Tim Schanetzky

Tim Schanetzky (* 1973 in Marl ) is a German historian. He teaches modern and contemporary history at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena .

Life

After studying history, political science and Eastern European history at the University of Bochum , he was from 2001 to 2005 research assistant at the Goethe University in Frankfurt , where he 2006 by Werner Crude Dr. phil. received his doctorate. His dissertation reconstructed the economic policy change from Keynesianism to monetarist and supply-side economic alternatives and examined the functional change in scientific policy advice. Since 2005 he has been working as a research assistant at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. He was initially part of a five-person research group that examined the history of Friedrich Flick and his company in the 20th century. He then worked there as a research assistant to Norbert Frei . In the spring semester of 2011 he taught as Theodor Heuss Lecturer at the New School for Social Research in New York. He was a fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington and the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies . In 2014 he completed his habilitation in Jena with a comparative thesis on the activities of “government entrepreneurs” in Germany and the USA during the Third Reich and the New Deal . Since then he has been teaching modern and contemporary history in Jena as a private lecturer. He held substitute professorships in Jena and Marburg; He was visiting professor at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna .

His research focuses on the history of the 20th century as well as economic and corporate history. From 2002 to 2010 he was a member of the board of the working group for critical corporate and industrial history. He belongs to the Association of Historians in Germany and is a member of the Jena Center for the History of the 20th Century. Since 2018, together with Norbert Frei , he has been leading a research project on the history of political education funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media .

Publications (selection)

• with Tobias Freimüller, Kristina Meyer, Sybille Steinbacher , Dietmar Süß and Annette Weinke (eds.): Democratization of the Germans. Achievements and challenges of a project. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-8353-3636-0 .
• with Jan-Otmar Hesse , Christian Kleinschmidt and Roman Köster (eds.): Moderner Kapitalismus. Economic and corporate history contributions. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-16-158239-4 .
• Government entrepreneur. Henry J. Kaiser , Friedrich Flick and the economic situation in the USA and Germany. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1767-3 .
• "Cannons instead of butter". Economy and Consumption in the Third Reich. CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-67515-7 . ( Licensed edition of the Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 2016)
• with Norbert Frei (ed.): Enterprises in National Socialism. To historize a research economy. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0755-1 .
• with Norbert Frei , Ralf Ahrens and Jörg Osterloh: Flick. The corporation, the family, the power. Verlag Karl Blessing, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-89667-400-5 . (Paperback edition, Pantheon, Munich 2011)
• The great disillusionment. Economic policy, expertise and society in the Federal Republic 1966–1982. Akademie / de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-05-004302-9 .
• with Jan-Otmar Hesse and Jens Scholten (eds.): The company as a social reform project. Structures and developments of companies of the "moral economy" after 1945. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2004, ISBN 3-89861-335-6 .
• Under one roof. Commitment and social skills. 100 years of the Hattinger housing cooperative . Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1999, ISBN 3-88474-774-6 .
• Ultimate megalomania. The history of urban redevelopment in Essen-Steele. Klartext-Verlag Essen 1998. (New edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-8375-0025-7 )

Web links

• Literature by and about Tim Schanetzky in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the University of Jena with curriculum vitae and list of publications by Tim Schanetzky .
• Interview on the current research project in the journal Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte .