Malwida von Meysenbug
Malwida von Meysenbug (1816 – 1903) could have simply led the life of an aristocrat - but she chose to do things her own way. In 1848, she sided with the revolutionaries, and later on she ...
moreJoachim Radkau
Joachim Radkau was born in 1943, and was Professor of Modern History at Bielefeld University until 2009. His publications with Hanser include Das Zeitalter der Nervosität. Deutschland zwischen Bismarck und Hitler (1998), Max Weber. Die Leidenschaft des Denkens (2005), Theodor Heuss (2013) and Geschichte der Zukunft. Prognosen, Visionen, Irrungen in Deutschland von 1945 bis heute (2017). Joachim Radkau lives in Bielefeld. In 2015, he was awarded the Einhard Prize.
Theodor Heuss
They called him ‘Papa’, but Theodor Heuss was much more than the rigid, incorruptible paterfamilias of the early Federal Republic. He went down in history as the man who bolstered the ...
moreMax Weber
"Politics as a vocation", "the protestant ethic" and "charismatic leadership" are all key phrases of Max Weber's (1864-1920) which have become common parlance in newspaper editorials. And yet Max ...
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The age of Unrest
Entire libraries have been published on the causes of the First World War. Yet the reasons for the German Establishment's entry into this war – provoking it, even longing for it – remain a ...
moreThe Age of Unrest
Entire libraries have been published on the causes of the First World War. Yet the reasons for the German Establishment's entry into this war – provoking it, even longing for it – remain a ...
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