Hasso Spode (born 1951 in Friedrichshagen) 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 st ...

and sociologist. After his childhood in

East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

, Spode fled to

West Berlin West Berlin (german: Berlin (West) or , ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin during the years of the Cold War. Although West Berlin was de jure not part of West Germany, lacked any sovereignty, and was under mi ...

where he studied philosophy,

history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ...

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

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation an ...

. He is

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors ...

in Hanover and director of the Historical Archive on Tourism at the Technical University in Berlin. The main focus of his research is on

historical anthropology Historical anthropology is a historiographical movement which applies methodologies and objectives from social and cultural anthropology to the study of historical societies. Like most such movements, it is understood in different ways by differe ...

and

cultural history Cultural history combines the approaches of anthropology and history to examine popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience. It examines the records and narrative descriptions of past matter, encompassing the ...

, but he also works in the field of

social Social organisms, including human(s), live collectively in interacting populations. This interaction is considered social whether they are aware of it or not, and whether the exchange is voluntary or not. Etymology The word "social" derives from ...

and

political history Political history is the narrative and survey of political events, ideas, movements, organs of government, voters, parties and leaders. It is closely related to other fields of history, including diplomatic history, constitutional history, socia ...

. He wrote over 200 articles, mostly in German, sometimes in English (translations in Czech, Greek, Romanian, Spanish, French, Danish, Italian, Japanese, Estonian, Russian), and wrote or edited more than a dozen books. He is co-editor of '' Annals of Tourism Research'', '' Voyage. Studies on Travel & Tourism'', and other journals. He is a member of the executive council of the Chinese Center of Drug Policy Studies and the

Alcohol and Drugs History Society The Alcohol and Drugs History Society (ADHS) is a scholarly organization whose members study the history of a variety of illegal, regulated, and unregulated drugs such as opium, alcohol, and coffee. Organized in 2004, the ADHS is the successor ...

; until 2015 he was vice-president of the Tourism Committee of the

International Sociological Association The International Sociological Association (ISA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to scientific purposes in the field of sociology and social sciences. It is an international sociological body, gathering both individuals and national sociolo ...

. In the 1980s Spode analysed the

Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...

leisure time Leisure has often been defined as a quality of experience or as free time. Free time is time spent away from business, work, job hunting, domestic chores, and education, as well as necessary activities such as eating and sleeping. Leisure ...

organization

Strength Through Joy NC Gemeinschaft (KdF; ) was a German state-operated leisure organization in Nazi Germany. Richard Grunberger, ''The 12-Year Reich'', p. 197, It was part of the German Labour Front (german: link=no, Deutsche Arbeitsfront), the national labour or ...

as an important means of social politics in the

Third Reich Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

. In 1989 he launched the "study-group for tourism history", the first institution of this kind; in 1991 he published the worldwide first omnibus book in this field of research. Meanwhile, he is a noted expert in the history and theory of

tourism Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism mor ...

. In this connection, he stresses the romantic character of the tourist consumption and classifies tourist travel as "time travel aback" and, drawing on

Reinhart Koselleck Reinhart Koselleck (23 April 1923 – 3 February 2006) was a German historian. He is widely considered to be one of the most important historians of the twentieth century. He occupied a distinctive position within history, working outside of any p ...

and Michel Foucault, the touristic space as "chronotopia". Further well-known works are on the history and structures of alcohol use and misuse, including the phenomenon of

addiction Addiction is a neuropsychological disorder characterized by a persistent and intense urge to engage in certain behaviors, one of which is the usage of a drug, despite substantial harm and other negative consequences. Repetitive drug use o ...

which he regards as a

social construction Social constructionism is a theory in sociology, social ontology, and communication theory which proposes that certain ideas about physical reality arise from collaborative consensus, instead of pure observation of said reality. The theory ...

reflecting the need for

self control Self-control, an aspect of inhibitory control, is the ability to regulate one's emotions, thoughts, and behavior in the face of temptations and impulses. As an executive function, it is a cognitive process that is necessary for regulating one' ...

in modern societies. His book on the ''Power of Drunkenness'' is held at least in 189 libraries.''Entry in WorldCat ''
/ref> Spode also worked on labour disputes, tobacco consumption and other historical and political topics.

