Prof. Dr. Gunilla Budde
Prof. Dr. Gunilla Budde
Curriculum Vitae
| 6.7.1960 | Born in Herford in Westphalia |
| 1979-1986 | Studied at the Universities of Hamburg and Bielefeld |
| June 1986 | First State Examination at the University of Bielefeld |
| 1986-1988 | Research assistant at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bielefeld, Research Group: Citizenship, Bourgeoisie and Bourgeois Society, Head: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kocka |
| 1989-1991 | Research assistant at the Bielefeld SFB "Social History of the |
| June 1989 to October 1989 | Research stay in Cambridge, Exeter, Manchester and London |
| 1992-1993 | Doctoral scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation |
| February 1993 | Doctorate at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin |
| 1993-1994 | Research assistant at the Centre for Comparative Social History at the Free University of Berlin |
| January-March 1995 | Research assistant at the University of Konstanz |
| April 1995-March 1998 | Research assistant at the Free University (Volkswagen- project: Women academics under German dictatorships) |
| 1998-1999 | Research assistant at the University of Bielefeld, chair of Prof. Dr Ute Frevert |
| 1999-2001 | Habilitation Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| 2001-2003 | Research assistant at the Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB), working group of the President on the topic "Civil Society" |
| February 2003 | Habilitation at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin |
| March 2003-August 2003 | Research assistant at the Bielefeld research group "History of Trust", headed by Prof Dr Ute Frevert |
| August 2003-March 2005 | Senior assistant at the Free University of Berlin |
| October 2003-July 2004 | Interim professorship at the University of Bielefeld, Chair of Prof. Dr Ute Frevert |
since April 2005 | Professor of German and European History of the |
| 2010-2015 | Vice President of the University of Oldenburg |
HONOURS
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Research focus
- European bourgeoisie of the 19th century
- History of interdependence BRD/DDR
- International family history
- History of education
- History of consumption
- Music and politics
- Gender History
- History of ideas (Karl and Gertrud Jaspers, Hannah Arendt)
- Jutta Limbach (biography)
- Letters from the First World War
Profile of the chair
What is the meaning and purpose of studying German and European history of the 19th and 20th centuries? What similarities and interactions linked German history with the history of other European societies and what distinguished the 200 years from previous eras?
Teaching
Lectures
Summer term 2026
Projects
1. bourgeoisie in the 20th century
(together with Prof. Dr Cornelia Rauh-Kühne, University of Hanover and Prof. Dr Eckart Conze, University of Marburg), completed, book to be published in July 2010 by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (completed=)
2nd edition project on "Family life in the Second World War. From the correspondence of a medical couple", in progress
3rd book project: Civil Society, Public Space and Gender Justice
(together with Prof. Dr Karen Hagemann and Prof. Dr Sonya Michel), completed, book published in spring 2009
4th book project: Capitalism - Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, completed, book has been published
5th book project: Music and Politics
- (together with Mareike Witkowski): Beethoven unterm Hakenkreuz. Das Oldenburgerische Staatsorchester während des Nationalsozialismus, completed, book published in autumn 2007 to mark the orchestra's 175th anniversary
6. Field post for Elsbeth. A family in the First World War, Göttingen 2019.
7 So far, so close. The German societies 1945-1989, Stuttgart 2023.
9 Jutta Limbach. A life for justice, biography, Munich (C.H. Beck) 2025.
10. childhood on the hill. The children of Bertha and Gustav Krupp, Aschendorf-Verlag 2025.
11. women's issues. Selected speeches and writings by Marianne Weber, 2025.
12th German history retold by Gunilla Budde, illustrated by Greta von Richthofen, Munich (C.H. Beck) 2026.
Third-party funding (since 2000)
- Interdisciplinary Research Training Group "Self-formations. Practices of Subjectivation (DFG), duration 4.5 years from October 2010.
- Extension of the Interdisciplinary Research Training Group "Self-Formations. Practices of Subjectivation (DFG), duration 4.5 years.
- DFG habilitation fellowship 2001-2002
- Conference funds for conference "History of Capitalism". Farewell symposium for Prof. Dr Dr h.c.mult. Jürgen Kocka, FU-Berlin (funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Marga and Kurt Möllgaard Foundation)
- Conference funding: Citizenship in the 20th century (Loccum) (funded by the ZEIT Foundation)
- Doctoral programme "Cultures of Participation" of the MWK Lower Saxony (since 2014).
Memberships, offices and dignities
- Vice President for Studies and Teaching at the University of Oldenburg (2010-2015)
- Member of the Institute council of the Institute of History
- Member of the Association of Historians in Germany
- Member of the German University Association
- Member of the Lower Saxony Contemporary History Working Group (ZAKN)
- Member of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen
- Member of the working group "Citizenship and Bourgeoisie in the 20th Century"
- Member of the working group for the history of the 19th and 20th centuries of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen
- Deputy spokesperson for the graduate programme "Practices of Subjectivation" at the University of Oldenburg
- Member of the working group on historical women's and gender studies
- Liaison lecturer at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
- Member of the historical family research working group
- Member of the advisory board of the Oldenburg State Library
- Chair of the jury of the "History Competition of the Federal President", Lower Saxony North.
- Vice President of the Oldenburg Museum Society
- Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Spiel: Historical Toys - Innovative Play Spaces(Soltau Toy Museum)
- Member of the advisory board of the Oldenburg State Theatre
- Member of the advisory board of the "Stiftung Teilhabe" foundation (Oldenburg)
- Member of the "Historical Quartet" Oldenburg
- Member of the General Assembly of the Centre for Contemporary History Research Potsdam (ZZF)