Benjamin Ziemann

Benjamin Ziemann (2015)

Benjamin Ziemann (born July 17, 1964 in Berlin ) is a German historian .

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Benjamin Ziemann completed an agricultural training course in Müden / Örtze in the Lüneburg Heath in 1983/1984 . From 1984 to 1991 he studied history and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and from 1992 to 1995 he was a scholarship holder of the graduate school on social history at the University of Bielefeld, which is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation . There he received his doctorate in 1996 with a study of rural war experiences in Bavaria 1914–1923 . In 1994 he worked on a scholarship from the Historial de la Grande Guerre in Péronne , France. From 1996 to 2004 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In 2000 he received the Rudolf von Bennigsen Foerder Prize from the Ministry for Schools, Further Education, Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. From 2003 to 2004 he conducted research with a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Department of History at the University of York . In 2004 he completed his habilitation with the thesis Catholic Church and Social Sciences 1945–1975 at the Ruhr University Bochum. In 2005 Ziemann lectured at the International University Bremen .

Since 2005 he has worked at the Department of History at the University of Sheffield , from 2005 to 2010 as a lecturer and reader and since 2011 as a professor of modern German history. In doing so, he continues the specialization established by William Carr and Ian Kershaw in modern German history. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 2007 . In 2010/2011 he was visiting professor at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . Since October 2018 he has been one of the co-editors of the Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft .

His main research interests include peace research , the social history of religion, military history , the history of science and the theory of history .

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Monographs

• Front and home. Rural war experiences in southern Bavaria 1914–1923. Dissertation. University of Essen 1995/1996. Changed book edition: Klartext, Essen 1997, ISBN 978-3-88474-547-2 .
  English: War experiences in rural Germany. 1914-1923. Berg, Oxford / New York 2007, ISBN 1-8452-0244-9 .
• Catholic Church and Social Sciences 1945–1975 (= Critical Studies in History . Volume 175). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-35156-7 (habilitation thesis. University of Bochum, 2004).
  English: Encounters with modernity. The Catholic Church in West Germany, 1945–1975. Berghahn, Oxford / New York 2014, ISBN 978-1-78238-344-4 .
• Social history of religion. From the Reformation to the present. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-38916-5 .
• The future of the republic? The Reich Banner Black-Red-Gold 1924–1933. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Archive of Social Democracy, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-86872-690-9 .
• Violence in the First World War. Kill - Survive - Refuse. Klartext, Essen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8375-0887-1 .
• Contested commemorations. Republican was veterans and Weimar political culture. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013, ISBN 978-1-107-02889-0 .
  German: Veterans of the Republic. War memory and democratic politics 1918–1933. Dietz, Bonn 2014, ISBN 978-3-8012-4222-0 .
• The German Empire 1871–1918. Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 2016, DNB 1107030447 .
• Martin Niemöller. A life in opposition. DVA, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-421-04712-0 .

Editorships

• with Bernd Ulrich : Everyday life at the front in World War I. Sources and documents. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-12544-8 .
• with Thomas Kühne : What is military history? (= War in History . Volume 6). Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2000, ISBN 3-506-74475-5 .
• with Bernd Ulrich, Jakob Vogel : Subject in uniform. Military and militarism in the German Empire, 1871–1914. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-596-14903-7 .
• Perspectives in historical peace research. Klartext, Essen 2002, ISBN 3-89861-078-0 .
• with Thomas Mergel : European Political History 1870–1913. Ashgate, Aldershot et al. 2007, ISBN 978-0-7546-2630-5 .
• Peace Movements in Western Europe, Japan and the USA during the Cold War. Klartext, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-763-5 .
• with Bernd Ulrich: Everyday life at the front in World War I. A historical reader. Klartext, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8375-0015-8 .
• with Miriam Dobson: Reading Primary Sources. Routledge, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-415-42956-6 .
• with Kerstin Brückweh, Dirk Schumann , Richard Wetzell: Engineering Society. The Role of the Human and Social Sciences in Modern Societies, 1880–1980. Palgrave, Basingstoke 2012, ISBN 978-1-349-32680-8 .
• with Matthew Grant: Understanding the Imaginary War. Culture, Thought and Nuclear Conflict, 1945-90 . Manchester University Press, Manchester 2016, ISBN 978-1-78499-440-2 .
• with Alf Christophersen : Martin Niemöller. Thoughts on the way of the Christian Church. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2019, ISBN 978-3-579-08544-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Benjamin Ziemann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Benjamin Ziemann on the University of Sheffield website
• Short biography and reviews of works by Benjamin Ziemann at perlentaucher.de
• Works by Benjamin Ziemann on Academia.edu

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vademecum of the historical sciences. 10th edition, 2012/2013. Steiner, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-515-10079-3 , p. 642.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Benjamin Ziemann - new co-editor of the ZfG. In: Journal of History . 66, Heft 10, 2018, p. 796 ( table of contents ).
3. ^ Members of the Royal Historical Society .