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Engineers in Germany

Social Situation, Mentalities and Politics 1890-1933

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Authors:
  1. Tobias Sander

    1. University of Applied Science and Arts, Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen, Germany

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  • Situation, mentalities and politics of engineers in Germany 1890 - 1933
  • Revised new edition
  • Synthesis of sociology of professions, inequality and political sociology - on the historical object

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: Social and Political Consequences of the Academization of German Engineers in the Nineteenth Century to 1933

    • Tobias Sander
    Pages 1-15

  3. The German Engineering Boom – Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth-Century

    • Tobias Sander
    Pages 17-30

  4. Broken Professionalization: Qualifications and Professional Positions of German Engineers (Nineteenth Century to 1933)

    • Tobias Sander
    Pages 31-49

  5. The Working Life of German Engineers in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century: From Universal Experts to Managed Specialists

    • Tobias Sander
    Pages 51-64

  6. The Labour Market of German Engineers: Between Economic and Social Dynamics (Nineteenth Century to 1933)

    • Tobias Sander
    Pages 65-78

  7. German Engineers in the Nineteenth Century to 1933: Salaries and Social Situation in Professional Comparison

    • Tobias Sander
    Pages 79-92

  8. Critique of Technology and German Engineers in Modern Society (Nineteenth Century to 1933)

    • Tobias Sander
    Pages 93-120

  9. Prevented Bourgeoisification: Lifestyles and Mentalities of German Engineers and Other Middle-Class Groups in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

    • Tobias Sander
    Pages 121-140

  10. Between Interest Policies and Right-Wing Utopia: German Engineers in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

    • Tobias Sander
    Pages 141-169

  11. Variants of Academic Organization: Professional Core Strategies of German Engineers (1918–1930)

    • Tobias Sander
    Pages 171-193

  12. Ideology of Intellectual Work and Völkisch-Conservative Radicalization of German Engineers 1927–1933

    • Tobias Sander
    Pages 195-239

  13. Social Situation, Mentalities and Politics of German Engineers 1890–1933: Summary

    • Tobias Sander
    Pages 241-252

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 253-297
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About this book

Engineers represent the (industrial) modern age like no other profession. In the German Empire and the Weimar Republic, however, the enormous numerical expansion of the profession was contrasted by comparatively unfavorable working conditions and incomes. This was particularly true of the graduate engineers, whose academization failed to meet industrial requirements. Can the völkisch, right-wing political radicalization of many technical experts on the eve of the 'Third Reich' actually be fully explained by these professional-social frictions?

Data on the professional-social situation, consumption, leisure time and political behaviour of engineers in the higher and academic professions, which have been made available for the first time, already reveal the contours of late-modern, contemporary society in the period under consideration. This makes more complex explanatory approaches necessary and enables general insights into the dynamics of social crises.

This study of (historical) professional, inequality, and political sociology is published in its third, fully revised edition.


This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.


Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Applied Science and Arts, Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen, Germany

    Tobias Sander

About the author

Prof. Dr. Tobias Sander is full Professor of Sociology at the HAWK Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst - University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Engineers in Germany

  • Book Subtitle: Social Situation, Mentalities and Politics 1890-1933

  • Authors: Tobias Sander

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-41797-0

  • Publisher: Springer Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-41796-3Published: 10 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-41797-0Published: 09 January 2024

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 297

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Political Sociology, Social Sciences, general, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Sociology of Work

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