Summary information

Study title

The Studentbody of the University of Cologne in the Weimar Republic

Creator

Henning, Friedrich-Wilhelm (Seminar für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Universität zu Köln )

Study number / PID

ZA8121, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.8121 (DOI)

Data access

Information not available

Series

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Abstract

The study deals with the history of the University of Cologne. Information about Students and teaching staff of the University were collected. The study is into two parts: The first part covers the report period between 1919 and 1935, for which the information of the students were collected from the Complete Registration Register of Students at the University of Cologne. The second part covers the period between 1919 and 1989 and deals with information about the amount of students and teaching staff at the University´s faculties. The data-type of Part 1 are individual data, while the data-type of Part 2 are time series. Topics: Part 1: Complete registration register of students at the University of Cologne with extensive information: name, registration No., place of birth, religion, times of studies, occupation, occupation of father, belonging to student organizations, etc. Part 2: Amount of students and structure of the teaching staff. Tables in the ZA-Online-Database HISTAT: - Students by faculties and by sex in absolute and in percent, - Proportion of the student´s total amount per faculty and total amount of university professors per faculty, - Percentage of faculties´ amount of students of the university´s total number of students, - Structure of teaching staff.

Topics

Methodology

Data collection period

1919 - 1989

Country

Germany

Time dimension

Time series

Analysis unit

Organization/Institution

Universe

Not available

Sampling procedure

Census

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Evaluation of archive materials.Part 1:Evaluation of the Students Registery Records of the Univeristy of Cologne. Evaluation of the University´s archive materials.Part 2:Evaluation of various Sources:Statistical Yearbook of Cologne;Statistical reports of the regional statistics agency of North-Rhine-Westfalia; university calendar;Register of employees of the University of Cologne;Files of the University´s administration.

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1995

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

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