Ewald Grothe (born 23 February 1961 in
Nieheim
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Geography
Nieh ...
,
Westphalia
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The territory of the regio ...
) is a
German
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historian
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. Since 2009 he has been an extraordinary professor at the
Bergische Universität Wuppertal and since 2011 he has been head of the
Archive of Liberalism
The Archive of Liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach, North Rhine-Westphalia has been in existence since 1968 and is thus the oldest of the six archives of political foundations in Germany.
Content
The Archi ...
of the
Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
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in
Gummersbach
Gummersbach (; ksh, Jummersbach) is a town in the States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, being the district seat of the Oberbergischer Kreis. It is located east of Cologne.
History
In 1109 Gummersbach was mentioned in offic ...
.
Academic career
Ewald Grothe grew up in the small town of Bredenborn in the district of
Höxter
Höxter () is a town in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on the left bank of the river Weser, 52 km north of Kassel in the centre of the Weser Uplands. The main town's population is around 15,000, and with outlying centres, about 30,0 ...
. After graduating from the Städtisches Gymnasium in
Brakel
Brakel () is a municipality in the Belgian province of East Flanders in the Denderstreek and the Flemish Ardennes. The name is derived from a Carolingian villa ''Braglo'' first mentioned in 866 and located in the center of Opbrakel. Since 1970, t ...
, Grothe studied
history
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,
public law
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, and
history of law
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at the
Philipps-Universität Marburg
The Philipps University of Marburg (german: Philipps-Universität Marburg) was founded in 1527 by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest still operating Protestant university in the wor ...
from 1981 and graduated with a
master's degree
A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice. . He received his doctorate there in 1994 under Hellmut Seier on the constitutional history of the Electorate of Hesse. Between 1992 and 1995 he was a fellow of the graduate program "Medieval and Modern Statehood (10th-19th Century)" at the
Justus Liebig University Gießen and from 1993 to 1995 he was a research assistant at the "Research Center Georg Büchner – Literature and History of the Vormärz" at the University of Marburg. In 1995 he went to the
Bergische Universität Wuppertal as a research assistant to
Hartwig Brandt, where he
habilitated
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in 2003 on German constitutional historiography in the 20th century. In 2004 he was appointed as a Privatdozent in Wuppertal, and in 2009 he was appointed as an
extraordinary professor
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Appointment grades
* (Pay grade: ''W3'' or ''W2'')
* (''W3'')
* (''W2'')
* (''W2'', ...
. Since 2007 he has also been teaching at the
University of Cologne
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. In 2007/2008 he was an associate lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences at the
University of Kassel
The University of Kassel (german: link=no, Universität Kassel) is a university founded in 1971 located in Kassel, Hessen, in central Germany. As of February 2022 it had about 25,000 students and about 3300 staff, including more than 300 prof ...
. From 2006 to 2010 he was a supervisor in the doctoral program "Social Interests and Political Will Formation. Constitutional Cultures in Historical Contexts" at the Historical Institute of the
FernUniversität in Hagen
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.
As of April 2011, he has been appointed head of the
Archive of Liberalism
The Archive of Liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach, North Rhine-Westphalia has been in existence since 1968 and is thus the oldest of the six archives of political foundations in Germany.
Content
The Archi ...
of the
Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (german: Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit) (''FNF''), is a German foundation for liberal politics, related to the Free Democratic Party. Established in 1958 by Theodor Heuss, the first pres ...
in Gummersbach, succeeding Monika Faßbender.
Research activities
Grothe supervised publication projects for the Hessian State Parliament, the Historical Commission for Hesse, the Hessian State Centre for Political Education, the German Library Association, and the Ministry for Intergenerational Affairs, Family, Women, and Integration of the State of
North Rhine-Westphalia
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.
Grothe's research areas are the history of the
constitution
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When ...
, the history of science, the history of
liberalism
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, and the history of political ideas (
conservatism
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, liberalism).
Awards
In 1995, Grothe won the Wilhelm Liebknecht Prize of the university town of Gießen for his
dissertation. From 2000 to 2002 he received a
habilitation
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scholarship
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Scholarsh ...
from the German Research Foundation and a research grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation in 2010–11.
Scientific offices and memberships
Grothe is a member of the Association of German Historians and the Georg Büchner Society. Furthermore, he is
* since 1997 member of the Scientific Council and since 2017 chairman of the Brothers Grimm Society
Kassel
Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...
