The Association of German Historians was founded in 1895 and has since worked to promote history as an academic discipline and to represent German historians vis-à-vis the national and international public. This collaborative project (Professor Olaf Blaschke, Trier; Professor Christoph Cornelißen, Düsseldorf; Professor Gabriele Lingelbach, Bamberg; Professor Martin Sabrow, Potsdam/Berlin) is based at the Humboldt University’s Department of History and aims to research and illustrate the association’s history from its foundation to the present time.