Winfried Speitkamp

Winfried Speitkamp (born April 17, 1958 in Düsseldorf ) is a German historian and university professor . He has been President of the Bauhaus University Weimar since 2017 .

career

Speitkamp grew up in Wuppertal . From 1976 he studied history and political science at the Philipps University in Marburg . After receiving his doctorate from Hellmut Seier in 1986 with a thesis on the constitutional history of the Electorate of Hesse in the early 19th century , he completed his habilitation in 1994 under the supervision of Helmut Berding at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen with an investigation into the relationship between the state and monument preservation between 1871 and 1933. There he also worked as a research assistant and assistant. After that he held a substitute professorship as well as a temporary professorship in Giessen. In April 2010 he took over the professorship for Modern and Contemporary History in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Kassel . Since April 1, 2017, he has been President of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar for a term of six years.

Research priorities

Speitkamp's research focuses on constitutional and national history , the history of monument preservation , historical culture and political symbolism, social, youth and educational history as well as the history of Africa and colonialism . Together with colleagues from the Hong Kong Baptist University, he worked on a research project on German imperialism in China (funded by the DAAD , 1997/98) and led several sub-projects on African history in the Gießen Collaborative Research Center “Cultures of Remembrance” of the DFG (1997–2008). He was the spokesman for the DFG research group "Violent Communities" established in 2009. Here he led sub-projects on East and West African violent communities in the 19th and 20th centuries. Another project he led and was funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation dealt with power, war and religion in pre-colonial West Africa. In addition, Speitkamp was the spokesman for the LOEWE focus “Animal-Human-Society. Approaches to interdisciplinary animal research ”, which started his work in January 2014 at the University of Kassel.

Offices

Speitkamp is a member of the board of the Historical Commission for Hesse and chairman of the Hessian State Monument Council .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Restoration as transformation. Investigations into the history of the Kurhessian constitution 1813-1830 (= sources and research into the Hessian history. Vol. 67). Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt / Marburg 1986, ISBN 3-88443-156-0 (dissertation, University of Marburg, 1986).
• Managing the story. Preservation of monuments and the state in Germany 1871–1933 (= Critical Studies in History . Vol. 114). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-525-35777-X (habilitation thesis, University of Gießen, 1994).
• Youth in modern times. Germany from the 16th to the 20th century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-525-01374-4 .
• German colonial history (= Reclam Universal Library . Bd. 17047). Reclam, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-15-017047-8 .
• Small history of Africa (= Reclam Universal Library . Vol. 17063). Reclam, Stuttgart 2007; 2nd, revised and updated edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-017063-2 ; Licensed edition of the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2009 (= series of publications. Vol. 774), ISBN 978-3-89331-951-0 ; also translated into Italian .
• The rest is for you! A little history of tips. Reclam, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-15-020170-1 .
• Slap, duel and honor killing. A story of honor. Reclam, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-15-010780-5 .
• Eschwege. A city and National Socialism (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 81). Historical Commission for Hessen, Marburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-942225-30-4 .

Editorships

• State, society, science. Contributions to modern Hessian history (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 55). Elwert, Marburg 1994, ISBN 3-7708-1025-2 (Festschrift for Hellmut Seier on his 65th birthday).
• with Hans-Peter Ullmann : Conflict and Reform. Festschrift for Helmut Berding . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 978-3-525-36235-8 .
• Monument collapse. On the history of the conflict of political symbolism. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 3-525-33527-X .
• with Helmut Berding and Klaus Heller : War and Memory. Case studies on the 19th and 20th centuries (= forms of memory. Vol. 4). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-35423-1 .
• Communication spaces - memory spaces. Contributions to transcultural encounters in Africa. Martin Meidenbauer, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-89975-043-8 .
• Memory spaces and knowledge transfer. Contributions to African history. V&R Unipress, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89971-533-0 .
• European cultural heritage. Pictures, traditions, configurations (= workbooks of the State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse. Vol. 23). Theiss, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2821-2 .
• Communities of violence. From late antiquity to the 20th century. V&R Unipress, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8471-0063-8 .
• with Stephanie Zehnle: African animal spaces. Historical locations. Rüdiger Köppe, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-89645-902-2 .
• Knights, counts and princes - secular dominions in the Hessian area approx. 900–1806 (= Handbook of Hessian History. Vol. 3; = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 63,3). Historical Commission for Hesse, Marburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-942225-17-5 .
• Violent Communities in History. Formation, Cohesion and Decay. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-525-30116-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Winfried Speitkamp in the catalog of the German National Library
• Winfried Speitkamp on the website of the Bauhaus University Weimar

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography on the Bauhaus University homepage .
2. ^ Homepage of the Bauhaus University .
3. ↑ Biography on the Bauhaus University homepage .
4. ↑ biography on the homepage of the Bauhaus University ; see. on this, § 5 Hessian Monument Protection Act .