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Monographs
Lutz, Martin. Carl von Siemens: Ein Leben zwischen Familie und Weltfirma, 1829–1906. München: C.H. Beck, 2013.
English translation: Carl Von Siemens: 1829–1906. A Life Between Family and World Firm. Translated by Bill Chilcot. Maria Foundation, 2016.
Russian translation: Karl fon Simens, 1829–1906: Zhizn mezhdu semei i vsermirno isvestnoi kompaniei. Translated and published by Siemens Office Moscow, 2014.
Reviews in academic journals: The Journal of Modern History, Historische Zeitschrift, H-Soz-Kult, Archiv und Wirtschaft
Media reviews (selected): FAZ March and July 2013, taz, Der Spiegel Geschichte, Der Standard, Süddeutsche Zeitung
This book details how a family firm transformed itself into a global industrial leader in the 19th century, focusing on the story of Carl Siemens, the younger brother of founder Werner Siemens. The biography follows Carl from his childhood and youth to his long-term career as a transnational entrepreneur moving between Berlin, St. Petersburg, and London. It highlights business successes such as constructing a transatlantic submarine telegraph cable and an Indo-European overland telegraph cable, well as how the Tsar’s Winter Palace in St. Petersburg was first illuminated with electric lighting. It also addresses the personal dimension of entrepreneurship, Carl’s German nationalism, and, above all, his close connection to the Siemens family.
Lutz, Martin. Siemens im Sowjetgeschäft: Eine Institutionengeschichte der deutsch-sowjetischen Beziehungen 1917–1933. Perspektiven der Wirtschaftsgeschichte 1. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011.
Reviews in academic journals: Business History Review, German Studies Review, H-Soz-Kult, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Historische Zeitschrift, Archiv und Wirtschaft
Lenin’s concise summary of communism as “ Soviet power plus the electrification of the entire country.” Based on my PhD thesis, this book investigates the interaction between the Siemens firm and the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1933. Using Siemens as a case study, it examines the significance of economic factors in German-Soviet relations from an extended institutional theory approach, showing how actors’ mistrust and perceptions of uncertainty as well as their ideologies influence decision-making processes. As I show, perceptions of uncertainty and mistrust significantly influenced Siemens' Soviet business.
Edited Volumes/Issues
Edited Volumes/Issues
Lutz, Martin, Maren Freudenberg, and Moritz Hinsch, eds. Handbuch Wirtschaft und Religion: Deutschland im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Handbücher zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025.
This volume, to be published in 2025, is the first German handbook on economy and religion in its various historical constellations. Its multidisciplinary perspectives from historiography, sociology, economics, and anthropology focus on the 19th and 20th centuries as well as on long-term developments from antiquity to the early modern period.
Skambraks, Tanja, and Martin Lutz, eds. Reassessing the Moral Economy: Religion and Economic Ethics from Ancient Greece to the 20th Century. Palgrave studies in economic history. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
The contributions to this volume widen the scope of E.P. Thompson’s 1971 analytical framework of the “moral economy”, demonstrating how it can be applied across epochal boundaries in different geographical settings in Europe, the Ottoman Empire, and North America. These contributions focusing on religion address a prominent source of moral norms that has so far been neglected in the literature on moral economy.
Gehlen, Boris, Martin Lutz, and Michael Trautwein, Special Issue Guest Editors. “Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Sinn? Unternehmer zwischen Gottesfurcht und Marktglaube im modernen Kapitalismus” (“In Search of Lost Meaning? Businesspeople in Modern Capitalism Between Fear of God and Faith in the Market”). Special issue, Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook 61, no. 1 (2020).
This special issue questions a common assumption in research: the secularity of modern entrepreneurs. Contributions examine how businesspeople have dealt with contingency and how they have constructed meaning in their entrepreneurial activity. This special issue ties in with current discussions in social science and history about the relationship between religion and the economy. By drawing on cultural historical approaches, it offers new insights into the legitimation of entrepreneurial action in modern capitalism.
Wischermann, Clemens, Katja Patzel-Mattern, Martin Lutz, and Thilo Jungkind, eds. Studienbuch institutionelle Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensgeschichte. Perspektiven der Wirtschaftsgeschichte 6. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2015.
This textbook introduces BA, MA, and PhD students to new institutional approaches, providing a theoretical orientation drawing on economics, sociology and political science, and demonstrating how concepts such as preference-formation, legitimacy, and fields can be used for empirical analysis in research papers, final theses, and dissertations.
Journal Articles
Journal Articles
Lutz, Martin. “An Avoidable Dependency? Russian Gas and German Complacency in the History of East–West Energy Relations.” Neue Politische Literatur 69, no. 1 (2024): 10–33.
Lutz, Martin, and David W. Sabean. “Kinship, Conflict and Transnational Coordination: The Siemens Family’s Globalisation Strategies in the Nineteenth Century.” Social History 47, no. 2 (2022): 141–67.
Lutz, Martin and Kim Christian Priemel. “Powering Conquest: How German Corporations Sustained Occupation in World War II Ukraine.” The Journal of Modern History 93, no. 3 (2021): 636–67.
Lutz, Martin. “Religionsgemeinschaftliches Wirtschaften mennonitischer Unternehmer im 20. Jahrhundert.” Abstract available in English: “Entrepreneurship in the Religious Community. Mennonites in Twentieth Century America.“ Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook 61, no. 1 (2020): 161–185.
Gehlen, Boris, and Martin Lutz.“Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Sinn? Unternehmer zwischen Gottesfurcht und Marktglaube im modernden Kapitalismus.” Abstract available in English: “In Search of Lost Meaning? Businesspeople in Modern Capitalism between Fear of God and Faith in the Market.” Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook 61, no. 1 (2020): 19–38.
