Allan Mitchell

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Allan Mitchell (born March 28, 1933 in Pittsburgh , † October 30, 2016 ) was an American historian and university professor .

Allan Mitchell was of Scottish descent. He studied under Gerhard Ritter at the University of Freiburg in 1954/55 . In the 1950s he toured Italy and France on a scooter. The experiences he made in Europe, which was still torn apart by the war, shaped him very much. He spent an academic year in Paris (1958/59). While studying in Paris, Alfred Grosser suggested the topic of his dissertation . He received his Masters from Duke University and another Masters from Middlebury College . He finished his dissertation at Harvard on the Bavarian Soviet Republic . At Harvard, he was particularly influenced by William L. Langer . After receiving his doctorate, he taught at Smith College from 1961 to 1972 . From 1973 to 1994 he taught as a professor of history at the University of California, San Diego . At 61, Mitchell retired early and went to live with his two daughters and their families in Boulder , Colorado . Mitchell served on the editorial board of Central European History and American Historical Review .

In 1971 he presented a description of Otto von Bismarck . In this study he worked out the centrality of France in Bismarck's foreign policy thinking. In 1979, 1984 and 1991 he published a trilogy on the German influence on France's Third Republic from 1871 to the First World War. His most important work on railway policy and the railway networks in Germany and France emerged from ten years of research and was published in 2000. He published his long-term research on the comparative and relational history of France and Germany in 2006. In 2008, he published a history of the German occupation of France from 1940 to 1944. During the German occupation, he emphasized a mixture between the politics of subjugation and the closest cooperation. This behavior was fundamentally different from that in the subjected Eastern European countries. Fleeing Nazi Germany , published in 2011 . Five Historians Migrate to America , he dealt with Felix Gilbert , Werner Angress , Klemens von Klemperer , Peter Gay and Fritz Stern . He knew all of the historians personally and fled the Nazi regime to the United States in the 1930s. Research in the German Literature Archive in Marbach resulted in two brief biographical studies on Ernst Jünger (2011) and Carl Zuckmayer (2016). In 2011 his autobiography Witnessing Postwar Europe was published .

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Monographs

  • Revolution in Bavaria 1918–1919. The Eisner Regime and the Soviet Republic. University Press, Princeton, 1965.
    • German translation: Revolution in Bavaria 1918/1919. The Eisner government and the Soviet republic. Beck, Munich 1967.
  • The great train race. Railways and the Franco-German rivalry, 1815-1914. Berghahn Books, New York 2000, ISBN 1-571-81166-4 .
  • A stranger in Paris. Germany's role in republican France, 1870–1940. Berghahn Books, New York 2006, ISBN 1-84545-125-2 .
  • Nazi Paris. The history of an occupation, 1940-1944. Berghahn Books, New York 2008, ISBN 1-84545-451-0 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Jürgen Kocka: Allan Mitchell (1933-2016). In: Francia , Vol. 44 (2017), pp. 429-431, here: p. 431.
personal data
SURNAME Mitchell, Allan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 2016