Dr. Bettina Blum

Faculty of Arts and Humanities ? Historisches Institut ? Contemporary History

Former

Lead of the DFG-funded project ‘British Forces in Germany. The Occupation and the Stationing of Troops in a Transnational Perspective’

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Historian and exhibition curator

About Bettina Blum

Historian and exhibition curator

  • current project: Lead of the DFG-funded project "British Forces in Germany. The Occupation and the Stationing of Troops in a Transnational Perspective".

    Initiation of international cooperation: "Occupied spaces: A comparative historical analysis of transnational encounters in private spaces in occupied Japan and (West) Germany, 1945-1955"; collaborative project together with Dr. Christine de Matos, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney, Australia and Dr. Kazuto Oshio, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan; funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (September 2022)

  • Exhibition curator: Permanent exhibition "Geschichte - Gewalt - Gewissen", Villa ten Hompel Münster (2015); special exhibitions "Briten in Westfalen - The British in Westphalia", Paderborn (2017/18); "Briten in Nordrhein-Westfalen", Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2019)
  • Projects with regional and international partners 
  • Museum education, pedagogical activities 

Curriculum Vitae

Since 01.03.2020: Paderborn University

Research fellow: Lead of the DFG-funded project "British Forces in Germany. The Occupation and the Stationing of Troops in a Transnational Perspective".

Initiation of international cooperation: "Occupied spaces: A comparative historical analysis of transnational encounters in private spaces in occupied Japan and (West) Germany, 1945-1955"; collaborative project together with Dr. Christine de Matos, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney, Australia and Dr. Kazuto Oshio, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan; funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

01.08.2019 - 29.02.2020: Zentrum für Erinnerungskultur (centre for memorial culture) Duisburg

Research fellow

01.11.2018 - 31.07.2019: State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf

Curator of the exhibition 'The British in North Rhine-Westphalia''4 May - 16 June 2019)

01.04.2018 - 31.07.2019: Paderborn University

Lecturer in contemporary history

01.09.2015 - 28.02.2018: Stadt Paderborn, culture department

Scientific direction of the exhibition and research project 'Briten in Westfalen / The British in Westphalia', curator of the exhibition (20 October 2017  - 28 February 2018, Paderborn city museum)

01.04.2015 - 31.08.2015: Münster University (WWU Münster)

Lecturer in the didactics of history

01.09.2012 - 31.03.2015: Geschichtsort Villa ten Hompel Münster

Curator of the exhibition 'Geschichte – Gewalt – Gewissen' (permanent exhibition, opening: March 2015)

01.10.2001 - 31.08.2012: Geschichtsort Villa ten Hompel Münster

Independently organised projects on women police officers, police history, and women in National Socialist Germany, as well as pedagogical activities

2005 - 2011: Doctor of Philosphy (History)

Awarded May 2011 (magna cum laude). Münster University (WWU Münster). Thesis title: 'Polizistinnen im geteilten Deutschland. Geschlechterdifferenz im staatlichen Gewaltmonopol vom Kriegsende bis in die siebziger Jahre’.

1997 - 2011: Self-employed activities in the cultural sector

06/1998 - 09/2015: Geschichtswerkstatt ZeitenLauf e.V.: Research, organisation of city walks and special events on the history of women in Münster

11/1998 - 12/2012: Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Dortmund: Museum education

06/1998 - 11/2008: asb Münster: Lead of workshops for families

09/1997 - 02/1998: Fachhochschule Münster, exhibition 'Okulissanga':  Museum education

1995 - 1997: Development Aid Policy Practicums and Work Experience

08/1997 – 09/1997: Internship at the Honduran embassy, Bonn

09/1996 – 04/1997: Project work at the Biblioteca Alemana-Nicaragüense, Managua, Nicaragua

01/1996 – 03/1996: Projektwerkstatt Umwelt und Entwicklung, Hannover: Development aid policy practicum

08/1995 – 09/1995: Service Civil International: Lead of an international workshop for women

1990 - 1995: Magistra Artium

History, German Philology, Musicology. Münster University (WWU Münster). Thesis title: ‘Durch Selbstreform zur Gesellschaftsreform? Die Obstbausiedlung Eden/Oranienburg und die Vegetarierkolonie Monte Verita/Ascona zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit’.

