Michael Kißener is a German historian and Professor at the University of Mainz. His research is focused on the history of the national socialist regime (the Third Reich) and the opposition against it.

He earned his doctorate in 1991, and headed the Forschungsstelle Widerstand at the University of Karlsruhe from 1992 to 2002. In 2000, he earned his Habilitation

Habilitation

Habilitation is the highest academic qualification a scholar can achieve by his or her own pursuit in several European and Asian countries. Earned after obtaining a research doctorate, such as a PhD, habilitation requires the candidate to write a professorial thesis based on independent...

. He was appointed Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Mainz in 2002.

He is a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism

Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism

The Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism , which was signed on 3 June 2008, was a declaration signed by prominent European politicians, former political prisoners and historians, including past signatories of Charter 77 such as Václav Havel, which called for condemnation of and...

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Works

• Rheinhessische Wege in den Nationalsozialismus. Worms 2010
• Der Weg in den Nationalsozialismus. Darmstadt 2009
• Germersheim im 20. Jahrhundert. Ubstadt-Weiher 2008
• Das letzte Wort haben die Zeugen: Alfred Delp. Mainz 2007
• Kleine Geschichte des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz. Mainz 2006
• Das Dritte Reich. Darmstadt 2005