Ulrich Kluge

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Ulrich Kluge (born June 16, 1935 in Werben ) is a German economic and social historian . From 1993 to 2001 he was a professor at the Technical University of Dresden .

Life

Kluge grew up in the Spreewald . After graduating from high school in 1953, he completed an agricultural training course in Klein-Wanzleben at the secondary school in Cottbus and was briefly an agricultural technical assistant in Kleinmachnow . In 1957/58 he studied agriculture at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

He left the German Democratic Republic and took his Abitur again in 1959 in Berlin-Wedding . He then studied history, political science and journalism at the Free University of Berlin . In 1965 he became a library employee. In 1972 he was with Reinhard Rürup at Faculty 13 - History ( Friedrich Meinecke Institute ) in Newer and Modern History with the dissertation suggested by Gerhard A. Ritter Soldiers Councils and Revolution. Studies on military policy in Germany 1918/19 for Dr. phil. PhD. In 1975, large parts of his work were included in the series of critical studies on the science of history ; due to the size, a few chapters appeared previously (1973) in the military history reports and in the commemorative publication on Ernst Fraenkel . He then worked as a research assistant at the Berlin Institute for Urban Studies .

In 1973 he went to the Department of History at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg as a research assistant . There he was a student of Hans Rosenberg , in whose tradition he stands. In 1981 the habilitation followed (the habilitation commission included the historians Heinrich August Winkler and Hugo Ott , who critically accompanied the work) and the unscheduled professorship for new and recent history.

Kluge taught as a visiting lecturer / professor at the universities in Bochum , Heidelberg , Basel and Salzburg . In 1988 he received the Venia legendi for the economic and social history of the early modern period . From 1990 to 1993 he managed the chair for modern and contemporary history at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. After he was visiting professor in 1992/93, he received a full professorship for economic and social history of modern times at the Institute for History of the Philosophical Faculty of the Technical University of Dresden in 1993 . In 1993/94 he was also visiting professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts . In 2000 he became an adjunct professor at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. His academic students include: a. Ralf Ahrens , Peter E. Fäßler , Winfrid Halder , Dieter H. Kollmer , Burkhard Köster and Johannes Weberling . Kluge later publicly distanced himself from his former doctoral student Roland Wöller .

Kluge lives in the Black Forest.

Fonts (selection)

  • Soldiers' councils and revolution. Studies on military policy in Germany 1918/19 (= critical studies on historical science . Vol. 14). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1975, ISBN 3-525-35965-9 .
  • The Austrian corporate state 1934–1938. Emergence and failure . Oldenbourg, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-486-52341-1 .
  • The German Revolution 1918, 1919. State, politics and society between World War I and the Kapp Putsch (= Edition Suhrkamp . Vol. 1262). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-518-11262-7 (4th edition 1996).
  • Peasants, Agricultural Crisis and National Food in the European Interwar Period. Studies on the agricultural society and economy of the Republic of Austria 1918–1938 (= quarterly journal for social and economic history . Supplement 86). Steiner, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-515-04802-2 .
  • Forty years of agricultural policy in the Federal Republic of Germany (= reports on agriculture . Special issue, NF 202). 2 volumes, Parey, Hamburg a. a. 1989, ISBN 3-490-35215-7 .
  • with Steffen Birkefeld, Silvia Müller, Johannes Weberling : compliant propagandists. MfS and district party newspapers. "Berliner Zeitung", "Sächsische Zeitung", "Neuer Tag" (= contributions to economic and social history . Vol. 69). Steiner, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07197-0 .
  • with Karin Herrmann: Saxon festivals . Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, Munich a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-446-19331-6 .
  • Eco-transition. Agricultural policy between reform and mad cow disease . Siedler, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-88680-736-3 .
  • with Winfrid Halder , Katja Schlenker (eds.): Between land reform and collectivization. Prehistory and early history of “socialist agriculture” in the Soviet Zone / GDR from the end of the war to the 1950s (= contributions to economic and social history . Vol. 92). Steiner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-515-07892-4 .
  • Agriculture and rural society in the 20th century (= Encyclopedia of German History . Vol. 73). Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-486-56605-9 .
  • The Weimar Republic (= UTB . 2805). Schöningh (UTB), Paderborn u. a. 2006, ISBN 978-3-8252-2805-7 .

literature

  • Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , pp. 463-464.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich Kluge: Soldiers' Councils and Revolution . Göttingen 1975, p. 9.
  2. ↑ Hans Fenske : Soldiers Councils and Revolution, Studies on Military Policy in Germany 1918/19, Critical Studies on Historical Science, Vol. 14 by Ulrich Kluge . In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 18 (1977) 1, pp. 120–122, here: p. 120.
  3. ^ Robert Hoffmann : Peasants, Agricultural Crisis and People's Nutrition in the European Interwar Period. Studies on the agricultural society and economy of the Republic of Austria, 1918–1936 by Ulrich Kluge, Werner Conze, Hermann Kellenbenz, Hans Pohl, Wolfgang Zorn . In: The Journal of Modern History 65 (1993) 2, pp. 424-426, here: p. 425.
  4. ^ Ernst Hanisch : Peasants, Agricultural Crisis and People's Nutrition in the European Interwar Period. Studies on the agricultural society and economy of the Republic of Austria 1918 to 1938 by Ulrich Kluge . In: Historische Zeitschrift 251 (1990) 1, pp. 187–188, here: p. 187.
  5. ↑ Ulrich Kluge: Peasants, Agricultural Crisis and People's Nutrition in the European Interwar Period . Stuttgart 1988, p. 9.
  6. ↑ Martin Machowecz: "Scharlatan". The doctoral debate Wöller: The doctoral supervisor speaks for the first time . In: Die Zeit , January 12, 2012, No. 3, p. 9.
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SURNAME Kluge, Ulrich
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DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1935
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