Kuczynski
Prize 2012 awarded to the German historian Karin
Hausen
Kuczynski
Prize 2011 awarded to the German historian Tanja
Penter
Kuczynski
Prize 2010 awarded to the German historian Silke
Fengler
Kuczynski
Prize 2009 awarded to the Amsterdam historian Marcel
van der Linden
Kuczynski
Prize 2008 awarded to the German historian Jan Peters
Kuczynski
Prize 2007 awarded to the Dutch historian Jaap Sleifer
Kuczynski
Prize 2006 awarded to the German historian Alexander
Nützenadel
Kuczynski
Prize 2005 awarded to the Viennese social historian Annemarie
Steidl
Kuczynski
Prize 2004 awarded to the Canadian-British historian Sheilagh
Ogilvie
This prize, donated by the Berlin family of scholars Kuczynski, is named
after the German economist Robert René Kuczynski
(1876–1947) and has been awarded for outstanding
publications on the field of social and economic history.
In 1976, the son of René Kuczynski, Jürgen (the leading economic
historian of the GDR), and his wife Marguerite, gave the first 100 000 Marks
(and later additional donations) to the then Academy of Science of the GDR,
in order to award scholarly publications in the "Jahrbuch für
Wirtschaftsgeschichte" (Yearbook for Economic History). The board consisted
of experts whose fields of research were ancient economic history, agrarian
history of the middle ages, modern industrial history, research on imperialism
and demographic history of the Developing Countries: Rudolf Berthold, Parviz
Khalatbari (from 1989), Heinz Kreißig (until 1984), Wolfgang Mühlfriedel
(from 1990), Peter Musiolek (from 1985), Siegfried Richter (1984–1988),
Alfred Schröter, Josef Sonnemann (until 1982).
44 prize winners were awarded 1977 until 1991. An survey over the history
of the prize and the topics of the awarded publications was published by
the last president of the board, Thomas Kuczynski, grandson of René
Kuczynski, in the Hamburg quarterly "1999" (No. 1/97, pp. 154–158).
1996 the Prize was revived with support of the Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte
des 20. Jahrhunderts (Foundation for Social History of the 20th Century,
Bremen/Hamburg) and led by Karl Heinz Roth, Marcel van der Linden und Thomas
Kuczynski. The jury consisted of Richard J. Evans, Inge Marßolek,
Jörg Roesler, Adelheid von Saldern, Peter Schöttler, Heinrich
Senfft and Claudia Ulbrich. Prizes had been awarded in 1997 to Hans Medick
("Weben und Überleben in Laichingen 1650–1900. Lokalgeschichte
als Allgemeine Geschichte", Göttingen 1996 – a history of
the weavers of the Swabian town Laichingen) und 1999 an Rüdiger Hachtmann
("Berlin 1848. Eine Politik- und Gesellschaftsgeschichte der Revolution",
Bonn 1997 – a history of Berlin politics and society in the revolution
of 1848).
Since 2004 the Prize has been awarded in cooperation
with the ITH.
Jury:
Prof. Gerhard Botz
(Institute for Contemporary History, Vienna University)
Prof. Josef Ehmer
(Institute for Economic and Social History, Vienna University)
Prof. Rüdiger Hachtmann
(Berlin)
Prof. Jörg Roesler
(Berlin)
Prof. Claudia Ulbrich
(Friedrich Meinecke Institute, Dept. of History and Cultural Studies, FU
Berlin)
Ass. Prof. Berthold Unfried
(ITH & Institute for Economic and Social History, Vienna
University)
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Thomas Kuczynski
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German)