Background
William Patch was born in 1953 in the United States.
William Patch was born in 1953 in the United States.
William Patch studied at the University of California, Berkeley where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree with Great Distinction in 1975. He also attended Yale University and received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in German Social and Political History.
William L. Patch started his career as an assistant professor of history at Yale University in 1981 and held this post until 1984. From 1984 to 1985 he worked as a visiting assistant professor of history at Trinity College. In 1985 he took up a post of an assistant professor of history at Grinnell College. In 1989, he was promoted to associate professor of history and in 1998 he became a professor of history. In 2006, he became the William R. Kenan Professor of History at Washington and Lee University.
William L. Patch published his first book Christian Trade Unions in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933: The Failure of "Corporate Pluralism" in 1985. He also wrote such books as Heinrich Bruning and the Dissolution of the Weimar Republic and Christian Democratic Workers and the Forging of German Democracy, 1920-1980. Patch also wrote numerous articles and book reviews. He conducted researches that covered the personal papers of 20 trade union leaders who joined the Christian Democratic Union.
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