Michael Behnen

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Michael Behnen (born December 29, 1938 in Treptow an der Rega ) is a German historian .

Life

Michael Behnen in 1966 in Göttingen with a thesis on the Prussian weekly from 1851 to 1861 PhD . In 1982 he completed his habilitation in Göttingen with the thesis "Armament - Alliance - Security: Triple Alliance and informal imperialism 1900-1908" . From 1986 until his retirement in 2004 he was an adjunct professor for modern and contemporary history at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . He was a Hoover Scholar in 1989 and a visiting professor at the University of Jena in 1994 .

Behnen has published numerous scientific monographs and articles. He is editor of the “Lexicon of German History. Events - institutions - people. May 8, 1945 to October 3, 1990 ” .

Since 1958 he has been a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Sugambria (Jena) Göttingen .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Prussian weekly newspaper (1851–1861). National conservative journalism against corporate state and police state . Muster-Schmidt, Göttingen 1971; 2nd, unchanged edition as CD-ROM. Duehrkohp and Radicke, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89744-091-1 .
  • (Ed. With Gerhard Ebel) Ambassador Paul Graf von Hatzfeldt (-Wildenburg): Post-processed papers 1838–1901 (= German historical sources of the 19th and 20th centuries. Vol. 51). 2 volumes. Boppard 1976, ISBN 3-7646-1663-6 .
  • Sources on German foreign policy in the age of imperialism 1890–1911 . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1977, ISBN 3-534-04821-0 .
  • Armament - Alliance - Security: Triple Alliance and Informal Imperialism 1900–1908 . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1985, ISBN 3-484-82060-8 (habilitation thesis, University of Göttingen, 1982); Reprint: De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-484-82060-9 .
  • The just and the necessary war. "Necessitas" and "Utilitas reipublicae" in the war theory of the 16th and 17th centuries . In: State Constitution and Army Constitution in European History of the Early Modern Age. Edited by Johannes Kunisch . Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-428-05964-6 , pp. 43-106.
  • "Arcana - haec sunt ratio status". Ragion di Stato and reasons of state. Problems and Perspectives (1589–1651) . In: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung , 14, 1987, pp. 129-195.
  • German and Austrian imperialism in the Balkans . In: Der Zweibund 1879. Ed. By Helmut Rumpler and Jan Paul Niederkorn . Vienna 1996, pp. 221–242.
  • The USA and Italy 1921–1932 . 2 volumes. Lit, Münster 1998, ISBN 3-8258-3450-6 .
  • Alfred Graf von Schlieffen (1833-1913) . In: The German Empire. Edited by Michael Fröhlich. Darmstadt 2001, pp. 120-130.
  • Germany under Napoleon. Restoration and pre-March (1806–1847) and civil revolution and founding of an empire (1848–1871) . In: German history. Founded by Peter Rassow , completely revised edition, ed. by Martin Vogt. Stuttgart 1987; 3rd edition 1998; Paperback edition: Frankfurt am Main 2002, pp. 349–468.
  • Dollars for Mussolini: American Corporate Liberalism and Fascism 1922–1933 . In: National and International Perspectives on American History. Edited by Jörg Nagler . Frankfurt am Main 2002, pp. 135–155.
  • (Ed.) Lexicon of German history from 1945 to 1990. Events, institutions, people in divided Germany . Kröner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-520-83401-4 .
  • (Ed.) The present of the Nazi past. An annotated documentation on politics of the past 1945-1990. Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-86395-268-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Behnen, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Treptow at Rega