Research

Research Interests

  • British occupation and stationing of troops in Germany  
  • Occupation studies
  • Gender history
  • Police history
  • Local and regional history (especially North Rhine-Westphalia)
  • Public History
  • History and Museums

Latest Projects

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Teaching

Teaching Areas

-  "(Trans)national memories. Remembering the Second World War in Paderborn and Coventry; with Aston University (UK)"

- ?Feinde – Partner – Freunde?“ Forschungsseminar zur britischen Besatzung und Stationierung in Westfalen, 1945-2019

- Erz?hlte Geschichte: Projektseminar Oral History

- Vermittlung von Kunst & Geschichte – von der Idee zum Projekt

- Quellen und Methoden der Geschichtswissenschaft am Beispiel des Themas ?Schule im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert“

- Quellen und Methoden der Geschichtswissenschaft am Beispiel des Themas "Geschlecht und Politik"

- Quellen und Methoden der Geschichtswissenschaft am Beispiel des Themas ?Religi?se Sozialisation“

- Geschichte im Radio: ?Ordnung und Sicherheit“ in einer neuen Gesell?schaft – der Neuaufbau der Polizei in der SBZ 1945-1949 

- Zum Dienst verpflichtet. Frauenarbeitseinsatz 1939-50- Zum Dienst verpflichtet. Frauenarbeitseinsatz 1939-50


Current Courses

The researcher does not teach any courses in the current semester.

Further Information

Exhibitions (Scientific direction)

"The British in North Rhine-Westphalia", special exhibition at the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia?, Düsseldorf, 4th May - 16th June 2019

- ?The British in Westphalia“, special exhibition, Paderborn, 20th October 2017 – 28th February 2018 

Review: www.hsozkult.de/exhibitionreview/id/rezausstellungen-300

- ?Geschichte – Gewalt – Gewissen“, permanent exhibition, Geschichtsort Villa ten Hompel Münster, opening: March 2015

Publications

Monograph:

- Polizistinnen im geteilten Deutschland. Geschlechterdifferenz im staatlichen Gewaltmonopol vom Kriegsende bis in die siebziger Jahre, Essen 2012

Book chapters and journal articles (selection):

- Policing with the enemy. British military police, public safety and German police in post-war Germany 1945-1949, in: McDaniel, John L.M. / Stonard, Karlie E. / Cox, David J. (Hg.): The Development of Transnational Policing. Past, Present and Future, London/New York 2019, S. 32-48.

- ?My home, your castle’: British Requisitioning of German Homes in Westphalia, in: Erlichman, Camilo / Knowles, Christopher (Hg.): Transforming Occupation in the Western Zones of Germay. Politics, Everyday Life and Social Interactions, 1945-1955, London 2018, S. 115-132.

- Die Ausstellung ?Briten in Westfalen – The British in Westphalia 1945-2017“, in: Gilhaus, Ulrike / Neuw?hner, Andreas (Hg.): Briten in Westfalen. Beziehungen und Begegnungen 1945 - 2017, Paderborn 2017, S. 11-23.

- ?Flintenweiber? und ?Emma Peels?. Polizistinnen und Waffen in Deutschland, in: Werkstatt Geschichte Nr. 64 (2014), S. 55-76.

- ?Frauliche Sonderaufgaben zum Nutzen des Volksganzen“? Weibliche (Kriminal-)Polizei 1927 bis 1952, in: Beitr?ge zur Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung in Norddeutschland, Heft 15, Bremen 2013.

- Weibliche Polizei – soziale Polizei? Weibliche (Jugend)Polizei zwischen Demokratie und Dikta?tur 1927-1952, in: Schulte, Wolfgang (Hg.): Die Polizei im NS-Staat. Beitr?ge eines internationalen Symposiums an der Deutschen Hochschule der Polizei in Münster, Frankfurt 2009, S. 511-537.

- Mütter, Helferinnen, Blitzm?dchen. Frauenbilder und Frauenarbeitseinsatz 1939-1950; Didakti?sche Bausteine des Geschichtsorts Villa ten Hompel Münster 6, Münster 2008.

- ?Einen weiblichen Soldaten gibt es nicht.“ Helferinnen der Wehrmacht zwischen m?nnli?chem Einsatz und ?fraulicher Eigenart’; in: Ariadne. Forum für Frauen- und Geschlechter?geschichte 47 (Mai 2005), S. 46-51.

Conference Papers (Selection)

LWL-Institut für westf?lische Regionalgeschichte, Arbeitsbereich Zeitgeschichte der Universit?t Paderborn (and others), Conference, ?Eine periphere Region im Wandel. St?dte und l?ndliche R?ume in Ostwestfalen-Lippe seit 1945“ (Paderborn, 25-26 October 2023). Paper: “British bubbles” in Westphalian towns. Bau, Nutzung und Bedeutung britischer Wohngebiete in westf?lischen Garnisonsst?dten“

German Studies Association (GSA) Conference, Montréal, Canada (5-8 October 2023). Paper: "Gender and State Authority: Roles, Status and (Self-)perceptions of Policewomen in East and West Germany"

European Social Science History Conference, G?teborg, Sweden (12-15 April 2023). Paper: Policing Transnational Urban Spaces. Royal Military Police and German Civil Police in German Garrison Towns, 1955-1990

