Volker Ullrich

Volker Ullrich (* 1943 in Celle ) is a German historian, journalist and writer.

Life

Ullrich studied history, literature, philosophy and pedagogy at the University of Hamburg and graduated with a first state exam. He worked from 1966 to 1969 as an assistant at the chair of Egmont Zechlin and in 1975 received his doctorate with a dissertation on the Hamburg labor movement in the early 20th century. After the Second State Exam, he worked as a teacher in Hamburg in 1976, especially at the Wilhelm-Gymnasium. He was also temporarily a lecturer for the Teaching of Politics at the Pedagogical University of Lüneburg. In 1988 he was Research Fellow at the Hamburg Foundation for the Social History of the 20th century. Since 1990, Ullrich head of the " Political Book " in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit.

He has published numerous articles in the time and number of books on topics of the history of the 19th and 20th centuries. With the article, Hitler's Willing murderers. A book provoked a new historians' debate of 12 April 1996, he released the " Goldhagen Debate " from.

1992 Ullrich was awarded the Alfred Kerr Prize for Literary Criticism. In 2008 he the Philosophical Faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena awarded an honorary doctorate.

Writings (selection )

  • The Hamburg labor movement from the eve of the First World War to the Revolution of 1918 / 19th Lüdke, Hamburg, 1976 ( Dissertation, University of Hamburg).
  • The nervous superpower: the rise and fall of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-10-086001-2.
  • Napoleon. A Biography. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2004, ISBN 3-498-06882-2.
  • The Kreisauer circle. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2008, ISBN 978-3-499-50701-4.
  • Adolf Hitler: The Rise of the year 1889-1939. Biography, Volume 1, S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-086005-7.
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