,
* since 2001 scientific member and since 2012 member of the Main Committee of the Historical Commission for Hesse in Marburg,
* since 2006 member of the Association for Constitutional History,
* since 2011 founding member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Edition and Document Science at the University of Wuppertal,
* since 2011 Lecturer of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom at the University of Wuppertal,
* since 2012 Member of the selection committee for scholarship holders of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom,
* since 2011 fiduciary and since 2020 member of the board of trustees of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Memorial Foundation for the presentation of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Prize,
* since 2013 Member of the Editions Advisory Board "Group Minutes" of the Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties,
* since 2013 member of the full board and since 2017 chairman of Division 6 (Archives of parliaments, political parties, foundations, and associations) of the Association of German Archivists,
* since 2015 Board member of the Dimitris Tsatsos Institute for European Constitutional Studies at the Distance University in Hagen,
* since 2017 member of the board of trustees of the Institute for History and Biography at the Open University of Hagen,
* since 2017 member of the Historians' Committee of the Association of German Historians,
* since 2018 Member of the Advisory Board of the Foundation of the Federal President Theodor-Heuss-Haus in Stuttgart.
Editorial activities
Grothe has been co-publisher of the Yearbook of Liberalism Research since 2012 and the Yearbook of the Brothers Grimm Society since 2000.
Grothe is co-editor of the Quellen zur Brüder Grimm-Forschung (since 2010) (together with Rotraut Fischer et al.) as well as of the publications of the Dimitris Tsatsos Institute for European Constitutional Studies (since 2015) (together with Arthur Benz et al.).
Publications
Monographs
* ''Verfassungsgebung und Verfassungskonflikt. Das Kurfürstentum Hessen in der ersten Ära Hassenpflug 1830–1837'', Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996 (= ''Schriften zur Verfassungsgeschichte,'' vol. 48), (Zugleich: Marburg, Univ., Diss., 1994).
* ''Zwischen Geschichte und Recht. Deutsche Verfassungsgeschichtsschreibung 1900–1970'', Oldenbourg, München 2005 (= ''Ordnungssysteme,'' vol. 16), (Zugleich: Wuppertal, Universität, Habilitationsschrift, 2003).
Editions (publisher, co-editor or co-worker)
* Editor together with Hellmut Seier: ''Akten und Briefe aus den Anfängen der kurhessischen Verfassungszeit 1830–1837'', hrsg. v. Hellmut Seier, Elwert, Marburg 1992 (= ''Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Hessen'', vol. 48,4; ''Vorgeschichte und Geschichte des Parlamentarismus in Hessen'', vol. 8), .
* ''
Brüder Grimm. Briefwechsel mit Ludwig Hassenpflug (einschließlich der Briefwechsel zwischen Ludwig Hassenpflug und Dorothea Grimm, geb. Wild, Charlotte Hassenpflug, geb. Grimm, ihren Kindern und Amalie Hassenpflug).'' Brüder Grimm-Gesellschaft, Kassel/Berlin 2000, (= ''Brüder Grimm. Werke und Briefwechsel. Kasseler Ausgabe. Briefe'', vol. 2).
* Editor together with Hartwig Brandt: ''Quellen zur
Alltagsgeschichte
''Alltagsgeschichte'' (German; and sometimes translated as 'history of everyday life') is a form of social history that was emerged among West German historians in the 1980s. It was founded by Alf Lüdtke (1943–2019) and Hans Medick (born 1939 ...
der Deutschen 1815–1870'',
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft
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German scientists founded the WBG in 1949 as a voluntary associati ...
, Darmstadt 2005 (= ''Ausgewählte Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte der Neuzeit. Freiherr vom Stein-Gedächtnisausgabe'', Reihe B, vol. 44), .
* Editor together with Klaus Hassenpflug: ''Amalie Hassenpflug: Souvenirs d’enfance. De Vars et Guillestre aux frères Grimm. L’Emigration du Dauphiné en Hesse'', Brüder Grimm-Gesellschaft, Guillestre/Kassel 2007 (= ''Cahiers Franco-Allemands'', Heft 1), .
* ''
Ludwig Hassenpflug
Hans Daniel Ludwig Friedrich Hassenpflug (26 February 1794 – 15 October 1862), German statesman, was born at Hanau in Hesse.
Promotions
He studied law at Göttingen, graduated in 1816, and took his seat as Assessor in the judicial chamber of t ...
: Denkwürdigkeiten aus der Zeit des zweiten Ministeriums 1850–1855,'' Historische Kommission für Hessen, Marburg 2008 (= ''Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Hessen'', vol. 48,11; ''Politische und parlamentarische Geschichte des Landes Hessen'', vol. 32), .
* Editor together with Bernhard Lauer: ''Ludwig Hassenpflug: Jugenderinnerungen (1794 bis 1821),'' hrsg. v. Klaus Hassenpflug, Brüder Grimm-Gesellschaft, Kassel 2010 (= ''Quellen zur Brüder Grimm-Forschung'', vol. 4), .
