Prof. Dr. phil. Christoph Meyer

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Prof. Dr. phil. Christoph Meyer
Prof. Dr. phil. Christoph Meyer
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Christoph Meyer was born in 1966 in the Münsterland region of Oldenburg. He took his Abitur there in 1984 and completed his community service as a paramedic from 1984 to 1986.

From 1986 to 1997, he studied history, politics and German language and literature in Cologne. In 1993, he graduated with a Master of Arts degree – his Master’s thesis was on 17 June as a national day of demonstration in the former Federal Republic of Germany. He subsequently obtained a Dr. (Dr. phil.), supported by a scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. His doctoral thesis was published in 1997 under the title ā€˜The Dual Strategy on German Policy – Wilhelm Wolfgang Schütz and the Board of Trustees for an Undivided Germany 1954–1972’ (Landsberg am Lech, Olzog Verlag).

During his studies, Christoph Meyer was active in university politics, including as a member of the Student Parliament, the AStA at the University of Cologne and the Political Science Students’ Council. He has been a member of the SPD since 1987, where he has undertaken a wide range of voluntary work, most recently serving as a local councillor in Dresden-Neustadt from 2004 to 2019. Christoph Meyer has been Chairman of the Herbert and Greta Wehner Foundation in Dresden since its foundation by Greta Wehner in 2003.

In 1997, Christoph Meyer worked full-time for seven months as head of the ā€˜Student Support and Alumni Relations’ department at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Bonn. From 1998 to 2011, he was the full-time Educational Director and Managing Director of the Herbert-Wehner-Bildungswerk e.V. in Dresden. In 2006, he published the biography ā€˜Herbert Wehner’ (dtv-Verlag). From 2012 to 2020, he was Chair of the Commission on Adult Education at the Arbeitskreis deutscher BildungsstƤtten e.V.

Christoph Meyer has been teaching at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences since 2011. From 2013 to 2021, he was Dean of Studies for the Bachelor’s degree programmes. He has been a member of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation’s Selection Committee since 2013. At Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, Prof. Dr. phil. Christoph Meyer was a member of the University Council from 2018 to 2023. He has been Director of the Institute for Competence, Communication and Languages (IKKS) since 2022, and has served as Vice-Rector for Education at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences since 2023.

To mark Greta Wehner’s 100th birthday in 2024, Christoph Meyer’s biography ā€˜Greta Wehner. A Woman Steps Out of the Shadows’ (Munich, LMV) was published.

Further information on the work of and within the Dresden Foundation can be found at www.hgwst.de.

  • Contemporary and Social History, Historical and Political Dimensions of Society
  • Media literacy, rhetoric, communication skills
  • Methods of educational work, youth and adult education
  • Social and cultural change

Projects

ILEAS - Innovatives Lehrarchitektursystem im Zeitalter von KI und Generationswandel

  • Term: 2025/10/01 – 2029/12/31
  • Financed by: Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre
  • Funding code: 1001-2196
  • Project managers: Christoph Meyer
2884 Christoph Meyer

Ankommen - BefƤhigen - Vernetzen, Studienerfolg von Frauen an der Hochschule Mittweida (ABV)

  • Term: 2024/04/01 – 2026/03/31
  • Financed by: EuropƤischer Sozialfonds (ESF)
  • Funding code: 1007046421
  • Project managers: Christoph Meyer
2758 Christoph Meyer

studienerfolg@saxHAW TP HSMW

  • Term: 2024/04/01 – 2026/03/31
  • Financed by: EuropƤischer Sozialfonds (ESF)
  • Funding code: 100707144
  • Project managers: Christoph Meyer
2778 Christoph Meyer

Digitalisierung in Disziplinen partizipativ umsetzen: Competencies Connected (D2C2)

  • Term: 2021/08/01 – 2025/12/31
  • Financed by: Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre
  • Funding code: FBM2020-VA-134-9-05140
  • Project managers: Christoph Meyer
  • Project partners:
    • Technische UniversitƤt Chemnitz
    • Technische UniversitƤt Dresden
    • Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig
    • WestsƤchsische Hochschule Zwickau
    • Hochschule Zittau/Gƶrlitz
    • Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden
    • Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden
    • Evangelische Hochschule Dresden
    • Staatliche Studienakademie Leipzig
1889 Christoph Meyer

Publication

C. Meyer

Integraler Sozialdemokrat. Hans-Jochen Vogel zum 100. Geburtstag

P. 118 – 132
21860 journalartikel
C. Meyer

Ein Politiker im PortrƤt. Das Bild von Herbert Wehner

21494 journalartikel
C. Meyer

Die Ƅra Wehner. Messlatte und Mythos.

21492 sammelbandbeitrag
C. Meyer

Greta Wehner. Eine Frau tritt aus dem SChatten

München: Langen Müller Verlag (LMV), 2024
ISBN: 978-3-7844-3721-7
21493 monographie
C. Meyer

Das Archiv der Herbert-und-Greta-Wehner-Stiftung

Appeared in: Mitteilungen des Fƶrderkreises Archive und Bibliotheken zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung e.V. 61 (2022), P. 10 – 14
19258 journalartikel

2018–2023

Member of the University Council at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences

2012–2018

Member of the Senate of Mittweida University of Applied Sciences

2012–2021

Dean of Studies for the Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work

2006

Publication of the biography *Herbert Wehner*, more

1998–2011

Full-time Educational Director and Managing Director of the Herbert-Wehner-Bildungswerk e.V. in Dresden (adult education, political education, more

1997

Head of the Department for Support During Studies and Alumni Relations at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Bonn (organisation of seminars during studies, alumni relations)

1954–1972

Studied history, politics and German language and literature in Cologne; obtained a PhD in medieval and modern history with a thesis on Wilhelm Wolfgang Schütz and the ā€˜Undivided Germany’ Trust

  • Vice-Rector for Education at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences – more
  • Director of the ā€˜Institute for Competence, Communication and Languages (IKKS)’ at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences (including General Studies (Studium Generale)) more

Committees

  • Herbert and Greta Wehner Foundation (Chair, more)
  • Friedrich Ebert Foundation e.V. (Member of the Selection Committee)
  • SoPro – Social Projects in the New Federal States e.V. (Chair)
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