Freudenberg, Maren, Martin Lutz, and Martin Radermacher. “Gospels of Prosperity and Simplicity: Assessing Variation in the Protestant Moral Economy.” Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 16, Article 8 (2020): 1–47.
Lutz, Martin. “The Amish in the Market: Competing Against the Odds?” American Studies Journal 63, no. 3 (2017): 1–10.
Lutz, Martin. “Explaining Amish Persistence in the Modern Economy: Evidence from the 1940s and Institutional Theory.” Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies 5, no. 2 (2017): 239–257.
Lutz, Martin. “Mennonite Entrepreneurship in the United States: Adapting to the Industrial Economy in the Late 19th Century.” Entreprise et Histoire 81, no. 4 (2015): 29–42.
Lutz, Martin. “Carl von Siemens: Vom "Prussky Ingener" zum transnationalen Unternehmer?” Abstract available in English: “Carl von Siemens: From ’Prussky Ingener’ to Transnational Entrepreneur?” Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 58, no. 2 (2013): 197–213.
Lutz, Martin. “L.B. Krasin und Siemens: Deutsch-sowjetische Wirtschaftsbeziehungen im institutionenökonomischen Paradigma.” Abstract available in English: “L.B. Krasin and Siemens: German-Soviet Economic Relations in Institutionalist Perspective.” Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 95, no. 4 (2008): 391–409.
Lutz, Martin. “Siemens und die Anfänge des Sowjetgeschäfts: Zur Bedeutung von Vertrauen für ökonomisches Handeln.” Abstract available in English: “Siemens and the Beginnings of Soviet Trade: The Importance of Trust for Economic Action”. Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 52, no. 2 (2007): 135–155.
Handbook Chapters
Handbook Chapters
Freudenberg, Maren, Moritz Hinsch, and Martin Lutz. “Einleitung.” In Handbuch Wirtschaft und Religion: Deutschland im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, edited by Martin Lutz, Maren Freudenberg and Moritz Hinsch, 1–16. Handbücher zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025.
Lutz, Martin. “Ideengeschichte im langen 19. Jahrhundert.” In Handbuch Wirtschaft und Religion: Deutschland im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, edited by Martin Lutz, Maren Freudenberg and Moritz Hinsch, 19-43. Handbücher zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025.
Aust, Cornelia, Stefan Hördler, and Martin Lutz. “Judentum.” In Handbuch Wirtschaft und Religion: Deutschland im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, edited by Martin Lutz, Maren Freudenberg and Moritz Hinsch, 237-272. Handbücher zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025.
Lutz, Martin. “Utopia and Moral Economy.” In The Oxford Handbook of Thomas More's Utopia, edited by Cathy Shrank and Phil Withington, 596-613. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.
Lutz, Martin. “Elektroindustrie.” In Deutsche Wirtschaft im Ersten Weltkrieg, edited by Marcel Boldorf, 227-250. Handbücher zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte. München: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2020.
Lutz, Martin. “Religion und Wirtschaft.” In Handbuch Religionssoziologie, edited by Detlef Pollack et al, 715-740. Veröffentlichungen der Sektion Religionssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2018.
Book Chapters
Book Chapters
Derix, Simone, and Martin Lutz. “Kultur- Und Unternehmensgeschichte.” In Perspektiven Der Unternehmensgeschichte, edited by Juliane Czierpka et al. Bochumer Schriften zur Unternehmens- und Industriegeschichte 1. Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2024.
Lutz, Martin, and Tanja Skambraks. “Introduction: Reassessing Moral Economy.” In Reassessing the Moral Economy: Religion and Economic Ethics from Ancient Greece to the 20th Century, edited by Tanja Skambraks and Martin Lutz. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Lutz, Martin. “Leading a ‘Simple’ Life in Modern Capitalism: The Moral Economy of Mennonite Consumption in Mid-20th Century America.” In Reassessing the Moral Economy: Religion and Economic Ethics from Ancient Greece to the 20th Century, edited by Tanja Skambraks and Martin Lutz. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Klement, Judit, Martin Lutz, and Ander Permanyer. “Entrepreneurs, Markets and Companies in Modern History Ca. 1800–1900.” In The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, edited by Jan Hansen et al. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2022.
Lutz, Martin. “Präferenzen: Drei Siemens-Brüder und die Gründung eines ‘Weltgeschäftes á la Fugger’.” In Studienbuch institutionelle Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensgeschichte, edited by Clemens Wischermann et al. Perspektiven der Wirtschaftsgeschichte 6. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2015.
Lutz, Martin. “Akteurszentrierter Institutionalismus.” In Studienbuch institutionelle Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensgeschichte, edited by Clemens Wischermann et al. Perspektiven der Wirtschaftsgeschichte 6. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2015.
Lutz, Martin. “Wirtschaftseliten und Sozialkapital im Sowjetgeschäft von Siemens.” In Das integrative Potential von Elitenkulturen: Festschrift für Clemens Wischermann, edited by Miriam Gebhardt, Katja Patzel-Mattern, and Stefan Zahlmann. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2013.
Lutz, Martin. “Ein Transnationales Geschäft: Kommunikation Und Institutionalisierungsprozesse Zwischen Siemens Und Dem Sowjetischen Außenhandelsapparat Während Der Weimarer Republik.” In Russlands Imperiale Macht: Integrationsstrategien Und Ihre Reichweite in Transnationaler Perspektive, edited by Bianka Pietrow-Ennker. Wien: Böhlau, 2012.
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