Wolfgang Kruse

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Wolfgang Kruse (born September 10, 1957 in Bielefeld ) is a German historian . His main research interests are the history of the First World War, the French Revolution, the German and international labor movement and the political cult of the dead.

Scientific career

Wolfgang Kruse studied history since 1977 at Bielefeld University , Free University of Berlin and Technical University of Berlin . In 1990 he was with Reinhard Rürup in Berlin with the work war and national integration. A reinterpretation of the social democratic Treaty of the 1914/15 doctorate. In 2001, Kruse obtained a habilitation thesis at the FernUniversität Hagen , The Invention of Modern Militarism. War, military and civil society in the political discourse of the French Revolution 1789–1799 as well as a trial lecture on Schinkel's Neue Wache and the political cult of the dead in modern German history. There he teaches as an academic senior councilor and adjunct professor in the field of history of European modernism.

Fonts

  • with Sabine Hanna Leich: internationalism and national interest representation. On the history of the international trade union movement (= trade unions in Germany. Volume 14). Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7663-2245-1 .
  • War and national integration. A reinterpretation of the social democratic Treaty of 1914/15 . Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1994, ISBN 3-88474-087-3 (also dissertation, Technical University Berlin, 1990).
  • as editor: A World of Enemies. The great war 1914–1918 (= Geschichte Fischer. Volume 13571). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-596-13571-0 .
  • The invention of modern militarism. War, the military and civil society in the political discourse of the French Revolution 1789–1799 (= Paris historical studies , volume 62). Oldenbourg, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56684-9 (also habilitation thesis, University of Hagen, 2000).
  • The French Revolution (= UTB. Volume 2639). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2005, ISBN 3-506-71316-7 .
    • The French Revolution (= UTB. Volume 2639). Reprint, Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-8252-2639-8 .
  • The First World War (= compact history ). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-534-15446-3 .
    • The First World War (= compact history ). 2nd updated edition, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 3-534-26447-9 .
  • as editor: The French Revolution. Programmatic texts from Robespierre to de Sade (= edition of left classics ). Promedia, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85371-341-9 .
  • as editor with Werner Daum , Eva Ochs and Arthur Schlegelmilch : Political Movement and Symbolic Order. Hagen studies on political cultural history. Festschrift for Peter Brandt (= Political and Social History Series , Volume 96). Dietz, Bonn 2014, ISBN 3-8012-4216-1 .
  • as editor: The First World War (= new ways of research ). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 3-534-26429-0 .
  • as editor: Other moderns. Contributions to a historicization of the concept of modernity . Transcript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 3-8376-2626-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kruse, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld