Michael Kißener (born 3 December 1960, in

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...

) is a German historian and Professor at the

University of Mainz The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (german: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. With approximately 32,000 stud ...

. His research is focused on the history of the national socialist regime (the

Third Reich Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

) and the opposition against it. He earned his doctorate in 1991, and headed the ''Forschungsstelle Widerstand'' at the

University of Karlsruhe The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 w ...

from 1992 to 2002. In 2000, he earned his Habilitation. He was appointed Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Mainz in 2002. He is a founding signatory of the

Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism The Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism was a declaration which was initiated by the Czech government and signed on 3 June 2008 by prominent European politicians, former political prisoners and historians, among them former ...

Works

* ''Rheinhessische Wege in den Nationalsozialismus.'' Worms 2010 * ''Der Weg in den Nationalsozialismus.'' Darmstadt 2009 * ''Germersheim im 20. Jahrhundert.'' Ubstadt-Weiher 2008 * ''Das letzte Wort haben die Zeugen: Alfred Delp.'' Mainz 2007 * ''Kleine Geschichte des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz.'' Mainz 2006 * ''Das Dritte Reich.'' Darmstadt 2005

External links

University bio

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kissener, Michael 20th-century German historians Living people 1960 births German male non-fiction writers 21st-century German historians