
Professor Peter Pulzer
BSc, MA, PhD, FRHistS
Emeritus Fellow
Background
- Professorial Fellow, Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham (from 1996 to 1999)
- Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration and Fellow, All Souls College (from 1985 to 1996)
- Lecturer in Politics, University of Oxford and Official Student and Tutor in Politics, Christ Church, Oxford (from 1962 to 1984)
- Lecturer in Politics, Magdalen College and Christ Church (from 1957 to 1962)
- Postgraduate, King’s College, Cambridge (from 1954 to 1957)
- External Student, University of London (from 1951 to 1954)
- Undergraduate, King’s College, Cambridge (from 1947 to 1950)
Research interests
- Politics
- Modern European History
Selected publications
- (co-editor with K. R. Luther) Austria 1945–1995: Fifty Years of the Second Republic (Ashgate, 1998)
- German Politics 1945–1995 (New York: OUP, 1995)
- Germany 1870–1945: Politics, State Formation and War (New York: OUP, 1997)
- Jews and the German State: The Political History of a Minority, 1848-1933 (Blackwell Publishers, 1992)
- Political Representation and Elections in Britain (Allen and Unwin, 1967)
- The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria (Wiley, 1964; revised edn, Halban, 1988)
Other professional memberships and roles
- Hon. Dr rer. soc. oec (Univ. of Innsbruck, 2007)
- Chairman, Academic Advisory Committee, Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex (from 1997 to 2009)
- Chairman, Leo Baeck Institute, London (from 1998)
- Member, Governing Body, Historisches Kolleg, Munich (from 1993 to 1997)
- Hon. Vice-President, International Association for the Study of German Politics (from 1997)
Research awards and grants
- Grand Silver Medal of Honour for Meritorious Service to the Republic of Austria (2008)
- Federal Cross of Merit, Federal Republic of Germany (2004)