Rudolf Boch

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Rudolf Boch

Rudolf Boch (born October 12, 1952 in Ratzeburg ) is a German historian specializing in economic and social history.

Life

Rudolf Boch studied history, political science and social sciences at the Universities of Freiburg , Glasgow (Great Britain) and Bielefeld from 1971 to 1977 . 1979/1980 he received a research grant from the DAAD at the University of Sheffield (Great Britain). 1980 to 1982 he was project manager in the Bergisches Land. In 1983 he received his doctorate from Bielefeld University. From 1983 to 1993 he was a research assistant, university assistant and university lecturer there. In 1991 he completed his habilitation in modern history. In 1992/93 he was appointed to a professorship at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 1993/94 he was a Fellow at the European University Institute ( European University Institute in Florence). From 1994 to 2018 he taught as professor for economic and social history at the TU Chemnitz . He was the leader and supervisor of numerous third-party funded projects (research, publication and indexing), especially on the economic and social history of Saxony , funded by well-known companies, foundations and the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology .

Focus of work

  • History of growth thinking
  • Long-term processes of economic and social integration in Europe since the 18th century
  • Economic and social history of Saxony
  • Entrepreneur and company history
  • Workers history

Awards

  • Prize of the Hans-Boeckler-Kreis and Prize of the Westphalian-Lippian University Society

Monographs, collection of articles

  • Artisan socialists against factory society. Local professional associations, mass trade union and industrial rationalization in Solingen 1870–1914 , Göttingen 1985.
  • Historical reader on the history of the workers in the Bergisches Land (1760–1945) , 2nd edition, Cologne 1986 (with the collaboration of M. Krause).
  • Unlimited growth? The Rhenish economic bourgeoisie and its industrialization debate 1814–1857 , Göttingen 1991.
  • The Rise and Decline of Flexible Production. The Cutlery Industry of Solingen since the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge 1997 (review by Patrice LR Higonnet: World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization (review) ).
  • State and economy in the 19th century , Munich 2004 ( points of view , review).
  • War economy and labor at Auto Union AG Chemnitz in World War II (together with Martin Kukowski), Stuttgart 2014 (review by Christopher Kopper in Historische Zeitschrift , vol. 300, 3).
  • Worker - Economic Citizen - State. Treatises on the Industrial World, ed. by Frank-Lothar Kroll , Berlin / Boston 2017.

Editorships

  • Patent protection and innovation in the past and present , Berlin / Frankfurt a. M. 1999.
  • History and future of the automotive industry in Germany , Stuttgart 2001 ( H-Soz-Kult review by Elmar Grüneich).
  • Company history today. Theory offers, sources, research trends , Leipzig 2005.
  • Economic history of Saxony in the 19th and 20th centuries Century , Leipzig 2006.
  • Uranium mining in the Cold War. The bismuth in the Soviet atomic complex (together with Rainer Karlsch), Vol. 1: Studies , Vol. 2: Documents , Berlin 2011 ( H-Soz-Kult, collective review by Matthias Uhl).

Unpublished lectures

literature

  • Festschrift for Rudolf Boch on his 65th birthday. Regional resources and Europe. Dimensions of critical industrial and corporate historiography, ed. by Yaman Kouli, Timo Luks, Gisela Mettele , Manuel Schramm, Berlin 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] , Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rudolf Boch at the TU Chemnitz.
  2. ↑ Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rudolf Boch curriculum vitae.
  3. ↑ Main focus of work, research focus .
  4. ↑ Publications (selection) , monographs.
  5. ↑ Publications (selection) , editorships.
personal data
SURNAME Boch, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian for social and economic history
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratzeburg