Wilhelm Ernst Winterhager

Wilhelm Ernst Winterhager (born March 28, 1949 in Hohennauen ) is a German historian of modern history.

Wilhelm Ernst Winterhager studied history and English from 1968 to 1973 in Berlin , Marburg and Philadelphia . From 1973 to 1978 he worked as a research assistant for modern history at the Free University of Berlin. In 1978 he began studying Protestant theology in Berlin and Uppsala , which he completed in 1982. He received his doctorate in 1982 with a dissertation on Danish peace mediation and European power politics in the First World War at the Free University of Berlin. From 1983 to 1989 Wilhelm Ernst Winterhager worked as a university assistant for modern history at the Free University of Berlin. In 1993 he received his habilitation in the subject of modern history at the Free University of Berlin with a paper on the political background of the indulgence dispute 1516–1518. He then worked as a senior assistant for modern history at the Free University of Berlin. From 1998 to 2014 Wilhelm Ernst Winterhager held a professorship for modern history with a special focus on the history of the Reformation at the Philipps University of Marburg. He has been a member of the Historical Commission for Hesse since 2002 .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Mission for Peace. European power politics and Danish mediation of peace in the First World War. From August 1914 to the Italian entry into the war in May 1915. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1984 (= sources and studies on the peace attempts of the First World War. Vol. 5) (At the same time Phil. Diss. Berlin 1982).
• The Kreisau Circle. Portrait of a resistance group. Accompanying volume to an exhibition of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. With an introduction by Ger van Roon . von Hase and Koehler, Mainz 1985, 2nd edition (improved reprint) 1986.
• Reich policy, indulgence dispute and the Luther affair. Beginnings and backgrounds 1516–1518. Habilitation thesis, Berlin 1993.
• The Kreisau Circle. German resistance to National Socialism. Krąg z Krzyżowej. Niemecki ruch oporu przeciw narodowemu socjalizmowi. (German-Polish edition. With Polish translation by Stanislaw Dzida). Catholic Academy Trier, Trier / Saarbrücken 1998.

Editorships

• The Kreisau Circle. The biographical and genealogical picture of a resistance group. Arranged by Jürgen Arndt, Friedrich Wilhelm Euler and Wilhelm Ernst Winterhager. Moltke Foundation, Berlin 1984 ( Moltke-Almanach. Vol. 1) (At the same time: special edition of the quarterly journal Der Herold. NF Vol. 11).
• Landgrave Philip the Magnanimous 1504–1567. Hesse at the center of the reform 1504–1567. Accompanying volume for an exhibition in the state of Hesse. Edited by Ursula Braasch-Schwersmann , Hans Schneider and Wilhelm Ernst Winterhager. Ph.CW Schmidt publishing house, Marburg / Neustadt an der Aisch 2004.
• Academia Marburgensis. Contributions to the history of the Philipps University of Marburg. Edited by the Philipps University of Marburg by Theo Schiller , Gerhard Aumüller , Jochen-Christoph Kaiser , Wilhelm Ernst Winterhager. Bd. 8 ff. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2001 ff.

Web link

• Winterhager's page at the University of Marburg ( Memento from April 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive )