German Historical Institute Warsaw
The German Historical Institute Warsaw is a history institute of the Max Weber Stiftung based in Warsaw, Poland. The director of the institute is Prof. Dr. Miloš Řezník, and the deputy director is Prof. Dr. Ruth Leiserowitz.
Since 2017, the GHI has a branch office in Vilnius which promotes research on the history of Lithuania in the Central and Eastern European context and on Lithuania‘s historical ties with Germany, Poland and other countries in the region. A second branch office, which supports scientific research on Czech, German and Polish history in the European context, was opened in Prague in spring 2018, in close cooperation with a branch of the Collegium Carolinum Munich at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
Research
The institute’s mission is to do scientific research, which is mainly concerned with the history of Poland, Germany and Polish-German relations in the European context. Currently, the work is organized in four fields of research:- Space: Regions and Material Culture
- Violence: Social Practices and Power Relations
- Mobility: Migration and Global Networks
- Memory Culture: Dealing with the Past
These research areas integrate both the individual projects of the research assistants and, where possible, the projects of scholarship holders, interns and guest researchers. In this way, the projects offer a common thematic framework that promotes productive research.