Barbara Vogel


Barbara Vogel is a German historian.

Life

Born in Hamburg, Vogel studied history, German language and literature, philosophy and education. She received her doctorate in 1971 from the Historisches Seminar in Hamburg with a thesis on German policy towards Russia from 1900 to 1906, and her habilitation in 1981 in Hamburg with a thesis on the reform policies of the Prussian State Chancellor Karl August von Hardenberg. From 1984 until her retirement in 2006, Vogel taught as Professor of Modern History at the University of Hamburg.
Since the 1980s, the advancement of women at the university has been a central concern of Vogel. From 1985 to 1989, she worked in the Academic Senate and was also elected a member of the during the same period. From 1990 to 1994, she was Vice-President of the University of Hamburg. From 2000 to 2002, she was dean of the Department of History. In 2002, she received the Women's Promotion Prize of the University of Hamburg. Her research focuses on modern history with a focus on German social history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Vogel has researched and written articles on the foreign and domestic policies of Wilhelmine Germany, Prussian reform policies in the 19th century, the history of civil service in Germany, the history of German parties in the 19th and 20th centuries, Hamburg university history and women's history.
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Publications

MonographsAllgemeine Gewerbefreiheit. Die Reformpolitik des preußischen Staatskanzlers Hardenberg . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1983, .Deutsche Russlandpolitik. Das Scheitern der deutschen Weltpolitik unter Bülow 1900–1906 Düsseldorf 1973,.
  • with Peter Borowsky, Heide Wunder: Einführung in die Geschichtswissenschaft. 5th, revised and updated edition. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1975,.
As publisherFrauen in der Ständegesellschaft. Leben und Arbeiten in der Stadt vom späten Mittelalter bis zur Neuzeit. Krämer, Hamburg 1991,.