Deutsches Kaiserreich: Die Politik Bismarcks, Die Wilhelminische Ära, Militarismus Und Antisemitismus, Nervöse Zeiten

by Volker Ullrich

FISCHER KOMPAKT. Verlässliches Wissen kompetent, übersichtlich und bündig dargestellt.Volker Ullrich bietet einen vorzüglichen Überblick über die Geschichte des deutschen Kaiserreichs.(Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)

Genres: Nonfiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Volker Ullrich was born in Celle. He studied history, literature, philosophy and education at the University of Hamburg. From 1966 to 1969 he was assistant to the Hamburg’s Egmont Zechlin Chair. He graduated in 1975 after a dissertation on the Hamburg labour movement of the early 20th Century, after which he worked as a Hamburg school teacher. He was, for a time, a lecturer in politics at the Lüneburg University, and in 1988 he became a research fellow at Hamburg’s Foundation for 20th-century Social History. Since 1990 Ullrich has been the head of the political section of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit.
Ullrich has published articles and books on 19th- and 20th-century history. In 1996 he reviewed the thesis postulated in Daniel Goldhagen’s book Hitler's Willing Executioners that provoked fresh debate among historians.
In 1992 he was awarded the Alfred Kerr Prize for literary criticism, and, in 2008, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Jena.

Reviews

[Jur]

provides a coherent overview of the 48 years of the second German empire, with the second part of the book devoted to specialised subjects like the constitution, feminism, militarism and the link between interest organisations and political parties. Reads very easily.