Research

Moritz Schmeing

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Affiliated Researcher

Schmeing(at)ieg-mainz.de

Moritz Schmeing has been a research fellow at the Leibniz Institute for European History (IEG) in Mainz since June 2026. From 2020 to 2026, he was a PhD candidate at the Dubnow Institute, funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation from 2021 to 2024 and, since December 2024, as a fellow of the Ettersberg Foundation. In 2025, he was an academic assistant at the cooperative project »Turning Object into Subject. Communicating Jewish Everyday Culture in Germany«.

Studied Cultural Studies, History and Political Science at the universities of Leipzig, Jena and Krakow and completed his MA degree in 2019. Subject of the Master’s thesis: »Josef Schmitz. Ein Ultralinker in der westmünsterländischen Provinz«.

Dissertation Project

Jews in the Italian Fascist Party. A Prosopography

Research Interests

  • Italian-Jewish History (19th and 20th Century)
  • History of Italian Fascism

Publications

Essays and Articles

Juden in der faschistischen Partei Italiens. Eine Annäherung, in: Jahrbuch des Dubnow-Instituts/Dubnow Institute Yearbook 19 (2020/2021) [2023], 485–516.

Reviews and conference reports

Frank Schuhmacher, Benito Mussolini – Konsens durch Mythen. Eine Analyse der faschistischen Rhetorik zwischen 1929 und 1936, in: Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom (ed.) (1898): Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken, 104. Berlin 2024, 791 f.

Tagungsbericht: HT 2021: Erfahrung und Erinnerung. Israel, die deutschsprachige Linke und der Holocaust, in: H-Soz-Kult, 11 December 2021.