PD Dr. Henning Türk
Adjunct Lecturer
Curriculum vitae
1995–2000 Studied history, political science, and applied cultural studies at the University of Münster
2005 Ph.D. from the University of Duisburg-Essen with a dissertation on “The European Policy of the Grand Coalition, 1966–1969”
January 2006–March 2015: Research assistant at the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Duisburg-Essen
September 2013: Karl-Ferdinand-Werner Fellowship from the German Historical Institute in Paris
May–June 2015: Research assistant at the Center for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam
2015 Habilitation with the dissertation “Shapers of Progress – Ludwig Andreas Jordan (1811–1883), the Palatinate Wine-Producing Bourgeoisie, and German Liberalism in the 19th Century” (funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation)
November 2015 Awarded the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Memorial Prize by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for the postdoctoral thesis
February–September 2016 Research Fellow at the Chair of Contemporary History at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
October 2016–March 2022 Research Fellow at the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam (ZZF) in Department II
October 2017–March 2018 Acting Chair at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
October 12, 2017 Karl-Theodor Prize for the postdoctoral thesis “Ludwig Andreas Jordan and the Palatinate Wine-Producing Bourgeoisie: Bourgeois Life and Liberal Politics in the 19th Century”
October 2018 – September 2020 Acting Chair at the University of Bonn
October 2020 – March 2022 Research Associate at the ZZF Potsdam, Department II
April 2022 – September 2022 Acting Chair at the University of Bonn
October 2022 – March 2023 Acting Chair for Prof. Dr. Michael Kißener at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
April 2023–September 2023 Acting Chair for Prof. Dr. Joachim Scholtyseck at the University of Bonn
Since January 2024 Head of the Department of “History and LVR-KULTURHAUS Landsynagoge Rödingen,” LVR Institute for Regional Studies and Regional History in Bonn