Nikolaus Wachsmann
Nikolaus Wachsmann | |
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Born | Nikolaus Daniel Wachsmann 1971 (age 52–53) |
Nationality | German |
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Thesis | Reform and Repression: Prisons and Penal Policy in Germany, 1918–1939 (2001) |
Academic advisors | Richard J. Evans |
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Discipline | Modern European history, penology, Nazi concentration camps |
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Nikolaus Daniel Wachsmann (born 1971) is a professor of modern European history in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Academic career[edit]
Wachsmann was born in Munich. He graduated from the London School of Economics with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree, from the University of Cambridge with a taught Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree, and from the University of London with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree.[1] His doctoral thesis, which he completed in 2001, was titled "Reform and Repression: Prisons and Penal Policy in Germany, 1918–1939".[2]
In October 1998, Wachsmann began his academic career as a research fellow at Downing College, Cambridge.[3] He was then a lecturer at the University of Sheffield. In 2005, he joined the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology of Birkbeck, University of London.[1]
He is the author of the 2004 book, Hitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany and the 2015 book KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps.[4]
He is currently writing a new history of Auschwitz. [5]
Personal life[edit]
Wachsmann resides in Liverpool.[6]
Awards and honours[edit]
- 2004 Royal Historical Society Gladstone History Book Prize, winner for Hitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany[7]
- 2016 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize, winner for KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps[8]
- 2016 Mark Lynton History Prize, winner for KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps[9]
- 2016 Wolfson History Prize, winner for KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps[6]
Selected publications[edit]
- KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps (New York, London, 2015)
- Die Linke im Visier. Zur Errichtung der Konzentrationslager 1933 (Göttingen, 2014), co-edited with Professor Sybille Steinbacher
- The Nazi Concentration Camps, 1933-1939: A Documentary History (Lincoln, 2012), co-edited with Dr. Christian Goeschel
- Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany: The New Histories (London, 2010), co-edited with Professor Jane Caplan
- "Before the Holocaust: New Approaches to the Nazi Concentration Camps, 1933-1939", special issue of Journal of Contemporary History 45 (2010), Nr. 3, co-edited with Dr. Christian Goeschel
- Hitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004).
References[edit]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Professor Nikolaus Wachsmann". Department of History, Classics and Archaeology. Birkbeck, University of London. 3 May 2017. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
- ^ Nikolaus Daniel, Wachsmann (2001). "Reform and repression: prisons and penal policy in Germany, 1918-1939". E-Thesis Online Service. The British Library Board. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
- ^ "College Notices: Downing College". Cambridge University Reporter. CXXVIII (23). 30 April 1998. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
- ^ Kahn-Harris, Keith (9 April 2015). "KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-06-21. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
- ^ "UKHMF Academic Advisory Board".
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Latest Prize Winners - The Wolfson Foundation". Archived from the original on 2013-09-04. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
- ^ Professor Nikolaus Wachsmann. Birkbeck College. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
- ^ Fisher, Ben (March 14, 2016). "Nikolaus Wachsmann Wins Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize". Jewish Quarterly. Archived from the original on March 16, 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
- ^ "Susan Southard, Nikolaus Wachsmann and Steve Luxenberg Named Winners of the 2016 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards". nieman.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
External links[edit]
- 1971 births
- Living people
- Academics of Birkbeck, University of London
- Alumni of the London School of Economics
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Alumni of the University of London
- Academics of the University of Sheffield
- Historians of Nazism
- Historians of the Holocaust
- German emigrants to the United Kingdom
- German historian stubs