Wolf D. Gruner

Wolf D. Gruner , actually Wolfgang Dietrich Gruner , also Wolf Dietrich Gruner (born March 25, 1944 in Herchen an der Sieg ) is a German historian . From 1996 to 2009 he taught as professor for European and Modern History at the University of Rostock . There he held the Jean Monnet Chair for European Integration History and European Studies.

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The son of a graduate engineer spent his childhood in the Lüneburg Heath , then in Munich and finally in Franconia. In 1964 he passed the Abitur in Hersbruck . He then did his military service from 1964 to 1966. From 1966 to 1971 he studied history, English, economics and social sciences at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (LMU). Gruner received his doctorate from Karl Bosl at the LMU with the thesis The Bavarian Army 1825–1864 . From 1971 to 1973 he was a research assistant at the Chair for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Munich ( Ernst Deuerlein ) and a lecturer at the Department of History at the University of Munich. From 1973 to 1976 he was a lecturer at the University of Munich. From 1973 to 1981 Gruner was assistant professor for modern and contemporary history at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich . In 1980 his habilitation took place at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with the thesis Great Britain, the German Confederation and the Structure of European Peace in the early 19th century . Important mentors during this time were Ludwig Hammermayer , Eberhard Weis , Gerhard A. Ritter , Harm-Hinrich Brandt and Thomas Nipperdey .

After completing his habilitation, Gruner was a private lecturer at the Technical University of Munich from 1981 to 1982 and was a substitute professor for modern history at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . From 1982 to 1996 he was Professor of Modern European History at the Department of History at the University of Hamburg and from 1991 to 1996 also held the Jean Monnet Chair for European History and European Studies. From 1987 to 1990 he was director or deputy director of the history seminar at the University of Hamburg. In 1983 and 1986–1987 he was visiting professor for German and European history at Indiana University Bloomington , 1983 in Luxembourg and Utrecht , 1984 in Vienna , Klagenfurt and Salzburg . As part of the peace dialogue between the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Hamburg, Gruner was active in a teaching exchange at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1991/92. Gruner taught from 1992 to 1996 as a visiting professor at the University of Rostock and from the winter semester 1995/96 until his retirement in 2009 as a professor for European history, combined with the Jean Monnet chair for European integration history and European studies, at the University of Rostock. During this time, Gruner was visiting professor for European history at the University of Georgia in 1999 and from 2003 to 2005 visiting research professor at La Sapienza University in Rome. At the invitation of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at the University of Osaka and the University of Tokyo , he took on a visiting research professorship in 2008. Since 2005 he has been visiting professor at the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca / Klausenburg (Romania). From 2007 to 2011 he was an external reviewer for European studies at the University of Hong Kong and from 2009 to 2014 he was an external evaluator and examiner at various Romanian universities for ARACIS.

Gruner's research focuses on European, German and regional history since the Middle Ages, international relations, federalism, identity, nation, nationalism, historical landscapes, historical cartography, maps as a historical medium as well as international and European institutions, the history of European integration, the triad of the relationship between the federal government and the federal government -Länder-Europa as well as the European conceptions, European plans and European ideas since the Middle Ages. A central question in his work is Germany's role in and to Europe. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary, Gruner presented a compact presentation of the Congress of Vienna . He assessed and classified the Congress of Vienna from “a European perspective as the interface of the European transformation process from the 18th to the 19th century”. From 1972 to 2005 he was a member of the Royal Historical Society in London and of the Association of German Historians . From 1982 to 2010 he was a member of the Association for Hamburg History and until 2010 was a member of the German Society for Foreign Policy , the Society of Munich State Historians and the European Integration Working Group . Since 1980 he has been a member of the German University Association and since 1982 a member of the German Studies Association and the German Research Group on England .

Fonts

• The Bavarian Army 1825 to 1864. A critical analysis of the armed power of Bavaria from the accession of Ludwig I to the eve of the German war (= military research. Department of military history studies. Vol. 14). Boldt, Boppard 1972, ISBN 3-7646-1562-1 (also: Munich, University, dissertation, 1971).
• Great Britain, the German Confederation and the Structure of European Peace in the Early 19th Century. Munich 1979 (Munich, university, habilitation thesis).
• The German question. A problem in European history since 1800 (= Beck's black series. Vol. 267). Beck, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-406-08467-2 .
• Germany in the middle of Europe (= contributions to German and European history. Vol. 5). Krämer, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-926952-36-9 .
• The German question in Europe 1800 to 1990 (= Piper. Vol. 1680). Piper, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-492-11680-9 .
• Germany in Europe 1750–2007. From German Central Europe to European Germany. Presa Universitară Clujeană, Cluj-Napoca 2009, ISBN 978-973-610-878-5 .
• The German Confederation. 1815-1866 (= Beck series. Vol. 2495, CH Beck Wissen ). Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-58795-5 .
• The Vienna Congress 1814/15 (= Reclam non-fiction book. Bd. 19252). Reclam. Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-15-019252-8 .

literature

• Mareike König, Matthias Schulz (Ed.): The Federal Republic of Germany and European unification. 1949-2000. Political actors, social forces and international experiences. Festschrift for Wolf D. Gruner on his 60th birthday. Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08465-7 .
• Anke John (ed.): Reforms in history. Ceremony for Wolf D. Gruner on his 60th birthday (= Rostock contributions to German and European history. Vol. 14, ISSN  1431-410X ). University of Rostock - University Library and others, Rostock 2005.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolf D. Gruner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Wolf Dietrich Gruner in the state bibliography MV
• Entry on Wolf D. Gruner in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Remarks

1. ↑ See the review by Rüdiger Meixner in: Nassauische Annalen 126 (2015), pp. 459–461.