Volker Ullrich (born 21 June 1943) is a German historian and journalist.
Career
Volker Ullrich was born in
Celle,
Lower Saxony,
Nazi Germany.
[ "Expert and historian Dr. Volker Ullrich receives honorary doctorate at the University of Jena" (PDF; 124 kB), University of Jena, 8 December 2008. Retrieved 22 April 2013.] He studied history, literature, philosophy and education at the University of Hamburg. From 1966 to 1969 he was assistant to the Egmont Zechlin Professor. He graduated in 1975 after a
Thesis on the
Hamburg labour movement of the early 20th century, after which he worked as a school teacher in Hamburg. 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.
In 1990 Ullrich became the head of the political section of the weekly newspaper
Die Zeit.
[ Volker Ullrich , Zeit Online. Retrieved 22 April 2013.]
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.[Ullrich, Volker: Hitler's Willing Executioners – a book that provokes new historical dispute. Die Zeit, 12 April 1996.][Schneider, Michael: The Goldhagen Debate – an historical dispute in the media. Discussion group history vol. 17, Bonn, 1997. ( German text online).]
In 1992 he was awarded the Alfred Kerr Prize for literary criticism,
Publications (selection)
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The Hamburg labour movement from the eve of the First World War to the Revolution of 1918. Luedke, University of Hamburg, dissertation 1976
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The Nervous Superpower: the rise and fall of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 1997,
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Napoleon. A biography. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2004,
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Bismarck (Life & Times). Haus Publishing 2008,
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The Kreisauer Circle. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2008,
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. S. Fischer Verlag 2013, (German edition). English translation: London The Bodley Head 2016,
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London The Bodley Head 2020,
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Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich, Liveright, 2021
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Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler’s Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis, Liveright, 2023
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