Arnd Bauerkämper

Arnd Bauerkämper (born August 20, 1958 in Detmold ) is a German historian .

Life

Bauerkämper studied history, received his doctorate in 1989 from Bielefeld University and completed his habilitation in 2001 at the Free University of Berlin . In 2007 he became an adjunct professor there and in 2009 professor of the history of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Research areas

Arnd Bauerkämper researches and publishes primarily on the history of Great Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries, on fascism in Europe and on the social history of the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR, as well as on democracy and civil society in the Federal Republic in the transatlantic relationship to the USA and on the relations between Europe and the Middle and Far East. Methodologically and theoretically, the history of comparisons and entanglements is a constant focus in Arnd Bauerkämmer's work.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• The controversial memory. The memory of National Socialism, Fascism and War in Europe since 1945 , Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-77549-8 .
• Fascism in Europe, 1918–1945. Reclam, Stuttgart 2006.
• The social history of the GDR (= Encyclopedia of German History , Vol. 76). Oldenbourg, Munich 2005.
• Rural society in the communist dictatorship. Forced modernization and tradition in Brandenburg 1945–1963. Böhlau, Cologne 2002 (also: habilitation thesis) ( digitized on zeitgeschichte-digital.de. ).
• The "radical right" in Great Britain. Nationalist, anti-Semitic and fascist movements from the late 19th century to 1945. (= Critical Studies in History . Vol. 93), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1991 (also: Dissertation).

Edited volumes / editorships

• with Francesco Di Palma (ed.): Brotherly parties beyond the Iron Curtain. Relations between the SED and the Communist Parties of Western and Southern Europe (1968–1989). Berlin 2011.
• with Elise Julien: Hold on! War and Society in Comparison 1914–1918. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010.
• with Jürgen Nautz: Between care and pastoral care. Christian churches in European civil societies since the 18th century. Campus, Frankfurt / M. 2009.
• with Christiane Eisenberg : Britain as a Model of Modern Society? German Views. Wißner, Augsburg 2006.

Web links

• Literature by and about Arnd Bauerkämper in the catalog of the German National Library
• University website on Arnd Bauerkämper