Wilhelm Damberg

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Wilhelm "Wim" Damberg (born May 3, 1954 in Münster ) is a German Roman Catholic church historian .

Life

In 1972 Damberg began studying Catholic theology and history at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, graduating in 1978 with a diploma in Catholic theology . In 1979 he passed the first state examination for teaching at the grammar school for the subjects of Catholic religion and history. From 1979 to 1981 he worked in the editorial department of the magazine of the Catholic-Theological Faculty Theological Review . He then worked as a research assistant at the Department of Medieval and Modern Church History at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster until 1990. In 1985 he was with the dissertation The battle for the schools in Westphalia 1933-1945 Dr. theol. PhD . In 1988 he worked on the planning and implementation of an interdisciplinary research project on persecution, denial and resistance in Westphalia from 1933–1945, which was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation . From 1990 to 1998 he was research director in the archive of the diocese of Münster . This was followed in 1996 by the habilitation in the Department of Middle and Modern Church History with the habilitation thesis Farewell to the Milieu? Catholicism in the diocese of Münster and in the Netherlands 1945–1980 . Damberg has been a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia since 1997 . After a teaching position at the University of Mainz (1998/1999) and a substitute professor at the University / Comprehensive University of Essen, Damberg received the professorship for church history in the Middle Ages and modern times at the Ruhr University in Bochum in 2000 . Since 2004 he has been co-editor of the Konfession und Gesellschaft series and (co-) editor of the publications series of the Commission for Contemporary History . From 2009 to 2017 he was chairman of the Commission for Contemporary History (Bonn).

Damberg is married and has two children.

Research areas

Wilhelm Damberg researches mainly in the area of ​​contemporary church history. The working group for contemporary ecclesiastical history (Münster), moderated by him, made a theoretically groundbreaking contribution to research into the Catholic subculture in the 19th and 20th centuries. His subsequent habilitation was one of the first research projects to deal with transformation processes in German Catholicism between 1945 and 1980 in the context of the erosion of the Catholic milieu and the processes of awakening in the Second Vatican Council . The work is also characterized by a transnational perspective with reference to the Netherlands . Damberg's interest in the above-mentioned subject areas as well as in the transnational perspective has remained to this day and is reflected in his participation in the research project Transformation of Religion in the Modern Age (spokesman for DFG research group 621, 2005–2012) and the management of the project CrossingOver (since 2003–2018), which serves to study Catholicism in the USA .

Fonts (selection)

