Michael Geyer (historian)

Michael Geyer (* 1947 ) is a German historian and university professor who has lived and taught mainly in the USA since the 1980s .

Life

Michael Geyer passed his Abitur at the Fürstenberg-Gymnasium in Donaueschingen in 1966 . In 1976 he did his doctorate with Andreas Hillgruber at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . In 1984 he was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan . He has been teaching at the University of Chicago since 2000 and holds the Samuel N. Herper Chair for German and European History.

Awards and honors

• 2008: Admission to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2012: Scholarship from the American Academy in Berlin as part of the Berlin Prize and Senior Fellow of the Academy.

Publications

• Armament or Security: The Reichswehr in the Crisis of Power Politics 1924–1936 . Steiner, Wiesbaden 1980, ISBN 3-515-02812-9 (dissertation).
• A harbinger of the welfare state. Provision for war victims in France, Germany and Great Britain after the First World War . In: Geschichte und Gesellschaft , Volume 9, Issue 2, 1983, pp. 230–277.
• German armaments policy. 1860-1980 . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-518-11246-5 .
• German strategy in the age of machine warfare, 1914-1945 . In: Peter Paret (Ed.): Makers of Modern Strategy. From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age , Princeton University Press, Princeton 1986, ISBN 1-400835461 .
• with John W. Boyer as editor: Resistance against the Third Reich . University of Chicago Press, Chicago / London 1994, ISBN 0-226-06958-3 .
• Insurrectionary Warfare. The German Debate about a “Levee en Masse” in October 1918. In: The Journal of Modern History. Vol. 73, No. 3, September 2001, pp. 459-527.
• as publisher: The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany . University of Chicago Press, Chicago / London 2001, ISBN 0-226-28987-7 .
• with Charles Bright: A Where in the World is America? The History of the United States in the Global Age. In: Thomas Bender (Ed.): Rethinking American History in a Global Age . University of California Press, Berkeley 2002, ISBN 0-520-23058-2 .
• with Konrad Hugo Jarausch: Shattered Pasts. Reconstructing German Histories . Praeger, Princeton / Oxford 2003, ISBN 0-691-05936-5 .
  • Translated into German by Friedrich Griese : Broken Mirror. German stories in the 20th century . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-421-05673-0 .
• as publisher: Religion und Nation - Nation and Religion. Contributions to an unresolved story . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-668-7 .
• Germany and Japan in the age of globalization. Reflections on a comparative history beyond the modernization paradigm. In: Sebastian Conrad , Jürgen Osterhammel : Das Kaiserreich transnational. Germany and the World 1871–1914. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-36733-3 , pp. 68-84.
• as editor: The presence of God in modern society. Transcendence and Religious Communityization in Germany - The Presence of God in Modern Society . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0007-5 .
• with Sheila Fitzpatrick as editor: Beyond Totalitarianism. Stalinism and Nazism Compared . Cambridge University Press, New York City 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-72397-8 .
• as Ed .: Age of Violence. On the geopolitics and psychopolitics of the First World War . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York City 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-39976-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Geyer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Historian's website