About the Author

Professor Dr Michael Gehler is head of the Institute for History of the Hildesheim University Foundation, Jean Monnet Chair for Comparative European Contemporary History and History of European Integration, and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Rolf Steininger, em. o. University Professor, in charge of the Institute for Time History at the University of Innsbruck 1983-2010, Jean Monnet Professor since 1995.