Alma Hannig studied Medieval and Modern History, Political Sciences, Psychology and Spanish at the Universities of Bonn, Bilbao and Salamanca. She worked as a Research Fellow at the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Humanities. Since 2009 she has been Teaching Fellow at Bonn University. Her research focuses on Austrian and German political and diplomatic history, the history of German aristocracies in the 19th and 20th century and the history of populism since the 19th century. She also works as a museum and exhibition curator. She is the main coordinator for all university museums and collections at the University of Bonn since 2021.
From Great Power to Small State –Vienna and Former Royal and Imperial Elites after the First Worl... more From Great Power to Small State –Vienna and Former Royal and Imperial Elites after the First World War
The consequences of the First World War and the demise of the Habsburg Monarchy posed great challenges for the successor states and especially for the (German-)Austrian Republic. The change in form of government and the need to reduce the structures, institutions and personnel from a Great Power to fit the needs of a small state meant an enormous transformation. This study approaches this topic in the form of a (collective) biography, examining, on the basis of egodocuments (diaries, memoirs, correspondence) and of the daily press, how the royal and imperial elites experienced this transformation in Vienna and what roles they played in the successor states, with the main focus on leading diplomats, politicians and officials.
in: Antonio D´Alessandri/Rudolf Dinu (Hg.): Il Sud-est europeo e le Grandi Potenze. Questioni nazionali e ambizioni egemoniche dopo il Congresso di Berlino, 2020
This study deals with the lesser known story of the nomination of Tomáš Masaryk for the Nobel Pea... more This study deals with the lesser known story of the nomination of Tomáš Masaryk for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1913 and 1914. It covers the following questions: Who nominated Masaryk and for what purpose? What was the official motivation for his nomination? How did the leading circles in Vienna react to the nomination? As Masaryk was one of the harshest critics of the Habsburg Monarchy, especially of its foreign policy, his nomination was extremely controversial. It preoccupied the diplomats and officials during the crisis of the two Balkan Wars when Masaryk tried to play an active role in foreign policy. This article focuses on the analysis of the actions of the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office and the heir to the throne Francis Ferdinand trying to frustrate his nomination.
From Great Power to Small State –Vienna and Former Royal and Imperial Elites after the First Worl... more From Great Power to Small State –Vienna and Former Royal and Imperial Elites after the First World War
The consequences of the First World War and the demise of the Habsburg Monarchy posed great challenges for the successor states and especially for the (German-)Austrian Republic. The change in form of government and the need to reduce the structures, institutions and personnel from a Great Power to fit the needs of a small state meant an enormous transformation. This study approaches this topic in the form of a (collective) biography, examining, on the basis of egodocuments (diaries, memoirs, correspondence) and of the daily press, how the royal and imperial elites experienced this transformation in Vienna and what roles they played in the successor states, with the main focus on leading diplomats, politicians and officials.
in: Antonio D´Alessandri/Rudolf Dinu (Hg.): Il Sud-est europeo e le Grandi Potenze. Questioni nazionali e ambizioni egemoniche dopo il Congresso di Berlino, 2020
This study deals with the lesser known story of the nomination of Tomáš Masaryk for the Nobel Pea... more This study deals with the lesser known story of the nomination of Tomáš Masaryk for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1913 and 1914. It covers the following questions: Who nominated Masaryk and for what purpose? What was the official motivation for his nomination? How did the leading circles in Vienna react to the nomination? As Masaryk was one of the harshest critics of the Habsburg Monarchy, especially of its foreign policy, his nomination was extremely controversial. It preoccupied the diplomats and officials during the crisis of the two Balkan Wars when Masaryk tried to play an active role in foreign policy. This article focuses on the analysis of the actions of the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office and the heir to the throne Francis Ferdinand trying to frustrate his nomination.
Zwischen Krieg und Frieden. Festschrift für Erwin A. Schmidl zum 65. Geburtstag, 2021
This book was published on the occasion of the 65th birthday of the distinguished military histor... more This book was published on the occasion of the 65th birthday of the distinguished military historian Erwin Schmidl. It contains 40 articles by historians from Europe, North America and South Africa on political, military and social history as well as history of international relations.
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Papers by Alma Hannig
The consequences of the First World War and the demise of the Habsburg
Monarchy posed great challenges for the successor states and especially for the (German-)Austrian Republic. The change in form of government and the need to reduce the structures, institutions and personnel from a Great Power to fit the needs of a small state meant an enormous transformation. This study approaches this topic in the form of a (collective) biography, examining, on the basis of egodocuments
(diaries, memoirs, correspondence) and of the daily press, how the
royal and imperial elites experienced this transformation in Vienna and what roles they played in the successor states, with the main focus on leading diplomats, politicians and officials.
The consequences of the First World War and the demise of the Habsburg
Monarchy posed great challenges for the successor states and especially for the (German-)Austrian Republic. The change in form of government and the need to reduce the structures, institutions and personnel from a Great Power to fit the needs of a small state meant an enormous transformation. This study approaches this topic in the form of a (collective) biography, examining, on the basis of egodocuments
(diaries, memoirs, correspondence) and of the daily press, how the
royal and imperial elites experienced this transformation in Vienna and what roles they played in the successor states, with the main focus on leading diplomats, politicians and officials.