Trude Maurer

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Trude Maurer (born July 17, 1955 in Mainz , † April 9, 2017 in Göttingen ) was a German historian . Her research areas were Russian social and cultural history since the 18th century, comparative university history (Germany, Russia, East Central Europe) and the history of the Jews in Germany and Eastern Europe.

Life

Trude Maurer grew up in the Mainz area in a Protestant family. With a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation , she studied history, Russian and political science in Tübingen and from 1977-78 also at the Institute of Slavonic and East European Studies in London . In 1980 she passed her first state examination and then did research with the director of the Tübingen Institute for Eastern European History and Regional Studies Dietrich Geyer for six years on Eastern Jews in Germany from 1918 to 1933. During this time, she had several research stays in Israel . In 1985 she completed her doctorate .

After she was six university assistant for Eastern European history at the Institute of Manfred Hildermeier in Göttingen. In 1995, Maurer submitted her habilitation as a university professor in the Russian Empire . Numerous professorships in Göttingen, Cologne , Jena , the Berlin Humboldt University , Gießen and Erlangen followed. In the mid-1990s, career prospects in the subject of Eastern European History clouded over , as its right to exist was questioned. Maurer was finally placed in first place in the Chair of Eastern European History at the University of Frankfurt , but the appointment was denied when the State of Hesse decided to give up the chairs for this subject in Marburg and Frankfurt and concentrate the subject on Giessen. Maurer's research interests lay at the intersection of specialist areas, which ultimately led to her never being appointed: for the Eastern European chairs, her research was too focused on Jewish topics, for the centers and professorships on German-Jewish history founded in the 1990s too Eastern European.

In 2000 she was appointed Associate Professor in Göttingen. In order to finance this position, she regularly had to acquire research projects and was thus successful with the Volkswagen Foundation , the Thyssen Foundation and the German Research Foundation . She was also a Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg. To this end, she repeatedly held substitute or visiting professorships.

Trude Maurer died unexpectedly of heart failure after taking antibiotics . She was found dead by the police on April 9, 2017 in her apartment in Göttingen . The exact date of death is not known.

Maurer was a board member of both the Association of Eastern European Historians and, from 1994 to 2006, of the Scientific Working Group of the Leo Baeck Institute in the Federal Republic of Germany. From 2005 until her death she was a member of the admission committee of the German National Academic Foundation and an expert in numerous foundations. She was also a member of the Baltic Historical Commission .

research

One of Trude Maurer's main topics was the Eastern Jews and Jews in the German Empire , in the Weimar Republic and under National Socialism , about which she published continuously in German and English even after her dissertation. She was considered an expert on conceptual differentiations - Eastern Jews and Western Jews - and on German-Jewish relations since the end of the 18th century.

Her habilitation, which is almost a thousand pages long, is a collective biography of the university professors in the Tsarist empire based on differentiated archive studies. It is regarded as pioneering work with regard to the career, self-image, professional ethos and political attitudes of the Russian professorship, in which the ambiguity of the Russian term " intelligencija " was convincingly demonstrated.

In her next major project, she examined the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in the national community with regard to the biographical situation of professors, students, and especially female students, during the First World War . For the empirical core of this work, she selected the universities in Berlin, Giessen and Strasbourg . In 2015 she published the results in two volumes with the title “... and we are part of it”. University and national community in the First World War .

As in this study, she combined her two research interests in her subsequent project on the transcultural aspects of women's studies - the German-Jewish history and the history of education . Her last, unfinished research project dealt with female doctoral students from Russia at German universities at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, mostly Jewish and Baltic German doctors .

In addition to her extensive monographs, Trude Maurer has published more than fifty articles.

Awards

  • 1986 Fritz Theodor Epstein Prize from the Association of Eastern European Historians for her dissertation on Eastern Jews in Germany 1918–1933

Publications

Monographs

  • Eastern Jews in Germany 1918–1933 (=  Hamburg Contributions to the History of German Jews . Volume 12 ). H. Christians, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-7672-0964-0 ( igdj-hh.de [PDF; 565.0 MB ; accessed on March 1, 2020] Dissertation University of Tübingen 1985).
  • The development of the Jewish minority in Germany (1780–1933). Recent research and open questions (=  International Archive for the Social History of German Literature / Special Issue . Volume 4 ). M. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1992, ISBN 3-484-60383-6 .
  • University professor in the Russian Empire. A contribution to Russian social and educational history (=  contributions to the history of Eastern Europe . Volume 27 ). Böhlau, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-412-11598-3 (habilitation thesis Universität Göttingen 1995).
  • Discriminated citizens and emancipated “foreigners”. Jews at German and Russian universities (=  lectures by the Center for Jewish Studies . Volume 5 ). Leykam, Graz 2013, ISBN 978-3-7011-0264-8 .
  • "... and we are part of it". University and national community in the First World War (2 volumes) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-33603-8 .

As editor

  • Trude Maurer, Eva-Maria Auch (ed.): Life in two cultures. Acculturation and self-assertion of non-Russians in the tsarist empire (=  writings on the intellectual history of Eastern Europe . Volume 22 ). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-447-04338-5 .
  • Trude Maurer (Ed.): Colleagues, fellow students, fighters. European universities in the First World War (=  Pallas Athene . Volume 18 ). Steiner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-515-08925-X .
  • Trude Maurer (Ed.): The way to the university. Higher Studies in Women from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0627-1 .

Articles (selection)

  • From everyday life to a state of emergency: Jews in the Weimar Republic and National Socialism 1918–1945 . In: Marion A. Kaplan (ed.): History of everyday Jewish life in Germany. From the 17th century to 1945 . Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-50205-9 , pp. 348-472 .
  • Russian women in German universities - pioneers of female higher education? In: Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta. Naučno-teoretičeskij žurnal. Seria 2, Istoria . 2016, ISSN  1812-9323 , p. 68-84 ( cyberleninka.ru ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Gert von Pistohlkors: Trude Maurer * July 17th, 1955, Mainz, † April 9th, 2017, Göttingen. In: Baltic Historical Commission. Accessed April 16, 2019 (German).
  2. ^ A b c Hermann Beyer-Thoma: On the death of Trude Maurer (1955-2017) . In: Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe . New episode 65, no. 4 , 2017, p. 696 .
  3. ↑ Elena Vyshlenkova: " Барометр или маяк ": памяти профессора Труде Маурер (1955-2017) . In: From Imperio . No. 1 , 2017, p. 257–362 ( dhi-moskau.org [PDF; accessed April 17, 2019]).
  4. ^ A b Trude Maurer: Ostjuden in Deutschland 1918–1933 (=  Hamburg Contributions to the History of German Jews . Volume 12 ). H. Christians, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-7672-0964-0 , pp. 9–10 ( igdj-hh.de [PDF; 565.0 MB ] Dissertation, University of Tübingen 1985).
  5. ↑ a b c d e Stefanie Schüler-Springorum: Obituary for Prof. Dr. Trude Maurer - Scientific working group of the Leo Baeck Institute. Accessed April 16, 2019 (German).
  6. ^ Russian female doctorates from German universities - IOS Regensburg. Retrieved April 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mason, Trude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2017
Place of death Goettingen