Thomas Weber

For years, various producers have attempted to adapt Weber’s 2010 Hitler’s First War into a TV mini-series. Currently, this project is being considered by the Berlin-based UFA-Fiction and Beta Film as a limited 10-episode series. Simply called Hitler, the TV series will trace Hitler’s life beginning as a soldier in World War I to his rise to power.

Since 2010 he has been the founding Director of the Center for Global Security and Governance at the University of Aberdeen, and since 2013 Professor of History and International Affairs. From 2012 to 2013 he was a Fritz-Thyssen-Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Since 2013, he has been a guest researcher at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

From 1986 to 1993, Thomas Weber attended the Anne Frank High School in Halver, Germany. From 1993 to 1996 Weber studied History, English and Law at the University of Münster, and from 1996 to 1998 Modern History at the University of Oxford, where he earned his Ph.D in history in 2003 under the supervision of Niall Ferguson. He held fellowships or taught at Harvard University for several years, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago and the University of Glasgow, he took a teaching position at the University of Aberdeen in September 2008. The focus of his research and teaching expertise lies in European, international, and global political history.

Thomas Weber (born 29 April 1974) is German-born history professor and university lecturer. Since 2013 he has been Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of Aberdeen.