Stephan H. Lindner

Stephan H. Lindner (born December 31, 1961 ) is a German historian and professor . Since June 2010 he has held the professorship for economic , social and technological history at the Faculty for Political and Social Sciences at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich in Neubiberg .

Life

He studied history, political science and English at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and as a Fulbright scholar at Georgetown University , where he obtained a Master of Arts in History in 1986. He completed his doctoral studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich as Dr. phil. 1991 with a dissertation on the Reich Commissioner for the Treatment of Enemy Property in the Second World War. From September 1991 to August 1992 he conducted research at the Center National de la Recherche Scientifique at the Center de recherche en histoire des sciences et des techniques, Cité des sciences et de l'industrie. From August 1993 to February 2006 he was a research assistant and private lecturer (2001) at the Central Institute for the History of Technology at the Technical University of Munich. As a visiting scholar at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, he conducted research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in March / April 1994 . He represented the professorship for economic and social history at the Technical University of Dresden from April 2001 to March 2002. From September 2009 to July 2010 he did research as a visiting scholar at the Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern University . After completing his habilitation at the Technical University of Dresden in 2000, he was qualified to teach the history of technology and economic history with the habilitation thesis on the West German and French textile industries 1930 / 45-1990. In 2001 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Munich . After holding the professorship for the interdependence of technical and social change (formerly the history of science) at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich (October 2003 to February 2006), he took on this position in February 2006. He headed the Munich Center for the History of Science and Technology from March 2008 to December 2013 as managing director.

His focus of research lies in the economic, corporate and technological history of the 20th century with the focus on the history of the "Third Reich", especially the representation of the reciprocal relationship between the Nazi regime and the economy or companies, industrial history in the 20th century, particularly the history of the textile industry and the chemical and pharmaceutical industries and history of the development of industrial regions.

Fonts

• The Reich Commissariat for the Treatment of Enemy Property in World War II. A study on the administrative, legal and economic history of National Socialist Germany (= magazine for corporate history. Supplement 67). Steiner, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-515-05971-7 (also dissertation, Munich 1991).
• as editor with Dominique Pestre : Innover dans la régression. Régions et industries menacées de déclin . Paris 1996, OCLC 38008390 .
• Lost the thread. The West German and French textile industries on the decline (1930 / 45-1990) (= series of publications on the journal for corporate history. Volume 7). Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47488-8 (also habilitation thesis, Dresden 2000).
• Maximum. An IG Farben plant in the Third Reich . Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52959-3 .
  • Maximum. An IG Farben plant in the Third Reich . 2nd edition, Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52959-3 .
  • Inside IG Farben: Hoechst During the Third Reich . Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge et al. 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-88766-3 .
  • Au cœur de l'IG colors: L'usine chimique de Hoechst sous le Troisième Reich . Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2010, ISBN 2251443819 .

Web links

• University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich
• Central Institute for the History of Technology