Iran and the Third Reich, 1933-1943. Political Conceptions between ideology and Realpolitik

计划中的研究项目的主题将是对伊朗和德国在1933年至1943年之间的政治和文化关系的分析。这项分析将基于迄今为止从未使用过的，或者只是最近出版的原始材料。该项目旨在更好地了解到目前为止决定伊朗政治和社会的一些发展和现象，重点是通过从历史学和社会科学中采用新的方法和问题，全面了解二战前国家社会党夺取政权以来德国在伊朗政治和社会中的作用，以及这一时期德国对伊朗的政治。在该项目的框架内，伊朗和德国双方各自的利益和观点。为了确定双方确实追求的国家利益，以及在哪些方面和哪些领域，这确实导致了伊朗和德国之间的互动。在方法上，该项目旨在通过欧洲和中东国家之间的关系和相互影响的例子来研究跨国政治和社会历史，在这种情况下是伊朗和德国。其目的是以超越各自国家视角限制的比较视角分析权力结构、精英心态和政治决策过程。在这个项目中，将在跨国史学的方法框架内审查伊朗和德国双方各自的政治利益和观点。分析的目的将是找出双方都追求了哪些政治利益，以及这一政策以何种方式确实导致了伊朗和德国之间的互动。基于对伊朗与德国关系的分析，调查的目的之一是在极权主义意识形态时代将伊朗发展成一个现代国家。此外，该项目将调查伊朗精英阶层和公众舆论对国家社会主义的态度，并在这些调查结果的基础上，确定伊朗现代行政和社会的发展在多大程度上仍然倾向于19世纪的模式和思想，或同时代的威权概念。关于德国近代史的研究，该项目将考察非欧洲国家和地区对德国外交、经济和军事政治的意义，以及涉及的部委、机构和组织。最后，该项目提供了一个视角，将流行的、仍然以欧洲为中心的关于纳粹德国的观点扩展到其他地区。

The subject of the planned research project will be an analysis of the political and cultural relations between Iran and Germany between 1933 and 1943. This analysis will be based on hitherto unused, or only recently published source material. The project is aimed at a better understanding of a number of developments and phenomena that have determined politics and society in Iran up to the present.The project is focused to acquire a comprehensive understanding of the German role in Iranian politics and society from the National Socialist seizure of power right into World War II, as well as of German politics towards Iran during this period by means of new methods and questions adapted both from historiography and social sciences. Within the framework of the project, the respective interests and perspectives of the both the Iranian and the German side. In order to identify the national interests which both sides did pursue, and in which way and on which fields this did lead to an interaction between Iran and Germany. Methodologically the project is designed as a case study on transnational political and social history by the example of the relations and mutual influences between European and Middle Eastern states, in this case Iran and Germany. The aim is the analysis of power structures, elite mentalities and political decision processes in a comparative perspective that goes beyond the limits of the respective national perspective. In this project, the respective political interests and points of view of both the Iranian and German side will be examined within the methodological frame of a transnational historiography. It will be the aim of the analysis to work out which political interests both sides did pursue, and in which way this policy did lead to an interaction between Iran and Germany. Based on the analysis of Iran's relations with Germany one aim of investigation is the development of Iran into a modern state in the age of totalitarian ideologies. Besides this, the project will examine the attitudes of the elites and the public opinion in Iran towards National-Socialism and, on the basis of those findings, define how far the development of a modern administration and society in Iran was still oriented towards models and ideas from the 19th century, or towards coeval authoritarian concepts. Regarding the research on the modern history of Germany, the project will examine the significance of non-European states and regions for German foreign, economic and military politics, and the ministries, institutions and organizations involved. Finally, the project offers the perspective to extend the prevalent and still strongly Eurocentric perspective on Nazi Germany on other regions.