Michael Kißener (born 3 December 1960, in

Bonn Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...

) is a German historian and Professor at the

University of Mainz The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz () is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany. It has been named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. it had approximately 32,000 students enrolled in around 100 a ...

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

Third Reich Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictat ...

) 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; ) is both a German public university, public research university in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, and a research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 when the University of Ka ...

from 1992 to 2002. In 2000, he earned his

Habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in Germany, France, Italy, Poland and some other European and non-English-speaking countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excelle ...

. 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 Academic staff of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz