Robert Gerwarth

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Robert Gerwarth (2011)

Robert Benjamin Gerwarth (born February 12, 1976 in Berlin ) is a German historian who teaches at the Irish University College Dublin and directs the Center for War Studies there .

Life

Gerwarth studied history in Berlin and Oxford and received his doctorate from the University of Oxford with a study on the Bismarck myth published in 2005 . As a postdoctoral fellow , he completed research stays at Oxford, Princeton and Harvard Universities . For his research on the history of political violence in the 20th century, he has received various grants, including from the European Research Council , the British Academy and the Guggenheim Foundation .

Gerwarth is now Professor of Modern History at University College Dublin and founding director of the Center for War Studies there, which has existed since 2010. In 2012 he was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy , in 2015 he was elected to the Academia Europaea .

After his study on the Bismarck myth , which analyzes him as a powerful ideological opponent of the Weimar Republic , whose "idealized past" had devalued the present of the republic, his biography, published in September 2011, is about the head of the Berlin Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), Reinhard Heydrich , in a review by Spiegel as “first scientific biography”. Further reviews, including those of the historian Hans Mommsen , confirm this assessment of a scientifically excellent biography, which is also easy to read.

Fonts

  • The Bismarck Myth. The Germans and the Iron Chancellor . Siedler Verlag , Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-88680-871-7 (under the title The Bismarck Myth first Oxford 2005).
  • Reinhard Heydrich. Biography . Siedler, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-88680-894-6 .
  • as editor with John Horne : War in Peace. Paramilitary violence in Europe after the First World War , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1298-2 .
  • The vanquished. The bloody legacy of the First World War . Siedler, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-8275-0037-3 (under the title The Vanquished. Why the First World War failed to end, 1917–1923 first Allen Lane 2016).
  • The greatest of all revolutions - November 1918 and the dawn of a new era . Siedler Verlag , Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-8275-0036-6 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dieter Langewiesche : Powerful opponents. The Bismarck myth in the transition from the German Empire to the Weimar Republic . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 26, 2008, p. 10.
  2. ^ Reviews at perlentaucher.de with references to - in addition to the FAZ - positive reviews of the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the time .
  3. Georg Bönisch: Young God of Death . Almost 70 years after the assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich, the first scientific biography about the Holocaust organizer appears. So he went to the SS for the sake of his wife. In: Der Spiegel No. 38/2011, p. 30 f.
  4. see the reviews by Thomas Schnabel, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 29, 2012; Hans Mommsen, in: Frankfurter Rundschau , December 20; Klaus Hillenbrand , in: Die Tageszeitung , December 8, 2011; Burkhard Müller , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 11, 2011; see also the summaries of these reviews at Perlentaucher .
  5. ^ The Wiener Library: Previous Winners ; accessed on February 17, 2017