Hermann Beck

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Hermann Beck (born January 30, 1955 ) is a German modern historian who works in the USA. He is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Miami .

Life and activity

Beck studied German and history at the Universities of Mannheim , Freiburg and Berlin , at the Sorbonne and the London School of Economics . 1989 received her PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles . Since 1990 he has taught at the University of Miami.

His main research interests are the European and especially the German history of the 19th and 20th centuries with special consideration of socio-historical, intellectual-historical and mentality-historical aspects.

Beck was a research fellow of the Historical Commission in Berlin , a Fulbright fellow and 1997/98 member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Publications (selection)

  • The Social Policies of Prussian Officials: The Bureaucracy in a new Light , in: Journal of Modern History , 64 (1992), pp. 262-298.
  • Conservatives and the Social Question in Nineteenth-Century Prussia , in: Larry Eugene Jones / James Rettallack (Eds.): Between Reform, Reaction and Resistance. Studies in the History of German Conservatism from 1789 to 1945 , Providence 1993, pp. 61–94.
  • The Origins of the Authoritarian Welfare State in Prussia. Conservatives, Bureaucracy, and the Social Question, 1815-70 , Ann Arbor 1997.
  • Between the Cictates of Conscience and Political Expediency. Hitler's Conservative Alliance Partner and Antisemitism during the Nazi Seizure of Power , in: Journal of Contemporary History 41 (2006), pp. 611-640.
  • Conservative politics and modernization in Prussia , in: Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann (Hrsg.): Pommern in the 19th century. State and social development in a comparative perspective , Cologne 2007, pp. 13–29.
  • The fateful Alliance. German Conservatives and Nazis in 1933. The Seizure of Power in a New Light , Berghahn Books, New York 2008, ISBN 978-1-84545-496-8 . (2nd edition 2013)
  • Conflicts between German nationals and National Socialists during the seizure of power , in: Historische Zeitschrift , 292, 2011, pp. 645–680.

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SURNAME Beck, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German modern historian, active in the USA
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1955