Patrick Wagner

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Patrick Wagner (born May 12, 1961 in Trier ) is a German historian .

Patrick Wagner graduated from high school in 1980 at the Max-Planck-Gymnasium Trier . From 1981 to 1987 he studied history, German studies, biology and education at the University of Mainz and the University of St Andrews . From 1988 to 1989 Wagner did community service in the field of outpatient care for the elderly in Wiesbaden . From 1991 to 1998 Wagner was a research associate in several Hamburg historical societies . In 1995 he received his doctorate under Klaus Saul at the University of Hamburg with an investigation into the history of the criminal police in the Weimar Republic and under National Socialism . From 1998 to 2000, Wagner was a research assistant at the chair for modern and contemporary history with Ulrich Herbert at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . From 2000 to 2003 he was a research assistant at the Chair for Modern and Contemporary History at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. In 2003 he qualified as a professor at Ulrich Herbert's chair at the University of Freiburg on the subject of farmers, junkers and civil servants. Local rule and participation in East Elbe in the 19th century . Wagner has been a professor of contemporary history at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg since 2006 .

In 2002 Wagner published his dissertation on the history of the German criminal police from the Weimar Republic to the early stages of the Federal Republic. His study was the first to examine the role of the criminal police under National Socialism. In his habilitation thesis, he dealt with the district administrators and rulership relationships in Eastern Elbe in the 19th century. Wagner conducts research on the history of the German Research Foundation between 1920 and 1970. From 2008 to 2011, Wagner headed the research project BKA History between 1949 and 1981, which was awarded to this university by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and which focused on the founding history of the BKA and its aftermath investigated the office of National Socialism.

Wagner was a member of the editorial team of the trade journal WerkstattGeschichte from 2000 to 2003 and has also been its co-editor since 2001. He is a member of the Historical Commission for Saxony-Anhalt .

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  • Peasants, Junkers and officials. Local rule and participation in Eastern Elbe in the 19th century (= modern times. Volume 9). Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-946-5 , (also: habilitation thesis, University of Freiburg im Breisgau, 2003).
  • Hitler's criminalists. The German criminal police and National Socialism between 1920 and 1960 (= Beck'sche Reihe , Volume 1498). Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-49402-1 .
  • Displaced persons in Hamburg. Stages of half-hearted integration from 1945 to 1958. With a contribution by Alfons Kenkmann . Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-930802-52-X .
  • National community without criminals. Conceptions and practice of the criminal police during the Weimar Republic and National Socialism (= Hamburg contributions to social and contemporary history. Volume 34). Christians, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-7672-1271-4 (also: Dissertation, University of Hamburg, 1995, under the title: Inspector Sisyphus dreams of the last case ).

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SURNAME Wagner, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH trier