Michael Stürmer
| Michael Stürmer | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 29, 1938 Kassel, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | Free University of Berlin |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Known for | His geographical interpretation of German history and his role in the Historikerstreit |
Michael Stürmer (born September 29, 1938) is a right-wing German historian arguably best known for his role in the Historikerstreit of the 1980s, for his geographical interpretation of German history and for an admiring 2008 biography of the Russian politician Vladimir Putin.
Born in Kassel, Germany, Stürmer received his education in history, philosophy and languages at the University of Marburg, at the Free University of Berlin and at the London School of Economics. From 1973 to 2003 he held a professorship at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and at various times has served as a guest lecturer at the Sorbonne, Harvard University, and the Institute for Advanced Study. Also, he is on the advisory board of OMFIF where he regularly participates in various meetings regarding the financial and monetary system.
In the 1980s Stürmer worked as an advisor and speech-writer to the West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. As of 2013[update] Stürmer works as chief correspondent for the newspaper Die Welt, published by the Axel Springer AG publishing group.
Stürmer specializes in the history of the Second Reich of 1871-1918. He began his career on the political left in the 1960s, but during the course of the 1970s, he moved to the right. The turning point in Stürmer's politics occurred in 1974 when the Social Democratic Party of Germany Land government of Hesse attempted to abolish history as a subject in the Hesse educational system and to replace it with "social studies". Stürmer played a major role in campaigning for the defeat of the SPD government in the 1974 elections. Starting in the early 1980s Stürmer became a well-known figure in the Federal Republic, with frequent contributions to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, his editorship of a series of popular book series entitled "The Germans and their Nation" and holding a series of lectures for the general public.
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