As an author and co-author

  • The struggle for schools in Westphalia 1933–1945 . Matthias Grünewald Publishing House, Mainz 1986.
  • Farewell to the milieu? Catholicism in the diocese of Münster and in the Netherlands 1945–1980 (= publications of the Commission for Contemporary History, Series B, Vol. 79). Schöningh, Paderborn 1997, ISBN 3-506-79984-3 .
  • War experience and war theology 1939–1945 . In: Theologische Viertelschrift , Vol. 182 (2002), pp. 321–341.
  • Christians and Jews in Church History. Methods, perspectives, problems . In: Peter Hünermann , Thomas Söding (ed.): Methodical renewal of theology. Consequences of the rediscovered Judeo-Christian similarities (= Quaestiones disputatae , vol. 200). Herder, Freiburg 2003, pp. 93-115, ISBN 3-451-02200-1 .
  • with Gisela Muschiol : The Diocese of Münster. An Illustrated Story 805–2005 . Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-03414-X .
  • Catholicism and pluralistic society in the Federal Republic of Germany . In: Karl-Joseph Hummel (ed.): Contemporary Catholicism Research. Facts, interpretations, questions. An interim balance sheet (= publications by the Commission for Contemporary History, Series B, Vol. 100). Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-71339-6 , pp. 115-129.
  • with Claudia Hiepel and Alfredo Canavero: Formation of Christian Working-Class Organizations in Belgium, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands (1840s – 1920s) . In: Lex Heerma van Voss, Patrick Pasture, Jan De Maeyer (eds.): Between Cross and Class. Comparative Histories of Christian Labor in Europe 1840-2000 (= International and Comparative Social History, Vol. 8). Peter Lang, Bern 2005, pp. 49–80.
  • Lines of Development of European Catholicism in the 20th Century . In: Journal of Modern European History , vol. 2005, No. 2 (special issue: Christian Churches and Religion in the 20th Century), pp. 164–182.
  • War, Theology, and War Experience . In: Karl-Joseph Hummel, Christoph Kösters (ed.): Churches in War. Europe 1939–1945 . Schöningh, Paderborn 2007, ISBN 978-3-506-75688-6 , pp. 203-215.
  • with Johannes Meier and Verena Schmidt: The Diocese of Essen 1958–2008. An illustrated church history of the region from the beginnings of Christianity to the present . Aschendorff, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-402-12731-5 .
  • The Catholic Church and European Catholicism after 1945. Moving Towards Convergence or Diversity and Fragmentation? In: Pancratius Cornelis Beentjes (ed.): The Catholic Church and Modernity in Europe (= Tilburg Theological Studies, Vol. 3). Lit, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-90023-4 , pp. 17–31.
  • The Society of St. Pius X. (FSSPX) and its political and intellectual background . In: Peter Hünermann (ed.): Excommunication or Communication? The path of the Church to Vatican II and the Pius Brothers (= Quaestiones Disputatae, vol. 236). Herder, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-451-02236-4 , pp. 69-122.
  • The Catholics and the Jews. On the history of a fundamental paradigm shift in the first half of the 20th century . In: International Catholic magazine Communio , vol. 39 (2010), pp. 357-370.
  • The Joint Synod of the Dioceses in the Federal Republic of Germany (1971–1975). A historical consideration . In: Pastoraltheologische Informations , Vol. 31 (2011), pp. 7–23.
  • The Church's Guilt in History . In: Karl-Joseph Hummel, Christoph Kösters (ed.): Church, War and Catholics. History and Memory in the 20th Century . Herder, Freiburg 2014, pp. 148–171.
  • The Würzburg Synod (1971–1975) and the Church's past. Johann Baptist Metz , Erwin Iserloh and the relationship between theology and history . In: Georg Essen , Christian Frevel (ed.): Theologie der Geschichte - Geschichte der Theologie (= Quaestiones Disputatae Bd. 294). Herder, Freiburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-451-02294-4 , pp. 100-132.

As co-editor

  • with Antonius Liedhegener : Catholics in the USA and Germany. Church, Society and Politics . Aschendorff, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-402-00230-2 .
  • with Bernhard Frings, Traugott Jähnichen , Uwe Kaminsky: Mother Church - Father State? History, practice and debates of denominational home education since 1945 . Aschendorff, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-402-12842-8 .
  • with Staf Hellemans: The new center of the church. The rise of the intermediate authorities in the major European churches since 1945 (= denomination and society, vol. 42). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-17-021655-6 .
  • with Frank Bösch, Lucian Hölscher , Traugott Jähnichen, Volkhard Krech : Changing social structures and semantics of the religious. Transformations in the Federal Republic of Germany 1949–1989 . Klartext, Essen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8375-0535-1 .
  • with Karl-Joseph Hummel: Catholicism in Germany. Contemporary history and the present (= publication by the Commission for Contemporary History, Series B, Vol. 130). Schöningh, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-506-78078-2 .
  • with Traugott Jähnichen: New Social Movements as a Challenge to Social Church Action (= Denomination and Society, Vol. 51). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-17-029236-9 .
  • with Ute Gause, Isolde Karle , Thomas Söding: God's Word in History. Reformation and Reform in the Church . Herder, Freiburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-451-31996-9 .
  • with Matthias Sellmann : Theology and “the new”. Perspectives on the creative connection between innovation and tradition . Herder, Freiburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-451-30929-8 .

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SURNAME Damberg, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Damberg, Wim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster