Tanja Buehrer

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Tanja Bührer (* 1974 ) is a Swiss historian .

Life

Bührer studied history , philosophy and German literature at the University of Bern from 1994 to 2001 . She then worked as a research assistant to Stig Förster . From 2004 to 2005 she was a visiting professor at the Department of African Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Then, again with Stig Förster, she spent 2007 a stay in the National Archives in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). In 2008 she was at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Berne Dr. phil. did her doctorate and then worked as a senior assistant for modern history and contemporary history. She is involved in the habilitation project “Intercultural Diplomacy and Empire: French, British and Asians at the Court of Hyderabad, c. 1750-1850 ”and has represented the Chair for European and Modern History ( Ulrike von Hirschhausen ) at the Historical Institute of the University of Rostock since 2015 .

From 2010 she was a visiting fellow or scholar at the German Historical Institute in London , at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London , at the Oxford Center for Global History at Oxford University and at Jawaharlal Nehru University .

She received several grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation . In 2009 she was awarded the doctoral prize of the Paul and Gertrud Hofer-Wild Foundation and in 2010 the Werner Hahlweg Prize for Military History and Defense Sciences (1st place).

reception

Her dissertation, published by R. Oldenbourg Verlag , Die Kaiserliche Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Ostfrika. Colonial security policy and transcultural warfare from 1885 to 1918 were widely discussed, including in the historical magazine , in the FAZ and in the military history magazine .

Jakob Zollmann from the scientist at the Berlin Science Center for Social Research stated : “This book is not a special study about the protection force, but a broad-based investigation of colonialism in the DOA and beyond. Future research on the colonial history of Tanzania will not be able to ignore this work. ”The Freiburg historian Susanne Kuss said that this“ committed study [...] opens the door to research on the deciphering of the dynamics of violence in the colonial wars ”. In addition, it is a "plea against the thesis of a continuity of violent behavior by the German military from the colonial wars to the Second World War".

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Individual evidence

  1. Winfried Speitkamp : Review of T. Bührer: "The Imperial Protection Force for German East Africa". In: Historische Zeitschrift 295 (2012), p. 541 f.
  2. Jakob Zollmann: Tanja Bührer: The Imperial Protection Force for German East Africa. (Review). Sehepunkte , Issue 12 (2012), No. 2.
  3. Susanne Kuß: Tanja Bührer: The Imperial Protection Force for German East Africa. (Review). In: Francia 40, 2013/3.