ZDF

The car as an extended living room - a seatbelt might just get in the way... Who does not remember one's own experiences with the "inertial force" when braking the car - without a seatbelt? Seat belts have been compulsory for 50 years now. In an interview on ZDF's "hallo deutschland" program on January 5, Silke Zimmer-Merkle puts the state's life-saving intervention in the privacy of German drivers in the context of technological history.

Martin Ullmann/KIT

Anna Onufriienko (Karlsruhe) spoke at the research colloquium on December 2 on the topic of Prof. Dr. Rudolf Plank's Soviet Journeys: Refrigeration Technologies in the Context of the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine. Plank was Professor of Thermodynamics and Refrigeration Technology at the Technical University of Karlsruhe (later Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) from 1925-1954.

V&R

Dr. Anne Sudrow (Berlin) was a guest at the History Department's research colloquium on November 25. In her lecture, she discussed the research and production of herbal medicines carried out under inhumane conditions in the so-called "herb garden" of the Dachau concentration camp by the SS company "Deutsche Versuchsanstalt für Ernährung und Verpflegung".

teksomolika/Freepic

The 44th "History of Technology Conference" of the Eisenbibliothek in Schaffhausen/CH on November 14 and 15, 2025 dealt with the topic "Low-Tech: Procedures, Actors, Concepts". Silke Zimmer-Merkle gave a presentation on the question "Are children's mobilities (s)low-tech? Reflections on the historical example of the scooter". The conference papers will be published in the journal Ferrum.

KIT

Here you can find out more about studying History at the KIT.

Program:

7:45-13:00h Information booth of the Faculty GeistSoz (Audimax, Building 30.95, Straße am Forum 1)

09:45-10:30h Liberal Arts and Sciences at KIT (INFORMATIKOM/Geb. 50.19, seminar room 4)

10:30-11:15h History in the LAS - student advisory service (INFORMATIKOM/Geb. 50.19, seminar room 4), hybrid event

11:30 - 13:00h Seminar "Orientation History" gives an introduction to studying History at KIT (Building 30.91, Franz-Haber-Weg 7, Room 012)

Thorbecke

On November 10, 2025, the volume will be published in the series "Oberrheinische Studien" under the editorship of Marcus Popplow and others. The anthology consists of contributions that were produced as part of the annual conference of the AG für geschichtliche Landeskunde am Oberrhein on October 7-8, 2022. In his report, Tilman Wagle examines the conflicts of use in fishing on the Murg.