Eckard Michels

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Eckard Michels (born August 2, 1962 in Delmenhorst ) is a German modern historian. He teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London .

Life

Michels graduated from the Willms-Gymnasium in Delmenhorst in 1981. He then did military service, served briefly in the Foreign Legion and studied history , political science , public law and Romance studies at the University of Hamburg from 1983 to 1989 . After completing his master's degree, he worked as a research assistant at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg from 1989 to 1993, and in 1993 he worked with Klaus-Jürgen Müller with the dissertation The German Institute in Paris 1940-1944. A contribution to the German-French cultural relations and the foreign cultural policy of the Third Reich to the Dr. phil. PhD . From 1993 to 1995 he completed a museum traineeship at the Bonn House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany . In 1995/96 he was a DAAD research fellow at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris . In 1996/97 he worked as an election observer for the OSCE mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Since 1997 he has been teaching, initially as a DAAD specialist lecturer, and since 2009 as a reader in German History at the Department of Cultures and Languages ​​at Birkbeck College in London. In 2007 he completed his habilitation at the Helmut Schmidt University with a biography of the colonial officer Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck . In 2008 the work received the Werner Hahlweg Prize for Military History .

In 2010 his VfZ article about the Spanish flu in Germany at the end of the First World War received an award.

Fonts (selection)

  • The German Institute in Paris 1940–1944. A contribution to the Franco-German cultural relations and to the foreign cultural policy of the Third Reich (= Studies on Modern History , Volume 46). Steiner, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-515-06381-1 .
  • Germans in the Foreign Legion 1870–1965. Myths and Realities (= War in History , Volume 2). Schöningh, Paderborn 1999, ISBN 3-506-74471-2 , 5th edition, 2006.
  • From the German Academy to the Goethe Institute. Language and foreign cultural policy. 1923–1960 (= Studies on Contemporary History , Volume 70). Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-486-57807-3 .
  • "The hero of German East Africa". Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. A Prussian colonial officer . Schöningh, Paderborn 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-76370-9 .
  • Guillaume, the spy. A German-German career . Links, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86153-708-3 .
  • Shah visit in 1967. Fanal for the student movement. Links, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86153-943-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deike Uhtenwoldt: Ambassador of German culture . In: Die Welt , July 24, 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Michels, Eckard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Delmenhorst