[2] In 1996 he received his doctorate from Bielefeld for a work (subsequently published as a book [4]) on Catholicism and Antisemitism in imperial Germany.
The project investigates the networks of Catholic churches and Catholicism researchers in the German Federal Republic.
[2] In 2007, and again from 2008 till 2012, Blaschke took over the teaching chair in Modern History at Trier, deputising for Andreas Gestrich.
[2] Since the summer term of 2014 he has held a temporary professorship in nineteenth and twentieth century history, with particular focus on Historical Theory and Method, at the University of Münster.
[3] The central location of the college, close to the old headquarters of the Cambridge University Press, was appropriate to the work he was undertaking – subsequently written up for his habilitation – on the changing relationship between publishers and academic authors between 1945 and 1980.