Rolf-Ulrich Kunze

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Rolf-Ulrich Kunze (born November 12, 1968 in Osnabrück ) is a German historian and adjunct professor for modern and recent history at the Institute for History of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He also published essays on the culture and acceptance history of technology in the 20th century, as well as two contemporary historical novels.

Life

family

Kunze's family comes from what is now the Polish part of Guben ( Niederlausitz ) and Berlin. His brother Heinz Rudolf Kunze was born in the Espelkamp refugee camp near Minden (Westphalia), where his father found work in the camp management. The father's professional career as a teacher brought with it a frequent change of residence; At the end of 1963 she made her home in Osnabrück . There, the father took a job as a university assistant at the University of Education with the social worker Elisabeth Siegel (1901-2002), the mother got a job as a primary school teacher.

Kunze is married and has one son. In 2015 Rolf-Ulrich Kunze published a family biography under the title “Half a century of my parents”

Education

From 1989 to 1994 Rolf-Ulrich Kunze studied law, history, German literature and political science in Frankfurt am Main and Würzburg , he completed his Magister Artium (MA) in Würzburg in the field of modern and contemporary history. During his studies, like his brother Heinz Rudolf, he received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation .

Professional background

In the summer semester of 1992 Kunze was a lecturer at the German School of the University at Albany / State University of New York. From 1994 to 1998 he was a lecturer at the University of Würzburg, where he received his Dr. phil. received his doctorate. His dissertation on the bishop abroad of the German Evangelical Churches (DEK) Bishop D. Theodor Heckel (1894–1967) is controversial in terms of contemporary and ecclesiastical history.

In 1998 Kunze worked in the planning staff of the Federal President in the Federal President's Office . From 1996 to 2000 he was a research assistant at the University of Mainz . There he completed his habilitation in 1999 in the field of modern and contemporary history with a thesis on the history of the German National Academic Foundation under Wolfgang Altgeld and was appointed private lecturer . In 2000 and 2001 he was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main. In 2001 he represented the Chair for Modern and Contemporary History at the Institute for History at the University of Karlsruhe (TH). From 2002 to 2006 he was managing director of the research center "Resistance to National Socialism in the German Southwest" and in 2001/2002 he was also a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG). From 2007 to 2016 Kunze worked at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Karlsruhe and at KIT with the development of the historical course offerings in the "Euclid" course (European culture and history of ideas). Since 2009 he has been co-editor of the “E-Journal of New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts” at KIT Scientific Publishing.

In 2016 Kunze's contemporary historical novel “Cambdon, Maine”, a German-American family history from 1930 to the present day, was published, in 2017 his novel “Inseljahre”, the story of a German historian and member of the officer resistance against Hitler in World War II.

In the 2019/2020 winter semester, Kunze will take the chair at the Center for Dutch Studies at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster . One of the tasks is to address Dutch-German relations.

Research priorities

Kunze's main research interests are the history of Protestantism, the history of science and culture, the history of National Socialism, the material culture of technology as well as the European and especially Dutch history of the 19th and 20th centuries and global history. He is an expert on the history of the Dutch royal family.

Works (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "The title alludes to the Dutch family history of Geert Mak :" My father's century "an exemplary social and mentality history of the Netherlands. The completely different family biography of Rudi Kunze (1925–2001) and Gerda Kunze (1926–2010) is based on this and on Walter Kempowski's “German Chronicle” - information at http://digbib.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/volltexte / 1000046370 .
  2. ISBN 978-3-7315-0360-6 , PDF download .
  3. KSP portrait: 10 questions to Rolf-Ulrich Kunze. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), KIT Library Blog, April 20, 2015. Accessed July 19, 2019 .
  4. ^ Journal of New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts: Sociohistorical, Sociotechnical and Transcultural Analysis .
  5. http://minifanal.de/rolf-ulrich-kunze-cambdon-maine .
  6. ^ Rolf-Ulrich Kunze: Island years . In: Roman . minifanal, Bonn 2017, ISBN 978-3-95421-122-7 , pp. 312 .
  7. NN: Prof. Dr. Rolf-Ulrich Kunze. In: Website of the Center for Dutch Studies. Retrieved December 3, 2019 .
  8. Andreas Hasenkamp: Calmeyer's story has many shades of gray. In: Website of the Westphalian News. November 19, 2019, accessed December 3, 2019 .
  9. https://idw-online.de/de/news652917 .
  10. https://www.kit.edu/downloads/pi_bilder/2016_081_Rede_Kunze.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.kit.edu  
  11. ^ The Dutch royal family , in: NiederlandeNet of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster.
  12. Willem-Alexander is the new king , in: Deutsche Welle Online .
  13. “Monarchies must offer opportunities for identification” , in: Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen .