Sabine Mecking

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Wolf Erich Kellner Prize 2010. Sabine Mecking, laudator Prof. Joachim Scholtyseck

Sabine Mecking (* 1967 in Isselburg ) is a German historian and professor at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Life

Mecking graduated from high school Haus Aspel in Rees - Haldern in 1986. After studying administrative sciences , which she graduated with a diploma (FH) in 1989, she took up a teaching degree at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. Mecking studied history, mathematics, sports and social sciences. In 1995 she passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools in the subjects of history, mathematics and sport.

In May 2000, she received her PhD in history with the study Always loyal. Municipal officials between the German Empire and the Federal Republic in Münster for Dr. phil. This was followed by activities as a pedagogical and scientific assistant at the historical site Villa ten Hompel , as a scientific consultant at the Westphalian Institute for Regional History in Münster and as an employee at the German Historical Institute in Washington DC

In 2006, Mecking moved to the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf as a habilitation scholarship holder from the DFG , where she received the Venia legendi for modern and contemporary history in 2009. Your habilitation thesis Bürgerwille and Territorial Reform. Democracy development and reorganization of state and society in North Rhine-Westphalia 1965–2000 was awarded the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Prize for scientific work on liberalism (2010) and the Science Prize of the Düsseldorf Jonges and the University of Düsseldorf (2011). This was followed by substitute and visiting professorships at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, the Charles University in Prague and the University of Copenhagen . In 2012, Mecking was offered a W2 professorship at the University of Police and Public Administration in North Rhine-Westphalia in Duisburg. On October 1, 2018, she was appointed W3 Professor for Hessian State History at the Philipps University of Marburg. From 2021, after the director's position has become vacant, the professorship will also be in charge of the non-university Hessian State Office for Regional History in Marburg.

Mecking is the chairwoman of the Brauweiler district for regional and contemporary history and managing editor of the magazine Geschichte im Westen . She is co-editor of the series history and ethics of the police and public administration , Düsseldorf writings on the modern history of the state and the history of North Rhine-Westphalia , the history of North Rhine-Westphalia and the writings on the history of political music .

In 2009, Mecking was elected a corresponding member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . She is also a member of the Historical Commission for Hesse and the Society for Rhenish History.

Fonts (selection)

  • Ed .: Police and Protest in the Federal Republic of Germany. Springer: Wiesbaden 2020, ISBN 978-3-658-29477-9 .
  • with Frank Kawelovski: Police in Transition. 70 years of police work in North Rhine-Westphalia. Greven: Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-7743-0903-6 .
  • with Erika Münster-Schröer (Ed.): Ratingen in the Weimar Republic. Opportunities and risks of local democracy, city tour - a student project. City archive Ratingen: Ratingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-926538-71-0 .
  • Ed .: Sounds of the Towns - Stadt und Musik. Special issue: Modern City History 2017, No. 1, ISSN  0340-1774 .
  • with Stefan Grüner (Ed.): Economic spaces and life chances. Perception and control of socio-economic change in Germany 1945–2000 (= series of the quarterly books for contemporary history. Volume 114). de Gruyter Oldenbourg: Berlin / Boston 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-052024-8 .
  • with Yvonne Wasserloos (Ed.): Inclusion and Exclusion. 'German' Music in Europe and North America, 1848–1945. V&R unipress: Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8471-0473-5 .
  • Ed .: Citizen Protests in History. Special issue: History in Science and Education 64 (2013), H. 9/10, ISSN  0016-9056 .
  • Citizen will and territorial reform. Development of democracy and reorganization of state and society in North Rhine-Westphalia 1965–2000 (= Studies on Contemporary History. Volume 85). Habilitation thesis . Oldenbourg: Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-70314-6 .
  • with Yvonne Wasserloos (Ed.): Music - Power - State. Cultural, social and political change processes in the modern age. V&R unipress, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89971-872-0 .
  • with Janbernd Oebbecke (ed.): Between efficiency and legitimacy. Local area and functional reforms in the Federal Republic from a historical and current perspective (= research on regional history. Volume 62). Ferdinand Schöningh: Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-506-76852-0 .
  • with Andreas Wirsching (ed.): City administration in National Socialism. System-stabilizing dimensions of communal rule (= research on regional history. Volume 53). Ferdinand Schöningh: Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-506-79608-9 .
  • with Stefan Schröder (Ed.): Counterpoint. Discourses of the past and understanding of the present. Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Wolfgang Jacobmeyer. Plain text: Essen 2005, ISBN 3-89861-268-6 .
  • "Always faithful". Municipal officials between the German Empire and the Federal Republic (= Villa ten Hompel writings. Volume 4). Dissertation . Plain text: Essen 2003, ISBN 3-89861-161-2 .
  • Tracking and administration. The economic plunder of the Jews and the Westphalian financial authorities (= didactic building blocks. Volume 1). Oberfinanzdirektion: Münster 2001, unchanged. Reprinted 2005, ISBN 3-935811-00-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prize winners of the Wolf Erich Kellner Prize. (PDF) Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Gedächtnisstiftung, accessed on December 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Mecking, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Isselburg