User:Eli185/Stephan Malinowski

Stephan Malinowski (born 1966 in Berlin) is a German historian.

Life

Malinowski studied history and political science at three Berlin universities (Freie Universität Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and at the Université Paul-Valéry in Montpellier (France). In 1994, he earned his master's degree at the TU Berlin.

From 1995 to 1998 Malinowski was a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the European University Institute in Florence. From 1998 to 2002 he was a research assistant for modern history at the Technical University of Berlin, then in 2002/2003 at the Department of History at the University of Cologne. He became known in 2003 for his dissertation entitled Vom König zum Führer. Social Decline and Political Radicalization in the German Nobility between the Empire and the Nazi State.. It is "the most comprehensive study to date of the relationship between the nobility and National Socialism," praised historian Eckart Conze. In 2004, he was the first recipient of the Hans Rosenberg Memorial Prize for his dissertation.

After receiving his doctorate, he became a research assistant at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the FU Berlin in April 2003, where he worked as a lecturer until 2008. In 2005/2006, he was a Kennedy Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He taught at the Humboldt University in Berlin and was a Fellow at the Institute for advanced studies at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg from 2008 to 2009. From 2009 to 2012, he taught German and Western European history of the 19th and 20th centuries at University College Dublin. Since summer 2012, he has been teaching at the School of History, Classics & Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. In addition to works on German history, Malinowski has also written on French and European colonial history.

In 2014, Malinowski was commissioned by the state of Brandenburg to prepare an expert opinion on the question of whether the former Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia had "significantly aided and abetted" the National Socialist system. This would lead to an exclusion of compensation payments to descendants under the Compensation and Equalization Act. Malinowski concluded that Wilhelm Crown Prince of Prussia, facilitated the establishment and consolidation of the National Socialist regime. His overall conduct significantly aided the establishment and consolidation of the Nazi regime.“ Malinowski published an article on the same topic in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit in 2015. The Hohenzollern family filed a criminal complaint against him with the accusation of violating private secrets. The proceedings were finally discontinued pursuant to Section 170 (2) of the German Criminal Procedure Code (Strafprozessordnung) because there was no suspicion of a violation of private secrets pursuant to Section 203 of the German Criminal Code (StGB)..

Malinowski has continued to play a prominent role in the debate on the relationship of the Hohenzollerns to National Socialism in 2019. The research controversy resulting from the differing findings of the expert opinions presented by Malinowski as well as Wolfram Pyta, Christopher Clark and Peter Brandt on the question of the Hohenzollerns' involvement in the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship and the public debate "about the legacy of the Hohenzollerns" that this controversy triggered were considered "the country's most significant historical-political conflict" in the present day at the end of 2019 (Der Spiegel). Jan Böhmermann published the secret appraisals, which are significant for the compensation claims of Hohenzollern, in November 2019 for his show Neo Magazin Royale on the Internet.

Christopher Clark recanted his own finding on September 26, 2020, explicitly citing Malinowski's expert opinion as the source of new evidence.

For his monograph Die Hohenzollern und die Nazis. Geschichte einer Kollaboration Malinowski was awarded by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels the Deutschen Sachbuchpreis in 2022.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Die Hohenzollern und die Nazis. Geschichte einer Kollaboration. Propyläen, Berlin 2021, ISBN 978-3-549-10029-5.
• Vom König zum Führer. Sozialer Niedergang und politische Radikalisierung im deutschen Adel zwischen Kaiserreich und NS-Staat. Akademie, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-05-003554-4. (Fischer, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3-596-16365-X)

Essays

• mit Marcus Funck: Geschichte von oben. Autobiographien als Quelle einer Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte des deutschen Adels in Kaiserreich und Weimarer Republik. In: Historische Anthropologie. Band 7, 1999, S. 236–270.
• Die Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft und der Deutsche Herrenklub. In: Heinz Reif (Hrsg.): Entwicklungslinien und Wendepunkte im 20. Jahrhundert (= Adel und Bürgertum in Deutschland. Bd. 2). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-003551-X, S. 190.
• Vom blauen zum reinen Blut. Adliger Antisemitismus und antisemitische Adelskritik in Deutschland 1871–1945. In: Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung. Band 12, 2003, S. 147–169.
• Es war kein Aufstand des Adels. In: Cicero. 1. Juli 2004. (cicero.de)
• mit Marcus Funck: Masters of Memory: The Strategic Use of Memory in Autobiographies of the German Nobility. In: P. Fritzsche, A. Confino (Hrsg.): The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana 2002.
• mit Robert Gerwarth: Hannah Arendt’s Ghosts: Reflections on the Disputable Path from Windhoek to Auschwitz. In: Central European History. Band 42, Nr. 2, 2006, S. 279–300.
• Modernierungskriege. Militärische Gewalt und koloniale Modernisierung im Algerienkrieg (1954–1962). In: Archiv für Sozialgeschichte. Band 48, 2008, S. 213–248.
• mit Moritz Feichtinger: Eine Million Algerier lernen im 20. Jahrhundert zu leben: Umsiedlungslager und Zwangsmodernisierung im Algerienkrieg 1954–1962. In: Journal of Modern European History. Band 8, Nr. 1, 2010, S. 107–135.
• mit Robert Gerwarth: Der Holocaust als 'kolonialer Genozid'? Europäische Kolonialgewalt und nationalsozialistischer Vernichtungskrieg. In: Geschichte und Gesellschaft. Band 33, Nr. 3, 2007, S. 439–466.
• A counter-revolution d’outre-tombe?: Notes on the French Aristocracy and the Extreme Right during the Third Republic and the Vichy Regime. In: K. Urbach (Hrsg.): European Aristocracies and the Extreme Right 1918–1939. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, S. 15–34.
• Their Favourite Enemy: German Social Historians and the Prussian Nobility. In: S. Müller (Hrsg.): Imperial Germany Revisited: Continuing Debates and New Perspectives. New York 2011, S. 141–157.
• mit Alexander Sedlmaier: ‘1968’ – A catalyst of consumer society. In: Cultural and Social History. Band 8, Nr. 2, 2011, S. 255–274.
• mit Emile Chabal: Gehört Großbritannien zu Europa? In: Merkur. Band 796, 2015, S. 75–84.

Honors

• 2004: Hans-Rosenberg-Gedächtnispreis für Vom König zum Führer
• 2022: Deutscher Sachbuchpreis für Die Hohenzollern und die Nazis. Geschichte einer Kollaboration

Weblinks

• Literature by and about Eli185/Stephan Malinowski in the German National Library catalogue
• Eli185/Stephan Malinowski at perlentaucher.de – das Kulturmagazin (in German)
• Die Rolle des Adels im „Dritten Reich“: Wir waren alle im Widerstand. Interview mit Claudius Seidl. FAZ.net, 20. Juli 2010.
• „Wie braun waren die Hohenzollern wirklich?“. Interview mit Andreas Fanizadeh. In: taz, 19. Dezember 2021.

References

[[Category:1966 births]] [[Category:German people]] [[Category:Academics of the University of Edinburgh]]