Benjamin Werner
Academic Researchers/Doctoral candidates
benjamin.werner2@tu-dresden.de
phone: +49 (0351) 463 40056
VITA
Academic career
- since 10/2017 Doctorate at TU Dresden
Dissertation topic: "Sozialverwaltung zwischen Demokratie und Diktatur. Strukturen und Politik von 1918 bis 1939 am Beispiel Dresdens" (Social Administration between Democracy and Dictatorship. Structures and Policy from 1918 to 1939 using the Example of Dresden) - 10/2007 - 9/2014 Studies in History, Political Science and Sociology at TU Dresden
Stays abroad
- 9/2013 Study visit to the University for Trade and Economy Ufa in Bashkortostan (Russian Federation)
Work experience
- Since 01/2022 Project Staff in the "Lehrstrategie Studium 3.0" with the Prorector for Education at TU Dresden
- Since 01/2021 Affiliated Researcher at Hannah Arendt Institute
- 10/2017 - 12/2020 Researcher at Hannah Arendt Institute
- 2/2019 - 4/2019 Research Assistant for the University Archive of TU Dresden
- 5/2018 - 12/2018 Freelance Worker at the State Chamber of Physicians of Saxony
- 10/2015 - 9/2017 Research Assistant at Hannah Arendt Institute
- 10/2013 - 2/2013 Intern at the State Archives Dresden
- 5/2011 - 7/2011 Intern at the Memorial Pirna-Sonnenstein
- 5/2009 - 8/2009 Intern at the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr Dresden
Linguistic proficiency
- English
- Russian
Research and teaching focus
- Administrative, Social and Organisational History of the 20th Century
- History of National Socialism
- Local History
Research projects
05/2018-12/2018 Compilation and presentation of a comprehensive physician statistics for the period of 1815 to the present as part of the research project of the State Chamber of Physicians of Saxony "Sachsen - Wiege der ärztlichen Selbstverwaltung in Germany" (Saxony - Cradle of Medical Self-Government in Germany)
Scholarships and Awards
- 06/2021 - 12/2021 Doctoral Graduation Scholarship of the Ettersberg Foundation
- 01/2021 - 06/2021 JEV scholarship for European administrative history
- 10/2016 - 12/2016 State Scholarship of the Free State of Saxony
- 12/2015
Lohrmann Medal for outstanding performance in studies as the best student of the year at the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Organizational activity
- 11/2020 Planning and execution of the 1st HAIT Doctoral Student Forum "Demokratie- und Diktaturforschung im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert - Alte Pfade oder neue Wege? Theorie, Methoden und Perspektiven" (Democracy and Dictatorship Research in the 20th and 21st Century - Old Trails or New Paths? Theory, Methods and Perspectives)
- 07/2019 - 02/2020 Organisation and coordination of the HAIT colloquium (winter semester 2019/2020)
- 7/2016 Aurel Kolnais "Krieg gegen den Westen" (War against the West) (international conference, contribution to execution and follow-up)
- 6/2016 LDPD and the socialist "multi-party system" in the GDR 1961-1981 (conference in cooperation with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Archive of Liberalism, contribution to execution and follow-up)
Functions and memberships
- since 05/2018 Contact Person for the HAIT Doctoral Forum
- since 6/2017 Member of Dresden History Club (Dresdner Geschichtsverein e.V.)
- since 8/2016 Graduate Academy of TU Dresden
HAIT-RESEARCH PROJECTS
PUBLICATIONS
Articles in Anthologies
Ärztestatistik Sachsen 1830 bis 2015
In: Sächsische Landesärztekammer (Ed.): Sachsen – Wiege der ärztlichen Selbstverwaltung in Deutschland. Ein historischer Abriss. Dresden 2020.
further publishments
"Es wird dringend gebeten, eine Markierung der Akten von Juden und Rassenschändern herbeizuführen“ – Die Dresdner Sozialverwaltung im Nationalsozialismus von „unten“
„Denken ohne Geländer“. Der Blog des Hannah-Arendt-Instituts für Totalitarismusforschung (HAIT), 2020 to the internet article