Michael Wala

Michael Wala (born June 6, 1954 in Hamburg ) is a German historian .

Life

Wala completed his studies at the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics , which he graduated in 1978 with a degree in economics. 1982 followed by the Master of Arts, History, at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . In 1988 he received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg . In 1996 he completed his habilitation at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . From 1988 to 2000 he worked as a university assistant and senior assistant at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. In 1991/1992 he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University , and in 1997 a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. In April 1999 he was an exchange professor at the University of Wales in Swansea . In 2000 he held the chair for Anglo-American History at the Department of History at the University of Cologne . In 2000/2001 a visiting professorship followed at St. Olaf College , Northfield (Minnesota) , USA. From 2002 to 2004 he was professor for American cultural history at the America Institute of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Since 2004 he has been teaching as professor for North American history at the Ruhr University Bochum .

Fonts

Monographs and Editions

• Otto John. Patriot or traitor. A German biography , Rowohlt, Hamburg 2019.
• together with Constantin Goschler : “No new Gestapo”. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Nazi Past , Rowohlt, Reinbek 2015.
• (Ed.): George Vancouver - Journey to the North Pacific and around the World , Edition Erdmann, Wiesbaden 2015.
• (Ed. Together with Jan Erik Schulte ): Resistance and the Foreign Office. Diplomats against Hitler , settlers, Munich 2013.
• together with Philipp Gassert : Weltmacht USA , Reclam, Ditzingen 2013.
• (Ed. Together with Jeanne Cortiel, Kornelia Freitag and Christine Gerhardt): Religion in the United States , C. Winter, Heidelberg 2011.
• together with Philipp Gassert and Mark Häberlein : Brief history of the USA , Reclam Ditzingen 2007 (Paperback 2008).
• (Ed. Together with Heike Bungert and Jan Heitmann): Secret Intelligence in the Twentieth Century , Cass, London 2003.
• Weimar and America. Ambassador Friedrich von Prittwitz and Gaffron and German-American relations from 1927 to 1933 (= Transatlantic Historical Studies ), Steiner, Stuttgart 2001.
• (Ed. Together with Ursula Lehmkuhl ): Technologie und Kultur. Europe's view of America from the 18th to the 20th century , Böhlau, Köln 2000.
• (Ed.): Society and Diplomacy in the Transatlantic Context , Steiner, Stuttgart 1999.
• The Council on Foreign Relations and American Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War , Berghahn Books, New York / Oxford 1994.
• (Ed.): Allen W. Dulles: The Marshall Plan , Berg Publishers, Oxford 1993.
• Winning the Peace. American Foreign Policy and the Council on Foreign Relations, 1945 to 1950 , Steiner, Stuttgart 1990.

Web links

• Website at the Ruhr University Bochum
• Page at the pearl diver