Dissertations

2019

• Lilly-Britt Weiß: "The latest advances in tailoring." On the Formalization of Cutting Techniques in the Tailoring Trade in the 19th Century (KIT / HTW Berlin, first referee).
• Philipp Vogler: The German Military Aerial Reconnaissance. From the Beginnings to the End of World War II (KIT, second referee).

2017

• Nina Lorkowski: White Goods, Bodies, Dirt. Personal hygiene and the changing use of energy in private households (ca. 1880-1939) (TU Munich, third referee).

2016

• Frank Müller: The transformation of the cultural landscape in the Peitz area as a result of several hundred years of operation of the ironworks there (mid-16th to 19th century) (BTU Cottbus, second referee)

2015

• Peter P. Dahms: The beginnings of passenger transport by rail in Prussia 1835-1860 (TU Berlin, first referee)

• Verena Lehmbrock: Raising Agriculture to the Status of a Science. Zur Wissenschaftsreflexion deutscher ökonomischer Aufklärer 1750-1820 (TU Berlin, second referee)

M.A. Theses (KIT)

2021

• "We are all astronauts!" - Context and impact of the techno-ecological metaphor of Spaceship Earth.

2020

• Il regno dimenticato. The forgotten empire of the Bourbons

2019

• The Upper Rhine and its Industrialization. Changes in environment and trade between Basel and Mannheim (1817-1959).
• System immanence and critique in the science fiction film of the GDR. A structural analysis
• Erlebnisraum Kino. On the history of the Karlsruhe movie theaters

M.A. Thesis (TU Berlin)

2017

• Aesthetics, taste and feeling as the subject of engineering? On the theory and practice of product design at Junkers-Werke under the influence of the Bauhaus (1925-1935).
• Drones. On the innovation history of unmanned aerial vehicles in the 20th century - concepts, actors, artifacts.
• The View into Space. Space and Space Travel in Technical Magazines of the FRG and GDR between 1954 and 1970
• Electromobility in the 1970s and 1980s. The revival of a vision and its failure in the face of reality
• Right before left? On the introduction of right-hand driving regulations in European countries in the 20th century
• Revolution "Made in Japan" - The Reorganization of the Motorcycle Market in the FRG (1960-1979)
• Technical Museums in the GDR Claims, Concepts, Realizations
• Atomic Age: The Beginning of Commercial Use of Nuclear Energy in the FRG Using the Example of the Kahl Experimental Nuclear Power Plant
• New approaches to the history of transport infrastructure using the example of the Ruhleben emigrant railway station (1890-1914)

2016

• The medieval air heating of the Cistercian monastery Doberan in the context of the development of pre-modern heating technology
• The bicycle between demarcation and appropriation. On the (re)construction of gender in bicycle history.
• Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. On the Evaluation of a Revolutionary Aircraft Design from the Perspective of Technical History
• Mobility on Small Wheels. Mass motorization in the GDR using the example of motor scooters from VEB Industriewerke Ludwigsfelde
• Urban hygiene and optimism for progress in 19th century Berlin. Scientific Collaborations and Technical Interventions to Solve the Urban Health Question
• Smartphone screen versus text board. Digital Media as a New Instrument of Mediation of Historical Knowledge in Technical Museums
• Doing Gender through Prosthetics. On the (re)construction of masculinities through prosthetic technology (second reviewer).

2015

• The development of automobile advertising from 1890 to 1960 based on a qualitative cross-sectional analysis of print advertisements
• The significance of advances in construction technology for architecture and urban design: a comparison between classical Greece and the Roman imperial period.
• Justus Christoph Dithmar and his work "Einleitung in die Oeconomische-Policey-Und Cameral- Wissenschafften" in the Context of the "Economic Enlightenment
• Regional impact of the Niederfinow ship lifts on infrastructure, economy and environment (1926-today)
• "From the camera to the lock cylinder. The product history of Zeiss Ikon AG and the establishment of the profile cylinder as a standard in security technology, 1919-1999" (FU Berlin, second referee).
• From the "electronic hermitage" to the savior of the "information society": Telework in Germany since the 1980s (FU Berlin, second referee)
• Electrification History of Großbardorf. A Case Study of Decentralized Electricity Supply in the 1920s

B.A. Works (KIT)

2021

• Doping in the GDR. On the coverage in selected print media using the example of athletics between 1989 and 1999.
• The Rassenhygienische Forschungsstelle (RHF) and the Porajmos (second referee).
• Changes in German-Soviet Relations from 1933 to 1941 (second referee)

2020

• Risk communication in nuclear disasters - the example of Chernobyl
• History as a service. Does history marketing meet the demands of historical scholarship?

2019

• "But Edward had no turn for great men or barouches." On the significance of carriages in Jane Austen's novels.

B.A. Theses (TU Berlin)

2017

• The museum of the future: what innovation potentials do virtual and augmented reality offer?
• The interaction of pilot and machine in aviation in the early 20th century.
• SOS - The transformation of communication technologies in sea rescue in the 20th century.

2016

• Household Technology. Methodical approaches to their research in the history of technology
• Technical Universities under National Socialism. On the debate about behavior and responsibility of university teachers and student body
• Tenements as a building task for architects in Roman antiquity
• How did Leon Battista Alberti's theory change architectural practice? The scale drawing as an element of architectural planning in the early modern period
• Flying boats - a failed innovation? On the technical-historical analysis of a mobility technology 1920-1960

2015

• Television and Law - On the Standardization of Color Television Sets in Germany in the 1950s and 60s.
• The Bow in the Middle Ages. To what extent can reenactment complement findings from written and visual sources?
• Autobiographies of Key Figures in the Automotive Industry as a Source for the History of Mobility in the First Half of the 20th Century
• The history of the development of the diesel engine
• On the cultural and technical history of the record player as a musical instrument (1971-2000)
• Growian - a failed innovation?
• The significance of the World's Fair of 1851 from the perspective of the history of technology
• Breaking, repairing and reusing. The life cycle of goods as a new topic in the history of technology
• "Konrad Zuse and the beginning of the computer age"? An analysis of the exhibition at the German Museum of Technology in Berlin
• Criticism of the Beginning of Motorization in Germany and the USA in the Interwar Period