Ulrich von Hehl

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Ulrich von Hehl with a volume on the history of the city of Leipzig in the ballroom of the old town hall in Leipzig (2019)

Ulrich von Hehl (born October 19, 1947 in Viersen ) is a German historian and university professor.

Life

Ulrich von Hehl is Catholic and attended the municipal high school in Viersen from 1958 to 1959 , and the high school at Moltkeplatz in Krefeld from 1959 to 1966 . After completing his military service, he studied history and German studies from 1969 to 1974 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , receiving his doctorate in 1977 under Konrad Repgen . From 1977 to 1992 he was managing director of the Commission for Contemporary History in Bonn , where he had been a research assistant since 1977. In 1987 von Hehl completed his habilitation in Medieval and Modern History. From 1989 to 1990 he was a deputy professor at the University of Augsburg . In 1992 he was appointed to a professorship at the University of Leipzig. There von Hehl held the chair for modern and contemporary history at the University of Leipzig . He retired in spring 2013.

His academic focus is on research into German Catholicism, the Weimar Republic , National Socialism and the history of universities and science. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the House of History in Bonn and the Commission for Contemporary History. He is also Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Horst Springer Foundation for Modern and Contemporary History of Saxony.

In 2019, the fourth and final volume on the history of the city of Leipzig , edited by von Hehl, was completed. It covers the period from 1914 to the present.

Fonts

  • Catholic Church and National Socialism in the Archdiocese of Cologne. 1933–1945 (= publications of the Commission for Contemporary History. Series B: Research. Vol. 23). Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag , Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-7867-0662-X (also: Bonn, University, dissertation, 1977).
  • as editor: Walter Adolph : Secret notes from the National Socialist church struggle. 1935–1943 (= publications of the Commission for Contemporary History. Series A: Sources. Vol. 28). Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-7867-0783-9 (4th edition, ibid 1987).
  • as editor with Heinz Hürten : Catholicism in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1980. A bibliography (= publications of the Commission for Contemporary History. Series B: Research. Vol. 40). Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-7867-1054-6 .
  • as editor: priest under Hitler's terror. A biographical and statistical survey (= publications by the Commission for Contemporary History. Series A: Sources. Vol. 37). Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-7867-1152-6 (with Kösters Christoph. 4th, revised and supplemented edition. 2 volumes. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 1998, ISBN 3-506-79839-1 ).
  • with Manfred Schaefer: Meckenheim as it was. Meinerzhagener Druck- und Verlagshaus, Meinerzhagen 1985, ISBN 3-88913-092-5 (text / picture book).
  • Wilhelm Marx 1863-1946. A political biography (= publications of the Commission for Contemporary History. Series B: Research. Vol. 47). Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1987, ISBN 3-7867-1323-5 (At the same time: Bonn, University, habilitation paper, 1986/1987).
  • as editor with Konrad Repgen : German Catholicism in contemporary historical research. Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7867-1393-6 .
  • as editor with Hans Günter Hockerts : Catholicism - all-German bracket in the decades of division? Reminders and reports. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 1996, ISBN 3-506-73757-0 .
  • National Socialist rule (= encyclopedia of German history. Vol. 39). 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-486-56580-X .
  • as editor with Hans Günter Hockerts, Horst Möller , Martin Schumacher, Hans-Peter Schwarz : Rudolf Morsey : From Windthorst to Adenauer. Selected essays on politics, administration and political Catholicism in the 19th and 20th centuries (= legal and political science publications of the Görres Society. NF Vol. 80). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 1997, ISBN 3-506-73381-8 .
  • as editor: Adenauer and the churches (= Rhöndorfer Talks. Vol. 17). Bouvier, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-416-02875-9 .
  • as editor with Friedrich Kronenberg : Zeitzeichen. 150 years of the German Catholic Days 1848–1998. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 1999, ISBN 3-506-74009-1 .
  • as editor: Peter Reichensperger. (1810-1892) (= contributions to Catholicism research. Series A: Source texts on the history of Catholicism. Vol. 17). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2000, ISBN 3-506-70877-5 .
  • Bismarck's long shadow? The office of Reich Chancellor and its holder in the Weimar Republic (= Friedrichsruher contributions. Vol. 23). Otto von Bismarck Foundation, Friedrichsruh 2004, ISBN 3-933418-22-4 .
  • In the upheavals of the 20th century. The University of Leipzig from the eve of the First World War to the end of the Second World War 1909–1945. In: History of the University of Leipzig 1409–2009. Volume 3: The Twentieth Century 1909–2009. Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-86583-303-7 , pp. 17–329.
  • with Michael Epkenhans as editor: Otto von Bismarck and the economy . Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-506-77714-0 .
  • as editor: Stadt und Krieg. Leipzig in military conflicts from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-86583-902-2 .
  • as editor: History of the City of Leipzig , Volume 4, Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2019, ISBN 978-3-86583-804-9 .

Awards

literature

  • Ronald Lambrecht, Ulf Morgenstern (ed.): "Strongly advanced detailed research". Essays for Ulrich von Hehl on his 65th birthday (= Edition Kirchhof & Franke. Vol. 6). With the collaboration of Birgit Mitzscherlich. Edition Kirchhof & Franke, Leipzig et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-933816-56-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich von Hehl, University of Leipzig
  2. ^ City of Leipzig
  3. ↑ 1000 years of Leipzig. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. Retrieved April 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hehl, Ulrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Viersen