In my academic career to date, I have dealt with both specialised and didactic issues (see my list of publications). However, my professorship here in Oldenburg specialises exclusively in didactics (although there are numerous overlaps in the field of historical culture). There are four reasons why I continue to be involved in historical research, albeit to a limited extent:

1. A prerequisite for researching regional remembrance culture is an in-depth study of the history of the region itself, informed by my own research.
2. As a didactic historian, I also see one of my tasks in communicating historical knowledge to a local and regional public interested in history in the north-west, both verbally (see Lectures) and in writing, and in co-operation with historical-cultural institutions (see Co-operation). This not only corresponds to my self-image as a didactic historian, but also has something to do with the strong regional roots of the University of Oldenburg.
3. The integration of local, regional and regional history topics into the classroom, which I believe makes sense - within limits - also requires a specialised approach.
4. And finally: subject-specific didactic reflection without subject-specific expertise seems highly problematic to me - however, subject-specific expertise is best maintained if you are engaged in specialised research yourself.

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Many publications can also be found under:"Heimat und Erinnerung in der Region" and have not been included here again.

• Dietmar von Reeken: The end of the war and a new beginning. On the road to democracy, in: Lower Saxony 2/2015, p. 9-19
• Dietmar von Reeken: From the times of Tacitus to the present day. Interpretations of the past, diagnoses of the present and expectations of the future in the discourses on Oldenburg's independence after 1945, in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 86, 2014, pp. 161-183
• Dietmar von Reeken: The foundation of the state of Lower Saxony and the Kopf government (1945-1955), in: Geschichte Niedersachsens. Vol. 5: From the Weimar Republic to Reunification, edited by Gerd Steinwascher in collaboration with Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann and Karl-Heinz Schneider, Hanover 2010, pp. 625-681
• Dietmar von Reeken: An "inexhaustible source of our national strength"? Dorf, ländlicher Raum und Heimat im 20. Jahrhundert, in: Christine van den Heuvel, Bernd Kappelhoff, Thomas Vogtherr (eds.): Land, Dorf und Kirche. Gemeindebildung vom Mittelalter bis zur Neuzeit in Nordwestdeutschland, Hanover 2009, pp. 169-180
• Dietmar von Reeken: Art. Lübbert Eiken Lübbers, in: Martin Tielke (ed.): Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland. Vol. 4, Aurich 2007, pp. 283-285
• Dietmar von Reeken: Art. Dirk Meints Agena, in: Martin Tielke (ed.): Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland. Vol. 4, Aurich 2007, p. 15f.
• Dietmar von Reeken: Kultur und Kulturpolitik in Oldenburg von der Jahrhundertwende bis 1918, in: Uwe Meiners (ed.), Suche nach Geborgenheit. Heimatbewegung in Stadt und Land Oldenburg, Oldenburg 2002, pp. 8-33
• Dietmar von Reeken: Lower Saxony - a historical invention. Arguments, supporters and opponents of the plans to create a state of "Lower Saxony", in: Jürgen John (ed.), Mitteldeutschland. Concept - Construct - Historical Reality, Leipzig 2001
• Dietmar von Reeken: "The country as a whole!" Integration through homeland policy and regional history in Lower Saxony after 1945, in: Habbo Knoch (ed.), Das Erbe der Provinz. Heimatkultur und Geschichtspolitik nach 1945, Göttingen 2001, pp. 99-116
• Dietmar von Reeken: From the shortage economy to the labour society: Oldenburg's difficult path to the "economic miracle", in: Albrecht Eckhardt (ed.), Oldenburg um 1950. Eine nordwestdeutsche Region im ersten Nachkriegsjahrzehnt, Oldenburg 2000, pp. 81-104
• Dietmar von Reeken: Churches in the transition to modernity. Milieubildungsprozesse im nordwestdeutschen Protestantismus 1849 - 1914, Gütersloh: Kaiser, Gütersloher Verl.-Haus 1999 (= Religiöse Kulturen der Moderne, vol. 9)
• Dietmar von Reeken: Ideologie und Pragmatik der ländlichen Heimatbewegung, in: Regionaler Fundamentalismus? History of the Heimat Movement in the Town and Country of Oldenburg, Oldenburg 1999, pp. 72-81
• Dietmar von Reeken: Conservative continuity and incipient modernisation: The homeland movement in Lower Saxony 1945 - 1960, in: Bernd Weisbrod (ed.), Von der Währungsreform zum Wirtschaftswunder. Reconstruction in Lower Saxony, Hanover 1998, pp. 57-74
• Dietmar von Reeken: State history and regional identity. Reflections of a historian on the state anniversary of Lower Saxony, in: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen 102 (1997), pp. 13-34
• Dietmar von Reeken: "Where I walked through quiet village streets as a child ... the machine is now roaring". Industrialisation in Lower Saxony, in: Horst Kuss, Bernd Mütter (eds.), Geschichte Niedersachsens - neu entdeckt, Braunschweig: Westermann 1996 (Praxis Pädagogik), pp. 48-59
• Dietmar von Reeken: Lahusen - Eine Bremer Unternehmerdynastie 1816-1933, Bremen: Edition Temmen 1996
• Dietmar von Reeken: Breakthrough of modernity? Oldenburg 1880 - 1918, in: History of the City of Oldenburg. Vol. 2: 1830-1995, Oldenburg 1996, pp. 173-286
• Dietmar von Reeken: Wissenschaft, Raum und Volkstum: Historische und gegenwartsbezogene Forschung in und über "Niedersachsen" 1910 - 1945 - Ein Beitrag zur regionalen Wissenschaftsgeschichte, in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 68 (1996), pp. 43-90
• Dietmar von Reeken: Heimatbewegung, Kulturpolitik und Nationalsozialismus. The history of the "Ostfriesische Landschaft" 1918 - 1949, Aurich: Verlag der Ostfriesischen Landschaft 1995
• Dietmar von Reeken: East Frisia between Weimar and Bonn. A case study on the problem of historical continuity using the example of the towns of Aurich and Emden, Hildesheim: Lax 1991
• See also my publications on Bremen's (church) history.