Ulrich Pfeil

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Ulrich Pfeil (born 13 May 1966) is a German historian based in France.

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Life

Born in Hamburg Pfeil grew up in Heide (Holstein) and took the Abitur at the Gymnasium Heide-Ost  [ de ] in 1985. After his military service he studied Educational Science, French language and history at the University of Hamburg from 1987 to 1993. In 1989/90 he worked as Foreign Language Assistant in Lure in France. Between 1993 and 1995 he completed his legal clerkship at the Elsensee-Gymnasium in Quickborn. After the second Staatsexamen he taught at the grammar school Bernau bei Berlin in 1995/96.

In 1995 he was appointed to the Department of History at the University of Hamburg with a dissertation on Vom Kaiserreich ins Dritte Reich. Die Kreisstadt Heide/Holstein 1890–1933. [1] From 1996 to 2002, Pfeil was a German Academic Exchange Service-Lektor at the Institut d'Allemand of Asnières-sur-Seine) of the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. A scholarship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft enabled him to study at the Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III in 2002 on the topic Die anderen deutsch-französischen Beziehungen. The DDR and France 1949-1990 [2] led him to habilitation. Between 2002 and 2009 he worked at the German Historical Institute Paris and in 2003 he took a visiting professorship at the 1st Franco-German cycle of the Sciences Po Paris in Nancy. Pfeil was Professor of German Studies at the Jean Monnet University in Saint-Étienne from 2005 to 2010. On September 1, 2010, he received a call to the University of Metz, which was merged with the University of Lorraine in 2012.

His main research interests in the field of modern and contemporary history are, besides studies on German [3] and French [4] Culture of Remembrance, the France-Germany relations in History [5] and topicality [6] the history of Europe, Germany in Cold War, [7] the history of German and international historiography and the Schleswig-Holstein Landesgeschichte in the 19th and 20th century. He has also co-edited the German-French History Book [8] Histoire/Geschichte [9] He is also interested in the history of football, especially [10] for those of FC Bayern München. He also writes in the press on current issues of Franco-German relations [11] and the political development in France. [12] Until its dissolution he was a member of the Historische Kommission beim SPD-Parteivorstand  [ de ].

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References

  1. From the Empire to the "Third Reich"; Die Kreisstadt Heide/Holstein 1890-1933 on WorldCat
  2. Die anderen deutsch-französischen Beziehungen : die DDR und Frankreich 1949-1990 on WorldCat
  3. Ulrich Pfeil: Not all Germans have a "heart of stone". On the Image of the German Resistance in France after 1945, in From Politics and Contemporary History, Vol. 27/2004, p. 23-30 (PDF; 442 kB).
  4. Ulrich Pfeil: End of the War in France, in From Politics and Contemporary History, 16-17/2015, pp. 2127.
  5. dokumente.de/index.html?c=dokument_en&dokument=0016_ely&object=context&st=&l=en Ulrich Pfeil: The Élysée Treaty [ permanent dead link ].
  6. Ulrich Pfeil: On the State of Franco-German Relations, in Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 48/2016, pp. 3438.
  7. Ulrich Pfeil: Die Suezkrise, in Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, V. 17-18/2006, p. 32-38}.
  8. Reiner Marcowitz, Ulrich Pfeil (ed.): Gemeinsames Geschichtsbuch; Dossier zum 1. Band in Dokumente 5/2006 Archived 2016-11-27 at the Wayback Machine .
  9. Corine Defrance, Reiner Marcowitz, Ulrich Pfeil (ed.): Histoire/Geschichte 2; Eckert.Dossier Archived 2020-07-22 at the Wayback Machine .
  10. Ulrich Pfeil: Le Bayern de Munich Archived 2016-03-09 at the Wayback Machine (PDF; 1,0 MB).
  11. Ulrich Pfeil: Germany, France and the Ukraine. The European peace order as a matter of the Europeans, in Der Tagesspiegel, 18 March 2015.
  12. Ulrich Pfeil: European Football Championship in France. Fairytale or nightmare, in the Handelsblatt , 20 June 2016.