Theses supervised by Prof. Dr. Rolf-Ulrich Kunze


List of selected master theses topics in political history since 2007


  • Everyday life in the GDR - Ostalgie and memory today


  • Alex Möller: Shaping by Mandate. The years until 1961


  • Analysis of the Marching Season of the "Peace People". References to the Northern Ireland Conflict and to Approaches of Peace Research


  • Aspects of the establishment of fascist rule in Italy until mid-1929.


  • 'Bendix, Please Stay with Justus.' A Report from the Self-Development Zone 'New Bourgeoisie


  • The Enemy Image of Islam - Historical Reasons for its Emergence and Development


  • German imperialism using the example of the Baghdad Railway


  • The historical publicist Joachim Fest - a work biographical attempt


  • The Holocaust. History of interpretation by Hannah Arendt, Zygmunt Baumann, Dan Diner and Hans Mommsen


  • Scientific-technical progress in Jules Verne's Extraordinary Journeys (1864-1914). Between Euphoria and Resignation


  • German missionaries in Asia in the 19th century. Curse or Blessing for the Indigenous Societies of Asia?


  • The Representation of the RAF in Film. Germany in Autumn - Dead Pool, The Baader-Meinhof Complex.


  • German Emigration in the 19th Century with Special Reference to Baden


  • The dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas in Greece, 1939-1941


  • The development of the image of Germany in the textbooks for teaching history in the general education schools of the GDR


  • The formation of the Mafia in Sicily as a result of mentality-related and socio-historical social structures


  • The Cultural Identity of the Netherlands after 1945


  • The RAF and the Collective Memory of the Federal Republic of Germany


  • End of the Second World War: End of the War until 1945 - Occupation Policy from 1945 onwards from the American Perspective


  • The Reception of Calvinism in Germany - A Research Report'


  • Dr. phil. habil. Hans Jüngst, 1901-1944. A Life in the German Age of Extremes (published by KIT Scientific Publishing: https://www.ksp.kit.edu/9783866448094)


  • 'Women under National Socialism. A Research Report'


  • History in Children's and Youth Books. An analysis of the development of German-language children's and youth literature from 1945 to the present, with special reference to works that tell the story.


  • Main lines of domestic politics in the German Empire under Imperial Chancellor Otto von Bismarck


  • National Socialism in Württemberg using the example of Marbach am Neckar


  • Leopold II and the Congo Free State


  • Narrative morphologies of history, world view and spatial understanding


  • Concepts of Nature and their Typologies - A Meta-Analysis in the History of Ideas


  • Personnel Purges at the Technical University of Karlsruhe 1933-1937


  • Russia and the Chechen Conflict. A Historical Outline


  • From 'People's Socialism' to the Politics of the 'Sudeten German Revolution'. Wenzel Jaksch and his confrontation with National Socialism