Scott Krause
Scott Krause , also Scott H. Krause , b. 1983 , is an American historian. He studied history at the Georg August University in Göttingen (BA) and the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg (MA). He holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Contemporary History .
research
Krause researches post-war German social democracy and the life of Willy Brandt . 2015 he studied together with Daniel Stinsky a correspondence Brandt with Gunnar Myrdal in 1947. He also studied the power struggle between one group of returnees to Brandt and Ernst Reuter and the wing of the party to Franz Neumann , in which a German-American network to Shepard Stone , the Supported remigrants. His dissertation “Outpost of Freedom” deals with the support of Brandt and his SPD party wing, which advocated an orientation towards America and western integration of the Federal Republic, by the USA. A published in Berlin newspaper, the "Berlin city journal" whose editor was Brandt, received as excessive fees for two inserts the then very large sum of 200,000 German marks . Brandt, Ernst Reuter and others advertised the Marshall Plan in the inserts . The support was a joint political project in the context of the Cold War and the democratization of Germany, the initiative for this came from Berlin. Hans E. Hirschfeld, who belonged to Brandt and Ernst Reuter's group, approached the US authorities himself and asked for support. Krause published a scientific article on his research on this topic in 2015 in the specialist publication Central European History .
Awards
In 2017 Krause received the Willy Brandt Prize for Contemporary History for his dissertation . In the laudation, Jürgen Kocka emphasized that Krause shows "that the American influence on the ideological and political setting of the course in the western part of Germany was extremely important, right down to the formation of will and power struggles in the political left, especially in the SPD". Krause also works out "the strong and productive role of emigrants and remigrants" and "Berlin is highlighted as the scene of German and European history".
Publications
- Krause, S. (2015). New West Policy: The Clandestine Campaign to Westernize the SPD in Cold War Berlin, 1948–1958 . Central European History, 48 (1), 79-99. doi: 10.1017 / S0008938915000047
- Scott H. Krause: Outpost of Freedom: A German-American Network's Campaign to bring Cold War Democracy to West Berlin, 1933-72 , Chapel Hill 2015, online, PDF
- Bringing Cold War Democracy to West Berlin. A Shared German – American Project, 1940–1972 , 1st Edition. Routledge 2018, ISBN 978-1-13829985-6
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Neue Westpolitik: The Clandestine Campaign to Westernize the SPD in Cold War Berlin, 1948–1958 , Scott H. Krause, Central European History , March 2015
- ^ A b ZZF-Visiting Fellow Scott Krause receives Willy Brandt Prize for Contemporary History , press release, Leibniz Center for Contemporary History , October 11, 2017
- ^ For Europe, Democracy and Peace. Social Democratic Blueprints for Postwar Europe in Willy Brandt and Gunnar Myrdal's Correspondence, 1947 , Scott Krause, Daniel Stinsky, clio-online, European history portal, January 1, 2015
- ↑ Washington supported Willy Brandt with secret payments , FAZ, June 10, 2016
- ^ Willy Brandt received financial support from the US occupation forces , Martin Steinhagen, Berliner Zeitung, June 10, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krause, Scott |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krause, Scott H. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1983 |