Ursula Braasch-Schwersmann

Ursula Braasch-Schwersmann

Ursula Braasch-Schwersmann (born September 2, 1955 in Eutin ) is a German historian . She is the head of the Hessian State Office for historical regional studies and honorary professor at the Department of History at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Study and job

From 1974-75 to 1980 she studied at Marburg University, where in 1988 a study on the German religious house Marburg in the late Middle Ages to the Dr. phil. received his doctorate . From 1979 she worked at the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies, initially as a student assistant, then as a research assistant and academic adviser. She has been its director since 1995.

Ursula Braasch-Schwersmann has been a lecturer at the Department of History and Cultural Studies at the Philipps University of Marburg since 1993 . In 2000 she became an honorary professor there .

further activities

Ursula Braasch-Schwersmann is chairwoman of the advisory board at the Institute for Comparative Urban History in Münster. She is a member of the Historical Commission for Hesse (main committee since 2001), the Historical Commission for Nassau , the Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt , the Historical Commission for Thuringia , the Commission for State Archaeological Research in Hesse , the Monument Council of the State of Hesse, the International Historical Commission for research on the Teutonic Order and the International Commission for Urban History . She is the editor of the Hessian Yearbook for State History .

Publications

• The Teutonic Order House in Marburg: Economy and administration of a late medieval manor . Dissertation . Elwert, Marburg 1989, ISBN 3-7708-0907-6 .
• with Peter Zientkiewicz: Hessian City Atlas . Part 1, No. 1: Arolsen . Ed .: Hessisches Landesamt für Geschichtliche Landeskunde . Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-87707-850-8 .
• with Peter Zientkiewicz: Hessian City Atlas . Part 1, No. 3: Butzbach . Ed .: Hessisches Landesamt für Geschichtliche Landeskunde. Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-87707-643-2 .
• with Peter Zientkiewicz: Hessian City Atlas . Part 1, No. 5: Homberg, Ohm . Ed .: Hessisches Landesamt für Geschichtliche Landeskunde. Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-87707-644-0 .
• with Peter Zientkiewicz: Hessian City Atlas . Part 1, No. 6: Limburg . Ed .: Hessisches Landesamt für Geschichtliche Landeskunde. Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-87707-645-9 .
• with Peter Zientkiewicz: Hessian City Atlas . Part 1, No. 7: Michelstadt . Ed .: Hessisches Landesamt für Geschichtliche Landeskunde. Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-87707-648-3 .
• with Peter Zientkiewicz: Hessian City Atlas . Part 1, No. 8: Weather . Ed .: Hessisches Landesamt für Geschichtliche Landeskunde. Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-87707-642-4 .
• Wigand Gerstenberg von Frankenberg 1457–1522. The pictures from his chronicles Thuringia and Hesse - City of Frankenberg (= studies and materials on constitutional and state history. Volume 23). Marburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-921254-86-8 .
• with Peter Zientkiewicz: Hessian City Atlas . Part 1, No. 2: Bad Hersfeld . Ed .: Hessisches Landesamt für Geschichtliche Landeskunde. Marburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-87707-649-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ursula Braasch-Schwersmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Personal details at the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies
• Ursula Braasch-Schwersmann on the homepage of the Philipps University of Marburg