Prof. Dr. Hartmut Berghoff

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Hartmut Berghoff, Christian Kleinschmidt, Stephan H. Lindner und Luitgard Marschal, SARTORIUS 1870 - 2020

Sartorius Unternehmensgeschichte - HBDie Sartorius AG ist als international führender Life-Science-Konzern und Partner der biopharmazeutischen Forschung und Industrie in die Entwicklung und Herstellung neuartiger Medikamente involviert. Mit seinen innovativen Lösungen trägt das 1870 gegründete Unternehmen, das sich zunächst auf die Produktion hochpräziser Waagen fokussierte, seit inzwischen mehr als 150 Jahren dazu bei, Forschungsarbeit zu beschleunigen, Arbeitsprozesse zu vereinfachen und die Ergebnisqualität zu verbessern.


In den verschiedenen Epochen ihrer Geschichte sah sich die Sartorius AG vor zahlreiche Herausforderungen gestellt. Kenntnisreich und lebendig beleuchten vier renommierte Historiker aus verschiedenen thematischen Perspektiven die Entwicklung von Sartorius von einem eignergeführten Familienunternehmen mit handwerklichen Wurzeln zu einem managergeführten, weltweit agierenden Hochtechnologiekonzern.




Hartmut Berghoff und Ingo Köhler, Verdienst und Vermächtnis, Familienunternehmen in Deutschland und den USA seit 1800

Hartmut Berghoff, Ingo Köhler, Verdienst und Vermächtnis, 2020Familienunternehmen sind in Deutschland und in den USA zentrale Bausteine der jeweiligen Volkswirtschaft. Und doch gibt es signifikante Unterschiede in der Unternehmens- und Familienkultur sowie der institutionellen Umwelt. So wird Deutschland in den USA um seine leistungsstarken Familienunternehmen, vor allem die Hidden Champions, beneidet. Zudem bestehen deutsche Familienunternehmen im Durchschnitt deutlich länger. Wie kam es zu diesen Divergenzen? Die von der Stiftung Familienunternehmen herausgegebene historische Langzeitbetrachtung analysiert die Ursachen und Auswirkungen der Unternehmenslandschaften in beiden Ländern von der Industrialisierung im 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart.




Hartmut Berghoff and Ingo Köhler, Varieties of Family Business: Germany and the United States, Past and Present


Hartmut Berghoff, Varieties of Family Business
Family Businesses in Germany and the United States are the central foundation for their national economy. However, there are significant differences in the Business, family and institutional environment. The historical long-term study published by the Foundation for Family Businesses offers an informed perspective on the causes and implications of the Business environment of both Germany and the United States from the industrialisation in the 19th Century until the present age.




Consumption on the Home Front During the Second World War: A Transnational Perspective, Edited Volume with Hartmut Berghoff and Felix Römer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)

Consumption on the Home FrontThis volume explores the history of the home fronts in the Second World War from a comparative and transnational perspective, focusing on the role of the consumer and civilian morale in Nazi Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. The volume covers a wide range of aspects. It compares the belligerents' efforts in securing civilian food and nutrition. It analyses the role of advertising and commercial entertainment in creating 'virtual consumption' to compensate for wartime hardships. It highlights fashion as a means of offering distraction and promoting promises of future consumption. And it enquires into the impact of the wartime consumer regimes on the post-war period and long-term developments.




Hartmut Berghoff and Adam Rome (ed.), Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century

Berghoff_GreenCapitalismThe book offers a critical, historically informed perspective on building a more sustainable economy. Written by business historians and environmental historians, the essays in this volume take a critical look at the nature of capitalism through a wide range of focused case studies. Ranging in geographic scope from Europe to the United States, "Green Capitalism?" raises questions about capitalism in different historical, sociocultural, and political contexts.




Hartmut Berghoff, Moderne Unternehmensgeschichte. Eine themen- und theorieorientierte Einführung

Berghoff_Unternehmensgeschichte2AThis textbook is based on economic theory and introduces the concepts and major results of modern business history. Topics range from organizational to marketing history, from the technological to the social history of firms, from corporate culture to corporate ethics. The book focuses on developments from nineteenth century industrialization to present day globalization. It is a readable synthesis for students and the general public, combining theoretical foundations with historical case studies from the world of business.




Hartmut Berghoff, Cornelia Rauh und Thomas Welskopp (Hg.), Tatort Unternehmen: Zur Geschichte der Wirtschaftskriminalität im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert

Berghoff_TatortUnternehmenThis book uses major historical examples to investigate the connection between white-collar crime and corporations. The authors present notorious cases of white-collar crime, search for the perpetrators? motives, and cast light on the - typically far-reaching - negative implications for all those involved, including the perpetrators, the affected corporation, and the world of politics.





