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Professor Dr. Ralph Jessen

Modern History

Contact

Department of History
Modern History
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Köln

Philosophikum, room 3.129


e-mail: r.jessen(at)uni-koeln(dot)de

Office hours

summer term 2019 (during summer break)

Wed, July 24th, 9-11

Wed, August 7th, 9-11

Wed, August 21st, 9-11

Thu, September 5th, 9-11

Thu, September 26th, 9-11

Please register for the office hours by signing in the lists hanging out on my notice board. If you have urgent matters to discuss, please contact me via e-mail for an alternative appointment.

Fields of Research

  • Modern German history
  • 19th and 20th century
  • History of police, policing and crime in 19th century
  • History of the modern welfare state
  • History of the GDR, especially social history and history of the intellectual elites
  • History of West Germany since 1945
  • History of historiography
  • Social and cultural history of competition in modern societies

Publications

Konkurrenz in der Geschichte. Praktiken – Werte – Institutionalisierungen, Frankfurt: Campus 2014.

Ralph Jessen/Lydia Langer (Hg.),Transformations of Retailing in Europe after 1945, Farnham: Ashgate 2012.

Ralph Jessen/Hedwig Richter (Hg.), Voting for Hitler and Stalin. Elections Under 20th Century Dictatorships. Frankfurt/M.: Campus 2011.