Bibliography a) selected books

*''Alkohol und Zivilisation'' (Alcohol and Civilisation), Berlin: Tara 1991. *''Zur Sonne, zur Freiheit! Beiträge zur Tourismusgeschichte'' (Contributions to Tourism History), Berlin: Unikom 1991 (editor). *''Statistik der Arbeitskämpfe in Deutschland'' (Statistics of Labour Disputes in Germany), St. Katharinen: Scripta Mercaturae 1992 (together with H. Volkmann et al.). *''Die Macht der Trunkenheit'' (The Power of Drunkenness), Opladen: Leske & Budrich (Springer) 1993. *''

Kreuzberg Kreuzberg () is a district of Berlin, Germany. It is part of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough located south of Mitte. During the Cold War era, it was one of the poorest areas of West Berlin, but since German reunification in 1990 it ha ...

'', Berlin: Nocolai 1994 (co-author). *''Goldstrand und Teutonengrill. Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte des Tourismus in Deutschland. 1945 bis 1989'' (Social and Cultural History of Tourism in Germany), Berlin: Unikom 1996 (editor). *''Voyage. Studies on Travel and Tourism'', Köln/Berlin: DuMont/Metropol 1997-2014 (yearbook editor) *''Wie die Deutschen Reiseweltmeister wurden'' (How the Germans bcame Travel World Champions), Erfurt: Landeszentrale für politische Bildung 2003. *''Die Zukunftsfähigkeit Deutschlands'' (Germany's Sustainability), Berlin: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin 2006. *''Ressource Zukunft. Die sieben Entscheidungsfelder der deutschen Reform'' (Future as a Resource), Farmington Hills: Budrich 2008. *''Urlaub - Macht - Geschichte. Reisen und Tourismus in der DDR'' (Travel and Tourism in the GDR), Berlin: BeBra 2022.

Bibliography b) selected English articles

*The First Step toward Sobriety: the „Boozing Devil“ in Sixteenth-Century Germany. In: ''Contemporary Drug Problems'' 21/1994. *World Health Organization (WHO). In: Jack S. Blocker et al. (eds.): ''Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History. An International Encyclopedia'', Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio 2003. *Fordism, Mass Tourism and the Third Reich: the "Strength through Joy" Seaside Resort as an Index Fossil. In: ''Journal of Social History'' 38/2004. *"Let Us Fly Where the Sun is": Air Travel and Tourism in Historical Perspective. In: Jochen Eisenbrand (ed.): ''Airworld'', Weil: Vitra Design Museum 2004 *Quantitative Aspects of "Kraft durch Freude" Tourism, 1934-1939. In: Margarita Ditsas (ed.): ''European Tourism and Culture'', Athens: Livanis 2007. *Tourism Research and Theory in German-Speaking Countries. In: Graham M.S. Dann/Giuli Liebman-Parrinello (eds.): ''The Sociology of Tourism'', Bingeley: Emarald 2009. *Alcohol consumption. In: ''Encyclopaedia of Early Modern History'', vol. 1, Leiden/Boston: Brill 2016. *Mapping Leisure and Tourism through the Ages. In: Ishwar Modi/Teus Kamphorst (eds.): ''Leisure and Life through the Ages'', Jaipur: Rawat 2017. *Luxury in a Changing Sociocultural Environment. In: Roland Conrady et al. (eds.): ''Luxury Tourism'', Cham: Springer 2020. *Traveling into the Abyss: Kraft durch Freude in the Third Reich. In: Ekatarina Degot/David Riff (eds.): ''A Pleaseant Apocalypse'', Berlin: Hatje-Cantz 2020 *Semiotics and Tourism. In: Jafar Jafari/Xiao Hongen (eds.): ''Encyclopedia of Tourism'', new ed., Cham: Springer 2022.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Spode, Hasso 1951 births Living people 20th-century German historians German sociologists German male non-fiction writers 21st-century German historians Academic staff of the University of Hanover