Volker Berghahn

Volker Rolf Berghahn (born 15 February 1938) is a historian of German and modern European history at Columbia University. His research interests have included the fin de siècle period in Europe, the origins of World War I, and German-American relations. He received his M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1961 and his Ph.D., under supervision of Francis L. Carsten [de], from the University of London in 1964. Prior to teaching in the United States, Berghahn worked in the United Kingdom and Germany. In 1988, he accepted a position at Brown University, and moved to Columbia ten years later.

Berghahn now holds the chair of Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia, and is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Bibliography[]

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• Der Stahlhelm. Bund der Frontsoldaten 1918–1935. 1966.
• Der Tirpitz-Plan (1971)
• Germany And The Approach Of War In 1914 (1973)
• Germany in the Age of Total War (with Martin Kitchen), (London: Croom Helm; Totowa N.J.: Barnes and Noble, 1981)
• Modern Germany (1982)
• The Americanization of West German Industry, 1945–1973 (1986)
• Imperial Germany: 1871–1914 economy, society, culture, and politics (1994)
• Quest for Economic Empire, ed. (1996)
• Der Untergang des alten Europas, 1900-1929 (1999)
• America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe (2001)
• Der Erste Weltkrieg (2003)
• Europe in the Era of Two World Wars: From Militarism and Genocide to Civil Society, 1900-1950 (English translation 2005)
• Gibt es einen deutschen Kapitalismus? Tradition und globale Perspektiven der sozialen Marktwirtschaft (2006)
• "A plea for a rapprochement between history and economic history : Helmut Schmidt Prize Lecture at the German Historical Institute, February 14, 2007". Bulletin of the German Historical Institute. 40: 83–90. Spring 2007.
• Industriegesellschaft und Kulturtransfer: Die deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen im 20. Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-37013-1
• Umbau im Wiederaufbau: Amerika und die deutsche Industrie im 20. Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1306-4
• Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer: From Inner Emigration to the Moral Reconstruction of West Germany. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-0-691-17963-6
• Hans-Günther Sohl als Stahlunternehmer und Präsident des Bundesverbandes der Deutschen Industrie: 1906–1989. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2020, ISBN 978-3-8353-3852-4

External links[]

• Columbia University faculty page
• Books by Volker Berghahn at Amazon.com
• Criticism by Václav Klaus (in Czech)