Andreas Greiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 102293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas Greiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas |
| FAMILY NAME | Greiner |
| SIGNATURE | GREINER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deutsches Historisches Institut Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5597-3569 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Claiming the Skies
This article examines the intricate inter-imperial diplomacy that accompanied the development of intercontinental aviation networks in the early air age. As aircraft technology advanced during the inter-war years, imperial governments sponsored airlines to connect metropoles with distant colonies. The planned routes of these airlines, however, often crossed into the overseas territories of other empires. Because the legal principle of air soverei…
On the Road
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“Those Were Difficult Days Indeed”
Sybille Bauer / Juliane Egerer, Vom Schüler einer christlichen Kolonialschule zum Wotansverehrer. Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte im schriftlichen Nachlass von Wilhelm L. G. Elmenhorst. Göttingen, Wallste…
Article Sybille Bauer / Juliane Egerer, Vom Schüler einer christlichen Kolonialschule zum Wotansverehrer. Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte im schriftlichen Nachlass von Wilhelm L. G. Elmenhorst. Göttingen, Wallstein 2023 was published on October 1, 2025 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 321, issue 2)
Turbulent Takeoff—Hard Landing
This article studies the rise and fall of commercial aviation in Iran, then known as Persia, between 1923 and 1932. Two airlines, the German Junkers Luftverkehr AG and Britain’s Imperial Airways, invested significant time and effort in developing air routes but eventually failed due to financial hardship and political intransigence. Exploring this erratic development, the article has two aims: first, to investigate the entangled history of two of…
Colonial Baggage
This introduction revisits the relevant literature in the fields of tourism history, as well as in imperial/global history. Identifying shortcomings in these two research strands, the authors advocate bringing themes and approaches from both historiographical fields into dialogue. They outline the intersections between the development of modern tourism since the mid-nineteenth century and the global expansion of empires over the same time period …
Roads to engagement
This roundtable discussion concluded the conference “Roads to Exclusion: Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Mobility Infrastructures since 1800” that took place at the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) in September 2022. The event was organised by the GHI and the Käte Hamburger Kolleg global dis:connect – Dis:connectivity in Processes of Globalisation at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and brought together scholars from four contin…
Roads to exclusion
Facing an Established Business
Introduction
Carrying On
Epilogue
Staatliches Handeln als Balanceakt. Aushandlung kolonialer Gestaltungsmacht am Beispiel des Karawanenhandels in Deutsch-Ostafrika
This article provides new insights into the limitations of colonial policymaking in German East Africa, using the regulation of caravan mobility from the late 1880s to c. 1906 as a test case. Despite an increase in violence along many trade routes, the German administration shied away from tightening controls on trade caravans and instead established a system of travel permits. The analysis in this article discusses how this cautious policy came …
Hamburg
Germany’s colonial past, long ignored, is increasingly gaining attention in public discourse. In Hamburg, the state government—while reluctant to acknowledge certain colonial legacies—promotes and sponsors research on the city’s role in the colonial project: founded in 2015, the research centre ‘Hamburg’s (Post)Colonial Legacy / Hamburg and the Early Globalization’ has developed into an outstanding research hub within German academia. This volume…
Human Porterage and Colonial State Formation in German East Africa, 1880s–1914
Colonial Schemes and African Realities
This article studies infrastructure development in the colony of German East Africa from the early 1890s to 1907. By focussing on questions of continuity and change in the transition phase from the precolonial era to German colonial rule, the article demonstrates that colonial road planning coexisted and often collided with established infrastructure systems. After 1891, colonial authorities sought to transform existing caravan paths into all-wea…
Bio-Engineering across Empires
This article examines the convoluted global story of Fritz Bronsart von Schellendorff, a zebra breeder in German East Africa. Around 1900, he promised to tame zebras and to crossbreed them with horses to create a new draught animal: the zebroid. Being an avid trickster, Bronsart continuously managed to attract new sponsors for over a decade, most prominently Emperor Wilhelm II. By tracing the global story of zebra breeding and domestication throu…
Revisiting a colonial landmark
This article uncovers the colonial past of the Bagamoyo Caravanserai, a historic site in the Tanzanian town of Bagamoyo. Situating the origin of the building, as well as that of a similar structure in Dar es Salaam, within the context of both German colonial rule around 1900 and the wider history of colonial camps in Africa, it argues that the colonial authorities conceptualised caravanserais as spatial tools of demobilising and concentrating the…
Human Porterage and Colonial State Formation in German East Africa, 1880s–1914
Colonial Schemes and African Realities
