Falco Drießen, M.A.

PhD Project

Shaping Financial Order – Agency of Germany's Federal Ministry of Finance, 1972-1989

Further Research Interests

  • International economic and financial history of the 19th and 20th century
  • History China's foreign economic relations since the mid 19th century
  • History of development politics
  • Digitalization and datafication of economics and society

Academic Career

Since April 2024

Research Associate at Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Munich

October 2023 to March 2024

Research Associate at the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History, University of Konstanz

April 2022 to September 2023

Research Associate at the Chair of Global Economic History, University of Konstanz

April 2022 to March 2023
Coordinator for the lecture series of the Advanced Data and Information Literacy Track, University of Konstanz

September 2019 to March 2022

Administrative Assistant at the Chair of Global Economic History, University of Konstanz

October 2018 to June 2021

Master’s Programme in History, Focus on Economic History, University of Konstanz

May 2019 to July 2019

Internship at the German Historical Institute, Washington D.C. (DAAD-Scholarship)

October 2013 to November 2018

Bachelor’s Programme in History with Gender Studies as a Minor Subject, University of Konstanz and University of Essex (ERASMUS)

Scholarships and Awards

2021

Akku-Award for an outstanding Master Thesis in business history granted by Arbeitskreis für kritische Unternehmens- und Industriegeschichte e.V. (Association for Critical Business History)

April 2019 to June 2021

Scholarship granted by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)