Birgit Aschmann

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Birgit Aschmann (born January 8, 1967 in Hamburg ) is a German historian . She is Professor of 19th Century European History at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Life

In 1986 Aschmann began studying medicine. In 1989 she switched to history, German and Spanish. She finished her studies in 1995. She then did her doctorate in 1998 at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel with a thesis on the subject of the relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Spain 1945–1963 . Michael Salewski was the supervisor of the work .

From 1998 to 2000 she worked as a research assistant at the Kiel Chair for Modern and Contemporary History, until 2003 she held the position of an academic adviser at the same location, after which she worked as a research assistant. From 2004 to 2010 she devoted herself to her habilitation , which she achieved with the work of Prussia's fame and Germany's honor. The national honor discourse in the run-up to the Franco-Prussian wars in the 19th century successfully concluded.

After a substitute professorship in Kiel, Aschmann was appointed to the chair for 19th century European history at the HU Berlin in 2011 as the successor to Wolfgang Hardtwig .

Her main research areas include a. on the Spanish history of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Birgit Aschmann is a member of the Central Committee of German Catholics and was elected to the Main Committee of the ZdK on November 24, 2017.

She is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Defense for the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr .

Publications (selection)

  • "Faithful friends" ...? West Germany and Spain 1945–1963 . Steiner, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-515-07579-8 . Hochschulschrift, also Kiel, university dissertation 1998 (= historical messages , supplement 34).
  • (Ed. With Michael Salewski ): The image of “the other”. Political Perception in the 19th and 20th Centuries . Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07715-4 (= historical messages , supplement 40).
  • (Ed. With Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann , Jürgen Elvert , Jens Hohensee): Historical images. Festschrift for Michael Salewski on his 65th birthday . (= Historical Communications , Supplement 47). Steiner, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08252-2 .
  • (Ed.): Feeling and Calculation. The influence of emotions on 19th and 20th century politics . Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08804-0 (= historical messages , supplement 62).
  • Prussia's fame and Germany's honor. On the national honorary discourse in the run-up to the Franco-Prussian wars of the 19th century . Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-71296-4 . Zugl .: Kiel, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2006 (= contributions to military history. Vol. 72), a publication by the Military History Research Office .
  • German style in language and poetry. German studies at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel under National Socialism . In: Christoph Cornelißen , Carsten Mish (ed.): Science at the limit. The University of Kiel under National Socialism. Klartext, Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8375-0240-4 (= communications from the Society for Kiel City History. Vol. 86).
  • The dream of reason and its monsters. Goya's Perspectives on the 19th Century (= Lectiones Inaugurales LI , Vol. 6), Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-14105-0 .
  • 1813 in a European context . Edited with Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann. Steiner, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-515-11042-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ zdk.de: Members / Individuals , accessed on February 24, 2017.
  2. ↑ About us / Advisory Boards // Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr // ZMSBw. Accessed March 31, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Aschmann, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg