Rainer F. Schmidt

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Rainer Friedrich Schmidt (born February 22, 1955 in Schwarzenbach am Wald ) is a German historian .

From 1976 to 1982 he studied history, English and American studies at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and at the Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1990 he was at the University of Würzburg Dr. phil. PhD. In 1997 he completed his habilitation on Rudolf Heß at the Philosophical Faculty, which had been assessed by Harm-Hinrich Brandt , Peter Baumgart , Peter Herde , Wolfgang Altgeld and Paul-Ludwig Weinacht .

In 1998 he became Professor of Modern History and History Didactics at the University of Würzburg. His research interests include the history of National Socialism and the Second World War , the foreign policy of the Habsburg monarchy and the Bismarck Empire, the Weimar Republic and German-British relations in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Schmidt regularly reviews books on National Socialism and World War II for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . He is a member of the working group German England research , the working group's military history , in the Prince Albert Society , in the German and Bavarian Conference on history teaching in the International Society for history teaching and assessors in the German Committee for the history of the Second World War.

Works

  • The failed alliance: Austria-Hungary, England and the German Empire in the Andrassy era (1867 to 1878/79) (= European university publications . Series 3: History and its auxiliary sciences . Vol. 517). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-631-44627-6 .
  • Count Julius Andrássy . From revolutionary to foreign minister (= personality and history . Vol. 148/149). Muster-Schmidt, Göttingen a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-7881-0144-X .
  • with Michael Gehler , Harm-Hinrich Brandt , Rolf Steininger (eds.): Unequal partners ?: Austria and Germany in their mutual perception. Historical analyzes and comparisons from the 19th and 20th centuries (= historical reports . Supplement 15). Steiner, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-515-06878-3 .
  • Rudolf Hess - "A fool's errand?". The flight to Great Britain on May 10, 1941 . ECON, Düsseldorf 1997, ISBN 3-430-18016-3 .
  • The foreign policy of the Third Reich 1933–1939 . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-608-94047-2
  • Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898). Realpolitik and revolution. A biography (= Kohlhammer-Urban pocket books . 599). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-17-017407-X .
  • Germany and Europe: Basic Foreign Policy Lines Between the Forging of an Empire and the First World War. Ceremony for Harm-Hinrich Brandt on his seventieth birthday (= historical messages . Supplement 58) Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08262-X .
  • Bismarck: Realpolitik and Revolution (= Focus Edition ). Hugendubel, Kreuzlingen u. a. 2006, ISBN 3-7205-2865-0 .
  • The Second World War: The Destruction of Europe (= German history in the 20th century . Vol. 10). be.bra Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-89809-410-3 .
  • The fall of a republic. Weimar and the Rise of National Socialism (1918-1933). minifanal, Bonn 2020,

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personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Rainer F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Rainer Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, professor of recent history
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwarzenbach am Wald