Werner Benecke

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Werner Benecke (born December 28, 1964 in Braunschweig ) is a German historian . He is professor for the culture and history of Central and Eastern Europe at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder).

Life

After graduating from the Ricarda Huch School in Braunschweig in 1984, Benecke studied Medieval and Modern History , Eastern European History and Slavic Philology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen from 1986 to 1992 . He then worked as a research assistant at Manfred Hildermeier , where he started his dissertation in 1997 with the dissertation The Eastern Territories of the Second Polish Republic. State power and public order in a minority region 1918-1939 to Dr. phil. received his doctorate. As a research assistant , he completed his habilitation in 2004 in Eastern European History with the work Military, Reform and Society in the Tsarist Empire. Conscription in Russia 1874–1914 .

In 2005 he was a lecturer at the Technical University of Dresden and the University of Leipzig . From 2005 to 2007 he was Karl Schlögel's deputy professor at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt (Oder). In 2006, his habilitation thesis was awarded the Werner Hahlweg Prize for Military History and Defense Sciences . In 2007 he was offered the Gerd Bucerius Endowed Professorship for Culture and History of Central and Eastern Europe at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt (Oder).

He published articles in u. a. Journal for East Central Europe Research , Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe , Eastern Europe , Journal of Modern European History , Dialogue and History in Science and Education .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Eastern Territories of the Second Polish Republic. State power and public order in a minority region 1918–1939 (= Contributions to the History of Eastern Europe , Volume 29). Böhlau, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-412-01199-1 .
  • Military, reform and society in the tsarist empire. Conscription in Russia 1874–1914 (= War in History , Volume 25). Schöningh, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 978-3-506-72980-4 .
  • Edited with Grzegorz Podruczny: Kunersdorf 1759. Kunowice 2009. Studies on a European legend . Logos Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 3-8325-2504-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Who is Who at the European University? Presidents +++ Professors +++ Profiles +++ Publications . Frankfurt (Oder) 2011, pp. 14–15 ( PDF ).
personal data
SURNAME Benecke, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig