Winners of the Hans Rosenberg Book Prize
Below is a list of the winners of the Hans Rosenberg Book Prize since the prize’s foundation in 1987. When it is available, the prize committee’s commendation (laudatio ) can be accessed by clicking on the book’s title. (Note: starting in 2024, the Society switched to using the year of the competition as the point of reference. Thus, since the 2024 Rosenberg Prize competition recognized the best book published in 2023, the winner of that competition is designated the 2024 winner; there was thus no “2023” prize.)
2024
Tomaz Jardim, Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the “Bitch of Buchenwald” (Harvard University Press, 2023).
2022
Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, Stripping the Veil: Convent Reform, Protestant Nuns, and Female Devotional Life in Sixteenth-Century Germany (Oxford University Press, 2022).
2021
Georg B. Michels, The Habsburg Empire Under Siege: Ottoman Expansion and Hungarian Revolt in the Age of Grand Vizier Ahmed Köprülü (1661–76) (McGill-Queens University Press, 2021).
2020
Anita Kurimay, Queer Budapest, 1873-1961 (University of Chicago Press, 2020).
2019
Astrid M. Eckert, West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands (Oxford University Press, 2019).
2018
Molly Loberg, The Struggle for the Streets of Berlin: Politics, Consumption, and Urban Space, 1914-1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
2017
James Retallack, Red Saxony: Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918 (Oxford University Press, 2017).
2016
Erin R. Hochman, Imagining a Greater Germany: Republican Nationalism and the Idea of Anschluss (Cornell University Press, 2016).
2015
Karen Hagemann, Revisiting Prussia’s Wars Against Napoleon: History, Culture and Memory (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
2014 (co-winners)
Benjamin Carter Hett, Burning the Reichstag: An Investigation into the Third Reich’s Enduring Mystery (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Brian E. Vick, The Congress of Vienna: Power and Politics after Napoleon (Harvard University Press, 2014).
2013
Lars Maischak, German Merchants in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
2012
R. M. Douglas, Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War (Yale University Press, 2012).
2011
Michael Meng, Shattered Spaces: Encountering Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland (Harvard University Presss, 2011).
2010
Monica Black, Death in Berlin: From Weimar to Divided Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
2009
Hilary Earl, The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
2008
Tara Zahra, Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900-1948 (Cornell University Press, 2008).
2006-2007
Chad Bryant, Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism (Harvard University Press, 2007).
2004-2005
John Edward Toews, Becoming Historical: Cultural Reformation and Public Memory in Early Nineteeth-Century Berlin (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
2002-2003
William Hagen, Ordinary Prussians: Brandenburg Junkers and Villagers, 1500-1840 (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
2000-2001
Harold Marcuse, Legacies of Dachau: The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933-2001 (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
1998-1999
Kathy Stuart, Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts: Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany (Cambridge University Press, 1999).
1996-1997
Kathleen Canning, Languages of Labor and Gender: Female Factory Work in Germany, 1850-1914 (Cornell University Press, 1996).
1994-1995
Heide Fehrenbach, Cinema in Democratizing Germany: Reconstructing of National Identity After Hitler (University of North Carolina Press, 1995).
1992-1993
David Blackbourn, Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Knopf, 1993).
1990-1991
Marion Kaplan, The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany (Oxford University Press, 1991).
Honorable Mention:
Robert Gellately, The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy, 1933-1945 (Oxford University Press, 1990); and
Jonathan Sperber, Rhineland Radicals The Democratic Movement and the Revolution of 1848-1849 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991).
1988-1989
James Van Horn Melton, Absolutism and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria (Cambridge University Press, 1988).
1986-1987
Peter Hayes, Industry and Ideology: I.G. Farben in the Nazi Era (Cambridge University Press, 1987).