Working group of student historians
The Student Historian Working Group is an informal association of members of various corporate associations who deal with student history.
Foundation and purpose
The student historians' conference was initiated in the early 1920s by the fraternity members Georg Schmidgall and Fritz Ullmer (Frankonia Heidelberg). They should enable a regular exchange of results and projects from research, literature and archives. The conferences are open to everyone and have been held annually at different locations since 1924. The organization of the German Student History Conference in 1935 was already associated with difficulties, the 1936 Student History Conference got stuck in the planning phase. When the Institute for University Studies in Würzburg was inaugurated in 1939 , another invitation was received without any lectures being planned. It was not until 1954, at the suggestion of Paul Wentzcke and Robert Paschke, that the student historians' conference was revived. The restart took place in Würzburg. Since then, meetings have been held at different locations.
The working group has been sponsored since 1954 by the Hochschulkundliche Vereinigung eV, founded in 1922, and renamed the German Society for University Studies eV (Würzburg) in 1970. Since 2010 there has been no formal sponsorship, but cooperation with the Association for German Student History (GDS), the Convent of German Academic Associations and the Academy of the Cartell Association of German Catholic Student Associations .
The student historians conference is a forum for corporates from all countries, several nations are regularly represented. Until 1935, the conferences took place together with the Austrian student historians who formed the Austrian Association for Student History in 1969 and have organized their own conferences every two years since 1974. The first joint German-Austrian conference took place in Salzburg in 1982 . Since the 1988 conference in Konstanz, there have also been conferences in which the Swiss Association for Student History, founded in 1984, is equally involved. These "international student historians' conferences" take place every four years.
Chairperson
- Robert Paschke (1953–1979)
- Otto Noll (1980–1985)
- Klaus Gerstein (1985-2009)
- Sebastian Sigler (since 2009)
Lecture collections
- The lectures of the 70th Student History Conference Berlin 2010. Akadpress, Essen 2012, ISBN 978-3-939413-30-1 .
- The lectures of the 71st Student History Conference Duisburg 2011. Akadpress, Essen 2012, ISBN 978-3-939413-31-8 .
- The lectures of the 72nd Student History Conference Freiburg 2012. Akadpress, Essen 2013, ISBN 978-3-939413-32-5 .
- The lectures of the 73rd Student History Conference Hannover 2013 . Akademischer Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-940732-16-3 .
- The lectures of the 74th Student History Conference Dresden 2014 . Akademischer Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-940732-20-0 .
- The lectures of the 75th Student History Conference Bonn 2015 . Akademischer Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-940732-35-4 .
- The lectures of the 77th Student History Conference Halle an der Saale 2017 . Akademischer Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-940732-38-5 .
literature
- Harald Lönnecker : Foreword , to: Klaus Gerstein: The lectures at the German student historians conference from 1924 to 2004 . GDS Archive, Vol. 8 (2006), p. 152.
- Harald Lönnecker (edit.): Student historians' conferences 1924–2002 . Frankfurt am Main 2003, 2-8. Series 2004–2010 (= publications of the archive of the German Burschenschaft. New series, issue 7).