Thomas Weber (historian)

Thomas Weber (born April 29, 1974 in Hagen ) is a German historian and university professor. Since 2013 he has been Professor of History and International Politics at the University of Aberdeen .

Life

From 1986 to 1993 Thomas Weber visited the Anne Frank School of the city Halver . Weber studied history, English and law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster from 1993 to 1996 and modern history at Oxford from 1996 to 1998 , where he received his doctorate in 2003 with a thesis supervised by Niall Ferguson . After teaching or researching for a few years at Harvard , the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania , the University of Chicago and the University of Glasgow , he has been teaching at the University of Aberdeen since September 2008 . The focus of his teaching and research is European and global history in the 20th century. Since 2010 he has been Director of the Center for Global Security and Governance at the University of Aberdeen and since 2013 Professor of History and International Affairs. From 2012 to 2013 he was a Fritz Thyssen Fellow at the Weatherhead Center at Harvard University. Since 2013 he has been a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

Awards

• 2010: The Arthur Goodzeit Book Award
• 2008: Duc d'Arenberg History Prize for the best book on European History and culture (for Our Friend “The Enemy” )
• 2005: Infinity Award in the “Publication” category from the International Center of Photography , New York City for Lodz Ghetto Album
• 2004: Golden Light Award in the “Best Edited Historical Book” category for Lodz Ghetto Album

Fonts

• Lodz Ghetto album. Photographs by Henryk Ross , selected by Timothy Prus and Martin Parr , foreword by Robert Jan van Pelt , text by Thomas Weber. Chris Booth, London 2004, ISBN 0-9542813-7-3 .
• Our Friend “The Enemy”. Elite Education in Britain and Germany before World War I. Stanford University Press, Stanford 2008, ISBN 978-0-8047-0014-6 .
• Hitler's First War. Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-923320-5 .
  • German translation: Hitler's first war. Private Hitler in World War II - Myth and Truth. Propylaea, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-549-07405-3 ; Paperback: List, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-548-61110-5 .
• How Adolf Hitler became a Nazi. From apolitical soldier to author of “Mein Kampf”. Translated from the English by Heike Schlatterer and Karl Heinz Siber. Propylaea, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-549-07432-9 .

literature

• Othmar Plöckinger : There has never been so much stab in the back. Thomas Weber wants to explain how Hitler became a Nazi and puts it in an all too handy format . Review, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 29, 2016, p. 12

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Weber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thomas Weber on the University of Aberdeen website
• Short biography and reviews of works by Thomas Weber at perlentaucher.de
• Hitler's fake past , Focus , 11/2011, March 14, 2011
• The German self-image must change , Die Welt , March 12, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Weber: Who was Adolf Hitler? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 30, 2013, p. 25.