Thomas Lindenberger

Thomas Lindenberger (* 12. October 1955 in Heidelberg ) is a German modern times - historian and university lecturer .

Life

Lindenberger spent his childhood and youth in West Berlin , where he later studied history, philosophy and economics at the Free University and the Technical University . In 1981 he was one of the co-founders of the Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt eV and the nationwide association of Geschichtswerkstatt eV Lindenberger was awarded a Dr. med. In 1992 with a work on the social history of public order in the late Empire at the TU Berlin, supervised by Reinhard Rürup . phil. PhD .

He then turned to GDR history and completed his habilitation in 2002 with a study on rulership practice and public order in the GDR at the University of Potsdam , where he was also appointed adjunct professor in 2008. Between 1996 and 2017 Lindenberger worked as a project manager and department manager at the Center for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF). From 2009 to 2012 he headed the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Relations of the Ludwig Boltzmann Society in Vienna. On October 1, 2017, Lindenberger was appointed director of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism at the Technical University of Dresden .

Lindenberger is co-founder and co-editor of the magazine WerkstattGeschichte , which has been published since 1992 ; he is also a member of the editorial board of Contemporary European History .

Works

Monographs

with Jürgen W. Falter , Siegfried Schumann : Elections and votes in the Weimar Republic. Materials on voting behavior 1919–1933. Beck, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-406-31583-6 .
Road politics. On the social history of public order in Berlin 1900 to 1914. Dietz, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-8012-4057-6 .
People's Police. Rule practice and public order in the SED state 1952–1968. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-412-02003-6 ( digitized version ).

Editorships

with Alf Lüdtke : Physical violence. Studies on the history of modern times. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-518-28790-7 .
Rule and Self-Sense in the Dictatorship. Studies on the social history of the GDR. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-412-13598-4 ( digitized version ).
with Burghard Ciesla , Michael Lemke: Die for Berlin? The Berlin crises 1948–1958. Metropol, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-932482-27-1 .
with Jan C. Behrends , Patrice G. Poutrus: Strangers and Strangers in the GDR. On the historical causes of xenophobia in East Germany. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-936411-01-8 ( digitized version ).
Mass media in the Cold War. Actors, images, resonances. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-412-23105-3 ( digitized version ).
with Konrad H. Jarausch : Conflicted Memories. Europeanizing Contemporary Histories. Berghahn, New York / Oxford 2007, ISBN 1-84545-284-4 .
with Belinda Davies, Michael Wildt : everyday life, experience, obstinacy. Historical-anthropological explorations. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2008, ISBN 3-593-38698-4 .
with Muriel Blaive, Christian Gerbel: Clashes in European Memory. The Case of Communist Repression and the Holocaust. Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2011, ISBN 3-7065-4812-7 .
with Marcus Payk, Annette Vowinckel: Cold War Cultures. Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies. Berghahn, New York / Oxford 2012, ISBN 1-78238-388-3 .
with Jan C. Behrends : Underground Publishing and the Public Sphere. Transnational Perspectives. Lit, Münster 2014, ISBN 3-643-90561-0 .
with Martin Sabrow : German Contemporary History. Contours of a research field. Wallstein, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 3-8353-1912-4 .
with Jan C. Behrends , Nikolaus Katzer : 100 years of Red October. On the world history of the Russian Revolution. Links, Berlin 2017, ISBN 3-86153-940-3 .

Web links

Literature by and about Thomas Lindenberger in the catalog of the German National Library

Personal homepage on the website of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism

Personal homepage ( memento from February 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Center for Contemporary History

Personal homepage ( Memento from November 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and the Public

Author profile at Docupedia contemporary history

Individual evidence

↑ New director appointed for the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research at the TU Dresden. Press release from the Saxon State Chancellery . In: medienservice.sachsen.de. September 20, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Lindenberger, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German modern historian
DATE OF BIRTH	October 12, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heidelberg

[1] New director appointed for the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research at the TU Dresden. Press release from the Saxon State Chancellery . In: medienservice.sachsen.de. September 20, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017 .