This article studies infrastructure development in the colony of German East Africa from the early 1890s to 1907. By focussing on questions of continuity and change in the transition phase from the precolonial era to German colonial rule, the article demonstrates that colonial road planning coexisted and often collided with established infrastructure systems. After 1891, colonial authorities sought to transform existing caravan paths into all-wea…
Roads to exclusion
Bio-Engineering across Empires
This article examines the convoluted global story of Fritz Bronsart von Schellendorff, a zebra breeder in German East Africa. Around 1900, he promised to tame zebras and to crossbreed them with horses to create a new draught animal: the zebroid. Being an avid trickster, Bronsart continuously managed to attract new sponsors for over a decade, most prominently Emperor Wilhelm II. By tracing the global story of zebra breeding and domestication throu…
Revisiting a colonial landmark
This article uncovers the colonial past of the Bagamoyo Caravanserai, a historic site in the Tanzanian town of Bagamoyo. Situating the origin of the building, as well as that of a similar structure in Dar es Salaam, within the context of both German colonial rule around 1900 and the wider history of colonial camps in Africa, it argues that the colonial authorities conceptualised caravanserais as spatial tools of demobilising and concentrating the…
Facing an Established Business
Introduction
Carrying On
Epilogue
Staatliches Handeln als Balanceakt. Aushandlung kolonialer Gestaltungsmacht am Beispiel des Karawanenhandels in Deutsch-Ostafrika
This article provides new insights into the limitations of colonial policymaking in German East Africa, using the regulation of caravan mobility from the late 1880s to c. 1906 as a test case. Despite an increase in violence along many trade routes, the German administration shied away from tightening controls on trade caravans and instead established a system of travel permits. The analysis in this article discusses how this cautious policy came …
Hamburg
Germany’s colonial past, long ignored, is increasingly gaining attention in public discourse. In Hamburg, the state government—while reluctant to acknowledge certain colonial legacies—promotes and sponsors research on the city’s role in the colonial project: founded in 2015, the research centre ‘Hamburg’s (Post)Colonial Legacy / Hamburg and the Early Globalization’ has developed into an outstanding research hub within German academia. This volume…
Human Porterage and Colonial State Formation in German East Africa, 1880s–1914
Colonial Schemes and African Realities
This article studies infrastructure development in the colony of German East Africa from the early 1890s to 1907. By focussing on questions of continuity and change in the transition phase from the precolonial era to German colonial rule, the article demonstrates that colonial road planning coexisted and often collided with established infrastructure systems. After 1891, colonial authorities sought to transform existing caravan paths into all-wea…
Colonial Baggage
This introduction revisits the relevant literature in the fields of tourism history, as well as in imperial/global history. Identifying shortcomings in these two research strands, the authors advocate bringing themes and approaches from both historiographical fields into dialogue. They outline the intersections between the development of modern tourism since the mid-nineteenth century and the global expansion of empires over the same time period …
Roads to engagement
This roundtable discussion concluded the conference “Roads to Exclusion: Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Mobility Infrastructures since 1800” that took place at the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) in September 2022. The event was organised by the GHI and the Käte Hamburger Kolleg global dis:connect – Dis:connectivity in Processes of Globalisation at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and brought together scholars from four contin…
Roads to exclusion
“Those Were Difficult Days Indeed”
Sybille Bauer / Juliane Egerer, Vom Schüler einer christlichen Kolonialschule zum Wotansverehrer. Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte im schriftlichen Nachlass von Wilhelm L. G. Elmenhorst. Göttingen, Wallste…
Article Sybille Bauer / Juliane Egerer, Vom Schüler einer christlichen Kolonialschule zum Wotansverehrer. Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte im schriftlichen Nachlass von Wilhelm L. G. Elmenhorst. Göttingen, Wallstein 2023 was published on October 1, 2025 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 321, issue 2)
Turbulent Takeoff—Hard Landing
This article studies the rise and fall of commercial aviation in Iran, then known as Persia, between 1923 and 1932. Two airlines, the German Junkers Luftverkehr AG and Britain’s Imperial Airways, invested significant time and effort in developing air routes but eventually failed due to financial hardship and political intransigence. Exploring this erratic development, the article has two aims: first, to investigate the entangled history of two of…
Claiming the Skies
This article examines the intricate inter-imperial diplomacy that accompanied the development of intercontinental aviation networks in the early air age. As aircraft technology advanced during the inter-war years, imperial governments sponsored airlines to connect metropoles with distant colonies. The planned routes of these airlines, however, often crossed into the overseas territories of other empires. Because the legal principle of air soverei…
On the Road
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Political science (12 works) · Colonialism (9 works) · History (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · German (7 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (7 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (5 works)