Hans Jürgen Teuteberg (18 December 1929–14 February 2015) was a German
historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...
, who worked as a professor of social and economic history at the
University of Münster from 1974 to 1995.
Teuteberg's ''
magnum opus'' was his ''History of Industrial Codetermination in Germany'' (1961) or ''Geschichte der Industriellen Mitbestimmung in Deutschland''. This exhaustively examined the legal origins of
codetermination laws, which are found in a majority of EU countries today, that give workers a right to participate in the management of their companies or organisations. Teuteberg traces the roots of codetermination back to
Carl Degenkolb's proposals at the
Frankfurt Parliament during the
1848 Revolutions
The Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Springtime of the Peoples or the Springtime of Nations, were a series of political upheavals throughout Europe starting in 1848. It remains the most widespread revolutionary wave in Europe ...
.
Publications
;Articles
Zur Entstehungsgeschichte der ersten betrieblichen Arbeitervertretungen in Deutschland' (1960) 11(1-2) Soziale Welt 69-82
;Books
*''Geschichte der Industriellen Mitbestimmung in Deutschland'' (1961)
References
External links
Lehreinheit Geschichte von Prof Teuteberg
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1929 births
2015 deaths
Labour law scholars
Academic staff of the University of Münster
Place of birth missing