Klaus-Michael Mallmann - Scientific Career

Scientific Career

Mallmann studied History, Sociology, Politics and German studies at the Saarland University. In 1979 he was awarded the Kurt Magnus Prize by the ARD broadcasting station after working as a television journalist for Saarländischer Rundfunk from 1976 to 1987. He obtained his doctorate in 1980, with a study of the "beginnings of the mine workers' movement on the Saar (1848 - 1904)". He was an academic assistant at the Saarland university from 1988 to 1992, in a research project titled "Resistance and refusal in Saarland 1935 - 1945". Afterwards he worked at the Free University of Berlin on the research project "The Gestapo 1933 - 1945" under Professor Dr. Peter Steinbach. He qualified as a university lecturer in 1995 at the University of Essen with the study "Milieu and Avant-garde. On the social history of German communism 1918 - 1933". He taught in Essen as lecturer for modern history. He transferred to the University of Stuttgart in 2001. Other research projects focused on the time of National Socialism, including "Order police, the War in the East and the murder of the Jews" as a postdoctoral researcher at the cultural studies institute of the academic centre in North Rhine-Westphalia, and a project at the University of Flensburg, "The perpetrators of the Shoah. Norms and behaviour in the process of the extermination of the Jews".