Background

Christof Mauch was born on February 9, 1960, in Sindelfingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. He is the son of Norbert A. and Elsbeth M. (Roller) Mauch.

Education

Mauch attended King’s College and Leo Baeck College in London from 1983 to 1984. He then obtained his doctorate in Modern German Literature at the University of Tuebingen in 1990 and his doctorate in Modern History in 1998 from the University of Cologne.

Career

Mauch started his career as a lecturer at the University of Tuebingen in 1990. In 1994, he went to the University of Bonn and the next year, went to the United States, where worked first as a lecturer at American University and Georgetown University and then as a director of the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. till 2007.

Currently, Mauch is a German historian, presently director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany, and since 2007 professor of American Cultural History and Transatlantic Relations at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich.

Achievements

• Christof Mauch is best known as a historian, with an interest in international environmental history as well as nineteenth- and twentieth-century North American and German history. In May 2013 he was appointed Honorary Professor at Renmin University, Beijing, China.
  
  During his long career, Mauch wrote a number of works on the subject of German and American history, including Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses: Case Studies toward a Global Environmental History, The Shadow War Against Hitler: The Covert Operations of America's Wartime Secret Intelligence Service, American Environments: Climate-Cultures-Catastrophe, German-Jewish Identities in America, Nature in German History, Berlin – Washington. Capital Cities, Cultural Representations, and National Identities, Adolf Cluss, Architect: From Germany to America, Shades of Green: Global Environmentalism in Historical Perspective, Rivers in History, Beyond the Windshield: Landscapes and Roads in Europe and North America and many others.

Works

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  • Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses

    (The essays collected here help us to understand not only ...)

    2009
  • The World beyond the Windshield

    (By looking at examples from the United States and Europe,...)

    2008
  • American Environments

    (This volume focuses on environmental knowledge production...)

    2012
  • The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century

    (The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Centur...)

    2010
  • Shades of Green

    (Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economi...)

    2006
  • German-Jewish Identities in America

    (Changing political, social, and cultural circumstances ha...)

    2003
  • The Shadow War Against Hitler

    (The Shadow War Against Hitler is the full story of Americ...)

    2002
  • Horologisches Lexikon 1984
  • Fur eine Welt ohne Krieg 1987

Interests

• Cooking, hiking, cycling, film, collecting clocks

Connections

Mauch is married to Wendy Morgan Lower. The marriage produced 2 children: Ian Maxwell and Alexander Morgan.

Wife:

Wendy Morgan Lower Mauch

Son:

Ian Maxwell Mauch

Son:

Alexander Morgan Mauch