Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann Editor & Author

Andreas Gestrich read history and Latin at the universities of Berlin (FU) and Tübingen. He is a social historian and has published widely on the history of the family, of poverty, and of the welfare state in modern Germany and Europe. He taught at the universities of Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, and Würzburg before he was appointed full Professor of Modern History at Trier University in 1997. Since 2007 he has been Director of the German Historical Institute London. He has also published on German youth in the First World War, and edited volumes on violence in twentieth-century warfare and on nineteenth- and twentieth-century pacifism. Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann read history, philosophy, and geography at the universities of Bon, Berlin, and Hamburg, where he worked with Fritz Fischer. In 1962 he won a scholarship to Oxford where he did his doctorate. He taught at the universities of Sussex and Oxford 1970-2005 and was Visiting Professor at universities in America, Namibia, and East Germany.