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Quand un professeur atteint l’âge de la retraite, il est de coutume de lui offrir un volume en son honneur. Le cas le plus fréquent est un volume d’hommages, de ses collègues et anciens étudiants. Plus rarement, c’est un recueil des articles rédigés par luimême qui est proposé. On peut débattre de la meilleure solution, mais la seconde a l’avantage d’offrir au souscripteur ou à l’acheteur un ensemble d’études publiées dans des revues ou des actes de colloque divers, et c’est celle qui a été choisie par les étudiants de Heribert Müller, à l’occasion de ses soixantecinq ans, le 16 mars 2011. ...
Zeitgeschichte in Germany has now been focusing for some time on the 1970s and 1980s, and has produced a substantial number of studies on the period "after the boom" (Lutz Raphael/Anselm DoeringManteuffel). By contrast, the history of the (West) German historical profession is still lagging behind and remains by and large confined to the first two postwar decades. What makes this gap even more problematic is the fact that most of the existing historiographical texts have been written by historians at the very center of the new developments during the 1970s, most notably Hans-Ulrich Wehler and Jürgen Kocka, or by sympathetic observers such as Georg Iggers. Thus the critical evaluation of these decades remains a historiographical desideratum. The present volume, a Gedenkschrift for the late Wolfgang J. Mommsen, constitutes a step in the right direction. ...