Simon SpechtWissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter/Doktorand
Contact
Simon Specht
Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam
Am Neuen Markt 1
14467 Potsdam
Office: Am Neuen Markt 9d, Room E.08
Phone: +49 (331) 74510 134
E-Mail: simon.specht [at] zzf-potsdam.de
Vita
since April 2022
Doctoral researcher at ZZF Potsdam
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August 2015 – August 2019 and October 2020 – March 2022
Student assistant (SHK/WHF) for Dr. Willibald Steinmetz, Professor for Political History, Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology, Bielefeld University
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Winter Semester 2018/19 – Winter Semester 2021/22
M.A. in History / Master Sciences Humaines et Sociales, Mention Histoire, civilisations, patrimoine at Bielefeld University and Université Paris Cité (franco-german study programme BiPaG)
Thesis on the concept and praxis of non-intervention in international relations, by the example of the French reaction to the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, from July to September 1936
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April – June 2018
Internship at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) with the editorial staff of the journal "Internationale Politik"
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February – March 2017
Internship at the German Historical Institute London
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Winter Semester 2014/15 – Summer Semester 2018
B.A. in Political Science and History at Bielefeld University
Thesis on the relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union in the phase between the Brexit vote and the beginning of the withdrawal negotiations
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2014
Abitur at Städtisches Gymnasium Harsewinkel
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1995
Born in Warendorf
Projects
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PhD project
Start of project: April 2022The PhD project examines the significance of semantics of progress in their everyday use in the twentieth century in Germany: Who used the concept at what time and with what intentions? How was it explicitly or implicitly (re...
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Publications
Die 'Volksgemeinschaft' nach dem Nationalsozialismus. Zum Gebrauch eines belasteten Begriffs im 1. Deutschen Bundestag (1949-53), in: Revue d'Allemagne et des pays de langue allemande, Vol. 52 Issue 2, 2020, p. 399-425.