Martin Schulze Wessel

The Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox Clergy as Promoters of Religious Change in the Bohemian Lands and the Habsburg Monarchy and in Russia 1848-1922).

Since the 2003 summer semester, Schulze Wessel has held the Chair for History of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe at the University of Munich, succeeding Edgar Hösch.

The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities elected Schulze Wessel a full member of its Philosophical-Historical Class in 2008.

Together with Ulf Brunnbauer, he is the spokesperson for the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, which was established at LMU Munich and the University of Regensburg in December 2012 as part of the German federal and state governments’ Excellence Initiative and was funded by the DFG until 2019.

In 2010, Schulze Wessel was the initiator of the Konzeptuelle Überlegungen (Conceptual Considerations) for an exhibition on forced migration and displacement, which represented a counter-draft to the key points paper presented by Manfred Kittel of the “Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation” Foundation.

[6] As Chairman of the Historians’ Association in Germany, Schulze Wessel argued in 2015 in favour of a fundamental reform of the job structure at German universities and supported the Young Academy's reform proposal to reduce the average entry age of academics in permanent positions by ten years.

[9] In 2023, together with Claudia Major and Norbert Röttgen, he initiated an appeal for resolute support for Ukraine, which was signed by 70 prominent figures from science and politics.