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Status: PhD Candidate

Adviser: Konrad Jarausch

Graduate Email: till1@live.unc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Freie Universität Berlin
Heidelberg University (Staatsexamen)

Study abroad programs: University of Connecticut (2014/15), King’s College London (2016), Université Paris-Sorbonne (2016/17)

Research Interests

I am a historian of modern European history with a particular interest in diplomacy, the interwar period, and the history of the Third Reich. My dissertation, titled August Crisis: How Hitler Went to War in 1939, examines the diplomacy on the eve of the Second World War with a special emphasis on Poland. In particular, I am interested in the human element of diplomacy and the political impact of the interpersonal dynamics within Hitler’s inner circle.

Some Notable Publications

  • “Failure to Communicate: How the British Guarantee to Poland was Perceived in London, Warsaw and Berlin” (submitted to Diplomacy & Statecraft, currently under peer-review)
  • Review of: Michael Epkenhans (ed.), Lessons Learnt? The Impact of the Great War and the Paris peace Conference on the Military – a Global Perspective, Potsdam, 2024, in: International Journal of Military History and Historiography, 2024: 44/3 (upcoming)
  • “Hochstapler Hitler. Über Täuschung als Prinzip der NS-Außenpolitik,” (Contribution to a conference proceedings on the cultural history of deceptions organized by the ZZF Potsdam; in preparation).
  • “Der Berghof als Raum außenpolitischer Entscheidungen,” in: Sönke Kunkel, Michael Homberg, et al. (eds.): Räume in der Internationalen Geschichte (upcoming conference proceedings).
  • “Wahn und Wirklichkeit: Wie die Illusion einer gemeinsamen Erinnerung an die Julikrise die Ent-fesselung des Zweiten Weltkrieges beeinflusste,” in: Kießling/Rothauge (eds.): Außenbeziehungen und Erinnerung, München: de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021.
  • Review of: Brendan Simms, Hitler, London: Allen Lane, 2019, in: Francia-Recensio, 2020-2, Époque contemporaine, DOI: 10.11588/frrec.2020.2.73361
  • Notable Awards and Fellowships

  • Visiting student at the University of Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College (2020)
  • Fellow of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin (2022/23)
  • Visiting researcher at the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin (2023)
  • Courses Offered

    Teaching Assistant

  • HIST 158: Early Modern European History, Fall 2017
  • HIST 226: History of Rome, Spring 2018
  • HIST 159: Twentieth-Century Europe, Fall 2018
  • HIST 262: History of the Holocaust, Spring 2019
  • HIST 206: War, Diplomacy, and Statecraft, 1815-1945, Fall 2019
  • HIST 207: The Global Cold War, Spring 2021
  • HIST 226: History of Rome, Spring 2022
  • HIST 262: History of the Holocaust, Spring 2024
  • HIST 257: Postwar Germany, Fall 2024
  • Instructor of Record

  • HIST 395: The Rise of the Third Reich, Spring 2019
  • HIST 395: The Third Reich in Power, Fall 2019