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Benjamin Ziemann (born 1964 in Berlin) is a German historian who lectures at the University of Sheffield. Since 2011, he has been Professor of Modern German History at the Department of History, University of Sheffield.
After working as an apprentice on a farm in Lower Saxony, Ziemann studied history and philosophy at Free University Berlin, graduating with a master's degree in 1991.
From 1992 to 1995, he was a member of the Graduate School on Social History at the University of Bielefeld, gaining his PhD in 1996. From 1996 to 2004, Ziemann worked as an assistant professor at the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum. In 2004–2005, he was visiting lecturer at International University Bremen (now Jacobs University Bremen). In 2005, Ziemann joined the Department of History at the University of Sheffield as a lecturer.
In 2010–2011, he was a visiting professor at the University of Tübingen (Germany). Ziemann has been a visiting scholar at the Forum for Contemporary History at Oslo University, at the University of Bielefeld and from 2013 to 2015 at Humboldt University [ permanent dead link ] Berlin, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
Ziemann's main field of expertise is German history from the 1880s to the 1980s. He has published books and articles on military history and the history of violence particularly during and after the First World War. He is also a specialist on the social and political history of the Weimar Republic. Another area of expertise is the history of religion in modern Germany, particularly during the twentieth century. In addition, Ziemann has published widely on the comparative history of pacifism and peace movements especially during the Cold War.
Two of Ziemann's books have been awarded the prize Geisteswissenschaften International, a joint initiative of the German Booksellers Association, the Collecting society VG Wort and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation to facilitate the translation of German academic books into foreign languages.
In 2000, Ziemann was awarded the Bennigsen-Foerder Prize by the Ministry of School, Continuing Education and Science in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. He used the prize money of 100.000 Deutsche Mark to conduct a research project on the impact of opinion -polling on the political system in the Federal Republic from 1949 to 1990.
In 2003, Ziemann was the recipient of a Feodor Lynen Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, allowing him to spend the academic year 2003–2004 as a visiting scholar at the University of York (UK).
In 2007, Ziemann was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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