Hartmut Berghoff und Cornelia Rauh, The Respectable Career of Fritz K. The Making and Remaking of a Provincial Nazi Leader, 1885-1980

Berghoff_FritzKEntrepreneur and Nazi functionary Fritz Kiehn lived through almost 100 years of German history, from the Bismarck era to the late Bonn Republic. A successful manufacturer, Kiehn joined the Nazi Party in 1930 and obtained a number of influential posts after 1933, making him one of the most powerful Nazi functionaries in southern Germany. These posts allowed him ample opportunity to profit from "Aryanizations" and state contracts. After 1945, he restored his reputation, was close to Adenauer's CDU during Germany's economic miracle, and was a respected and honored citizen in Trossingen. Kiehn's biography provides a key to understanding the political upheavals of the twentieth century, especially the workings of the corrupt Nazi system as well as the "coming to terms" with National Socialism in the Federal Republic.




Hartmut Berghoff und Uta A. Balbier (Hg.), Falling Behind or Catching Up? The East German Economy, 1945-2010

Berghoff_FallingBehindBy many measures, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) had the strongest economy in the Eastern bloc and was one of the most important industrial nations worldwide. Nonetheless, the economic history of the GDR has been primarily discussed as a failure when compared with the economic success of the Federal Republic and is often cited as one of the pre-eminent examples of central planning's deficiencies. This volume analyzes both the successes and failures of the East German economy. The contributors consider the economic history of East Germany within its broader political, cultural and social contexts. Rather than limit their perspective to the period of the GDR's existence, the essays additionally consider the decades before 1945 and the post-1990 era. Contributors also trace the present and future of the East German economy and suggest possible outcomes.




Hartmut Berghoff und Thomas Kühne (Hg.), Globalizing Beauty: Consumerism and Body Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century

Berghoff_GlobalizingBeautyThis volume aims to advance our understanding of beauty's role in modern consumer societies by bringing together fresh scholarship that addresses a common set of questions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including especially history, but also black studies, women's studies, German studies, sociology, and anthropology.




Hartmut Berghoff, Jürgen Kocka und Dieter Ziegler, (Hg.), Business in the Age of Extremes. Essays in Modern German and Austrian Economic History

[containing a contribution by Ingo Köhler]

Berghoff_AgeOfExtremesThis collection of essays explores the impact that nationalism, capitalism and socialism had on economics during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on Central Europe, contributors examine the role that businesspeople and enterprises played in Germany's and Austria's paths to the catastrophe of Nazism. Based on new archival research, the essays gathered here ask how the business community became involved in the political process and describes the consequences arising from that involvement. Particular attention is given to the responses of individual businesspeople to changing political circumstances and their efforts to balance the demands of their consciences with the pursuit for profit.




Hartmut Berghoff, Uffa Jensen, Christina Lubinski und Bernd Weisbrod (Hg.), History by Generations: Generational Dynamics in Modern History

Berghoff_GenerationsDie Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes gehen aus einer gemeinsamen Tagung des Graduiertenkollegs "Generationengeschichte" der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen und des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Washington hervor. Verschiedene Generationenkonzepte standen sich hier gegenüber: die europäische Idee von "Jugendgenerationen" und "politischen Generationen" und die eher pragmatische amerikanische Lesart von den "demographischen Generationen" oder den "Konsumgenerationen". Immer, so scheint es, wird die generationelle Logik überlagert von nationalen Vorstellungen der Dazugehörigkeit. Sehr deutlich arbeiten die Beiträge aus Europa und den USA heraus, dass die historische Zeit wohl in Generationen gelesen wird, doch wird Geschichte nicht von Generationen gemacht.




Hartmut Berghoff, Phil Scranton und Uwe Spiekermann (Hg.), The Rise of Marketing and Market Research

Berghoff_RiseOfMartketingThis volume serves up a combination of broad questions, theoretical approaches, and manifold case studies to explore how people have sought to understand markets and thereby reduce risk, whether they have approached this challenge with a practical view based on their own business acumen or used the tools of scholarship.




Hartmut Berghoff und Uwe Spiekermann (Hg.), Decoding Modern Consumer Societies

Berghoff_DecodingDrawing on a wide range of studies of Europe, the United States, Asia, and Africa, the contributions gathered here consider how political history, business history, the history of science, cultural history, gender history, intellectual history, anthropology, and even environmental history can help us decode modern consumer societies.




Hartmut Berghoff, Jürgen Kocka und Dieter Ziegler (Hg.), Wirtschaft im Zeitalter der Extreme. Beiträge zur Unternehmensgeschichte Österreichs und Deutschlands

[enthält u.a. einen Beitrag von Ingo Köhler]

Berghoff_ZeitalterExtremeGerald D. Feldman (1937-2007) gehörte rund vierzig Jahre zu den herausragenden Persönlichkeiten der Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichtsschreibung des 20. Jahrhunderts. Viele seiner Monographien können heute als Standardwerke gelten. Seinem Andenken ist dieser Band gewidmet. Er vereint Beiträge zu den wichtigsten Forschungsfeldern des großen Historikers: insbesondere die Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte des Ersten Weltkriegs, die Geschichte der Nachkriegsinflationen, die Geschichte der Großbanken in der Zwischenkriegszeit und die Geschichte von Unternehmen und Unternehmern in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus.