Volker Berghahn

Who is Volker Berghahn?

Volker Rolf Berghahn is a historian of German and modern European history at Columbia University. His research interests have included the fin de siècle period in Europe, the origins of World War I, and German-American relations. He received his M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1961 and his Ph.D., under supervision of Francis L. Carsten, from the University of London in 1964. Prior to teaching in the United States, Berghahn worked in the United Kingdom and Germany. In 1988, he accepted a position at Brown University, and moved to Columbia ten years later.

Berghahn now holds the chair of Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia, and is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has become widely cited in his field, and his works include:

⁕Der Stahlhelm: Bund der Frontsoldaten 1918-1935

⁕Der Tirpitz-Plan

⁕Modern Germany

⁕The Americanization of West German Industry, 1945–1973

⁕Imperial Germany: 1871–1914 economy, society, culture, and politics

⁕Quest for Economic Empire, ed.

⁕Der Untergang des alten Europas, 1900-1929

⁕America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe

⁕Der Erste Weltkrieg