Martin H. Geyer

Martin H. Geyer (born February 11, 1957 in Donaueschingen ) is a German historian .

Life

After studying history, American studies, political science and economics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the University of Wisconsin , Madison, Geyer was a research assistant at the University of Trier and the University of Cologne . He was then a John F. Kennedy Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University and Deputy Director of the DHI Washington as well as a Fellow at the Freiburg School of History (FRIAS) at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg .

Since 1997 he has been teaching as professor for modern and contemporary history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

Private

He is married to Dona Geyer, an American from Indiana. His brother Michael Geyer is a professor emeritus for German and European history at the University of Chicago .

Works (selection)

• The Reichsknappschaft. Insurance reforms and social policy in mining , Beck, Munich 1987.
• Wrong world. Revolution, inflation and modernity. Munich 1914–1924 (= Critical Studies in History , Vol. 128), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998.
• (together with Johannes Paulmann ) (Ed.): The Mechanics of Internationalism in the Nineteenth Century , Oxford University Press, Oxford 2001.
• (together with Manfred Berg ) (Ed.): Two Cultures of Rights. Germany and the United States , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2002.
• Federal Republic 1974–1982. New challenges, growing insecurity (= history of social policy in Germany since 1945 , vol. 6), Nomos, Baden-Baden 2008.
• Capitalism and Political Morality in the Interwar Period. Or: who was Julius Barmat? Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2018.

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin H. Geyer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the LMU Munich

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Hermann Weiß: Just not a second Florida. In: Welt am Sonntag , November 2, 2008 .
2. ↑ Michael Geyer. Retrieved August 14, 2019 .