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Dr. Eckart Conze
Volker Stalmann (left) presenting Conze with the Wolf Erich Kellner Prize, 2011.
Volker Stalmann (left) presenting Conze with the Wolf Erich Kellner Prize, 2011.
Born (1963-10-17) October 17, 1963 (age 61)
Coburg, Bavaria
Language
  • German (primary)
  • English
Alma materUniversity of Marburg

Dr. Eckart Conze (born October 17, 1963) is a German historian, author, and professor of modern history at the University of Marburg in Hesse.[1][2]

He has authoried and co-authored more than thirty books and papers on modern German, European and international history,[3] including works in English published by Cambridge University Press.[4] His interviews and writing have appeared in German news magazine Der Spiegel.[2][5]

His book The Search for Security (Template:Lang-de)[6] garnered him the prize for promoting the translation of humanities works by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels in 2009.[7]

He was a member of the Independent Commission of Historians, tasked by the German Federal Foreign Office in 2005 to study the conduct of German diplomats in Nazi Germany and in the Federal Republic.[2][8] The commission published its findings on October 21, 2010 in a book entitled The Office and the Past (Template:Lang-de).[9]

He is the Deputy Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Memorial Foundation, commemorating its namesake German historian, archivist, and FDP politician.[10]

Literature

  • Die gaullistische Herausforderung. Die deutsch-französischen Beziehungen in der amerikanischen Europapolitik [The Gaullistic Challenge: German-Franco Relations in American-European Policy] (in German). Munich: University of Erlangen–Nuremberg. 1995. ISBN 3-486-56106-5.
  • Von deutschem Adel. Die Grafen von Bernstorff im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert [From German Nobility: The Counts of Bernstorff in the Twentieth Century] (in German). Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. 2000. ISBN 3-421-05344-8.
  • Die Suche nach Sicherheit. Eine Geschichte der Bundesrepublik von 1949 bis in die Gegenwart [The Search for Security: A History of the Federal Republic From 1949 to the Present] (in German). Munich: Siedler. 2009. ISBN 978-3-88680-919-6.
  • Geschichte der Sicherheit. Entwicklung – Themen – Perspektiven [History of Security. Development – Themes – Perspectives.] (in German). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2017. ISBN 978-3-525-30094-7.
  • Die große Illusion. Versailles 1919 und die Neuordnung der Welt [The Great Illusion. Versailles 1999 and the Reorganisation of the World] (in German). Munich: Siedler. 2018. ISBN 978-3-8275-0055-7.

References

  1. ^ Conze, Eckart. "Prof. Dr. Eckart Conze" (in German). University of Marburg. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "50 Jahre SPIEGEL-Affäre – die Konferenz" [50 years of the SPIEGEL affair – The Conference] (in German). Der Spiegel. September 22, 2012. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
  3. ^ "Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek" [Catalogue of the German National Library] (in German). German National Library. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
  4. ^ "Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Fear and the Cold War of the 1980s". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
  5. ^ Conze, Eckart (October 27, 2010). "Hitler's Diplomats Historian Calls Wartime Ministry A 'Criminal Organization'". Der Spiegel. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
  6. ^ Die Suche nach Sicherheit. Eine Geschichte der Bundesrepublik von 1949 bis in die Gegenwart [The Search for Security: A History of the Federal Republic From 1949 to the Present] (in German). Siedler. 2009. ISBN 978-3-88680-919-6.
  7. ^ Preis des Börsenvereins für Professor Dr. Eckart Conze at the Wayback Machine (archived May 7, 2016)
  8. ^ "Presentation of study by the Independent Commission of Historians". Federal Foreign Office. October 26, 2010. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
  9. ^ Conze, Eckart; Frei, Norbert; Hayes, Peter; Zimmermann, Moshe (October 21, 2010). Das Amt und die Vergangenheit. Deutsche Diplomaten im Dritten Reich und in der Bundesrepublik [The Office and the Past. German Diplomaits in the Third Reich and the Federal Republic] (in German). Munich.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  10. ^ "Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Preis" [Wolf Erich Kellner Prize] (in German). Retrieved March 19, 2020.
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