Charlotta Cordes
Doctoral researcher
BMBF- Project:
Mod-Block-DDR / sub-project 7
Chair of Economics of Innovation and Structural Change / Research Centre for East European Studies (University of Bremen)
Room 3700 / Telephone: +49 421 218 66646
charlotta.cordes@uni-bremen.de
Current Projects
„God created Lusatia and the devil put the coal under it.“ Consensus and Dissent on socio-economic Change from Socialism to Capitalism (PhD Project)
Elite Continuity and Change in Politics. Long-term trends in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe
Current Research Interests
• Economic, Social and Cultural History of the GDR
• Contemporary History of the Unification and Post-Unification German Society
Short CV
• from 2019 Doctoral Researcher, Chair of Economics of Innovation and Structural Change / Research Centre for East European Studies (University of Bremen), BMBF- Research Project „Obstacles to modernization in the Economy and Science of the GDR“ (Head: Prof. Dr. Jutta Günther, University of Bremen)
• from 2019 Affiliated Fellow der Bremer International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS)
• 2017 Research Fellow at the Department of History (Leibniz University of Hannover)
• 2012 – 2017 MA in History (University of Bremen)
Titel of MA thesis: „The Duke of Braunschweig as industrial entrepeneur in Nationalsocialism?“ (Award of the »Arbeitskreis für kritische Unternehmens- und Industriegeschichte e.V.« - Association for Critical Business History)
• 2015 – 2017 Researcher in the Project „The History of the House Hanover in the Third Reich“ (Head: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Rauh, University of Hannover), funded by „Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte e.V.“ (Business History Society)
• 2016 – 2016 Student assistant in the Project „Digital History“ (Head: Prof. Dr. Magdalena Waligórska, University of Bremen)
• 2013 – 2014 Tutor at the Department for Contemporary History and Culture of Eastern Europe (University of Bremen)
• 2009 – 2013 Student assistant at the Research Centre for East European Studies (University of Bremen)
• 2008 – 2009 European Studies (Latvijas Universitāte, Riga, Latvia)
• 2008 – 2009 Student assistant for Prof. Dr. Susanne Schmidt (University of Bremen), Bremer International Graduate School for Social Science (BIGSSS), Collaborative Research Centre: „Transformation of the State“
• 2006 – 2011 BA in Sociological European Studies (University of Bremen)
Titel of BA Thesis: „Stalinist writing? The Diary of Nina Lugovskaja 1932-1937“
Presentations
• Project: Political Strategies and Actors of the Economic Transformation in the GDR.
Presentation at the Meeting 2nd of the Research Consortium “Obstacles to Modernization in the Economy and Science in the GDR”, Technische Universität Berlin, 16.09.2019.
• Tension Field "Energy". The Restructuring of GDR Electricity Industry in the German Unification Society.
Presentation at the 4th International FRRESH Summer School for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Orilampi, 26.-30.08 2019.
• Ernst August Herzog von Braunschweig-Lüneburg als Rüstungsindustrieller, Veranstaltung „Die Nacht, die Wissenschaft“ der Initiative Wissenschaft Hannover, 12. November 2016, Leibniz Universität Hannover
• Die Investitionen der Welfen in Luftrüstung und Bau-Wirtschaft von 1939-1945, Tagung „NS-Geschäfte des Hauses Hannover“, 16. Juli 2016, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Publications (only in German)
• Eine Adelsfamilie auf dem Weg in die Moderne. Der Herzog als Unternehmer im Nationalsozialismus, in: Rauh, Cornelia (Hg.), Das Haus Hannover im Dritten Reich. (in preperation)
• Sowjetischer Dissens und Gender. Über den Beginn der Bürgerrechtsbewegung, digital exhibition and teaching modul, online: www.digitalhistory.uni-bremen.de/women-under-communism
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