Josef Foschepoth (born 19 November 1947) is 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 ...

and a professor at the

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisg ...

. His research interest is the surveillance in post-WWII Germany.

Bio

Foschepoth studied history,

theology Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

and social sciences and received his doctorate in 1975 from the Westphalian Wilhelms University in

Münster Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state distr ...

with a thesis on the ''Reformation and the Peasants' War in the history of the GDR'' . After five years as a high school teacher at the Evangelisch Stiftisches Gymnasium Gütersloh , he became a research assistant and head of the new research area "Post-War History" at the

German Historical Institute The German Historical Institutes (GHI), german: Deutsche Historische Institute, (''DHI'') are six independent academic research institutes of the Max Weber Foundation dedicated to the study of historical relations between Germany Germany, ...

in London. After his time in London, Foschepoth returned to Germany and held leading positions as director of the Ostakademie Königstein, was Secretary General of the German Coordination Council of the Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation (DKR) in

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

and Chief Urban Director in the cultural department of the city of Münster. From his work at the DKR, the book ''In the Shadow of the Past'' emerged, which dealt critically with the history of the DKR. From 1997 to 2005 Foschepoth worked for the private AKAD Private Universities GmbH, first as managing director, then later as professor and rector of the AKAD University of Economics and Social Sciences in Lahr. He was also the founding board member of the Association of Private Universities in Germany.

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Website at University of Freiburg
1947 births Living people 20th-century German historians Academic staff of the University of Freiburg 20th-century German male writers 21st-century German historians 21st-century German male writers German male non-fiction writers University of Münster alumni People from Werl Historians of Germany {{Germany-historian-stub