Jürgen Kocka#
| Membership Number: | 86 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1988 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2009 Member of the Research Board of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Since 2008 Vice President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 2007 - 2009 Research Professor of Historical Social Sciences in Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
- 2001 - 2007 President of WZB
- 2000 - 2005 President of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (CISH)
- 1991 - 2000 Permanent Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study) Berlin
- 1988 - 2009 Professor of History of Industry at the Free University of Berlin
- 1983 - 1988 Director at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research Bielefeld
- 1973 - 1988 Professor of General History at the Universität Bielefeld
- 1972 Habilitation
Fields of Scholarship
- Social History
- History of employees in large German and American businesses
- History of European bourgeoisie
- German society from the perspective of modernisation, industrialization, and the creation of modern Europe
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Holberg International Memorial Prize
- 2005 Bochumer Historikerpreis
- 1992 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
