Wolfram Pyta

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Wolfram Pyta (born October 27, 1960 in Dortmund ) is a German historian . Pyta is Professor of Modern History and the Head of the Department of Modern History at the Historical Institute of the University of Stuttgart . Since 2001 he has also been the director of the Ludwigsburg Research Center , which is dedicated to researching the history of Nazi crimes.

Life

Wolfram Pyta grew up in Gierath as the son of a machinist. After graduating from high school in Neuss, he began studying history and philosophy in Bonn and Cologne. After graduation, Pyta was an assistant at the University of Cologne from 1988 to 1994 . His teacher at this time was the historian and specialist for the Weimar Republic Eberhard Kolb . In Cologne he received his doctorate for a thesis on German social democracy in the Weimar Republic. He completed his habilitation in 1994 with a thesis on village community and party politics 1918–1933 . As a result, he took on teaching positions in Tübingen and Bonn . In the college year 1995/1996 he was a scholarship holder of the historical college in Munich. The support he had received as a Heisenberg fellow from the German Research Foundation in 1995 ended with his appointment in April 1999 to the chair for modern history at the Historical Institute of the University of Stuttgart, which Eberhard Jäckel had previously held. Since 2001 Pyta has also been director of the Ludwigsburg research center.

Scientific work

Research and teaching focus on the structural history of the European concert of powers between 1814 and 1914, the history of the Weimar Republic and Holocaust research (closely linked to the activities of the Ludwigsburg Research Center ). In the subject area of ​​the Weimar Republic and its transition to National Socialism , the person Paul von Hindenburg is in particular focus. For his biography on Paul von Hindenburg, Pyta received the State Research Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg for basic research in 2008. The work received extraordinary praise in specialist circles such as the renowned historian Hans-Ulrich Wehler not only for its content, but also for its methodologically innovative approaches. Based on the view of Hindenburg's actions under National Socialism, which was corrected by Pyta's work, public squares and streets - for example in Münster and Kiel - were renamed.

Methodically, Pytas endeavors to combine political and cultural-historical approaches in historical studies and to decipher the forms of a transformation of “cultural-symbolic capital into political decision-making”. In addition to his work on Hindenburg, this method is also reflected in his monograph on Hitler as a general and artist, but also in his research on football and sport as a cultural phenomenon. Pyta's monographs on Hitler and Porsche were also praised in the press for the new insights and methodical creativity.

Pyta is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Weimar Republic Association for the House of the Weimar Republic .

Pyta is the director of the Ludwigsburg Research Center, which, in cooperation with the Federal Archives, Ludwigsburg branch , is supposed to keep the documents of the Central Office of the State Judicial Administrations for the investigation of National Socialist crimes available, secure them and make them accessible for historical research.

In October 2017, the Porsche company announced that it would be funding an endowed professorship for three years in the Department of Modern History at the Historical Institute of the University of Stuttgart with three million euros. This met with some criticism, as coincidences between the professorship and the more positive vote Pytas about Porsche were suspected.

In the dispute that became public in the media in 2019 about the return of property from the German state to the Hohenzollern family, demanded by the descendants of the last German emperor , Wolfram Pyta and Rainer Orth co-wrote one of four historians' reports (alongside Christopher Clark , Stephan Malinowski and Peter Brandt ) to whom the question is to be answered whether the former Crown Prince Wilhelm made a "considerable boost" to National Socialism through his actions . In his report, Pyta comes to the conclusion that Crown Prince Wilhelm did not encourage the Nazi system, but rather actively sought to prevent Hitler's chancellorship and was close to resistance networks from the start . Jan Böhmermann , who published the previously kept secret reports, which are important for the Hohenzollern's compensation claims , in November 2019 for his show Neo Magazin Royale on the Internet, accuses Pyta of contradicting his own research results from his Hindenburg, which was very favorable for the Hohenzollern -Biography. In the course of the subsequent scientific discussion of the reports, several experts expressed themselves critically in various media about Pyta's theses. According to Der Spiegel, the research controversy resulting from the different results of the reports was considered to be the most important historical-political conflict in the country today.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Against Hitler and for the Republic. The conflict between the German social democracy and the NSDAP in the Weimar Republic (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 87). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5153-X (Partly at the same time: Cologne, University, dissertation, 1987 under the title: Wolfram Pyta: The Confrontation of German Social Democrats with the National Socialist Movement in the Weimar Republic ).
  • Agricultural interest policy in the German Empire. The influence of agricultural interests on the reorganization of financial and economic policy at the end of the 1870s using the example of Rhineland and Westphalia (= quarterly journal for social and economic history. Supplement 97). Steiner, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-515-05883-4 .
  • Village community and party politics 1918–1933. The entanglement of milieu and parties in the Protestant rural areas of Germany in the Weimar Republic (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 106). Droste, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-7700-5191-2 (also: Cologne, University, habilitation paper, 1994).
  • The Weimar Republic. (= Contributions to politics and contemporary history ). Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2004, ISBN 3-8100-4173-4 .
  • Hindenburg. Rule between Hohenzollern and Hitler. Siedler, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-88680-865-6 .
  • History of football in Germany and Europe since 1954. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-17-022641-8 .
  • Hitler. The artist as politician and general. A dominance analysis. Siedler, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-8275-0058-8 .
  • with Nils Havemann and Jutta Braun: Porsche. From design office to global brand. Siedler, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-8275-0100-4 .