University College Cork (UCC), Ireland: History Research Seminar. Online Paper (8 December 2022): From Military Rule to Defence Diplomacy: Relations between British Forces and Local Communities in Germany, 1945–2019

Zentrum für Milit?rgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr Milit?r, Potsdam. Conference "Milit?r. Geschichte. Geschlecht" (16-18 November 2022). Paper: Military wives at war.
Britische Milit?rfamilien an der ?Heimatfront? in Deutschland (1950?2019)

30th Colloquium on Police History, Marburg: Polizei und Sicherheit in urbanen R?umen vom 18. bis 21. Jahrhundert (9-11 September 2021). Paper: Polizei in transnationalen R?umen. Royal Military Police und deutsche Polizei in nordwest-deutschen Garnisonsst?dten 1955-2019

WORCK / European Labour History Network Conference, Vienna (30 August - 3 September 2021): Paper: The Military as an international labour market? German civilians working for the British Forces in Germany, 1945 – 2019

European Social Science History Conference (Online, 24-27 March 2021). Paper: Policing with the Enemy. British military Police, Public Safety and German Police in Post-war Germany 1945-55

Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan: Online-Symposium "Occupied Spaces: A Comparative Historical Analysis of Transnational Encounters in Private Spaces in Occupied Japan and (West) Germany, 1945-1955" (20 November 2020). Paper: Experiences of Occupation: Anglo-German Encounters in Requisitioned Spaces in Germany, 1945-1955

Westf?lische Wilhelms-Universit?t Münster: Online-Conference "Exclude to Include: Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools, their Participants and Processes during the 19th and 20th Centuries" (5-6 November 2020), Paper: Questions of Belonging. (Boarding) Schools for British Service Children in Germany, 1947-2019

Albert-Ludwigs-Universit?t Freiburg, FRIAS: 365体育_足球比分网￥投注直播官网 ?Gender Relations between Occupiers and Occupied during the Allied Military Occupation in Germany after 1945” (6-7 June 2019): Paper: ?Mothers fight for their home“. Gendered Approaches to the Requisitioning of Houses in Westphalia.

Fachgruppentag Geschichtsmuseen und Arbeitskreis Bildung und Vermittlung im Deutschen Museumsbund zum Thema ?Allheilmittel oder Selbstaufgabe? Ein Zwischenstand zu Erfahrungen, Chancen und Grenzen der Partizipation in Museen“ (Frankfurt, 8-10 November 2018). Paper: Sich berühren lassen – Partizipation als Chance. Zentrale Aspekte aus dem Ausstellungsprojekt ?Briten in Westfalen 1945-2017“ in Paderborn.

AlliiertenMuseum Berlin, Series of public events on the occasion of the special exhibition ?Little America. Leben in der Milit?r-Community in Deutschland“. Paper: ?Klein London“. Wechselseitige Blicke deutsch-britischer Nachbarn (19 April 2018).

DHI London: Conference “The Allied Occupation of Germany Revisited: New Research on the Western Zones of Occupation, 1945-1949” (29-30 September 2016). Paper: ‘My Home, your Castle’. The Requisitioning of Houses and Urban Quarters by the British Military Government in Westphalia 1945-1955 - Interactions between the Occupiers and the Occupied .

European Social Science History Conference (Valencia, 30 March - 2 April 2016): Organisation of the panel: A Violent Force? Police and Weapons. Paper: Arming the Force. Police Officers and Guns in West Germany 1945 – 1980.

European Social Science History Conference (Wien, 23-26 April 2014): Organisation of the panel: Police History meets the Public. Exhibitions on Police History. Paper: Learning from history? Exhibitions on German Police History of the “Third Reich” and the Postwar Era.

24. Kolloquium zur Polizeigeschichte (Nienburg, 4-6 July 2013): Paper: Historisches Lernen für Polizisten. Die Bedeutung von Biografien als zentrale Zugangsm?glichkeit zur Vermittlung geschichtsstruktureller Zusammenh?nge.

Concentration Camp Memorial Neuengamme: 365体育_足球比分网￥投注直播官网 ?Polizei, Verfolgung und Gesellschaft im Nationalsozialismus“ (Hamburg, 9-11 February 2012): Vortrag: ?Frauliche Sonderaufgaben zum Nutzen des Volksganzen“? Weibliche (Kriminal-)Polizei 1927-1952.

European Social Science History Conference (Glasgow, 11-14 April 2012): Paper: A Question of Reputation: Women Police in West Germany 1945 – 1970.

European Social Science History Conference (Gent, 13-16 April 2010): Paper: Rulers of the traffic. (Women) traffic police in East Germany 1945-1970