Jan-Otmar Hesse

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Jan-Otmar Hesse (born 6 February 1968) is a German historian of economics.

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Born in Göttingen, Hesse did his community service from 1987 to 1989. From 1989 to 1995 he studied history, economics, political science, film and television studies at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. His academic teacher was Dietmar Petzina  [ de ]. Hesse was awarded his doctorate in Bochum by Petzina in 1999 with a thesis on the history of the Reichspost and telegraph administration from 1876 to 1914. Hesse was a doctoral fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation from 1997 to 2000. From 2000 to 2008, Hesse was a research assistant at the History Department of the Goethe University Frankfurt with Werner Plumpe  [ de ]. During the 2005/2006 year, he was Fellow at the German Historical Institute Washington DC. He received his habilitation in Frankfurt in 2007 with a history of science thesis on economics in the young Federal Republic. From April 2008 to September 2010, he took over the representation of the professorship of Hartmut Berghoff  [ de ] for Economic and Social History at the University of Göttingen. From October 2010 to March 2015, Hesse taught as professor of general history, in particular economic history, at the University of Bielefeld. In 2014 he accepted a proposal by the University of Bayreuth for a newly established W3 professorship in economic and social history. He has taught there since April 2015.

His research focuses on corporate history, media history and the history of economics. In 2001 he was awarded the Prize for Corporate History by the Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte  [ de ] for his dissertation on the corporate history of the Reichspost. His habilitation, published in 2010, focuses on the development of economics as an academic subject. In 2013 Hesse published the introduction Wirtschaftsgeschichte. Entstehung und Wandel der modernen Wirtschaft. This was followed in 2014 by an introduction to the history of the Great Depression written jointly with Werner Plumpe and Roman Köster. Since 2008 Hesse is a member of the Association of Historians of Germany  [ de ]. Since 2011 he has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the "Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte". Since 2017 he has been a full member of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences  [ de ].

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