Kerstin von Lingen

Kerstin von Lingen (born 1971) is a German military historian who specialises in the study of war crimes. She is best known for her works on Field Marshal Albert Kesselring and SS Obergruppenfuehrer Karl Wolff.

Biography Kerstin von Lingen was in born Bremen in 1971. In 1991, she entered the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, where she studied modern history, medieval history, and Italian. She then studied history and political science at the University of Milan in 1993–1994. She earned her M.A. at the University of Freiburg, writing a thesis on "Totaler Krieg auf Italienisch? Die deutsche Auslandspropaganda in Italien 1943-1944 ("Total War in Italy? German Propaganda in Italy 1943-1944"). She then wrote her Ph.D. thesis on Britische Kriegsverbrecher und Begnadigungspolitik am Beispiel des Verfahrens gegen Feldmarschall Albert Kesselring in Italien ("British war criminals and pardon policy on the example of the case against Field Marshal Albert Kesselring in Italy") under the supervision of Dieter Langewiesche. This was published in German as Kesselrings letzte Schlacht (2004) and in English as Kesselring's Last Battle (2009). Her rigorosum was on 29 July 2003. In 2016, she was awarded the International Chair of the History of the Second World War, an annual lecture prize by the Université libre de Bruxelles. Her habilitation took place in 2017. That year she was a visiting fellow at the Australian National University and the University of Cambridge. In March 2019, Lingen was appointed Professor of Contemporary History (comparative dictatorship, violence and genocide research) at the Department for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna.

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