Prof. Dr. Klaus Schönhoven

• Born in 1942
• 1963-1971 study of history, political sciences and Germanistics at the universities of Würzburg and Munich
• 1971 PhD at the University of Würzburg
• 1979 Qualification for lecturing (habilitation) for modern history
• Until 2007 professor of polictical sciences and modern history at the University of Mannheim

Other activities in an honorary capacity:

• Counsel of choice of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and of the Hans Böckler Foundation
• Chairman of the Hermann Weber Foundation at the University of Mannheim
• Member of the Advisory Boards of the "House of the History of the Federal Republik of Germany), the "House of the History of the Land Baden-Württemberg" and of the Friedrich Ebert Memorial Foundation in Heidelberg

Focus of reseach on:

• European social history since the industrialization
• History of the labor unions and the worker's parties during the 19th and 20th century
• Modern German history

Important Publications:

• Die Bayerische Volkspartei 1924-1932, Düsseldorf 1972
• Die deutschen Gewerkschaften, (2nd edition) 1988
• Arbeiter in Deutschland. Studien zur Lebensweise der Arbeiterschaft im Zeitalter der Industrialisierung, Paderborn 1981 (editor together with Dieter Langerwiesche)
• Quellen zur Geschichte der deutschen Gewerkschaftsbewegung im 20. Jahrhundert, Cologne 1985f. (editor together with Hermann Weber)