Philipp Gassert

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Philipp Gassert (born April 13, 1965 in Wertheim ) is a German historian .

Life

Philipp Gassert received his doctorate in 1996 from the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on America in the Third Reich . From 1994 to 1999 he was a research assistant at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC From 1998 to 2004 he was a research assistant at the History Department at Heidelberg University, where he completed his habilitation in 2004. From 2003 to 2005 he was managing director of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies . In 2005/06 he held the chair for North American Cultural History at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , and in 2006/07 he went to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia as "DAAD Professor for German and European History" . In 2008/09 he was Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington. From 2009 to 2014 he was professor for the history of the European-transatlantic cultural area at the University of Augsburg . Since 2014 he has held the chair for contemporary history at the University of Mannheim and head of the research center "Resistance to National Socialism in the German Southwest". Since 2011, Gassert has also been a member of the board and managing director of the German Society for American Studies .

Act

Gassert's main research interests include the international history of the 20th century, in particular transatlantic relations, as well as German and European contemporary history since 1933. Current research projects deal with the history of European anti-Americanism, the (cultural) history of the "Second Cold War" the 1970s / 80s, the cultural history of the intelligence services and the history of political protest since 1945. Based on his research on mutual prejudices in the transatlantic relationship, he taught in 2014 as Sir Peter Ustinov visiting professor at the city and the University of Vienna . In Augsburg, Gassert is committed to the Halle 116 site of thought in the former Sheridan barracks , a memorial project on war and peace in the 20th century and the American military presence in Germany.

Fonts

Monographs

  • America in the Third Reich. Ideology, Propaganda and Popular Opinion 1933–1945 (= Transatlantic Historical Studies. 7). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07104-0 (also: Heidelberg, University, dissertation, 1996).
  • Kurt Georg Kiesinger. 1904-1988. Chancellor between the ages. DVA, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-421-05824-5 .
  • with Mark Häberlein and Michael Wala: Brief history of the USA. Reclam, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-15-010629-7 .
  • Moving society. German history of protest since 1945 , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-17-029270-3 .

Editions

  • with Pavel A. Richter: 1968 in West Germany. A Guide to Sources and Literature of the Extra-Parliamentarian Opposition (= German Historical Institute. Reference Guide. 9, ZDB -ID 2396924-6 ). German Historical Institute, Washington DC 1998.
  • with Carole Fink and Detlef Junker : 1968: The World Transformed. Cambridge University Press et al., Cambridge et al. 1998, ISBN 0-521-64141-1 .
  • with Christof Mauch : Mrs. President. From Martha Washington to Hillary Clinton. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart et al. 2000, ISBN 3-421-05297-2 (In Czech: První dámy Ameriky. Od Marthy Washingtonové po Hillary Clintonovou. Brána, Prague 2001, ISBN 80-7243-133-1 ; in Estonian: Mrs . President. Martha Washington is Hillary Clintonini. Huma, Tallinn 2002).
  • with Daniel S. Mattern: The Hitler Library. A Bibliography (= Bibliographies and Indexes in World History. 52). Greenwood Press, Westport CT et al. 2001, ISBN 0-313-31495-0 .
  • The USA and Germany in the Cold War era 1945–1990. A manual. Edited by Detlef Junker, in conjunction with Philipp Gassert, Wilfried Mausbach and David B. Morris. 2 volumes (Vol. 1: 1945–1968. Vol. 2: 1968–1990. ). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart et al. 2001, ISBN 3-421-05299-9 (In English: The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945–1990. A Handbook. Cambridge University Press et al., Cambridge et al. 2004 , ISBN 0-521-83731-6 ).
  • with Jörg Baberowski , Eckart Conze and Martin Sabrow : History is always present. Four theses on contemporary history. DVA, Stuttgart et al. 2001, ISBN 3-421-05564-5 .
  • with Manfred Berg : Germany and the USA in the international history of the 20th century. Festschrift for Detlef Junker (= Transatlantic Historical Studies. 18 (ie 19)). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08454-1 .
  • with Günter Buch and Peter Thaddäus Lang: Kurt Georg Kiesinger. 1904-1988. From Ebingen to the Chancellery. Published for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 2005, ISBN 3-451-23006-2 .
  • with Alan E. Steinweis : Coping with the Nazi Past. West German Debates on Nazism and Generational Conflict, 1955–1975 (= Studies in German History. 2). Berghahn, New York NY et al. 2006, ISBN 1-84545-086-8 (also: ibid. 2007, ISBN 978-1-84545-506-4 ).
  • with Detlef Junker , Wilfried Mausbach and Martin Thunert: What defines America. Multidisciplinary perspectives. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-515-09396-5 .
  • with Günther Kronenbitter , Stefan Paulus and Wolfgang EJ Weber : Augsburg and America. Appropriations and global entanglements in a city (= Documenta Augustana. Vol. 24). Wißner, Augsburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-89639-967-0 .
  • with Hans Jörg Hennecke : Coalitions in the Federal Republic. Education, management and crises from Adenauer to Merkel. Schöningh, Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-506-78524-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Gassert, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Wertheim