Teaching projects

Bleeding white. The First World War and the history of technology

To mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, the Department of the History of the Impact of Technology at the University of Stuttgart initiated an international teaching and publication project on the history of technology, science, medicine and business during the First World War in the winter semester of 2014/15 with the aim of developing an internet platform for teachers in German and English.

In a first step, students worked on manageable questions in locally held seminars and prepared them for a digital presentation. The students were taught how to didactically process historical materials for use in the classroom. In a second step, the results of the local seminars were jointly presented to the public on a generally accessible Internet teaching platform. An analysis of the industrialization of killing and the associated developments in the natural sciences, medicine and technology is essential in order to grasp the multi-layered phenomenon of the First World War. With this approach, the project consciously sets itself apart from a purely encyclopaedic recapitulation of knowledge that has long since been made accessible or from the utilization of the primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century as a means of creating a national identity. The project was a cooperation between Stuttgart, Hamburg, Würzburg and Dresden.

As part of the practical seminar "World War Digital - Science and Technology in World War One" (Dr. Uwe Fraunholz and Hagen Schönrich), the Chair of History of Technology and Science of Technology participated in the development of this teaching platform together with students in the winter semester 2014/15 with the sub-project "Technology & Science in the First World War - The Soldier on the Western Front".

Bleeding white. The First World War and the history of technology
Bleed White. The First World War and the History of Technology