Alfred Wahl (historian)

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Alfred Wahl (* 1938 in Colmar ) is a French historian . His thematic focus is on contemporary history and the connections between football and society .

Wahl first worked at a Lycée in Haguenau before starting to teach at the Université Robert-Schuman in Strasbourg , where he had also studied. In 1980 he accepted a professorship at the Université Paul-Verlaine in Metz . In the course of his activity he mainly dealt with the French history of the 19th and German history of the 20th century. He has also published on these topics.

Another focus was added later, namely the role of sport (and particularly football) in modern society. Wahl himself found it “inadmissible and incomprehensible” that his colleagues did not consider this topic worthy of any research work. Even after his retirement (1993) he continued to research in this area and, in particular, together with Pierre Lanfranchi, published several fundamental works on the history of football and its development into professionalism. On the occasion of its 100th anniversary (2004), the world football association FIFA entrusted Alfred Wahl with the publication of a book together with Lanfranchi, the German Christiane Eisenberg and the Englishman Tony Mason and for the first time opened its archives to the authors.

Election is also politically active: the member of the Mouvement républicain et citoyen was the top candidate in the regional elections in 2004 in Alsace, a list combination of MRC, PRG and PCF and 3.74% of the votes cast.

Bibliography (selection)

On the history of Germany and France
  • Les Forces politiques en Allemagne (XIX e et XX e siècle). Armand Colin, Paris 1999
  • Cultures et mentalités en Allemagne (1918-1960), Regards sur l'histoire, SEDES
  • Les français et la France (1859-1889). Regards sur l'histoire, SEDES (two volumes)
  • L'Allemagne de 1918 à 1945. , Armand Colin, 2001
  • La seconde histoire du nazisme dans l'Allemagne fédérale depuis 1945. Armand Colin, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-200-26844-0
  • (as editor): Philippe Husser. Un instituteur alsacien entre France et Allemagne, journal 1914-1951. Hachette, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-01-014357-4
  • (as editor): L'histoire moderne et contemporaine en Sarre-Lorraine-Luxembourg. Metz 1990
  • (as editor together with Rainer Hudemann): Lorraine et Sarre depuis 1870 - Perspectives transfrontalières. Metz 2001
About football
  • Archives du football. Sport et société en France (1880-1980). Gallimard, 1989
  • La ball au pied. Histoire du football. Découvertes Gallimard (nº 83), Gallimard, 1990
  • (together with Pierre Lanfranchi): Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995 ISBN 978-2-0123-5098-4
  • (together with Christiane Eisenberg, Pierre Lanfranchi and Tony Mason): FIFA 1904-2004, un siècle de football. Cherche-Midi 2004 (German: FIFA 1904-2004. 100 years of world football. Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004 ISBN 3-89533-442-1 )

Remarks

  1. ↑ "Le domaine était alors que beaucoup inexploré s'étaient intéressés .... Je trouvais cela inadmissible et sidérant "  - choice in an interview in France Football on February 25, 2005, p. 34
  2. ↑ Results of the 2004 regional elections
personal data
SURNAME Choice, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Colmar