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 species; as well as the ...

, who worked as a professor of social and economic history at the

University of Münster The University of Münster (, until 2023 , WWU) is a public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With more than 43,000 students and over 120 fields of study in 15 departments, it is Germany's ...

from 1974 to 1995. Teuteberg's ''

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'' was his ''History of Industrial Codetermination in Germany'' (1961) or ''Geschichte der Industriellen Mitbestimmung in Deutschland''. This exhaustively examined the legal origins of

codetermination Worker representation on corporate boards of directors, also known as board-level employee representation (BLER), refers to the right of workers to vote for representatives on a board of directors in corporate law. In 2018, a majority of Organisatio ...

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 The Frankfurt National Assembly () was the first freely elected parliament for all German Confederation, German states, including the German-populated areas of the Austrian Empire, elected on 1 May 1848 (see German federal election, 1848). The ...

during the

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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)

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Lehreinheit Geschichte von Prof Teuteberg
{{DEFAULTSORT:Teuteberg, Hans Jurgen 1929 births 2015 deaths Labour law scholars Academic staff of the University of Münster Place of birth missing