Gerd Steinwascher
Gerd Steinwascher
About the person
Hon Prof Dr Gerd Steinwascher
Historian, retired Director of the Lower Saxony State Archives - State Archives Oldenburg
Specialism: History of the Middle Ages and the Modern Era
Ongoing projects:
- Politics and Society in the Weimar Republic, in: History of Lower Saxony Vol. 5 (in preparation)
- School and education in the Hochstift Osnabrück and the Niederstift Münster in the age of confessionalisation (essay)
Proposed and planned projects:
- Overview of the holdings of the Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv - Staatsarchiv Oldenburg
Memberships:
- Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen
- Historical Commission for Westphalia
- Historical Working Group for Schaumburg
- Association of German Archivists
- Oldenburg Landscape
- Historical Association for Lower Saxony
- Oldenburg State Association for History, Natural History and Local History
- Association for the history and regional studies of Osnabrück
- Association for the History and Archaeology of Westphalia
Publications
Selected publications:
- Von der Reformation zum Westfälischen Frieden, in: Gerd Steinwascher (ed.), Geschichte der Stadt Osnabrück, Osnabrück 2006 (in print).
- Der Elsflether Weserzoll und seine Bedeutung für die oldenburgische Geschichte (Vorträge der Oldenburgischen Landschaft Heft 33), Oldenburg 2005.
- Investment or innovation? The Early Property Policy of the Princely House of Schaumburg-Lippe in Mecklenburg, in: Hubert Höing (ed.), Schaumburg and the World (Schaumburger Studien 61), Bielefeld 2002, pp. 275-291.
- The Emsland up to the beginning of the 19th century. Political history, in: Werner Franke/Josef Grave/Heiner Schüpp/Gerd Steinwascher, Der Landkreis Emsland. Geography, history, present. Eine Kreisbeschreibung (Meppen 2002), pp. 236-264.
- (with Wolfgang Seegrün) 350 years of Capitulatio perpetua Osnabrugensis (1650 - 2000). Origin - Consequences - Text (Osnabrücker Geschichtsquellen und Forschungen 41), Osnabrück 2000.
- Osnabrück and the Peace of Westphalia. The history of the negotiating city (1641 - 1650) (Osnabrücker Geschichtsquellen und Forschungen 42), Osnabrück 2000.