Friedrich Kießling (historian)

Friedrich Kießling (* 1970 ) is a German historian . Since 2014 he has held the chair for modern and contemporary history at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt .

Life

From 1991 to 1996 Kießling studied modern and contemporary history, modern German literary history and philosophy . Four years later he received his doctorate at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with a thesis on European détente before 1914, followed in 2007 by his habilitation on the history of ideas and intellectuals in the Federal Republic of Germany. From 2001 to 2007 Kießling worked as a research assistant with Gregor Schöllgen at the Chair of Modern History II at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. From 2012 to 2014 he represented the Chair of Modern History II at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg until he was appointed Professor of Modern History at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in 2014 .

Publications (selection)

• Against the "great war"? Relaxation in international relations 1911–1914. Oldenbourg, Munich 2002.
• with Gregor Schöllgen (Ed.): Pictures for the world. The Nazi party rallies in the mirror of the foreign press . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne 2006.
• with Gregor Schöllgen: The Age of Imperialism. (= Oldenbourg floor plan of the story , Volume 15). 5th edition Oldenbourg, Munich 2009.
• The un-German Germans. An archeology of the history of ideas of the old Federal Republic 1945–1972. Schöningh, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 2012.

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Kießling in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Friedrich Kießling KU-Eichstätt