Editorships

  • with Ludwig Richter: creative power of the political. Festschrift for Eberhard Kolb , (= historical research ), Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-428-08761-5 .
  • The long way to the Bundesliga. To the triumph of football in Germany. LIT, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7261-0 .
  • with Larry Eugene Jones : "I am the last Prussian". The political life of the conservative politician Kuno Graf von Westarp (1864–1945) (= Stuttgart historical research. Volume 3). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2006, ISBN 3-412-26805-4 .
  • The European concert of powers. Peace and security policy from the Vienna Congress in 1815 to the Crimean War in 1853 , (= Stuttgart Historical Research ), Cologne 2009, ISBN 3-412-20225-8 .
  • Karl May. Bridge builder between cultures , (= series of publications by the International Center for Culture and Technology Research (IZKT) at the University of Stuttgart ), Berlin 2010, ISBN 3-643-10943-1 .
  • History of football in Germany and Europe since 1954 , Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 3-17-022641-X .
  • with Nils Havemann: European Football and Collective Memory. (= Series Football Research in an Enlarged Europe. ). Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2015, ISBN 978-1-137-45014-2 .
  • with Volker Depkat: Autobiography between text and sources , history and literary studies in conversation, Berlin 2017, ISBN 3-428-14225-X .
  • with Wolfgang Matthias Schwiedrzek : Felix Hartlaub : Don Juan d´Austria and the Battle of Lepanto , Edition Mnemosyne 2017, ISBN 978-3-934012-30-1 (new edition of a dissertation from 1940).
  • with Anselm Schubert: The Holy Alliance. Creation - effect - reception . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-17-035284-1 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ State research award for Wolfram Pyta - Hindenburg's role in a new light. In: Information Service Science . May 11, 2009.
  2. ↑ Between Bismarck and Hitler. In: The time . November 9, 2007.
  3. ↑ New book about Hitler: He submitted the room by means of a map. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . April 14, 2015.
  4. ↑ Insights into the early years of a global corporation. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . October 9, 2017.
  5. ^ House of the Weimar Republic • House of the Weimar Republic. (PDF) Weimarer Republik eV, accessed on July 29, 2019 .
  6. ^ Research Center Ludwigsburg: Profile .
  7. ↑ Review of the Porsche biography in: Context: weekly newspaper , February 17, 2018 , Josef-Otto Freudenreich : Die Porsche-Professur.
  8. ↑ hohenzollern.lol , accessed on the day of publication; Andreas Kilb : Everything to light. In: FAZ , November 19, 2019
  9. ↑ Interview by Eva-Maria Schnurr with Karina Urbach: "The Crown Prince went to bed with every opponent of the Weimar Republic". November 26, 2019, accessed November 30, 2019 .
  10. ^ Ulrich Herbert: Debate about Hohenzollern: Four experts, a crown prince and the national dictatorship . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed December 1, 2019]).
  11. ^ "Secret negotiations or trial. The federal government and the Hohenzollern dilemma", in: Der Spiegel from December 6, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Pyta, tungsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund