Prozesse kollegialen Entscheidens Tagung der Vereinigung für Verfassungsgeschichte in Mainz vom 27. bis 29. Februar 2024

Monika Wienfort has been a professor of Brandenburg-Prussian history at the University of Potsdam since 2022. She studied history, sociology, and German studies at the universities of Bochum and Bielefeld, obtaining her doctorate in Bielefeld in 1990. In 1999, she completed her habilitation. Various teaching and research assignments led her to the Technical University of Berlin, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the FRIAS/Freiburg, the University of Wuppertal, and Humboldt University of Berlin, among others. Her fields of research include legal and constitutional history, the history of marriage and family, as well as the history of monarchy and nobility in the 19th century. Important publications: »Geschichte Preußens«, 4th edition, 2025; edited jointly with Birgit Aschmann, »Zwischen Licht und Schatten. Das Kaiserreich (1871-1914) und seine neuen Kontroversen«, Frankfurt a.M. 2022.