Manfred Berg

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Manfred Berg (born December 4, 1959 in Wesel ) is a German historian .

Life

Manfred Berg studied history, political science and philosophy at the University of Heidelberg from 1980 to 1985 . There he received his doctorate in Modern History under Detlef Junker in 1988 . The habilitation took place in 1998 at the Free University of Berlin for the subject of modern history.

From 1989 to 1992 Berg initially worked at the Schurman Library for American History at the Department of History at Heidelberg University, then as a research assistant at the History Department of the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin. From 1992 to 1997 he worked as a research assistant at the German Historical Institute in Washington , and in 1994/1995 as acting deputy director. From 2003 to 2005 Berg was director of the Center for USA Studies at the Leucorea Foundation of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . Since 2005 he has held the Curt Engelhorn Professorship for American History at Heidelberg University.

Since spring 2017, Berg has been the spokesperson for the Graduate School “Authority and Trust in American Culture Society, History, and Politics” (GKAT) at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA). Since 2019, Berg has been a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . Berg writes for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit at irregular intervals .

Fonts (selection)

  • Gustav Stresemann and the United States of America. World economic integration and revision policy 1907–1929. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1990, ISBN 3-7890-2087-7 (dissertation, University of Heidelberg, 1988).
  • Gustav Stresemann. A political career between empire and republic. Muster-Schmidt, Göttingen 1992, ISBN 3-7881-0141-5 .
  • The Ticket to Freedom. The NAACP and African American Suffrage. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-593-36534-0 (habilitation thesis, FU Berlin, 1997/98).
    • The Ticket to Freedom. The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration. Univ. Press of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. 2005, ISBN 978-0-8130-2832-3 .
  • Popular Justice. A History of Lynching in America. Ivan R. Dee, Chicago 2011, ISBN 978-1-56663-802-9 .
    • Lynch Justice in the United States. Edited and translated by the author. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86854-273-8 .
  • History of the USA (= Oldenbourg floor plan of history . Vol. 42). Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-70482-2 .
  • Woodrow Wilson. America and the reorganization of the world. A biography. CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70778-0 .

literature

  • Inaugural address by Manfred Berg at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences on April 27, 2019. In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences for 2019. Heidelberg 2020, pp. 174–177 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Hannes Nagl: GKAT: DFG Graduate College “Authority and Trust” - Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA). Retrieved March 17, 2017 (English).
  2. ^ Hannes Nagl: DFG Graduiertenkolleg - Faculty - Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA). Retrieved March 17, 2017 (English).
  3. ^ HAdW member. Retrieved January 16, 2020 .
  4. Manfred Berg. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .