Annika Mombauer (born 1967) is a

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best known for her work on General

Helmuth von Moltke the Younger Graf Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von Moltke (; 25 May 1848 – 18 June 1916), also known as Moltke the Younger, was a German general and Chief of the Great German General Staff. He was also the nephew of ''Generalfeldmarschall'' ''Graf'' Helmuth Ka ...

. She is a Senior Lecturer in Modern European History in the History Department at the

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in Great Britain, and Associate Dean (Research) for the Arts Faculty.

Career

Mombauer studied history at the Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität (University of Münster) in

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, Germany, and at the

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, where she was awarded a D.Phil. in history in 1998. She joined the

staff in 1998 as lecturer in modern European history. In 2003, she also became a visiting fellow at the

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From 2006 until 2011 she was the secretary of the German History Society. As of 2014, she was a member of the editorial board of ''1914-1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War''. She chaired the Open University department's Research Steering Group and the departmental REF panel until December 2013.

Media

Mombauer was a contributor to

Michael Portillo Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo (; born 26 May 1953) is a British journalist, broadcaster and former politician. His broadcast series include railway documentaries such as '' Great British Railway Journeys'' and '' Great Continental Railway Jour ...

's documentary about the causes of

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

, ''The Great War of Words'', broadcast by

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in February 2014. Mombauer was a contributor to

Max Hastings Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings (; born 28 December 1945) is a British journalist and military historian, who has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, editor-in-chief of ''The Daily Telegraph'', and editor of the ''Evening Standard'' ...

' documentary about the causes of

, ''The Necessary War'', broadcast by

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in February 2014.BBC 2, February 1914, ''The Necessary War'' by Max Hastings
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Selected works

*''Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War''.

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, 2001. *''The Origins of the First World War: Controversies and Consensus''. Longman, 2002. * ''Die Julikrise. Europas Weg in den Ersten Weltkrieg'' (The July Crisis, Europe's Way to the First World War), published by C. H. Beck Verlag, Munich, 2014, 128 pp., 978-3-406-66108-2 * ''The Battle of the Marne, 1914. A comparative history,'' 2014 Cambridge University Press.

References

External links

Annika Mombauer - Open UniversityEncyclopedia of the First World War - 1914-1918-onlineGerman HistorySociety
Academics of the Open University 1967 births Living people {{UK-historian-stub