Stefan Gerber

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Stefan Gerber (* 1975 in Grimma , Saxony ) is a German historian .

life and work

Gerber attended the St. Augustin high school in Grimma. After graduating from high school in 1993, he studied history , German and educational sciences at the University of Jena . In June 2000 he passed the 1st state examination for teaching at grammar schools. From August 2000 he worked as a research assistant at the Chair for History of the 19th and 20th Centuries. From 2001 to 2003 he was a PhD scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . In 2003 he was at Hans-Werner Hahn to Dr. phil. PhD . From 2003 he was a research assistant at the chair for the history of the 19th and 20th centuries at the University of Jena. As a scholarship holder, he conducted research at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich in 2009/10 . In 2013 he completed his habilitation at the University of Jena. In the 2013/14 winter semester he was Michael Kißener's professor at the Department of History, Department of Contemporary History at the University of Mainz . In the 2015 summer semester, Gerber was a substitute professor at the University of Bonn , where he represented Joachim Scholtyseck . Since 2015 he has headed the "Research Center for Modern Regional History of Thuringia" at the University of Jena. Since 2019 he has been acting head of the university archive and the university history research center at the University of Jena.

His research focuses on the state and regional history of Thuringia and Central Germany as well as the comparative history of the state, the history of education , universities and science , social and political Catholicism in the 19th and 20th centuries, the Weimar Republic and the interwar period , and religion in modern times and the German Revolution of 1848/1849 .

Gerber is a member of various commissions and advisory boards, including the Historical Commission for Thuringia , the Scientific Committee of the Parliament's Commission for the History of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Wartburg Foundation and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Friedrich Christian Lesser College . He is deputy chairman of the Association for Thuringian History e. V. and member of the editorial team of the journal for Thuringian history. He acts together with Matthias Asche , Dietmar Klenke and Matthias Stickler as co-editor of the "Treatises on Student and Higher Education" (ASH). Together with Joachim Bauer, Jürgen John and Helmut G. Walther , he publishes the “Sources and Contributions to the History of the University of Jena”.

Stefan Gerber is a knight of the Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem . He belongs to the Catholic student association KDStV Salana Jenensis .

Gerber is married and has four children.

Publications (selection)

  • Sources on the history of Thuringia. Revolution 1848/49 (= sources on the history of Thuringia 13), Erfurt 2000.
  • University administration and science organization in the 19th century. The Jena pedagogue and university curator Moritz Seebeck (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia . Small series 14). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-12804-X . (Dissertation).
  • The University of Jena 1850-1918, in: Traditions - Breaks - Changes. The University of Jena 1850-1995. Edited by the Senate Commission for the Processing of Jena University History in the 20th Century , Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2009, pp. 23–269.
  • with Matthias Asche (Ed.), Study Funding and Scholarships at German Universities from the Beginnings to the Present (Yearbook for University History, 15) , Stuttgart 2013.
  • Pragmatism and cultural criticism. Justification of Politics and Political Communication in Catholicism of the Weimar Republic (1918–1925) . Schöningh, Paderborn 2016, (habilitation thesis).
  • with Joachim Bauer, Jürgen John and Gottfried Meinhold (eds.), Ambivalent Places of Remembrance at German Universities , Stuttgart 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Historical College - Stefan Gerber. Retrieved November 14, 2017 .
  2. ^ Website at the University of Mainz .
  3. ^ University archive . Retrieved September 17, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate: Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate - Commission for the history of the state. Retrieved November 14, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Gerber, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German modern historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Grimma