Selina Breitbach
About
Selina Breitbach completed her interdisciplinary Master's degree in Culture and Economy, specialising in German history, at the University of Mannheim in 2024.
In 2025, she became part of the ERC-project "Internal Fortress: Regulating European Freedom of Movement Inside the Nation-State, 1950-1980" as a PhD candidate in the Department of Historical Sciences. Her research focuses on German migration history in the post-war period.
In her thesis, she examines the relationship between training programmes, national migration policies, and European regulations, shedding light on the role of education in migration policy, with a particular focus on the West German economy from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Competencies
Outreach
2025
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LectureBreitbach, Selina. (2025) German Nationalism and the Foundation of the German Empire. Nationalism, Imperialism and Democratization after 1750 , Trondheim 2025-10-23 - 2025-10-23
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LectureBreitbach, Selina. (2025) Zwischen Aufarbeitung und Neubeginn: Der Fall Bopp & Reuther und die Entnazifizierung der Mannheimer Wirtschaft. Lecture , Generallandesarchiv, Karlsruhe 2025-11-20 - 2025-11-20
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Academic lectureBreitbach, Selina. (2025) Last Stop Munich: The Role of Germany’s Social Welfare Organizations in Migrant Integration after World War II., History in Nordic, European, and Global Contexts, The Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo, 19-20 August 2025. Conference , Oslo 2025-08-18 - 2025-08-19