Werner Buchholz (historian)

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Werner Buchholz (born January 25, 1948 in Berlin-Neukölln ) is a German historian and retired university professor . From 1994 to 2013 he held the endowed professorship of the Federal Ministry of the Interior for Pomeranian History and Regional Studies at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1966, he did three years of military service, qualifying as a reserve officer. From 1970 to 1975 Buchholz studied history, Scandinavian and German studies at the Universities of Bochum , Marburg , Stockholm and at the Åbo Akademi / Finland . In the 1972 summer semester, he took part in Gerhard Oestreich's seminar "Policey Regulations and Social Discipline" in Marburg , where he dealt with his concept of social discipline in his academic teaching . In 1973 he passed the candidate exam in Åbo .

After he had already passed the first state examination for the higher teaching post in Marburg in 1975 , he received his doctorate in 1978 under Gerhard Oestreich in Marburg on the transition from absolutism to class parliamentarism in Sweden after the death of Charles XII. In 1979 he passed the second state examination at the Kassel II study seminar . From 1979 to 1985 he worked in higher education at grammar schools in Siegburg and Kiel.

From 1985 to 1988 Buchholz received a postdoctoral fellowship and a travel grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for research on the history of public finances in the archives of Stockholm, Copenhagen, Greifswald and Stralsund. In 1990 he completed his habilitation at the University of Hamburg on the subject of public finances in Swedish Pomerania . From 1990 to 1992 he taught at the University of Hamburg. From 1992 to 1994 Buchholz worked for the Foreign Service at the German School in Athens .

In 1994 he was appointed to the endowed chair for Pomeranian history and regional studies at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald , financed by the Federal Ministry of the Interior . One of the main focuses of the work of the chair was the cooperation of the regional historians, from which among other things the regional history section of the German Historians' Day 1998 under the title “Central State and Regional Self-Assertion” as well as several publications emerged, including The End of the Early Modern Era in “Third Germany”. Bavaria, Hanover, Mecklenburg, Pomerania, the Rhineland and Saxony in comparison . The chair assistant Kyra T. Inachin qualified as a professor at the chair in 2002.

Buchholz retired on March 31, 2013. The university did not refill the chair for Pomeranian History and Regional Studies.

Buchholz is the author and editor of publications on the history of public finances, the history of education and universities, as well as the history of Pomerania, the Baltic countries, Germany and Sweden. He is a member of the Historical Commission for Pomerania .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • State and Estates in Sweden at the time of the transition from absolutism to Estates parliamentarism 1718–1720 (Stockholm Studies in History 27; also: Studies presented to the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions / Études présentées à la Commission pour l`Histoire des Assemblées d`États, 62). Almqvist & Wiksell International, Stockholm 1979, ISBN 91-22-00297-9 (dissertation).
  • Public finance and financial management in the developed early modern state. Rulers and estates in Swedish Pomerania 1720–1806 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania, Series V: Research on Pomeranian History, 25). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-412-04792-9 (habilitation thesis).
  • History of public finances in Europe in the late Middle Ages and modern times. Presentation, analysis, bibliography. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-05-003056-9 .

Editorships

  • with Günter Mangelsdorf : Land by the Sea - Pomerania in the mirror of its history. Festschrift Roderich Schmidt. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania, V / 29), Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-412-14094-5 .
  • National history in Germany. Inventory - analysis - perspectives . Schöningh, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-506-71802-9 ( digital copy and download as pdf ).
  • German history in Eastern Europe. Pomerania. Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88680-272-8 .
  • Childhood and Adolescence in Modern Times 1500–1900. Interdisciplinary approaches to the instances of social and mental imprinting in agricultural society and during industrialization. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07259-4 . ( Review on the Sehepunkte website)
  • The end of the early modern era in “Third Germany”. Bavaria, Hanover, Mecklenburg, Pomerania, the Rhineland and Saxony in comparison ( historical magazine , supplement NF 37). Oldenbourg, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-486-64437-1 .

Contributions

  • Beginnings of social discipline in the Middle Ages. The imperial city of Nuremberg as an example. In: Journal for Historical Research 18 (1991), pp. 129-147. (see review in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of April 8, 1992 (No. 84), p. N 6.)
  • Sweden with Finland. In: Matthias Asche , Anton Schindling (ed.): Denmark, Norway and Sweden in the age of the Reformation and confessionalization. Nordic kingdoms and denominations 1500 to 1660. (= Catholic life and church reform in the age of religious schism , 62). Münster 2003, pp. 107-237.
  • From nobility regiment to absolutism. Finance and Rule in Sweden in the 17th Century. In: Peter Rauscher , Andrea Serles, Thomas Winkelbauer (Ed.): The blood of the state body. Research on the financial history of the early modern period. (= Historische Zeitschrift , supplement, NF 56), Munich 2012, pp. 129–181. ISBN 3-486-70842-2 .
  • Self-assertion and Political Influence of the Common Man in the Kingdom of Sweden in the Late Middle Ages and the Reformation. In: Sigrid Hirbodian , Robert Kretzschmar , Anton Schindling (eds.): “Armer Konrad” and the Tübingen Treaty in an interregional comparison. Prince, functional elite and “common man” at the beginning of modern times. (= Publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Series B: Research, 206). Stuttgart 2016, pp. 191-235.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Buchholz: From the corporate and financial history to historical demography . In: Gisela Boeck / Hans-Uwe Lammel (Ed.): Monuments - Statutes - Contemporary witnesses. Facets of Rostock University History Writing (2) (Rostock Studies on University History 29). Rostock 2015, p. 31–47, here p. 31 f.
  2. ↑ Directory of members on the website of the Historical Commission
personal data
SURNAME Buchholz, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and retired university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin