Prof. Dr. Jan-Otmar Hesse

Chair Holder

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E-mail: joh@uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4189
Fax: +49 (0)921 / 55-4222
ZAPF-Building, House 4 (Office 4.4.15)                                                                                           

• Curriculum vitae - PDF
• Publications
• Publication List - PDF
• Research

Curriculum vitae

• Since April 2015, Professor of Economic and Social History at Bayreuth University
• 2014 Alfred D. Chandler Visiting Fellow in International Business History, Harvard Business School, Cambridge/MA
• Before: 2010-2015, Professor of History, particularly with regard to Economic History at Bielefeld University
• 2008-2010, Deputy Professorship of Economic and Social History at Georg-August University Goettingen
• 2000-2008, Research Assistant at the Historical Seminar of Goethe-University Frankfurt
• 1997-2000, Scholarship Grant of Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
• 1989-1995, Studied History, Economics, Political Science and Film and Television at Ruhr-University Bochum
• Opus-Magnum-Funding from the Volkswagen Foundation 2020, Stipend at Historisches Kolleg Munich 2006/07, Research Fellow at German Historical Institute, Washington D.C. 2005 and 2006, Research Assistant at Institute of Communication and Media Studies, Bern University 2002-2005

Affiliations

• Member and Elected Council Member of the European Business History Association
  
• Member of the historical commission at the "Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften", Munich, and head of the division "Deutschland weltwirtschaftliche Verflechtungen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert"
• Member of the Working Group on Legal History and Contemporary History at the Mainz Academy of Sciences
  
• Member of the DFG-Fachkollegiums 112, Economics (2016-2024)
• Member of the Committee in Economic History of the "Verein für Socialpolitik" (President 2016-2020)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of "Die Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte" (Frankfurt)
• Board Member at the "Schmölders-Stiftung für Verhaltensforschung im Wirtschaftsleben"
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the "Bayerisches Wirtschaftsarchiv"
• Member of the Advisory Board of the "Aktionsgemeinschaft Soziale Marktwirtschaft"
• Editor of the publication series „Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte des modernen Europa“ (Nomos-Verlag Baden-Baden, together with Christian Kleinschmidt, Alfred Reckendrees and Ray Stokes)
• Editor of the publication series „Einheit der Sozialwissenschaften im 21. Jahrhundert“ (EdG21) at Mohr-Siebeck-Verlag together with Nils Goldschmidt and Boris Holzer