Michael Kißener

Michael Kißener (born December 3, 1960 in Bonn ) is a German historian and university professor in Mainz .

From 1982 to 1987 Kißener studied (since 1984 a scholarship from the Cusanuswerk Bishop's Foundation ) history, German studies and education at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn, where he also received his doctorate in 1991 . From 1992 to 2002 he was managing director of the “Research Center Resistance” at the University of Karlsruhe , where he qualified as a professor in 2000 . Since 2002 he has been Professor of Contemporary History at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . The main focus of his publications and lectures is the history of the National Socialist dictatorship and the resistance against National Socialism .

Since 2017, Kißener has been a member of the board of trustees of the Fridtjof Nansen Academy for political education at the Ingelheim further education center .

Fonts (selection)

• Boehringer Ingelheim under National Socialism. Studies on the history of a medium-sized chemical-pharmaceutical company . Steiner, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-515-11008-2 .
• (Hrsg.): Rheinhessische ways in the national socialism. Studies on rural communities in Rhenish Hesse from the Weimar Republic to the end of the Nazi dictatorship. Edited for the Friends of the Osthofen Project, Worms Verlag, Worms 2010, ISBN 978-3-936118-74-2 .
• The way into National Socialism 1933/1934 - New ways of research. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-534-20099-3 .
• Germersheim in the 20th century - ways of a fortress city in the middle of Europe. Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2008, ISBN 978-3-89735-533-0 .
• The witnesses have the final say. Alfred Delp 1907-1945 . Edited with Karl Lehmann , Diocese of Mainz, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-934450-31-8 .
• Brief history of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Karlsruhe, Mainz 2006, ISBN 978-3-7650-8345-7 .
• The Third Empire. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 978-3-534-70173-5 .
• (Ed. With Joachim Scholtyseck ): The leaders of the province. Nazi biographies from Baden and Württemberg. UVK, Konstanz 1997, ISBN 3-87940-566-2 .
• Class power and church reform - episcopal electoral capitulations in the northwest of the old empire 1265–1803 . Paderborn 1991, ISBN 3-506-73367-2 (= legal and political publications of the Görres-Gesellschaft , NF, vol. 67) (also: dissertation, University of Bonn).

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Kißener in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Kißener's website at the University of Mainz