Qualification work

Overview of current theses supervised by Prof. Dr. Gisela Hürlimann:

Mattern, Anna: Between networks and capital. Technical university collections in the 19th and early 20th century.
Durand, Paul: ' Is it possible for someone to see us through the back door ?' Deviant masculinities in the face of police, judicial and medical mechanisms for controlling sexuality. A cross-history of male homosexuality between the wars in three medium-sized cities : Angers, Chemnitz and Modena (1919-1939).

Finkbeiner, Sören: How was meat perceived in Germany around 1900?
Diebold, Max: The life and survival of German-speaking minorities and their cultural interdependencies from the end of the First World War to the present day A comparison of South Tyrol and Alsace
Lenk, Ralf: The periodization of GDR consumption history taking into account the country's socio-political development matrix
Leßau, Julian: Forced labor in National Socialist Saxony under consideration of the role of Ukrainian actors (1939-1945)
Purr, Caroline: Mensa at the TH Dresden after 1945
Natschke, Laurin: Lusatia, industrialization, infrastructures, migration in the 19th century

Großkunze, Felicitas: Technology, work and gender roles in the German private household: A comparison between the FRG and the GDR between 1960 and 1990
Lippert, Maximilian: The role of disabled people in the socialist press from 1945-1994
Claus, Cassandra: "Meine Mutti ist Abteilungsleiter": Gender equality and the economic position of women in the GDR in the late 1960s to early 1980s.
Köthe, Marius: The changing significance of the railroad for politics, economy and society in the GDR between 1970 and 1990
Baumann, Sarah: 'Seizure of power', 'transfer of power', or 'assumption of power'? A conceptual history of a controversial term in the historiographical literature of the 1980s
Mehn, Gregor: The significance of Dresden's main railway station for commercial and urban development

Walter, Mathis: Psychiatric experiences in the Heidelberg University Hospital and the Wiesloch Sanatorium and Nursing Home 1905-1914. Artistic self-testimonies from the Prinzhorn Collection as sources of a history of psychiatry 'from below'
Heck, Daniela: Wilhelmine Reichard - First German balloonist - emancipation in the clouds?
Lorenz, Arnim: "The health of our beautiful city of Dresden". Municipal industrial enterprise, hygiene institute and prestige object Erlwein'scher Vieh- und Schlachthof.

Lykov, Egor: The "Isler system". Shell construction on the Swiss Plateau 1955-1985

The theses will also be presented at the colloquium of the Chair of History of Technology and Economy.

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