Wolfgang Schieder

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Wolfgang Schieder at the Göttinger Historikertag 2014

Wolfgang Schieder (born September 2, 1935 in Königsberg ) is a German historian . From 1991 to 2000 he taught as professor for modern and contemporary history at the University of Cologne .

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Wolfgang Schieder was born as the son of the historian Theodor Schieder and his wife Eva, b. Rogalsky, and grew up in Königsberg. At the beginning of 1944 the family fled to Bavaria. Schieder attended schools in Kempten (Allgäu) and Cologne , where he graduated from high school in 1954. In the same year he began studying geology at the University of Cologne , which he gave up after two semesters. He switched to history and German and studied for two semesters at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , then at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, among others with Werner Conze , whom he followed in 1957 to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1959 he passed the state examination for high schools in the subjects of history and German.

This was followed by a position as an assistant at the historical seminar of Heidelberg University from 1960 to 1967. In 1962 he started with the subjects Middle and Modern History, Modern German Literature and Economic History and the writing Beginnings of the German Labor Movement: The Foreign Associations in the decade after the July Revolution of 1830 PhD. From 1965 to 1967 he worked at the German Historical Institute in Rome , on leave from the history seminar . From 1968 to 1970 he did research with a grant from the German Research Foundation .

Schieder was appointed professor for modern history at the University of Trier in 1970 , where he taught until 1991. During these years he carried out research stays in Berlin, Japan and at the University of Jerusalem . In 1991 he accepted a professorship for modern and contemporary history at the University of Cologne, where he taught until his retirement in 2000.

In 1993 he was visiting professor at Aarhus University . From 1997 to the end of 2005 he and Reinhard Rürup headed the Commission for Research into the History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society during National Socialism on behalf of the President of the Max Planck Society . In March 2003 he was appointed by Federal Minister Edelgard Bulmahn to chair the board of trustees of the newly established Foundation for German Humanities Institutes Abroad (DGIA) and was confirmed in this position in November 2006. In 2009 Schieder became co-chairman of the newly created German-Italian historians' commission.

In 1995 Schieder was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bologna . In 2009 he received the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2012 he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic .

The focal points of Wolfgang Schier's academic work include contemporary Italian history, comparative research on fascism, and German and European social history of the 19th and 20th centuries. With his work, he has made a significant contribution to the fact that the subject of social history has achieved a recognized position in German history.

Fonts (selection)

For a complete list of publications available on Scherer's website, see here .

Monographs

  • Beginnings of the German labor movement. The foreign associations in the decade after the July revolution of 1830 (= Industrial World. Volume 4, ZDB -ID 504104-1 ). Klett, Stuttgart 1963, (at the same time: Heidelberg, University, dissertation, July 27, 1962, revision).
  • Karl Marx as a politician. Piper, Munich et al. 1991, ISBN 3-492-03220-6 .
  • Religion and revolution. The Trier pilgrimage in 1844. SH-Verlag, Vierow near Greifswald 1996.
  • Fascist dictatorships. Studies on Italy and Germany. Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0358-4 ( review ).
  • The military-industrial-scientific complex in the “Third Reich”. The example of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. In: Noyan Dinçkal, Christof Dipper, Detlev Mares (eds.): Self- mobilization of science. Technical universities in the "Third Reich". WBG, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-534-23285-7 , pp. 47-62.
  • Italian fascism. 1919-1945 (= Beck'sche series 2429; CH Beck Wissen ). Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-60766-0 .
  • Mussolini myth. Germans in audience with the Duce. Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-70937-7 ( review ).
  • Benito Mussolini (= CH Beck Knowledge. 2835). Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66982-8 .
  • Adolf Hitler - Mussolini's political apprentice sorcerer , De Gruyter / Oldenbourg 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-052975-3

Editorships

  • First World War. Causes, origins and war aims (= New Scientific Library. 32, History. ISSN  0548-3018 ). Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne et al. 1969.
  • with Christof Dipper : The Spanish Civil War in International Politics (1936–1939). 13 essays (= Nymphenburg Texts on Science. Model University. 23). Nymphenburger Verlags-Handlung, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-485-03223-9 .
  • Fascism as a Social Movement. Germany and Italy in comparison (= historical perspectives. 3). Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1976, ISBN 3-455-09199-7 (2nd edition. (= Kleine Vandenhoeck series. 1492). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1983, ISBN 3-525-33485-0 ).
  • with Wolfgang Frühwald : Life in Exile. Problems of the integration of German refugees abroad, 1933–1945 (= historical perspectives. 18). Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-455-09253-5 .
  • Liberalism in the society of the German pre-March (= history and society . Special issue 9). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1983, ISBN 3-525-36408-3 .
  • Literature and social history (= history and society. Vol. 9, issue 1). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1983.
  • Fascism in authoritarian systems (= history and society. Vol. 12, issue 2). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1986.
  • with Volker Sellin : Social history in Germany. Developments and perspectives in an international context. 4 volumes. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1986–1987;
    • Volume 1: The social history within historical science (= Kleine Vandenhoeck series. 1517). 1986, ISBN 3-525-33520-2 ;
    • Volume 2: Spaces of human action in history (= Kleine Vandenhoeck series. 1518). 1986, ISBN 3-525-33521-0 ;
    • Volume 3: Social behavior and forms of social action in history (= Kleine Vandenhoeck series. 1523). 1987, ISBN 3-525-33528-8 ;
    • Volume 4: Social groups in history (= Kleine Vandenhoeck series. 1531). 1987, ISBN 3-525-33539-3 .
  • Popular religiosity in modern social history (= history and society. Special issue 11). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1986, ISBN 3-525-36410-5 .
  • Witch persecution in village society (= history and society. Vol. 16, booklet 1). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1990.
  • Evangelical Church after National Socialism (= history and society. Vol. 18, issue 1). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1992.
  • The NSDAP as a fascist “people's party”. (= History and Society. Volume 19, Issue 2). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993.
  • Italy in the 19th and 20th centuries - a “special path”? (= History and Society. Vol. 26, Issue 2). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000.
  • with Dietrich Papenfuß: German upheavals in the 20th century. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2000, ISBN 3-412-08500-6 .
  • with Alexander Nützenadel : Contemporary history as a problem. National traditions and perspectives of research in Europe (= history and society. Special issue 20). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-36420-2 .
  • with Achim Trunk: Adolf Butenandt and the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. Science, industry and politics in the “Third Reich” (= history of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism. 7). Göttingen 2004, Wallstein, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-752-7 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See page of the KWG commission in National Socialism at the MPI for the History of Science, Berlin , the work of the commission was completed at the end of 2005, until 2007 publications in the series of the commission at Wallstein-Verlag were published.
  2. ↑ Schieder Prof. Wolfgang , website of the President of the Republic, accessed on September 26, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Schieder, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg