Stefi Jersch-Wenzel

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Stefi Jersch-Wenzel (born September 7, 1937 in Berlin ; † January 29, 2013 there ) was a German historian who primarily dealt with the history of the Jews in Germany . She worked for the Historical Commission in Berlin for a long time .

Life

Jersch-Wenzel studied history and received his doctorate in 1964 from the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on Jews in municipal honorary offices: Jewish city councilors and city councilors in Berlin a. Wroclaw, as well as in Silesia and Poznan, before the introduction of the urban order in 1808 until the middle of the century .

She completed her habilitation - also at the Technical University of Berlin - in 1975 with a thesis on "Jews and French" in the economy of the Berlin-Brandenburg area at the time of mercantilism . Then from 1978 to 1995 she was head of the “Section for German-Jewish History” of the Historical Commission in Berlin. Between 1995 and 1998 she was the founding director of the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture , an institute affiliated to Leipzig University . She held several academic and scientific offices, until 2007 she was about the deputy chairwoman of the Society for the Study of the History of the Jews (GEGJ).

Jersch-Wenzel found her final resting place in the Jerusalemsfriedhof III on Berlin's Mehringdamm (position: Dept. 341-U3-004).

Fonts (selection)

  • with Reinhard Rürup (ed.): Sources on the history of the Jews in the archives of the new federal states . 7 volumes. Saur, Munich 1996-2001.
  • with François Guesnet (ed.): Jews and poverty in Central and Eastern Europe. on behalf of the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture e. V. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-412-16798-3 .
  • with Marianne Awerbuch (ed.): Image and self-image of the Jews of Berlin between Enlightenment and Romanticism: Contributions to a conference. (= Individual publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin. Volume 75). Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-7678-0805-6 .
  • as editor: Germans - Poles - Jews: their relationships from the beginning to the 20th century. Contributions to a conference. (= Individual publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin. Volume 58). Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-7678-0694-0 .
  • as publisher: Fritz Vinzenz Grünfeld: The linen house Grünfeld: Memories u. Documents. (= Writings on economic and social history. Volume 12). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1967. (partly online at Google Books)

Scientific offices (selection)

  • Board member of the Scientific Working Group of the Leo Baeck Institute in the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Board member of the Research Institute for the History of Prussia
  • Member of the advisory board of “Ashkenaz. Journal for the History and Culture of the Jews "
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the “Year Book” of the Leo Baeck Institute
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Otto and Martha Fischbeck Foundation (funding of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin )
  • Deputy Chairwoman of GEGJ e. V. until 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage of the Simon Dubnow Institute ( memento of the original dated February 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 15, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dubnow.de
  2. ↑ see the data of the book edition with a different title from 1967 DNB 458618500
  3. ↑ Stefi Jersch-Wenzel: Jews and "French" in the economy of the Berlin-Brandenburg area at the time of mercantilism. Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-7678-0455-7 .
  4. ↑ Obituary notice of the family, In: Der Tagesspiegel . February 17, 2013, p. 14.
personal data
SURNAME Jersch-Wenzel, Stefi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 2013
Place of death Berlin