Nikolaus Wachsmann
German historian (born 1971)
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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.
1971 (age 54–55)
- Gladstone History Book Prize (2004)
- Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize (2016)
- Mark Lynton History Prize (2016)
- Wolfson History Prize (2016)
Nikolaus Wachsmann | |
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| Born | Nikolaus Daniel Wachsmann 1971 (age 54–55) |
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| Thesis | Reform and Repression: Prisons and Penal Policy in Germany, 1918–1939 (2001) |
Academic advisor | Richard J. Evans |
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| Discipline | Modern European history, penology, Nazi concentration camps |
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Academic career
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
Awards and honours
- 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
- 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).
