German Historical Institute London

The German Historical Institute London (GHIL) is one of the nine independent academic research institutes of the German Historical Institute (German: Deutsche Historische Institute) that are part of the Max Weber Foundation.

The creation of the institute was the idea of the German archivist Carl Haase in 1968. A German-British Historical Association was founded in 1969 and, after gaining funding by the German government in 1975, the GHIL officially opened on 4 November 1976.^[1]

The Institute promotes research on "medieval and modern history, in particular on the comparative history of Britain and Germany, on the British Empire and the Commonwealth, and on Anglo-German relations."^[2]

It is located at 17 Bloomsbury Square^[3] and includes a public library specialising in German history.

The directors of the Institute have been:

• Paul Kluke August 1975 - July 1977
• Wolfgang Mommsen August 1977 - July 1985
• Adolf M. Birke August 1985 - August 1994
• Peter Wende September 1994 - August 2000
• Hagen Schulze September 2000 - August 2006
• Andreas Gestrich - September 2006 to August 2018
• Christina von Hodenberg [de] - September 2018 to date

• Germany–United Kingdom relations
• German Association for British Studies. Archived 15 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine.
• German History Society

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