Thomas Grossbölting

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Thomas Großbölting 2015 in Hanover ;
during the study conference "For God's sake - Religion in a secular society" of the German Coordination Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation (DKR)

Thomas Großbölting (born March 30, 1969 in Dingden ) is a German historian and from 2009 to 2020 Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the History Department of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster . Since August 2020 he has been Director of the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg (FZH) and Professor of Modern History / Contemporary History in the German History Department at the University of Hamburg . His research focuses on German and European history of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Life

Großbölting put at St. Joseph High School Bocholt since 1988 a high school. He completed his studies in history , Catholic theology and German studies after stays at the Universities of Cologne and Bonn , the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and the State University of La Sapienza there in 1994/1995 with the 1st state examination for teaching at grammar schools at the Westphalian school Wilhelms-Universität Münster. During his studies he was supported by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . His most important teachers include the Münster historian Hans-Ulrich Thamer and the theologian and church historian Arnold Angenendt .

In February 1998, he was with a study of middle class, middle-class and bourgeoization in Magdeburg and Halle Dr. phil. PhD. He received the Venia legendi for modern and recent history in February 2004. In his habilitation thesis "he analyzed the industrial and trade exhibitions of the long 19th century as a medium for discussing and popularizing consumer options in industrializing German society". The inaugural lecture in July 2004 was entitled: “Le memorie della Repubblica. Politics of Remembrance in Italy after the Second World War ”. After a substitute professorship at the Institute for History at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg in the summer semester of 2005, he was employed from 2005 to 2007 as the head of the department for education and research at the Federal Commissioner for Stasi Records (BStU) in Berlin. In 2007 he moved to the Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg as a professor of modern history. He spent the academic year 2008/2009 'Distinguished Visiting Professor' at the Munk Center for International Studies' of the University of Toronto ..

From 2009 to 2020 Großbölting was Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Münster. In 2013 he was elected a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . In the 2015/16 academic year he was a fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg of the Ruhr University Bochum , which had the main theme "Religion and the senses in intra- and interreligious contact". From 2017 to 2020 he was Dean of the Department of History and Philosophy.

In 2019 he accepted a call to the  University of Hamburg  for a W3 professorship for Modern History / Contemporary History, combined with the position of Scientific Director of the Research Center for Contemporary History Hamburg (FZH) on August 1, 2020.

He is married and has four children.

Research priorities

His main research interests are various areas of German and European history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Großbölting is currently concerned with the history of religious change in post-war Germany, with the interdependence of social and religious movements in a German-American comparison and with the forms of GDR memory in reunified Germany.

On behalf of the Diocese of Münster, Großbölting has been leading a team of historians since October 2019 in order to deal with the cases of sexual abuse between 1945 and 2018 by Catholic priests and other officials in the Diocese of Münster in a two-and-a-half-year study.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The lost sky. Faith in Germany since 1945 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-30040-4 ; again: Series of publications by the Federal Agency for Civic Education.
    • English translation: Losing Heaven. Faith in Germany since 1945. Berghahn, Oxford 2016, ISBN 978-1-78533-278-4 .
  • In the realm of work. The representation of social order in industrial and commercial exhibitions 1790-1913 (= Ordnungssysteme , 21), Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58128-7 (habilitation thesis).
  • SED dictatorship and society. Bourgeoisie, bourgeoisie and de-bourgeoisie in Magdeburg and Halle (= studies on the regional history of Saxony-Anhalt , 7), Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2001, ISBN 3-89812-121-6 (dissertation).
  • “How is Christianity possible today?” Search movements of the post-conciliar Catholicism in the mirror of the Freckenhorster circle (= Münsteraner Theologische Abhandlungen , 47), Oros-Verlag, Altenberge 1997, ISBN 978-3-89375-146-4 .

Editorships

Web links

Commons : Thomas Großbölting  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Tabular curriculum vitae of Thomas Großbölting University of Münster website; accessed on March 25, 2011 (PDF; 37 kB).
  2. ↑ Thomas Großbölting: The lost sky. Faith in Germany since 1945. Göttingen 2013, pp. 315–316.
  3. ^ Curriculum vitae Thomas Großbölting website of the University of Münster. Retrieved March 25, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Thomas Großbölting: "Le memorie della Repubblica - politics of memory in Italy after the Second World War". In: Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Hrsg.): Kulturgeschichte des Politischen. Berlin 2005, pp. 241-272.
  5. ↑ Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Religion and Politics - Cluster of Excellence: WWU Münster> Religion & Politics> Current> News Fellowship Thomas Großbölting. Retrieved July 18, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Transcendent creation of meaning and religious communalization in postmodern Europe Cluster of Excellence project C22 on the website of the University of Münster, Cluster of Excellence Religion & Politics .
  7. ↑ WWU Münster Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”, press release from September 15, 2019: Abuse study: Historians want to name “horse and rider” , accessed on November 3, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Großbölting, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Thingden