Paul Treffenfeldt
Research Associate | Contemporary History and Archive

Paul Treffenfeldt is a research assistant in the Research Area "Contemporary History and Archives" since March 2024. He previously studied history at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and in the master's programme in history with a focus on contemporary history at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. During his studies, he worked as a student assistant on various projects and at various chairs in Mainz and Berlin. In his Master's thesis, he analysed the relationship between low pay and in-work poverty in Germany after 1990 from the perspective of the history of knowledge. His main areas of interest are economic and knowledge history issues in recent contemporary history. He is currently preparing a dissertation on the history of statistics in Germany.

Projects

Ongoing Third-party Funded Projects

In cooperation with the Federal Statistical Office, the IRS is testing a new approach to historical research on public authorities: in the "GeStat" project, ideas and concepts relating to the politics of the past as well as methodological, personnel and organisational developments at the Federal Statistical Office since the late 1980s are being investigated, taking the incision of the census boycott as a starting point. more info

Selected Publications by Year

2024
Treffenfeldt, P. (2024). Wiede, Wiebke: Das arbeitslose Subjekt. Genealogie einer Sozialfigur in Großbritannien und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland nach dem Boom. Göttingen 2023 , ISBN 978-3-525-36331-7. H-Soz-u-Kult. https://www.hsozkult.de/review/id/reb-141863?title=w-wiede-das-arbeitslose-subjekt&recno=7&q=&sort=&fq=&total=20146
Treffenfeldt, P. (2024, May 18). Tagungsbericht 18. Werkstattgespräch zur DDR Planungsgeschichte. https://www.hsozkult.de/searching/id/fdkn-144168
Treffenfeldt, P. (2024, Mar 2). Tagungsbericht "Lobbyismus und parlamentarische Demokratie. Praktiken und Diskurse im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert". https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-142411
2023
Holzhauser, T., & Treffenfeldt, P. (2023). Demokratisierung durch Wahlausschluss? Die Debatte um das Wahlrecht von NS-Belasteten im Parlamentarischen Rat. Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 71(2), 351-369. https://doi.org/10.1515/vfzg-2023-0017

Selected Publications by Type

Journal Article
Holzhauser, T., & Treffenfeldt, P. (2023). Demokratisierung durch Wahlausschluss? Die Debatte um das Wahlrecht von NS-Belasteten im Parlamentarischen Rat. Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 71(2), 351-369. https://doi.org/10.1515/vfzg-2023-0017
Contribution to Forum or Blog
Treffenfeldt, P. (2024, May 18). Tagungsbericht 18. Werkstattgespräch zur DDR Planungsgeschichte. https://www.hsozkult.de/searching/id/fdkn-144168
Treffenfeldt, P. (2024, Mar 2). Tagungsbericht "Lobbyismus und parlamentarische Demokratie. Praktiken und Diskurse im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert". https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-142411
Review in Journal
Treffenfeldt, P. (2024). Wiede, Wiebke: Das arbeitslose Subjekt. Genealogie einer Sozialfigur in Großbritannien und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland nach dem Boom. Göttingen 2023 , ISBN 978-3-525-36331-7. H-Soz-u-Kult. https://www.hsozkult.de/review/id/reb-141863?title=w-wiede-das-arbeitslose-subjekt&recno=7&q=&sort=&fq=&total=20146

Talks

2023
Employment at any price? Knowledge production on low-wage work and in-work poverty in Germany (1997-2010)

The cost of labour in historical perspective. Social protection, taxation and labour market(s)

November/02/2023
Scuola normale superiore, Pisa, Italy