Wolfram Siemann

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Wolfram Siemann (born June 22, 1946 in Witten ad Ruhr ) is a German historian .

Life

From 1965, Siemann studied history , German , philosophy and political science at the universities of Münster , Vienna and Tübingen . In 1971 he graduated with the state exam , and three years later with a thesis on the Frankfurt Parliament of 1848-49 at Ernst Walter Zeeden doctorate . From 1975 he worked as a research assistant working at the University of Tübingen, where he finally in 1983 also be habilitated .

From 1985 to 1987, Siemann was the holder of a Heisenberg grant ; a year later he was appointed adjunct professor in Tübingen. From 1989 to 1993 he held a Fiebiger professorship at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU) and then accepted a chair for modern history at the University of Trier . In 1996, Siemann moved to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München as the successor to Gerhard A. Ritter , where he remained until his retirement in 2011. In 1997 and 1998, Siemann was Vice Dean , and in 1999 and 2000 Dean of the Munich Faculty of History and Art. In 2002 and 2004 he was in the Senate voted LMU. In 2008/09 he received a research-free year as part of the Opera Magna program of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation to work on his Metternich biography. Siemann is co-editor of the series “Historical Studies” (since 1999) and “Munich Studies on Modern and Recent History” (since 2004).

Siemann's main research interests include the revolutionary, constitutional and media history of the “long” 19th century . His studies on the history of the European revolutions of 1848/49 are particularly well regarded . Furthermore, with Rolf Peter Sieferle and Joachim Radkau, he is also one of the pioneers of environmental history in German historical studies.

Fonts

Monographs

  • The Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49 between democratic liberalism and conservative reform . Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt / M. u. Bern 1976 (= European University Writings , Series 3: History and its auxiliary sciences , Vol. 56), ISBN 3-261-01633-7 .
  • "Germany's peace, security and order". The beginnings of the political police 1806–1866 . Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1985 (= studies and texts on the social history of literature , vol. 14). Reprint 2011, ISBN 978-3-484-35014-4 .
  • The German Revolution of 1848/49 . Suhrkamp Verlag , Frankfurt / M. 1985, ISBN 3-518-11266-X , 7th edition 1997.
  • Society on the move. Germany 1849–1871 . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1990, ISBN 978-351811537-4 , 5th edition 2001.
  • From confederation to nation state. Germany 1806–1871 . Verlag CH Beck , Munich 1995 (= New German History , Vol. 7), ISBN 3-406-30819-8 .
  • The German Revolution of 1848/49 . Translated by Christiane Banjeri. Macmillan Press, London 1998, ISBN 978-0312-21694-8 .
  • 1848/49 in Germany and Europe. Event - Coping - Memory . Schöningh Verlag , Paderborn et al. 2006, ISBN 978-3-506-75673-2 .
  • Metternich. Statesman between restoration and modernity . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2010, 2nd edition 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-58784-9 (paperback).
  • Metternich. Strategist and visionary. A biography . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-68386-2 .; 2nd reviewed edition 2017.

Source editions

  • Restoration, Liberalism and National Movement 1815–1870. Files, documents and personal sources . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1982 (= source studies on German history from modern times to the present , vol. 4), ISBN 3-534-07247-2 .
  • The "police association" of German states. Documentation for the surveillance of the public after the revolution of 1848/49 . Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1983 (= studies and texts on the social history of literature , vol. 9), ISBN 3-484-35009-1 .
  • (with Christof Müller-Wirth): JGA Wirth: Deutsche Tribüne (1831–1832) . KG Saur, Munich 2004–2007.

Editorships

  • (with Ute Daniel ): Propaganda. Opinion conflict, seduction and political creation of meaning 1789–1989 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1994, ISBN 3-596-11854-9 .
  • (with Georg Jäger and Dieter Langewiesche ): History of the German book trade in the 19th and 20th centuries. Vol. 1: The Empire 1870–1918 . Booksellers Association, Frankfurt / M. 2001.
  • with Nils Freytag, Wolfgang Piereth (ed.): Urban wood supply. Power politics, poor welfare and environmental conflicts in Bavaria and Austria (1750-1850) , CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-10663-3 (= magazine for Bavarian national history , supplement 22).
  • Environmental history. Topics and perspectives . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-49438-2 .

literature

  • Siemann, Wolfram . In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2009 . Vol. IV: Se-Z . 22nd edition KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual report of the Historical College (PDF file; 98 kB), p. 1.

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personal data
SURNAME Siemann, Wolfram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten