Dr. Eckart Conze (born October 17, 1963) is a German historian, author, and professor of modern history at the

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in Hesse. He has authored and co-authored more than thirty books and papers on modern German, European and international history, including works in English published by

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. His interviews and writing have appeared in German news magazine Der Spiegel. His book ''The Search for Security (german: link=no, Die Suche nach Sicherheit)'' garnered him the prize for promoting the translation of humanities works by the

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in 2009. He was a member of the Independent Commission of Historians, tasked by the German

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in 2005 to study the conduct of German diplomats in

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and in the

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. The commission published its findings on October 21, 2010 in a book entitled ''The Office and the Past (german: link=no, Das Amt und die Vergangenheit)''. He is the Deputy Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Memorial Foundation, commemorating its namesake German historian, archivist, and FDP politician.

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