Bernd Greiner

Bernd Greiner (2012)

Bernd Greiner (born July 20, 1952 in Pirmasens ) is a German historian , political scientist and Americanist .

life and work

Bernd Greiner studied history, political science and English / American studies in Marburg / Lahn and Frankfurt am Main from 1971 to 1978. Greiner spent an academic year in the USA in 1973/74. He received his doctorate in political science at the Philipps University of Marburg in 1984 with a thesis on the National Security Council under Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower (published in an abridged version: Politics on the edge of the abyss? The foreign and military policy of the USA im Cold War , Heilbronn 1986). In 1980 Greiner was appointed to the advisory board of the Institute for Marxist Studies and Research , and from 1987 he was a member of the Center for Marxist Peace Research (ZMF).

In the 1980s he worked as a lecturer at the Universities of Münster and Oldenburg and as a research assistant in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Oldenburg. From 1978 to 1989 he worked on the editorial team of the journal English-American Studies . From 1986 to 1989 Greiner was a research assistant at the Hamburg Foundation for Social History of the 20th Century . From December 1989 to January 2018 he was employed at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research , where from 1994 to 2013 he headed the work area “Theory and History of Violence”. He completed his habilitation in 1997 at the history seminar of the University of Hamburg with a study on the Morgenthau legend and has been teaching there as an adjunct professor since 2004. His study War Without Fronts. The USA in Vietnam has been translated into several languages ​​and has received numerous awards. In 2009 he received the “Willi Paul Adams Award” from the Organization of American Historians for the best foreign-language book on the history of the United States . From March 2015 to January 2018, Greiner headed the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies . This college is a joint project of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, the Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin , the Federal Foundation for Coming to terms with the SED dictatorship and the Humboldt University in Berlin .

His work focuses on the US history of the 20th century - with special reference to the Cold War - the relations between the military and civil society since 1900, the German-American relationship , the German images of America as well as the theory of violence and international relations in the 20th century Century.

Greiner is married to Bettina Greiner , who runs the Willy Brandt House in Lübeck .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• American Foreign Policy from Truman to Today. Policy debates and strategy discussions (= Small Library. Vol. 177). Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-7609-0507-2 .
• The Risk Level Category - A Paradigm for Analyzing American Foreign and Military Policy During the Cold War. Represented using recent source material. (= European university publications. Series 31: Politics. Vol. 74). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1985, ISBN 3-8204-8413-2 (Marburg, University, dissertation, 1984).
• Politics on the Edge of the Abyss? The foreign and military policy of the USA in the Cold War (= Distel-Hefte. 9). Distel-Verlag, Heilbronn 1986, ISBN 3-923208-12-X .
• Cuba crisis. 13 days in October. Analysis, documents, contemporary witnesses (= writings of the Hamburg Foundation for Social History of the 20th Century. Vol. 7). Greno, Nördlingen 1988, ISBN 3-89190-956-X .
• The Morgenthau legend. To the story of a controversial plan. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-930908-07-7 .
• War without fronts. The USA in Vietnam. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-936096-80-4 (2nd edition of the revised new edition. Ibid 2013, ISBN 978-3-86854-207-3 ).
• The Cuban Crisis. The world on the threshold of nuclear war (= Beck'sche Reihe. Vol. 2486). Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-58786-3 (2nd edition ibid 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-58786-3 ).
• 9/11. The day, the fear, the consequences. Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-61244-2 ( review ).

Editorships

• with Heinz Bude : links to the west. America in the Federal Republic. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-930908-50-6 .
• with Roger Chickering , Stig Förster : A World at Total War. Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937-1945. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2005, ISBN 978-0-521155-13-7 .
• with Christian Th. Müller , Dierk Walter : Heiße Kriege im Kalten Krieg (= Studies on the Cold War. Vol. 1). Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-936096-61-3 .
• with Christian Th. Müller, Dierk Walter: Crises in the Cold War (= studies on the Cold War. Vol. 2). Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-936096-95-8 .
• with Christian Th. Müller, Dierk Walter (ed.): Fear in the Cold War (= studies on the Cold War. Vol. 3). Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86854-213-4 .
• with Christian Th. Müller, Claudia Weber: Economy in the Cold War (= Studies on the Cold War. Vol. 4). Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86854-225-7 .
• with Tim B. Müller, Claudia Weber : Power and Spirit in the Cold War (= Studies on the Cold War. Vol. 5). Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86854-237-0 .
• with Tim B. Müller, Klaas Voss : Legacy of the Cold War (= studies on the Cold War. Vol. 6). Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86854-258-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernd Greiner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Bernd Greiner at perlentaucher.de
• Page from Bernd Greiner at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research .
• Page from Bernd Greiner at the University of Hamburg
• In conversation: the violence researcher Bernd Greiner. America's strength doesn't come from the barrel of a gun. Interview conducted by Jan Wiele. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 6, 2008.
• Bernd Greiner: Cold War and "Cold War Studies" . Version 1.0. In: Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte , published on February 11, 2010.

Remarks

1. ↑ Preface. ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Marxist Studies. Yearbook of the Institute for Marxist Studies and Research. Vol. 3, 1980, ISSN 0171-3698 .  
2. ↑ Publications, events, scientific advisory boards. ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Marxist Studies. Yearbook of the Institute for Marxist Studies and Research. Vol. 13, 1987. 
3. ↑ Peter Intelmann: The new boss at Willy Brandt. In: Lübecker Nachrichten , March 8, 2018, SI