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Daniel Siemens (born 1975 in Bielefeld, Germany) is professor of European history in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University, UK.

Academic career
Siemens studied history, modern literature and law at the University of Potsdam, the University Paul Valéry, Montpellier III, and the Free University Berlin. He graduated from the latter with a Magister degree in 2002 and from Humboldt University Berlin with a Doctor of Philosophy in 2006. His doctoral theses, entitled A popular expression of individuality: Kriminalität, Justiz und Gesellschaft in der Gerichtsberichterstattung von Tageszeitungen in Berlin, Paris und Chicago, 1919 bis 1933, was published by Franz Steiner publishing, Stuttgart, in 2007. In the fall of 2006, Siemens became a lecturer at the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology at Bielefeld University. His second book, a critical biography of the Nazi icon Horst Wessel, was published in German with Siedler publishing house in 2009. Its English translation with I.B.Tauris was one of the BBC History Magazine’s books of the year 2013. From 2011 to 2014, Siemens served as the DAAD Francis L. Carsten Lecturer at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London (UCL). He then returned to Bielefeld University, where he submitted his habilitation thesis in 2016 and was conferred the title Privatdozent (Adj. Professor) in January 2017. Siemens held guest professorships at the University of Bologna and Peking University and was a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) at Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich (LMU). In the fall of 2017, Siemens took up the chair in European history in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University. He will be Stavenhagen guest professor at the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the spring of 2018.

Awards and honours

 * 2013: BBC History Magazine Book of the Year, for The Making of a Nazi Hero
 * 2010: Prize “Geisteswissenschaft International” from the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, for Horst Wessel: Tod und Verklärung eines Nationalsozialisten
 * 2009-2013: Member of the Junges Kolleg, North-Rhine Westphalian Academy of the Sciences and the Arts, Düsseldorf
 * 2006: Franz Steiner Prize for Transatlantic History, awarded by the German Historical Institute Washington DC, for A popular expression of individualty

Selected publications

 * Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017)
 * Populating the Greater Germanic Empire, special edition of the Journal of Genocide Research 19 (2017), No. 2, co-edited with Gerhard Wolf
 * The Trials of Nuremberg and Tokyo Revisited, special edition of the Journal of Modern European History 14 (2016), No. 4, co-edited with Daniel Hedinger
 * The Making of a Nazi Hero: The Murder and Myth of Horst Wessel (London: I.B.Tauris, 2013)
 * Biometrie – Sicherheit für den gläsernen Menschen? (Paderborn: Schöningh, 2012), co-edited with Bernd J. Hartmann and Gottfried Vosgerau
 * Law and Historiography: Contributions to a New Cultural History of Law, special issue of InterDisciplines: Journal of History and Sociology 3 (2012), No. 2, co-edited with Daniel Hedinger
 * “Hass und Begeisterung bilden Spalier”: Horst Wessels politische Autobiographie (Berlin: be.bra, 2011), co-edited with Manfred Gailus
 * Horst Wessel: Tod und Verklärung eines Nationalsozialisten (Munich: Siedler, 2009)
 * Metropole und Verbrechen: Die Gerichtsreportage in Berlin, Paris und Chicago 1919-1933 (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2007)