* ''
Carl Schmitt
Carl Schmitt (; 11 July 1888 – 7 April 1985) was a German jurist, political theorist, and prominent member of the Nazi Party. Schmitt wrote extensively about the effective wielding of political power. A conservative theorist, he is noted as a ...
–
Ernst Rudolf Huber
Ernst Rudolf Huber (8 June 1903 – 28 October 1990) was a German jurist, noted as a constitutional historian and for his attempts to provide a legal underpinning for the Nazi regime.
Life and work
Huber studied law in Bonn under Carl Schmitt. He ...
. Briefwechsel 1926–1981. Mit ergänzenden Materialien'', Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2014, .
* ''Die Abgeordneten der kurhessischen Ständeversammlungen 1830–1866'', Historische Kommission für Hessen, Marburg 2016 (= ''Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Hessen'', vol. 48, 13; ''Politische und parlamentarische Geschichte des Landes Hessen'', vol. 43), .
* Editor together with
Knut Bergmann
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, Gundula Heinen: ''Walter Scheel: Unerhörte Reden.'' Hrsg. von Knut Bergmann, be.bra Verlag, Berlin 2021, ISBN 978-3-89809-188-6.
* Editor: ''Wandel beginnt im Kopf. 50 Jahre Freiburger Thesen.'' Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit, Potsdam 2021, ISBN 978-3-948950-18-7.
anthologies (editor or co-editor)
* Editor together with Bernd Heidenreich: ''Kultur und Politik – Die Grimms,'' Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2003, , 2. Aufl. unter dem Titel: ''Die Grimms – Kultur und Politik,'' Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2008, .
* Editor together with Hartwig Brandt: ''Rheinbündischer Konstitutionalismus,''
Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. usw. 2007 (= ''Rechtshistorische Reihe'', vol. 350), .
* ''Konservative deutsche Politiker im 19. Jahrhundert. Wirken – Wirkung – Wahrnehmung,'' Historische Kommission für Hessen, Marburg 2010 (= ''Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Hessen'', vol. 75), .
* Editor together with Ulrich Sieg: ''Liberalismus als Feindbild,'' Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2014, .
* ''Ernst Rudolf Huber. Staat – Verfassung – Geschichte'', Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2015 (= ''Staatsverständnisse'', vol. 80), .
* Editor together with Jürgen Frölich und Wolther von Kieseritzky: ''Liberalismus-Forschung nach 25 Jahren. Bilanz und Perspektiven,'' Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2016, .
* Editor together with Aubrey Pomerance und Andreas Schulz: ''Ludwig Haas. Ein deutscher Jude und Kämpfer für die Demokratie,'' Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2017 (= ''Beiträge zur Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien'', vol. 174), .
* Editor together with Hans-Peter Becht: ''Karl von Rotteck und Karl Theodor Welcker. Liberale Professoren, Politiker und Publizisten.'' Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2018 (= ''Staatsverständnisse'', vol. 108), .
* Editor together with
Jens Hacke
Jens Hacke (born 6 December 1973) is a German political scientist and author.
Life
Born in Bonn, Hacke was born in 1973 as the son of the political scientist in Bonn. He studied ancient, modern and contemporary history as well as political sci ...
: ''Liberales Denken in der Krise der Weltkriegsepoche. Moritz Julius Bonn.'' Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2018 (= ''Staatsdiskurse'', vol. 36), .
* Editor together with Susanne Ackermann und Jürgen Frölich: ''50 Jahre Archiv des Liberalismus.'' Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit, Gummersbach 2018,
PDF; 8,8 MB.
* Editor together with Arthur Schlegelmilch: ''Constitutional Moments. Erträge des Symposions des Dimitris-Tsatsos-Instituts für Europäische Verfassungswissenschaften, des Instituts für Geschichte und Biographie und des Archivs des Liberalismus der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit am 13. und 14. April 2018 an der FernUniversität in Hagen.'' Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2020 (= ''Veröffentlichungen des Dimitris-Tsatsos-Instituts für Europäische Verfassungswissenschaften'', vol. 20), .
* Editor together with Jürgen Frölich und Wolther von Kieseritzky: ''Fortschritt durch sozialen Liberalismus. Politik und Gesellschaft bei Friedrich Naumann.'' Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2021 (= ''Staatsverständnisse.'' Bd. 151), ISBN 978-3-8487-6696-3.
[Jürgen Frölich: ]
Der liberale Fortschrittsgedanke in den Umbrüchen der Moderne
', 28. Juni 2021. Retrieved on July 1 2021.
Notes and references
External links
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1961 births
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Wuppertal
Historians of the early modern period
20th-century German historians
Academic staff of the University of Cologne
21st-century German historians