Michael Geyer

Michael Geyer ( b. 1947 ) is a German historian and university teacher who lives and teaches since the 1980s, mainly in the U.S..

Life

Michael Geyer, High School (1966 ) on the Fürstenberg -Gymnasium in Donaueschingen, his doctorate in 1976 at the Albert- Ludwigs- University of Freiburg. In 1984 he was appointed as Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Since 2000 he teaches at the University of Chicago and has the Samuel N. Herper - Chair for German and European history held.

Awards and honors

• 2012: Scholarship from the American Academy in Berlin as part of Berlin Prize and Senior Fellow of the Academy.

Publications

• Dissertation: upgrade or security: the Reichswehr in the crisis of power politics from 1924 to 1936. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1980, ISBN 3-515-02812-9.
• German Armaments Policy: 1860-1980. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-518-11246-5.
• With John W. Boyer Edited: Resistance against the Third Reich. University of Chicago Press, Chicago / London 1994, ISBN 0-226-06958-3.
• Insurrectionary Warfare: The German Debate about a " levee en masse " in October 1918, In: . The Journal of Modern History. Vol 73, No. 3, September 2001, pp. 459-527.
• As Editor: The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany. University of Chicago Press, Chicago / London 2001, ISBN 0-226-28987-7.
• With Charles Bright: A Where in the World is America? The History of the United States in the Global Age. In: Thomas Bender: Rethinking American History in a Global Age. University of California Press, Berkeley, California, USA, ISBN 0-520-23058-2.
• Konrad Hugo Jarausch with: Shattered Pasts: Reconstructing German Histories. Praeger, Princeton / Oxford 2003, ISBN 0-691-05936-5. translated into German by Friedrich Griese: Broken Mirror: German stories in the 20th century. German publishing house, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-421-05673-0.