Wolfgang Koellmann

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Wolfgang Köllmann (born January 2, 1925 in Barmen - Langerfeld , † September 28, 1997 in Hattingen ) was a German historian and university lecturer (university professor) at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

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Köllmann attended high school in Wuppertal-Barmen and was a participant in the war from 1943 to 1945. From 1946 to 1950 he studied history and German in Göttingen . There he also did his doctorate with Werner Conze . His dissertation, Social History of the City of Barmen, was influential in the long term for social history as a whole and, above all, for modern urban history research. Köllmann is considered one of the founders of historical urbanization research . He then worked as an assistant at the social research center at the University of Münster , based in Dortmund, until 1954 . There he was mainly engaged in research on population structure and urban sociology. From 1954 to 1957 he was a fellow of the Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties in Bonn . In this context, he submitted, among other things, a work on Friedrich Harkort . Between 1959 and 1962 he worked for the Commission of Science and Literature in Mainz, among other positions . There he worked together with Karl Erich Born on an edition of sources on German social policy between 1870 and 1914.

In 1963, Köllmann completed his habilitation and from 1964 to 1990 was a full professor of social and economic history / demography at the Faculty of History at the Ruhr University in Bochum . There he stood for an interdisciplinary research approach that combined demographic, technological, geographical, and economic and social-historical issues. Köllmann was also involved as a member of the Faculty of Economics and the Faculty of Social Science . In particular, his work on population history in the industrial age was groundbreaking. This work predestined him to the editor of the multi-volume work The Ruhr Area in the Industrial Age. Köllmann must "be counted among the pioneers of Rhenish-Westphalian industrialization research", judged Hans-Werner Hahn .

Köllmann was a member and for 29 years chairman of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein and the Historical Commission for Westphalia . He was also active in the Society for Westphalian Economic History .

Köllmann was a member of the CDU and from 1970 to 1984 council member and for some time mayor of Hattingen .

Honors

  • Population, economy, society since industrialization. Festschrift for Wolfgang Köllmann on the occasion of his 65th birthday . Edited by Dietmar Petzina and Jürgen Reulecke , Society for Westphalian Economic History eV, Dortmund; vd Linnepe, Hagen 1990 (= studies on economic, social and technological history , vol. 8), ISBN 3-925227-30-X .

Fonts (selection)

  • Social history of the city of Barmen in the 19th century . Tubingen 1960.
  • The industrial revolution. Population - technology, economy, industry - entrepreneurs, workers - social reform, social policy. [Reprint] Stuttgart 2000.
  • (Ed. Together with Hermann Korte and others; with the collaboration of Werner Abelshauser and others): The Ruhr area in the industrial age. History and development . 2 vols. Düsseldorf 1990.
  • (Ed.): Population history. Cologne 1972.
  • Friedrich Harkort . Droste, Düsseldorf 1964 (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties , vol. 27).
  • (Ed. With the collaboration of Albin Gladen, on behalf of the Mining and Energy Industrial Union ): The miners' strike of 1889 and the establishment of the "Old Association" in selected documents of the time. Bochum 1969.
  • Population history 1800–1970 . In: Wolfgang Zorn (Hrsg.): German economic and social history. Vol. 2: The 19th and 20th centuries. Stuttgart 1976, pp. 9-50.
  • (Ed.): Sources for the population, social and economic statistics of Germany 1815-1875. Volume I: Sources for Germany's population statistics 1815–1875 , edited by Antje Kraus (= research on German social history , Volume 2/1), Harald Boldt Verlag, Boppard am Rhein 1980, ISBN 3-7646-1736-5 .
  • (Ed. With Jürgen Reulecke on behalf of the Harkort Society eV Hagen): Mittheilungen des Centralverein for the well-being of the working classes. Unchanged reprint of the Berlin edition 1848–1858 in five volumes . Hagen 1980 (with place, name, company and subject registers, edited by Peter Marschalck), ISBN 3-921297-26-5 .
  • (Ed. With Wilfried Reininghaus and Karl Teppe ): Bourgeoisie between commercial and industrial economy. Contributions to the scientific colloquium on the occasion of the 200th birthday of Friedrich Harkort from February 25 to 27, 1993. Society for Westphalian Economic History eV, Dortmund 1994, ISBN 3-925227-36-9 .

literature

  • Bernd Haunfelder : Wolfgang Köllmann. In: North Rhine-Westphalia. Country and people. A biographical manual. Düsseldorf 2006, p. 258 f.
  • Alexander Pinwinkler: "Figurations of the Periphery -" Population History "in the Early Federal Republic of Germany in an International Context", in: Tel Aviver Yearbook for German History XXXV (2007), 164–182.
  • Alexander Pinwinkler : Historical population research. Germany and Austria in the 20th century , Wallstein Verlag: Göttingen 2014, here esp. 256–277.

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Hans-Werner Hahn: The Industrial Revolution in Germany (= Encyclopedia of German History , Vol. 49). 3., reviewed u. Extended edition, Oldenbourg, Munich 2011, p. 104.
personal data
SURNAME Koellmann, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), historian, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1997
Place of death Hattingen