The German Historical Institute Warsaw is participating in the International Thomas Mann Festival, which will take place from July 11 to 18, 2026. Further information can be found here .

During the summer school, we aim to explore new methodological perspectives, combining local and transnational history, based on various re-interpreted sources or previously unknown materials, with…

The Prague Branch of the German Historical Institute Warsaw (Part of the Max Weber Foundation), in cooperation with the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University in Prague, the Institute of…

We cordially invite you to a lecture by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schmid (St. Gallen): “Regionalism and Nation-building in Ukraine ein. The lecture is organized by our branch office in Vilnius .

Max Weber Foundation Conference “Border Matters: Embodiment, Environment, and Infrastructure of Border Spaces” GHI Warsaw, Poland 4-6 May 2026

We cordially invite you to a lecture by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad (FU Berlin) ein. The lecture is organized by our branch office in Vilnius .

Violence is at the core of war – first as a means to create „order“ between states or to discipline soldiers inside the army. Second, violence tends to destroy the only capital of the „soldier“, his…

Eine wissenschaftliche Edition von Hitlers Reden nach 1933 ist seit langem ein Forschungsdesiderat, obwohl unstrittig ist, dass Hitler seinen politischen Aufstieg vor allem als Redner erreichte. Auch…

Kirill Levinson (Max Weber Netzwerk Osteuropa) “Zwischen Zerfall, Umbau und Aufbau: Eine Oral History von Geschichtswissenschaften und GeschichtswissenschaftlerInnen auf postsowjetischem Raum” (in…

Cäcilia Wosnitzka (Universität Wien) “Diasporische Handlungsräume polnischer Exilantinnen in der (west-)deutschen Demokratiegeschichte (1966-1993)” (in German) Moderator: Michael Zok

In the wake of wartime and post-war migration, often after years of wandering, around 180,000 Polish citizens, including many women, ended up in the United States. Reconstructing the biographies of…

A number of historians have linked the rise in concerns about magic and witchcraft during the early modern period to the constant state of insecurity brought about by bad weather, religious conflict,…