Birgit Aschmann

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Birgit Aschmann (born 8 January 1967) is a historian, originally from Hamburg in West Germany. Since April 2011 she has held a teaching chair in nineteenth century European History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. One focus of her work is on Spanish History in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. On leaving school, Aschmann embarked on a study course in Medicine, which lasted from 1986 till 1989. It was only then that she enrolled at the Christian-Albrecht University in Kiel for a study course that combined History, German and Spanish. Her student career included significant periods studying at Madrid, Málaga and Guayaquil (in Ecuador). She concluded her undergraduate studies in 1995 and spent the next three years working on a doctorate. Her doctorate, also from Kiel, addressed the relations between West Germany during the "Wirtschaftswunder years" and Spain under Franco. It was subsequently adapted for publication under the title "Treue Freunde...?: Westdeutschland und Spanien 1945 bis 1963". Between 1998 and 2000 she worked as an academic researcher at the Kiel University Institute for Modern and Contemporary History, having obtained a lectureship in 1998.