Current courses

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        1. Courses of the Chair
        2. Colloquium dates

Winter semester 2025/2026

The Chair of History of Technology and Economy offers the following courses in the coming semester. Please refer to OPAL(OPAL catalog of the Institute for the current semester) for information on the modules that can be used

Unless otherwise noted in the OPAL courses, the courses will start regularly on 13.10.2025.

  

Courses of the Chair

Day Course day
Tue, 4th DS
13:00-14:30		 Advanced seminar: Companies at war
Prof. Dr. Gisela Hürlimann
Location: BZW/A 255
Wed., 3rd DS
11:10-12:40		 Seminar: Belief in progress in technocratic high modernity
Anna Mattern
Location: ABS 02-1/U (in the former Blue House)

Wednesday, 5th DS
14:50-16:20

 PS HIST-EDA: Disciplines and Working Techniques (TGWG)
Sascha Ohlenforst
Room: See OPAL
Wed, 7th DS
18:30-20:00		 Colloquium on college and university history
Research Training Group TH in NS
BZW/ A152

Thursday, 5th DS
14:50-16:20

 Lecture: War and Economy
Prof. Dr. Gisela Hürlimann
ABS/E11/H
Fri. 3rd DS
11:10-12:40		 Exercise/colloquium: Research in the history of technology and economics
Prof. Dr. Gisela Hürlimann
BZW/A153
(The dates for "History of Technology over Lunch" take place online from 12:00-13:00. More information can be found in the program!)

Colloquium dates

Date/Time

Format

Topic / Lecture

Friday

17.10.2025
3. DS

11:10 to 12:40

Presence

BZW/A153

TGWG-Workshop 01:

Part 1: Introduction to the colloquium
Prof. Dr. Gisela Hürlimann and team

Part 2: Bachelor thesis
Franz Thomas (TU Dresden): From the tobacco trade to
structure: Concentration processes in the Dresden cigarette
Dresden cigarette industry

Friday

24.10.2025
3. DS

11:10 to 12:40

Presence

BZW/A153

TGWG-Workshop 02:

Dissertation
Sophie Kühnlenz (University of Erfurt): The Marie-Curie-
phenomenon: On the musealization of gender since the
1980s

Friday

07.11.2025

12:00 to 13:00

Online (Zoom)

History of technology over lunch

Friday

21.11.2025

12:00 to 13:00

Online (Zoom)

History of technology over lunchtime

Friday

28.11.2025
3RD DS

11:10 to 12:40

Presence

BZW/A153

TGWG-Workshop 03:

Part 1: Master thesis
Nadine Reinhardt (TU Dresden): Self-realization in the
Humanization and Rationalization: Concepts and Practices in Industry and Science in the 1970s

Part 2: State examination
Constantin Gössel (TU Dresden): The use of horses
during the First World War in the Kingdom of Saxony
(1914-1918)

Friday

12.12.2025

12:00 to 13:00

Online

(Zoom)

History of technology over lunch

Friday

19.12.2025

3. DS

11:10 to 12:40

Presence

BZW/A153

TGWG-Workshop 04:

Part 1: State examination
Edwin Saul (TU Dresden): Enno Heidebroek's activities at the TH Dresden during the Nazi regime in the context of the
context of the election of the rector (1945-1947)

Part 2: State examination
Jacob Stielicke (TU Dresden): The industrialization of
Time - New Time Regimes and Proletarian
scope for action in German factories between
1834 and 1914

Friday

09.01.2026

12:00 to 13:00

Online (Zoom)

History of technology over lunch

Friday

16.01.2026
3RD DS

11:10 to 12:40

Presence

BZW/A153

 TGWG-Workshop 05:

Dissertation
Frederik Adams (TU Freiberg): Competition for
sales quotas in the German Potash Syndicate 1910-1933

Friday

23.01.2026

12:00 to 13:00

 Online (Zoom) History of technology over lunch

Friday

30.01.2026
3RD DS

11:10 to 12:40

Presence

BZW/A153

 TGWG-Workshop 06:

Habilitation
Sascha Ohlenforst (TU Dresden): Brewing beer in the
welfare dictatorship. The VEB Radeberger
Export Beer Brewery

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