Public Relations and publications

Subject: History
E-Mail: volker.zimmermann[at]extern.lrz-muenchen.de

Research Areas

German-Czech relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
German-Polish relations in the nineteenth century
History of criminality
History of socialism
History of National Socialism and coming to terms with the past after 1945

Personal Data

1. Born in 1968
2. Studied modern history, Eastern European history, and political science at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf (1988-1994)
3. Doctorate at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf (1998); dissertation on "Die Sudetendeutschen im NS-Staat" (The Sudeten Germans in the National Socialist State)
4. "Drupa prize" for the best dissertation in the humanities at the Heinrich Heine University, awarded annually by the Messe Düsseldorf on the recommendation of the University's Faculty of Philosophy (1999)
5. Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize for outstanding scientific achievements, awarded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Science and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) (2002)
6. Post-doctoral thesis on the relations between the Soviet occupation zone/GDR and Czechoslovakia (1945-1969) (Düsseldorf 2005)
7. Assistant Professor (Private lecturer) for modern and contemporary history as well as Eastern European history at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf (since 2007)
8. Several years as a freelance journalist
9. 2000-2006: Research Assistant at the Institute for the Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe (Institut für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa) at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf
10. 2006-2010: Long-term DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) lecturer at the Charles University in Prague
11. Since March 2010: Research Assistant at the Collegium Carolinum

Roles (a selection)

1. Board member of the support group  for the Mahn- und Gedenkstätte der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf (Memorial to the victims of the National Socialism in Düsseldorf) (since 2002)
2. Member of the German-Czech Schoolbook Commission (since 2002)
3. Member of the Board of the Historical Commission for the Bohemian Lands (since 2005)

Publications

Monographs
Anthologies
Publication Series
Articles