Professor Nützenadel was educated at the Universities of Venice, Berlin and Göttingen where he received his M.A. in History, Economics and Computer sciences in 1990. After a research fellowship at the German Historical Institute from 1992 to 1994, he was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Cologne where he also lectured between 1995 and 2003. Between 2004 and 2006, he was principal investigator of the Research Group ‘Globalisation as a Historical Process’ funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Alexander Nützenadel held fellowships at Columbia University (New York) and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (Wassenaar), before being appointed Professor of European Economic and Social History at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) in 2006. In October 2009, he joined the History Department of Humboldt University Berlin as a Professor of Social and Economic History. He is the co-ordinator of the Priority Program "Experiences and Expectations: Historical Foundations of Economic Behavior", funded by the German Research Foundation (together with Jochen Streb).
Areas of Research
- European fascism in comparative perspective
- Economic knowledge and experts
- Urban real estate markets around 1900
- Banking and financial regulation in the 20th century
- Historical experiences and economic expectations
Latest Publications:
Deutsche Bank. The Global Hausbank 1870-2020, London: Bloomsbury 2020 (with Catherine Schenk and Werner Plumpe, in print)
'Expectations', Economic History Yearbook (special issue), 2018/II (ed with Mark Jakob und Jochen Streb)
'Transformation in Interbellum Fascist Europe', in: Wolfgang Merkel/Hans-Jürgen Wagener (Hg.), Handbook Transformation, Oxford 2018, 270-279
The Political Economy of Public Finances. Taxation, State Spending and Debt since the 1970s, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017 (ed with Marc Buggeln and Martin Daunton)
Das Reichsarbeitsministerium im Nationalsozialismus. Verwaltung – Politik – Verbrechen, Göttingen: Wallstein 2017 (2. Ed. Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Berlin 2018, english translation scheduled for 2020)