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Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship

 

The Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship is a co-operation of the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳), the , the (GHIL), and the Gerda Henkel Professor’s home university. Its purpose is to promote awareness in Britain of German research on the history of the German Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic, and to stimulate comparative work on German history in a European context. The first professorship was awarded in 2009.

Prof. Paul Nolte is the 2024/25 Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor. 

Previous Visiting Professors:

2023/24 - Prof. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum: 

2022/23 - Professor Constantin GoschlerCultures of Compromise in Germany and Britain, 1945–2000

2021/22 - Prof Dr Alexander Nützenadel: Facism and Finance - Economic Populism in Interwar Europe 

2020/21 - (Bielefeld University): Germanness in the 20th century: Identity, Politics, and Violence in Germany from the First World War to Re-Unification

2019/20 - (University of Freiburg): National Socialism: Old Theories and New Research Approaches

2018/19 - (Universität Wien): A Gender History of National Socialism – History, Memory, Debates

2017/18 - (Freie Universität Berlin): The GDR and Communist Parties in Europe 1949-1990

2016/17 - (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn): A History of Divided Germany, 1945-1990

2015/16 - (Trier): Transformations of Industrial Labour in Western Europe between 1970 and 2000

2014/15 — (Maastricht): Welfare in the Warfare State: Nazi Social Policy on the International Stage

2013/14 — (Hamburg): Coffee Worlds in Green Coffee and its Agents: The Hamburg Coffee Merchants in the 20th Century

2012/13 — (Mainz): The History of the Present

2011/12 — (Braunschweig): Media and politics - an entangled history (c. 1900-1980)

2010/11 — (Frankfurt am Main): The British and German Welfare States after "the Great Boom": Public Debates on Social Inequality and Social Justice since the 1970s

2009/10 — (Mainz): International Aid and Solidarity: Humanitarian Commitment and the Media in Germany, c. 1950-1985