Stefan Martens

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Stefan Martens (2015)

Stefan Martens (* 1954 ) is a German historian .

He has worked at the German Historical Institute in Paris (DHIP) since 1983 and has been its deputy director since 2002. His main research interests are the history of the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich and the resistance, the history of the French Third Republic and the Vichy regime, as well as everyday life in Europe under German occupation. In 2015 Martens was named a Knight of the Order of the Arts and Literature ( chevalier de l'orde des Arts et des Lettres ) by the French Minister of Education, Fleur Pellerin .

Martens studied history and philosophy in Frankfurt am Main and Münster / Westf. From 1973 to 1981 . This was followed by the Magister Artium and in 1983 the doctorate at the Westphalian Wilhelms-Universität Münster on the role of Hermann Göring in the foreign policy of the Third Reich. Martens then became a research associate and speaker, later head of the contemporary history department at DHIP. Since then he has written several books and numerous scientific articles in specialist journals on Franco-German relations and the history of World War II, including in Francia .

Works (selection)

  • Hermann Goering. “First Paladin of the Führer” and “Second Man in the Reich” , Paderborn: Schöningh, 1985 (= Schöningh Collection on the past and present ).
  • (Ed.) From "Erbfeind" to "Renewer". Aspects and motives of the French policy towards Germany after the Second World War , Sigmaringen: Thorbecke, 1993.
  • (together with Heinz-Gerhard Haupt , Ernst Hinrichs, Heribert Müller, Bernd Schneidmüller and Charlotte Tacke) History of France , ed. by Ernst Hinrichs , Ditzingen: Reclam, 1994, updated and expanded edition 2014.
  • (together with Volker Knopf) Goering's Reich. Self-staging in Carinhall , Berlin: Links, 1999, 7th revised and expanded edition, Berlin 2015.
  • Marc Olivier Baruch: The Vichy Regime. France 1940–1944 , Ditzingen: Reclam, 2000. (as editor of the German translation).
  • (Ed.) France and Belgium under German occupation 1940–1944. The holdings of the Federal Archives-Military Archives Freiburg , edited by Sebastian Remus, Stuttgart: Thorbecke, 2002.
  • (as editor with Jörg Echternkamp ) The Second World War in Europe. Experience and memory , Paderborn: Schöningh, 2007.
  • (together with Jeanne Guérout and Aurélie Luneau) Comme un Allemand en France. Lettres inédites sous l'Occupation 1940–1944 , Paris: L'Iconoclaste, 2016.

Web links

Commons : Stefan Martens  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Martens. In: German National Library . Retrieved on September 19, 2014 (German).
  2. ↑ Stefan Martens receives French Order of Merit. In: German Historical Institute Paris . Retrieved September 15, 2015 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Martens, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1954