Bernhard Schnabel, M.A.

Research Assistant

Bernhard Schnabel is working as research assistant at the Seminar for Contemporary History since October 2025.

Contact

Mail: Seminar for Contemporary History, Wilhelmstr. 36, 72074 Tübingen

Office: Wilhelmstr. 12, office tba.

bernhard.schnabelspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Office Hours

After taking contact via mail.


Curriculum Vitae

Since 2025
Research Assistant

Seminar for Contemporary History, University of Tübingen

2025
M.A. History

University of Tübingen

Since 2024
Member of the Arbeitskreis Universität Tübingen im Nationalsozialismus
2023
B.A. History

University of Tübingen

2022–2023
Freelance Researcher at Böblingen District Authority

History of the Böblingen Jugendamt during National Socialism

2021–2022
Student Assistant

at the Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies (IdGL), Tübingen

2020–2025
Student Assistant and Tutor

at the Seminar for Contemporary History, University of Tübingen

2015–2025
Studies in History and Historical and Cultural Anthropology

University of Tübingen


Research

Research Interests

  • History of Democracy in Western Europe in the second half of the 20th Century
  • History of Decolonization in Africa
  • Transnational History of the Federal Republic of Germany and Africa in the second half of the 20th Century
  • Institutional History of Coming to Terms with the Nazi Past

Publications

  • Zwischen Anpassung, Bedeutungsverlust und Zusammenbruch. Das Jugendamt Böblingen im Nationalsozialismus, in: Ewald Frie u.a. (Hg.): 100 Jahre Jugendamt Böblingen. Die Entwicklung der Jugendhilfe im heutigen Landkreis Böblingen seit 1920, Weißenhorn 2024, S. 84–107.
  • Verhandeln über Vergangenheit und Gegenwart: Deutsch-namibische Beziehungen zwischen Anerkennung des Völkermords und Restitutionsfragen, in: Fiona Siegenthaler u.a. (Hg.): With Namibia: Engaging the Past, Sharing the Future. Eine Summer School in zwei Teilen in Stuttgart und Windhoek, Dresden, Stuttgart 2024, S. 142–147.
  • Negotiating the Past and the Present. German-Namibian Relations between Recognition of the Genocide and Restitution Issues, in: Fiona Siegenthaler u.a. (Hg.): With Namibia: Engaging the Past, Sharing the Future. A two-part Summer School in Stuttgart and Windhoek, Dresden, Stuttgart 2024, S. 142–147.

Teaching

Winter Semester 2025/26

Exercise:
The many ends of World War II

Thursday, 2pm - 4pm

Hegelbau, room 306

begin 16th of October 2025