Pierre Schmuck
PhD Student
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Department of History
Professur für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte Westeuropas
79085 Freiburg im Breisgau
CV
| Since 2020 | PhD Student Chair of Modern European History, Prof. Dr. Jörn Leonhard, University of Freiburg |
| 2017 - 2019 | M.A., Comparative Modern History, University of Freiburg |
| 2016 - 2017 | Student Research Assistant Martin-von-Wagner-Museum Würzburg (Antikensammlung) |
| 2014 - 2017 | Student Research Assistant Chair of Ancient History, Prof. Dr. Rene Pfeilschifter, University of Würzburg |
| 2013 - 2017 | B.A., History and Geography, University of Würzburg |
Research Project
Democracy as an educational project? The Reichszentrale für Heimatdienst and Volkshochschulen in the Weimar Republic 1918/19-1933
The research project examines ideas and practices of civic and political education in the Weimar Republic. In political education, many contemporary actors after 1918/19 saw a way to fill the new political order with democratic thinking and action and thus to consolidate it in the long term. From the evaluation of corresponding educational concepts and initiatives, the study promises insights into time-specific understandings of democracy. It also looks at contemporary negotiation processes, as democracy-oriented educational initiatives have always been controversially discussed and often suspected by critics to be political propaganda. The analysis focuses on the Reichszentrale für Heimatdienst, which was in some respects a precursor institution of today's Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, and Volkshochschulen as decisive carriers of political education initiatives in the Weimar period. The study is not only interested in stakeholders and their spheres of action, their practices and methods, but also in the resonances and effects of educational initiatives. The research project tries to highlight new contours of the Weimar Republic as a historical configuration by trying to explore the potentials and limits of political education.
Publications
- Stabilisierung der Demokratie durch politische Bildung? Die Reichszentrale für Heimatdienst und freie Volkshochschulen in der Weimarer Republik, in: Braune, Andreas / Elsbach, Sebastian / Noak, Ronny (Hg.): Bildung und Demokratie in der Weimarer Republik (= Weimarer Schriften zur Republik 19), Stuttgart 2022, S. 79–84.
- Die Reichszentrale für Heimatdienst, in: Im Blickpunkt (Archivportal-D), 5. Juli 2021
