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Volker Rolf Berghahn (born 15 February 1938) is a historian of German and modern European history atColumbia University. His research interests have included thefin de siècle period in Europe, the origins ofWorld War I, and German-American relations. He received a M.A. from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1961 and a PhD, under supervision ofFrancis L. Carsten, from theUniversity of London in 1964. Prior to teaching in the United States, Berghahn worked in the United Kingdom and Germany. In 1988, he accepted a position atBrown University, and moved to Columbia ten years later.

Berghahn now holds the chair ofSeth Low Professor of History at Columbia, and is also a Fellow of theRoyal Historical Society.

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• Der Stahlhelm. Bund der Frontsoldaten 1918–1935. 1966.
• Der Tirpitz-Plan (1971)
• Germany And The Approach Of War In 1914 (1973)
• Germany in the Age of Total War (withMartin Kitchen), (London: Croom Helm; Totowa N.J.: Barnes and Noble, 1981)
• Modern Germany (1982)
• The Americanization of West German Industry, 1945–1973 (1986)
• Imperial Germany: 1871–1914 economy, society, culture, and politics (1994)
• Quest for Economic Empire, ed. (1996)
• Der Untergang des alten Europas, 1900–1929 (1999)
• America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe (2001)
• Der Erste Weltkrieg (2003)
• Europe in the Era of Two World Wars: From Militarism and Genocide to Civil Society, 1900–1950 (English translation 2005)
• Gibt es einen deutschen Kapitalismus? Tradition und globale Perspektiven der sozialen Marktwirtschaft (2006)
• "A plea for a rapprochement between history and economic history : Helmut Schmidt Prize Lecture at the German Historical Institute, February 14, 2007".Bulletin of the German Historical Institute.40:83–90. Spring 2007.
• Industriegesellschaft und Kulturtransfer: Die deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen im 20. Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010,ISBN 978-3-525-37013-1
• Umbau im Wiederaufbau: Amerika und die deutsche Industrie im 20. Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2013,ISBN 978-3-8353-1306-4
• Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer: From Inner Emigration to the Moral Reconstruction of West Germany. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019,ISBN 978-0-691-17963-6
• Hans-Günther Sohl als Stahlunternehmer und Präsident des Bundesverbandes der Deutschen Industrie: 1906–1989. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2020,ISBN 978-3-8353-3852-4

• Columbia University faculty page
• Books by Volker Berghahn at Amazon.com
• Criticism byVáclav Klaus(in Czech)

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• German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
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• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
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