Annika Mombauer (born 1967) is a

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best known for her work on General Helmuth von Moltke the Younger. She is a Senior Lecturer in Modern European History in the History Department at the

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in Great Britain, and Associate Dean (Research) for the Arts Faculty.

Career

Mombauer studied history at the Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität (University of Münster) in

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, Germany, and at the

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, where she was awarded a D.Phil. in history in 1998. She joined the

staff in 1998 as lecturer in modern European history. In 2003, she also became a visiting fellow at the

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From 2006 until 2011 she was the secretary of the German History Society. As of 2014, she was a member of the editorial board of ''1914-1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War''. She chaired the Open University department's Research Steering Group and the departmental REF panel until December 2013.

Media

Mombauer was a contributor to Michael Portillo's documentary about the causes of

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, ''The Great War of Words'', broadcast by

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in February 2014. Mombauer was a contributor to Max Hastings' documentary about the causes of

, ''The Necessary War'', broadcast by BBC 2 in February 2014.BBC 2, February 1914, ''The Necessary War'' by Max Hastings
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Selected works

*''Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War''.

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, 2001. *''The Origins of the First World War: Controversies and Consensus''. Longman, 2002. * ''Die Julikrise. Europas Weg in den Ersten Weltkrieg'' (The July Crisis, Europe's Way to the First World War), published by C.H. Beck Verlag, Munich, 2014, 128 pp., * ''The Battle of the Marne, 1914. A comparative history,'' Cambridge University Press, 2014.

References

External links

Annika Mombauer - Open UniversityEncyclopedia of the First World War - 1914-1918-onlineGerman HistorySociety
Academics of the Open University 1967 births Living people {{UK-historian-stub