Uwe Spiekermann

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Uwe Spiekermann (* 1963 ) is a German social and economic historian . From 2008 to 2015 he was Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington . Among other things, he has presented numerous papers on the history of consumer society in Germany and the history of nutrition in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Life

Uwe Spiekermann studied modern history, political science and journalism at the University of Münster between 1983 and 1990 . From 1990 to 1994 he was a research assistant in Münster on a research project on the history of nutrition between 1880 and 1930. In 1996, he received his doctorate at the University of Münster at the chair for social and economic history with the thesis Basis der Konsumgesellschaft: Origin and Development of the Modern Retail Trade in Germany 1850-1914 . From 1996 to 1997 he was a Research Fellow at the Department of Geography at the University of Exeter and then a member of the Dr. Rainer Wild Foundation - Foundation for Healthy Eating in Heidelberg, where he was first a postdoctoral fellow, then a research assistant and from 1998 to 2001 managing director.

From 2001 to 2008 Spiekermann was a research assistant at the Institute for Economic and Social History at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , where he completed his habilitation in 2008 and received the Venia legendi for Medieval and Modern History at the end of 2008 .

From April 2008 to the end of September 2015 he was Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington. In the 2011/2012 winter semester, he was professor for German history of the 19th and 20th centuries at the University of Münster. from October 2015 to October 2016 he was a “Max Weber Foundation Fellow” at the University of Göttingen.

Research areas

Spiekermann researches primarily on the social and economic history of the 19th and 20th centuries in Germany, including the history of consumption and trade, the history of nutrition and the history of science and knowledge. He is currently researching a transnational comparison of the concept of quality in science, the consumer goods industry and politics.

Publications (selection)

  • Department store tax in Germany. Middle class movement, capitalism and the rule of law in the late empire (= European university publications. Series 3: History and its auxiliary sciences. 600). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1994, ISBN 3-631-46789-3 .
  • Basis of the consumer society. History of modern retail trade in Germany 1850–1914 (= series of publications for the journal for corporate history. 3). CH Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-44874-7 (also: Münster, Universität, Dissertation, 1996).
  • as editor with Gesa U. Schönberger: The future of nutritional science. Springer, Berlin et al. 2000, ISBN 3-540-67550-7 .
  • as editor with Gesa U. Schönberger: Nutrition in borderline situations. Springer, Berlin et al. 2002, ISBN 3-540-42201-3 .
  • as editor with Hartmut Berghoff and Philip Scranton: The Rise of Marketing and Market Research. Palgrave Macmillan, New York NY et al. 2012, ISBN 978-0-230-34106-7 .
  • Bright Modernity: Color, Commerce, and Consumption in Global Perspective. In: Bulletin of the German Historical Institute. Washington DC No. 52, 2013, ISSN  1048-9134 , pp. 141-147, ( online ).
  • as editor: The Stasi at Home and Abroad. Domestic order and Foreign Intelligence (= Bulletin of the German Historical Institute. Washington DC Supplement. 9, ISSN  1048-9134 ). German Historical Institute, Washington DC 2014, ( online ).
  • with Paul Lerner and Anne C. Schenderlein: Jewish Consumer Cultures in 19th and 20th Century Europe and America. In: Bulletin of the German Historical Institute. Washington DC No. 57, 2015, pp. 137-146, ( online ).
  • as editor with Regina Lee Blaszczyk: Bright Modernity. The Brave New World of Color. Springer International Publishing - Palgrave Macmillan, Cham 2017, ISBN 978-3-319-50744-6 .
  • Artificial food: nutrition in Germany, 1840 to today . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2018, ISBN 978-3-525-31719-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see the review of this book by Andre Steiner
personal data
SURNAME Spiekermann, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1963