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Volker Ullrich studied history, literature, philosophy and education at the University of Hamburg and in 1988 he became a research fellow at Hamburg's Foundation for 20th-century Social History.Since 1990 Ullrich has been the head of the political section of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit. In 1992 he was awarded the Alfred Kerr Prize for literary criticism,[2] and, in 2008, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Jena. Ullrich is the author of several major historical works, including a monumental biography of Hitler the first volume of which was published in German in 2013.
A brilliant, insightful and elegantly written biography of the most influential German of the 19th Century. --Roger Moorhouse, author of Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II Volker Ullrich's eminently readable biography of Otto von Bismarck is just delightful. Packed with quotes and fascinating anecdotes, it paints a vivid and balanced picture of the Iron Chancellor, bringing this complex historical figure to life. Ullrich's concise analysis loses none of its edge in the refreshing brevity. His book is a brilliant introduction into the life and times of Germany's first chancellor. --Katja Hoyer, author of Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871-1918
