Ewald Grothe

Grothe has been co-publisher of the Yearbook of Liberalism Research since 2012 and the Yearbook of the Brothers Grimm Society since 2000.

As of April 2011, he has been appointed head of the Archive of Liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach, succeeding Monika Faßbender.

Grothe is co-editor of the Quellen zur Brüder Grimm-Forschung (since 2010) (together with Rotraut Fischer et al.) as well as of the publications of the Dimitris Tsatsos Institute for European Constitutional Studies (since 2015) (together with Arthur Benz et al.).

In 1995, Grothe won the Wilhelm Liebknecht Prize of the university town of Gießen for his dissertation. From 2000 to 2002 he received a habilitation scholarship from the German Research Foundation and a research grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation in 2010–11.

Ewald Grothe grew up in the small town of Bredenborn in the district of Höxter. After graduating from the Städtisches Gymnasium in Brakel, Grothe studied history, public law, and history of law at the Philipps-Universität Marburg from 1981 and graduated with a master's degree. He received his doctorate there in 1994 under Hellmut Seier on the constitutional history of the Electorate of Hesse. Between 1992 and 1995 he was a fellow of the graduate program "Medieval and Modern Statehood (10th-19th Century)" at the Justus Liebig University Gießen and from 1993 to 1995 he was a research assistant at the "Research Center Georg Büchner – Literature and History of the Vormärz" at the University of Marburg. In 1995 he went to the Bergische Universität Wuppertal as a research assistant to Hartwig Brandt, where he habilitated in 2003 on German constitutional historiography in the 20th century. In 2004 he was appointed as a Privatdozent in Wuppertal, and in 2009 he was appointed as an extraordinary professor. Since 2007 he has also been teaching at the University of Cologne. In 2007/2008 he was an associate lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Kassel. From 2006 to 2010 he was a supervisor in the doctoral program "Social Interests and Political Will Formation. Constitutional Cultures in Historical Contexts" at the Historical Institute of the FernUniversität in Hagen.

Ewald Grothe (born 23 February 1961 in Nieheim, Westphalia) is a German historian. Since 2009 he has been an extraordinary professor at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and since 2011 he has been head of the Archive of Liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach.