German Historical Institute London

Academic research institute

The German Historical Institute London (GHIL) is one of the nine independent academic research institutes of the German Historical Institute (German: Deutsche Historische Institute) that are part of the Max Weber Foundation.

Foundation

The creation of the institute was the idea of the German archivist Carl Haase in 1968. A German-British Historical Association was founded in 1969 and, after gaining funding by the German government in 1975, the GHIL officially opened on 4 November 1976.^[1]

Activities

The Institute promotes research on "medieval and modern history, in particular on the comparative history of Britain and Germany, on the British Empire and the Commonwealth, and on Anglo-German relations."^[2]

It is located at 17 Bloomsbury Square^[3] and includes a public library specialising in German history.

Directors

The directors of the Institute have been:

Paul Kluke August 1975 - July 1977
Wolfgang Mommsen August 1977 - July 1985
Adolf M. Birke August 1977 - July 1985
Peter Wende September 1994 - August 2000
Hagen Schulze September 2000 - August 2006
Andreas Gestrich - September 2006 to August 2018
Christina von Hodenberg [de] - September 2018 to date

References

^ German Historical Institute: 40 year anniversary. German Historical Institute, London, 2016. p. 4.
^ Welcome. German Historical Institute London. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
^ 17 Bloomsbury Square - A House with a History. Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine German Historical Institute London. Retrieved 12 November 2016.