Wolfgang R. Krabbe

Wolfgang Rüdiger Krabbe (born August 2, 1942 in Billerbeck , Coesfeld district) is a German historian .

Wolfgang R. Krabbe studied history , German and philosophy at the University of Münster . In 1968 he passed the first state examination in philology, in 1972 he received his doctorate in Münster on the German life reform movement and in 1982 he completed his habilitation on the development of municipal performance management in the 19th and early 20th centuries at the Technical University of Dortmund . Since 1982 he has taught as a private lecturer, since 1987 as an adjunct professor at the TU Dortmund, and since 1990 at the Open University in Hagen . In 2002 Krabbe was retired. He is a member of the Board of Trustees for Comparative Urban History in Münster.

research

Krabbe's main research interests are the life reform movement, recent urban and urbanization history, and the history of political youth in the 20th century. This research resulted in 13 books and 60 essays.

Fonts (selection)

• Change of society through life reform. Structural features of a social reform movement in Germany of the industrialization period. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1974.
• Local politics and industrialization. The development of the municipal service administration in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1985, ISBN 978-3-17-008898-6 .
• The German city in the 19th and 20th centuries. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989, ISBN 978-3-525-33555-0 .
• The failed future of the First Republic. Youth organizations of bourgeois parties in the Weimar state (1918-1933). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1995, ISBN 978-3-531-12707-1 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
• “What kind of Germany should the future Germany be?” The youth and the question of reunification (1945-1972). LIT, Münster 1998, ISBN 978-3-8258-3717-4 .
• Party youth in Germany. Young Union, Young Socialists and Young Democrats 1945-1980. Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2002, ISBN 978-3-531-13842-8 .
• Critical followers - inconvenient disruptors. Studies on the politicization of German youth in the 20th century. Berliner Wissenschaft-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8305-2546-2 .