Rolf Walter (historian)

Rolf Walter (born February 14, 1953 in Kirchheim / Teck ) is a German historian . He is Professor of Economic and Social History at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena .

Life

After graduating from high school, Walter completed an apprenticeship as a banker in 1972 and began a diploma course as a commercial teacher in the 1973/74 winter semester at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. After graduating in 1978, he worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Economic and Social History at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. This was followed by a research stay in Venezuela and in 1982 his dissertation on the relationship between Venezuela and Germany from 1815 to 1870. In 1988 he completed his habilitation on the commercialization of agriculture and trade in Württemberg 1750-1850. In 1991 he was appointed to the chair for economic and social history at the University of Jena. From 1996 to 1998 he was Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics.

research

One focus of his research is the economic history of Venezuela, which he deepened in addition to his dissertation in a thesis on the Germans in Venezuela and in numerous articles. Many of his essays and articles have emerged from lectures at national and international conferences and deal with Venezuela's economic history as well as the development of trade fairs, exhibitions and individual companies as well as examples of European economic history. Walter has written various textbooks, an introduction to economic and social history, a history of the world economy and an economic history from mercantilism to the present.

He is co-founder and co-editor of Encuentros , Caracas 1983 ff., Since 1992 co-editor of Scripta Mercaturae and since 1995 of the yearbook for the history of Latin America .

Fonts

As an author

Monographs

• Venezuela and Germany (1815–1870) (= contributions to economic and social history. Volume 22). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-515-03937-6 (also: Dissertation rer. Pol., University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , 1982); Spanish: Los Alemanes en Venezuela. Volume I: Desde Colón hasta Guzmán Blanco . Caracas 1985 and Los Alemanes en Venezuela y sus descendientes , Volume II: 1870-1914. Caracas 1991.
• The commercialization of agriculture and trade in Württemberg (1750-1850) (= contributions to Southwest German economic and social history. Volume 12). Edited by G. Kollmer and H. Winkel, Scripta-Mercaturae, St. Katharinen 1990, ISBN 3-922661-79-3 (also: habilitation thesis , University of Erlangen-Nuremberg).
• The dream of an Eldorado. The German Conquista in Venezuela in the 16th century . Eberhard, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-926777-23-0 .
• Zeiss 1905-1945. In: Wolfgang Mühlfriedel, Rolf Walter: Carl Zeiss. The story of a company. Volume 2, Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-412-11096-5 .

Introductory literature

• Introduction to economic and social history (= UTB . 1717). Schöningh, Paderborn 1994, ISBN 3-506-99432-8 .
• Economic history. From mercantilism to the present (= economic and social historical studies. Volume 4). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1995; 2nd, revised and updated edition 1998; 3rd, revised and updated edition 2000; 4th, revised and updated edition 2003, ISBN 978-3-412-11803-7 ; 5th, updated edition 2011 (= UTB . 3387), ISBN 978-3-412-20629-1 (Böhlau), ISBN 978-3-8252-3387-7 (UTB).
• History of the world economy. An introduction (= UTB . 2724). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-412-19805-3 (Böhlau), ISBN 978-3-8252-2724-1 (UTB).
• Introduction to economic and social history (= UTB . 3085). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20073-2 (Böhlau), ISBN 978-3-8252-3085-2 (UTB).

As editor

Books and book series

• with Stuart Jenks and Michael North : Economic and Social History Studies. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1995 ff.
• with Wolfgang Mühlfriedel: Carl Zeiss. The story of a company. 3 volumes. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1996–2004.
• Economics. An introduction , Paderborn 1997 (= UTB. 1955).
• Jena Yearbook on Technology and Industrial History , Vol. 1 (1999) - Vol. 8 (2006).
• History of consumption. Income from the 20th working conference of the Society for Social and Economic History, 23. – 26. April 2003 in Greifswald (= VSWG-Beihefte. 175), Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3-515-08540-3 .
• Professor, you are a rascal! An autobiographical late harvest. Glaux, Jena 2004, ISBN 978-3-931743-76-5 .
• History of innovation. Income from the 21st workshop of the Society for Social and Economic History, March 30th to April 2nd, 2005 in Regensburg (= VSWG supplements. 188). Steiner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-515-08928-9 .
• History of labor markets. Income from the 22nd workshop of the Society for Social and Economic History, April 11-14 , 2007 in Vienna (= VSWG supplements. 199). Steiner, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-515-09230-2 .
• Globalization in History. Income from the 23rd working conference of the Society for Social and Economic History, March 18-21 , 2009 in Kiel (= VSWG supplements. 214). Steiner, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-515-09851-9 .
• Bridges to the future. The economic development of Thuringia 1989–2009 . Study by the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Chair for Economic and Social History with Bettina Meißner and Jürgen Schreiber. [State Center for Political Education Thuringia. On behalf of and in cooperation with the Thuringian Ministry of Economics, Technology and Labor]. State Center for Political Education, Erfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-937967-53-0 .

Editions

• with Hermann Bühlbecker , Albert Fischer, Manfred Hebler and Günter Renner: Prussia and Venezuela. Edition of the Prussian consular reports on Venezuela 1842–1850 (= Latin America Studies. Volume 28). Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-89354-728-2 .
• with Hermann Kellenbenz : Upper German merchants in Seville and Cádiz (1525 to 1560). An edition of the notarial files from the archives there (= German trading files of the Middle Ages and the modern age. Published by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Volume 21). Steiner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-515-07740-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Rolf Walter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rolf Walter on the website of the chair