Horst Lademacher (born 13 July 1931) is a German historian specializing in the

history of the Netherlands The history of the Netherlands is a history of seafaring people thriving in the lowland river delta on the North Sea in northwestern Europe. Records begin with the four centuries during which the region formed a militarized border zone of the Ro ...

. He was a professor of modern history at the

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (abbreviated as ''VU Amsterdam'' or simply ''VU'' when in context) is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, being founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research ...

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 ...

and the

University of Münster The University of Münster (german: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public university, public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With more than 43,000 students and over ...

. At the latter institute he was also director of the Zentrum für Niederlande-Studien from 1990 to 2000.

Career

Lademacher was born on 13 July 1931 in

Ründeroth Engelskirchen (literally "angel’s churches") is a municipality in Oberbergischer Kreis, Germany in North Rhine-Westphalia, about east of Cologne. The neighbouring municipalities are (clockwise from the west) Overath, Lindlar, Gummersbach, Wiehl ...

. In 1957 he obtained his doctorate at the

with a dissertation titled: "Die Stellung des Prinzen von Oranien als Statthalter in den Niederlanden von 1572-1584", about the position of William of Orange as ''

stadtholder In the Low Countries, ''stadtholder'' ( nl, stadhouder ) was an office of steward, designated a medieval official and then a national leader. The ''stadtholder'' was the replacement of the duke or count of a province during the Burgundian and H ...

'' in the Netherlands from 1572 to 1584. From 1958 to 1962 he worked as a scientific employee at the

International Institute of Social History The International Institute of Social History (IISH/IISG) is one of the largest archives of labor and social history in the world. Located in Amsterdam, its one million volumes and 2,300 archival collections include the papers of major figur ...

. He subsequently worked two years for the

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in Brussels. In 1969 Lademacher obtained his

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at the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...

under with a dissertation titled: "Die belgische Neutralität als Problem der europäischen Politik 1830-1914" on the Belgian neutrality as a problem of the European politics from 1830 to 1914. In 1971 Lademacher became university lecturer at the University of Bonn. He was a professor of modern history at the

between 1972 and 1979. In the latter year he became professor at the

. In 1990 he became professor of modern history at the

and director of its then newly-founded Zentrum für Niederlande-Studien. Lademacher retired in 2000 and was succeeded as director by Friso Wielenga. In 2001 a ''

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'' was released in his honour. Since the 1950s Lademacher studied the

. He speaks Dutch. Apart from his work regarding the Netherlands he has also published on the

labour movement The labour movement or labor movement consists of two main wings: the trade union movement (British English) or labor union movement (American English) on the one hand, and the political labour movement on the other. * The trade union movement ...

, German history of the 19th and 20th century and the history of countries on the

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river. Lademacher was elected a foreign member of the

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences ( nl, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, abbreviated: KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed ...

in 1992. In 1996 he was named Officer in the

Order of Orange-Nassau The Order of Orange-Nassau ( nl, Orde van Oranje-Nassau, links=no) is a civil and military Dutch order of chivalry founded on 4 April 1892 by the queen regent, Emma of the Netherlands. The order is a chivalric order open to "everyone who has ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lademacher, Horst 1931 births Living people 20th-century German historians Historians of the Netherlands Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Officers of the Order of Orange-Nassau People from Oberbergischer Kreis University of Bonn alumni Academic staff of the University of Kassel University of Münster alumni Academic staff of the University of Münster Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam