-423.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 1, 2017.
  2. ^ Rüdiger vom Bruch: Foreword. In: Rüdiger vom Bruch, Christoph Jahr (ed.): The Berlin University in the Nazi era. Volume 1: Structures and People. Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08657-9 , p. 7 ( Google books ).
personal data
SURNAME Bruch, Rüdiger vom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES About the break, Rudiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German modern historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Kohlow , Weststernberg district
DATE OF DEATH 20th June 2017
Place of death Berlin