Maximillian Becker

Biography

Since 08/2017: Scientific assistant in the project "Hitler-Speaking 1933-1945" at the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin 2017: Scholarship at the German Historical Institute in Moscow 2016 - 2017: Research Assistant at the Institute of Contemporary History, University of Vienna (external) 2015 - 2016: Senior Researcher at the Marburg Herder Institute 2015: Scholarship at the German Historical Institute Warsaw 2014 - 2015: Research Fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) 2013 - 2013: Clerk in the field of information to the Federal Commissioner for the documents of the state security service of the former GDR at the Dresden office 2013 - 2013: Employment intermediary with consultancy tasks at the Federal Agency for Labor Munich 2012 - 2013: Lecturer at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 2011: Scholarship at the Institute for European History Mainz 2009: Scholarship at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw 2008 - 2011: Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Frankfurt aM 2012: PhD at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) 2001 - 2007: studies of modern and modern history (main subject), history of East and South Eastern Europe and the right in the secondary subject at LMU  

Research Interest

Research interests: German and European history, history of National Socialism and the Holocaust, resistance and occupation in the Second World War, juridical contemporary history, memory cultures and memory history, transfer and interdependence history, Stalinism and communism in Europe, history of political rhetoric, survivors of the concentration camps and their associations in the post-war period