Ulrich Soénius

Ulrich Soénius 2016

Ulrich S. Soénius (born November 26, 1962 in Cologne ) is a German historian , archivist , cultural politician and deputy chief executive of the Cologne Chamber of Commerce and Industry .

Life

After attending the Humboldt Gymnasium in Cologne, Soénius graduated from the Deutschordens-Wohnstift Konrad Adenauer e. V., Cologne-Neubrück, the civil service. He then studied Medieval and Modern History, Library Science and Political Science as well as economics for a few semesters at the University of Cologne . In 1991 he graduated from the master - exam , in 1999 he received his doctorate at Jost Dülffer Dr. phil.

Soénius has been employed by the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv foundation since July 1985 , initially as a student assistant, since April 1, 1990 as a research assistant, since January 1, 1999 as deputy director and since January 1, 2000 as director and member of the board. At the same time, he was a member of the management of the Cologne Chamber of Commerce and Industry from March 1, 2000 to June 30, 2007, with overall responsibility for the business library of the Cologne Chamber of Industry and Commerce and cultural policy / culture industry.

Since July 1, 2007, Soénius has been managing director of the Cologne Chamber of Industry and Commerce , business area location policy , in personal union with the office at the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Foundation . As of July 1, 2014, he was appointed Deputy General Manager.

Offices in associations and clubs

Soénius heads the “Culture and Creative Industries” working group and the “Aviation Industry ” working group at the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) and is a member of the Board of Directors of the German Airports Association (ADV). He is a knowledgeable resident in the urban development committee of the City Council of Cologne and a member of the board of trustees of the Cologne University of Applied Sciences. Together with Paul Bauwens-Adenauer , he runs the entrepreneur for the Cologne region. V., who commissioned the urban development master plan for downtown Cologne. In 2009 founded Kölner Stiftungen e. V. he is chairman. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Freya von Moltke Foundation for the New Kreisau .

He has several functions in the German archive system. He is a board member of the Association of German Archivists (VdA), where he is also the chairman of Section 5: Archivists at Economic Archives, the Association of German Economic Archivists, the Central Archive of the International Art Trade e. V., Cologne, and in the Architecture Forum Rhineland. As a member of the advisory board, he advises the German Dance Archive Cologne, the DOMiD - Documentation Center and Museum on Migration in Germany eV and the city of Cologne on the reconstruction of the historical archive of the city of Cologne. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Hanseatic Economic Archive Foundation , Hamburg, as well as the chairman of the board of trustees of the City Memory Foundation, which is supposed to help finance the restoration of the archived material from the historical archive of the city of Cologne.

Soénius is a member of the board of the Gesellschaft für Rheinische Geschichtskunde , and he oversees the Cologne History Society and the Economic History Society of Cologne as a managing board member.

He is active in Cologne's cultural institutions as vice chairman of Comedia Colonia e. V. and the Kölner Kulturpaten e. V.

Awarding of the 2016 master's prize to Ulrich Soénius

In addition, he works on a voluntary basis as chairman of the board of trustees of the Stegerwald Foundation and the administrative board of Köln-Ring gGmbH in the social sector.

Awards

• Master Prize of the Cologne District Craftsmen's Association 2016 for social engagement

Fonts

• Colonial enthusiasm in the Rhineland during the German Empire. Cologne 1992.
• with Barbara Gerstein: Rheinisch-Westfälische Handelskammersyndici. Munster 1994.
• The time of National Socialism (1933–1945). In: The history of entrepreneurial self-administration in Cologne 1914–1997. Cologne 1997.
• Economic bourgeoisie in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Scheidt family in Kettwig, 1848–1925. Cologne 2000.
• with Peter Danylow (Ed.): Otto Wolff . A company between business and politics. Munich 2005.
• Future in mind - past on file. Cologne 2006.
• with Jürgen Wilhelm (Ed.): Kölner Personenlexikon. Greven, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 .
• with Paul Bauwens-Adenauer (ed.): The master plan for Cologne. Greven, Cologne 2009.
• with Susanne Hilger (Ed.): Networks - Succession - Social Capital. Family business in the Rhineland in the 19th and 20th centuries. Cologne 2009.
• with Bettina Schmidt-Czaia (Ed.): Gedächtnisort. The historical archive of the city of Cologne. Böhlau, Cologne 2010.
• with Christian Hillen and Peter Rothenhöfer: Small illustrated economic history of the city of Cologne. Bachem, Cologne 2013
• with Petra Hesse and Mario Kramp (eds.): Cologne 1914. Metropolis in the west. Bachem, Cologne 2014.
• with Mario Kramp (ed.): Made in Cologne - Cologne brands for the world. 2nd, strong adult Ed., Bachem, Cologne 2015
• Editor of the publications on Rhenish-Westphalian economic history , co-editor of the yearbook of the Cologne History Association , advisory board of the Archivar magazine .

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Soénius  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ulrich Soénius in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publication Directory