Volker Berghahn

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Volker Rolf Berghahn (born February 15, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German historian .

Born in Berlin in 1938 as the son of a Siemens manager, Volker Berghahn attended schools in Essen, Braunschweig and Hamburg. He first studied law in Göttingen and then politics and history at the University of North Carolina . In 1964 he received his doctorate under Francis L. Carsten in London on a thesis on the steel helmet, Bund der Frontsoldaten from 1918 to 1935. Berghahn was Erich Matthias's assistant at the University of Mannheim for two years . In 1970 he received his habilitation there on the subject of The Tirpitz Plan: The Genesis and Decay of a Domestic Crisis Strategy under Wilhelm II . Berghahn first taught as a lecturer at the University of East Anglia in Norwich . From 1975 he was Professor of European History at Warwick University . In 1988 he went to the USA , initially to Brown University in Providence . In 1998 Berghahn succeeded István Deák Seth Low as Professor of History at Columbia University in New York .

Berghahn is one of the best experts on European-American relations in the 20th century. He is the author of the volume on the German Empire in the 2003 edition of " Gebhardt ", the fundamental handbook on German history. He is primarily concerned with the question "how it happened that this empire in July 1914 (together with the Habsburg Empire) triggered the First World War".

For his services to transatlantic relations, Berghahn was honored with the Helmut Schmidt Prize of the Zeit Foundation and with the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class . He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in London.

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Monographs

  • Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer. From Inner Emigration to the Moral Reconstruction of West Germany . Princeton University Press, Princeton 2019, ISBN 0-691-17963-8 .
  • American Big Business in Britain and Germany. A Comparative History of Two "Special Relationships" in the 20th Century. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2014, ISBN 978-0-691-16109-9 .
  • The First World War (= Beck's series. Vol. 2312). 6th edition. Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66365-9 .
  • Industrial society and cultural transfer. German-American Relations in the 20th Century (= Critical Studies in History . Vol. 182), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-37013-1 .
  • Transatlantic Culture Wars. Shepard Stone, the Ford Foundation and European Anti-Americanism (= Transatlantic Historical Studies. Vol. 21). Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08422-3 .
  • The Empire 1871–1914. Industrial society, bourgeois culture and authoritarian state (= Gebhardt : Handbook of German History . Vol. 16). 10th, completely revised edition. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-608-60016-7 .
  • Europe in the age of world wars. The unleashing and delimitation of violence (= Fischer 60156 European history ). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-596-60156-8 (In English: Europe in the era of two world wars. From militarism and genocide to civil society, 1900–1950. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ et al. 2006, ISBN 0-691-12003-X ).
  • Imperial Germany, 1871–1914. Economy, Society, Culture, and Politics. Berghahn Books, Providence RI et al. 1994, ISBN 1-57181-014-5 .
  • with Paul J. Friedrich: Otto A. Friedrich, a political entrepreneur. His life and time, 1902–1975. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1993, ISBN 3-593-34847-0 .
  • Entrepreneurs and politics in the Federal Republic (= Edition Suhrkamp 1265 = NF Bd. 265, New Historical Library ). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-518-11265-1 (in English: The Americanization of West German Industry. 1945-1973. Berg, Leamington Spa 1986, ISBN 0-907582-55-9 ).
  • Germany and the approach of war in 1914. Macmillan Press, London et al. 1973, ISBN 0-333-10696-2 .
  • The Tirpitz Plan. Genesis and decay of a domestic political crisis strategy under Wilhelm II. (= Historical studies of politics and society. Vol. 1). Droste, Düsseldorf 1971, ISBN 3-7700-0258-X .
  • The steel helmet. Bund der Frontsoldaten 1918–1935 (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Vol. 33). Droste, Düsseldorf 1966.

Editorships

  • with Sigurt Vitols: Does German Capitalism Exist? Tradition and global perspectives of the social market economy. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2006, ISBN 3-593-37996-1 .
  • with Stefan Unger and Dieter Ziegler : The German business elite in the 20th century. Continuity and mentality (= Bochum writings on company and industrial history. Vol. 11). Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2003, ISBN 3-89861-256-2 .
  • with Wilhelm Deist : Armaments under the sign of Wilhelmine world politics. Basic documents 1890–1914. Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-0762-X .
  • Militarism. ( Francis Carsten on his 65th birthday) (= New Scientific Library. Vol. 83). Kiepenheuer Witsch, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-462-01093-X .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the review by Ulrich Wyrwa in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 54 (2006), pp. 81–82.
  2. ^ Volker Berghahn: Das Kaiserreich 1871-1914. Industrial society, bourgeois culture and authoritarian state. Stuttgart 2003, pp. 40-41.
personal data
SURNAME Berghahn, Volker
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berghahn, Volker R .; Berghahn, Volker Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin