Dr. Helge Jonas Pösche
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- Name
- Dr. Helge Jonas Pösche
- poescheh (at) hu-berlin.de
- Institution
- Humboldt-Universität → Präsidium → Philosophische Fakultät → Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften → Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- Visiting address
- Friedrichstraße 191-193 , Room 4005
- Phone number
- (030) 2093-70530
- Mailing address
- Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
Profile
After completing his PhD project within the Berlin-based graduate school „Moral Economies of Modern Societies“, Helge is now taking part in a research project on Medical and Recreational Treatments for Children in "Kur" Facilities in the Federal Republic of Germany between 1945 and 1989. His research interests include the history of the welfare state and the interaction between individuals and the legal system in modern German history. Regarding methods and concepts, he is particularly interested in microhistory and historical praxeology as well as fruitful exchange between history and the social sciences.
Areas of Research and Teaching
Social History
Legal History
History of Welfare and Social Security
Modern German History
Microhistory
Curriculum Vitae and Publications
Research Project
Medical and Recreational Treatments for Children in "Kur" Facilities in the Federal Republic of Germany between 1945 and 1989
Education
2017–2023: PhD on the topic Claiming Social Rights. Social and Administrative Courts in the History of the Modern German Welfare State. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alexander Nützenadel. (Handed in in October 2022, thesis defense scheduled for May 2023)
2020: Guest researcher at University of California Berkeley, USA
2014–2017: Master of Arts in Modern European History, Humboldt University Berlin
2010–2014: Bachelor of Arts in History and Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin
2012/2013: Erasmus exchange at University College London, UK
Publications
Vierte stärkt dritte Gewalt. Presse und Justiz in Westdeutschland während der Nachkriegszeit, in: Beitl, Christoph/Meis, Daniel (eds.): Deutschsprachige Presseberichterstattung in der Nachkriegszeit des Zweiten Weltkriegs, Berlin 2021, 45-63.
Democratic Reform through War and Crisis? Britain 1914–1918, in: Carnival. The Journal of the International Students of History Association, 16/2015.
Die Rosenrevolution in Georgien – eine autoritäre Systemreproduktion?, in: Studentische Untersuchungen der Politikwissenschaft und Soziologie, 3/2011.
Josef Grohé – ein Gauleiter als "Held" der Familie, in: Geschichte in Köln, 58/2011.
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