Christoph Nübel

Christoph Nübel (* 1982 in Heide ) is a German historian who deals in particular with the First World War . He is the recipient of the Werner Hahlweg Prize (2012) and the Wilhelm Deist Prize for Military History (2008).

Life

From 2002 to 2007 Nübel studied history , political science , folklore and public law at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and the University of Bremen . In 2005/06 he was a volunteer at the LWL Museum for Art and Culture in Münster. His master's thesis, Die Mobilisierung der Kriegsgesellschaft (Supervisors: Andreas Hartmann and Armin Owzar ), published by Waxmann Verlag in 2008 , was awarded the Wilhelm Deist Prize for Military History and was favorably discussed. From 2008 to 2011 he was a scholarship holder at the graduate school “Human Development in Landscapes” at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . In 2011 he was there with the by Christoph Cornelißen supervised dissertation travel experiences in World War I for Dr. phil. PhD.

Since 2015 he has been a board member of the Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte e. V., where he has been part of the editorial team of the military history portal since 2009 . In 2011 he became a research assistant at the Chair for European History of the 19th Century ( Birgit Aschmann ) at the Institute for Historical Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 2013 he also became Section Editor Encyclopedic Entries for the DFG- funded English-language international joint project 1914-1918-online . International Encyclopedia of the First World War . In 2014/15 he was on a research semester ("Excellent humanities research - freedom for scientists at the Humboldt University of Berlin"). In 2015 he received a scholarship from the German Historical Institute in London (DHIL) and a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Since 2016 he has been a research associate in the research department Military History after 1945 at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr in Potsdam.

His main research interests include a. Military history (especially the First World War), social and cultural history of the German Empire , histography and cultures of remembrance . He published u. a. in the Rheinisch-Westphalian magazine for folklore , the magazine for cultural studies , the historical magazine and in From Politics and Contemporary History .

In 2011 he developed an overview of the research literature on World War I at the time . In 2015 published a critical inventory of the research on the history of violence during the “long First World War” (1900–1930).

Awards

• 2008: Wilhelm Deist Prize for Military History for Mobilizing War Society
• 2012: Werner Hahlweg Prize for Military History and Defense Sciences (1st prize) for space experiences in the First World War

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• The mobilization of the war society. Propaganda and everyday life during the First World War in Münster (= Münster writings on folklore, European ethnology . Volume 14). Waxmann, Münster a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-8309-2030-4 .
• Endless crisis? Expectations of war and readiness for war in Europe before the First World War . State Center for Civic Education Thuringia , Erfurt 2014 ( online (pdf))
• Persevere and survive on the Western Front. Space and body in the First World War . A publication of the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr , Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-78083-6 .

Contributions to edited volumes

• The story of the battle. Methodological considerations using the example of the Michael Offensive in 1918 . In: Marian Füssel , Michael Sikora (Hrsg.): Kulturgeschichte der Schlacht (= war in history . Volume 78). Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-77736-2 , pp. 231-258.
• In search of stability. 1813 and the restoration of the monarchy in a European comparison . In: Birgit Aschmann , Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann (ed.): 1813 in a European context (= historical messages . Supplement 89). Steiner, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-515-11042-6 , pp. 163-185.

Web links

• Literature by and about Christoph Nübel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Christoph Nübel  in the German Digital Library
• Researcher profile of Christoph Nübel at Clio-online
• Christoph Nübel at the Bundeswehr Center for Military History and Social Sciences
• Christoph Nübel at the Humboldt University in Berlin
• Christoph Nübel on the military history portal
• Christoph Nübel at Waxmann Verlag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christoph Nübel: The mobilization of the war society. Propaganda and everyday life in Münster during the First World War . Münster 2008, p. 9.
2. ↑ Tobias Arand : Review by: Christoph Nübel: The mobilization of society. Propaganda and everyday life in the First World War in Münster, Münster: Waxmann 2008, in: Sehepunkte 9 (2009), No. 9 [15. September 2009], URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2009/09/16898.html .
3. ↑ Bernhard Liemann in: Rheinisch-Westfälische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde . 54, 2009, p. 332f.
4. ↑ Jens Boysen: Review of: Nübel, Christoph: The mobilization of war society. Propaganda and everyday life in Münster during the First World War. Münster 2008, in: H-Soz-Kult, February 16, 2010, < http://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-12486 >.
5. ↑ Benedikt Brunner: [review]. In: Westfälische Forschungen , 61 (2011).
6. ↑ Cornelia Rauh, Arnd Reitemeier, Dirk Schumann (eds.): The beginning of the war in Northern Germany. On the development of a “war culture” in 1914/15 from a transnational perspective. Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, p. 29.
7. ↑ Wolfgang Kruse: Review by: Christoph Nübel: Perseverance and survival on the western front. Space and body in World War I, Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh 2014, in: sehepunkte 15 (2015), No. 9 [15. September 2015], URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2015/09/25565.html .
8. ^ Board of Directors ( memento of March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Military History Portal, accessed on March 10, 2016.
9. ^ Christoph Nübel: New research on the cultural and social history of the First World War. Topics, tendencies, perspectives . H-Soz-u-Kult , June 14, 2011.
10. ↑ Christoph Nübel: New measurements of the history of violence. About the “long First World War” (1900–1930) . In: Mittelweg 36 24 (2015), pp. 225–248.