Kerstin von Lingen

Kerstin von Lingen (* 1971 in Bremen ) is a German historian .

Life

From 1991 Kerstin von Lingen studied Modern History , Medieval History and Italian at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and in 1993/94 history and political science at the University of Milan . In 1995 she obtained her MA at the University of Freiburg. From 1998 she did research at the University of Tübingen for a dissertation project supervised by Dieter Langewiesche and Hans-Peter Ullmann on the war crimes trial against Albert Kesselring in Venice in 1947 . From 1999 to 2008 she was a research assistant in the Collaborative Research Center 437 War Experiences. War and society in modern times in Tübingen. Her Rigorosum took place in 2003 . From 2005 she worked on the DFG research project Immunity through Surrender Negotiations: the case of SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff , from which her publication SS and Secret Service arose. From 2006 to 2012 she worked as an expert for the Stuttgart Public Prosecutor's Office in investigations into Nazi war crimes in Italy . In 2007 she was Research Fellow of European Studies at the Research Institute at the University of Salford , England. In 2008 she was accepted as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in London . From November 2009 to 2011 she was a research assistant for the German-Italian Commission of Historians .

From 2013 to 2017 von Lingen was a junior research group leader at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in the Junior Research Group Transcultural Justice. Legal Flows and the Emergence of International Justice within the East Asian War Crimes Trials, 1945–1954 . The group researched the Allied war crimes trials against the Japanese military in the Pacific and the role of the Allies in the Tokyo Tribunal , the counterpart to the Nuremberg Court of Justice .

During this time, von Lingen also worked on her habilitation project Transnational Debates on the Humanization of War Violence, 1864–1945. An Intellectual History of the Concept of Crimes Against Humanity . Her habilitation took place in 2017. Since March 2019, Kerstin von Lingen has been Professor of Contemporary History (Comparative Dictatorship, Violence and Genocide Research) at the University of Vienna .

In 2020 von Lingen received the Ernst Otto Czempiel Prize from the Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research for her work “'Crimes against Humanity': A History of Ideas in the Civilization of War Violence 1864–1945” .

Fonts

• Kesselring's final battle: war crimes trials, politics of the past and rearmament; the case of Kesselring. Paderborn, Munich, Vienna, Zurich: Schöningh 2004 (Zugl .: Tübingen, Univ., Diss., 2003), ISBN 3-506-71749-9 (= War in History , 20).

  Engl .: Kesselring's last battle: war crimes trials and cold war politics, 1945–1960. Translated by Alexandra Klemm, Lawrence, Kan .: Univ. Press of Kansas 2009, ISBN 978-0-7006-1641-1 .

• (Ed.) War experience and national identity in Europe after 1945. Remembrance, purification processes and national memory. Paderborn, Munich, Vienna, Zurich: Schöningh 2009, ISBN 978-3-506-76743-1 (= War in History , 49).
• SS and Secret Service: "Conspiracy of Silence". The Karl Wolff file. Paderborn, Munich, Vienna, Zurich: Schöningh 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76744-8 .

  Engl .: Allen Dulles, the OSS, and Nazi war criminals. The dynamics of selective prosecution. Translated by Dona Geyer, New York, NY: Oxford Univ. Press 2013, ISBN 978-1-107-02593-6 .

• with Klaus Gestwa (ed.): Forced labor as a war resource in Europe and Asia. Paderborn, Munich, Vienna, Zurich: Schöningh 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-77727-0 (= War in History , 77).
• (Ed.) Justice in Times of Turmoil. War Crimes Trials in Asia, 1945–1954 . London: Palgrave Macmillan 2016, ISBN 978-3-319-42986-1 .
• (Ed.) Debating Collaboration and Complicity in War Crimes Trials in Asia, 1945–1956 . London: Palgrave Macmillan 2017, ISBN 978-3-319-53141-0 .
• (Ed.) Transcultural Justice at the Tokyo Tribunal. The Allied Struggle for Justice, 1946-48. Leiden: Brill 2018, ISBN 978-90-04-35997-0 .
• “Crimes against Humanity”: A history of ideas about civilizing the violence of war 1864-1945. Paderborn, Munich, Vienna, Zurich: Schöningh 2018, ISBN 978-3506787750

Web links

• Website at Heidelberg University (with list of publications)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vita at the University of Tübingen.
2. ↑ The directory of the Fellows ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. leads them under V . 
3. ^ Official website of the Research Group.
4. ^ Kerstin von Lingen: New professorship for contemporary history - comparative research on dictatorship, violence and genocide. Retrieved March 26, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Ernst Otto Czempiel Prize. Accessed August 30, 2020 .