Alf Lüdtke

Alf Lüdtke

Alf Lüdtke (born 18 October 1943 in Dresden) (also Alf Luedtke) is a German social historian who wrote in the 1970s and beyond.

Works

One of his articles, "The Role of State Violence in the Period of Transition to Industrial Capitalism: The Example of Prussia from 1815 to 1848,” was published in Social History in 1979. His article describes the idea that state violence under the feudal system was necessary to create a control amongst the Prussian working class in order to prepare them for the different structure of capitalist society. Lüdtke was interested in how the growth of state and the growth of capitalism related to each other.[1]

Together with Hans Medick, he founded the Alltagsgeschichte, a form of microhistory that was particularly prevalent amongst German historians during the 1980s.

References

  1. ↑ Lüdtke, Alf. "The Role of State Violence in the Period of Transition to Industrial Capitalism: The Example of Prussia from 1815 to 1848,” Social History 4 (1979): 175-221 (JSTOR).


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