Heinrich August Winkler is a historian emeritus at Humboldt University in Berlin and the author of many book publications on the history of the Weimar Republic, Germany's 'long road to the West' and the 'History of the West'. In August 2022 his new book 'Nationalstaat wider Willen. Interventionen zur deutschen und europäischen Politik (Nation state against its will. Interventions on German and European Politic)' (C.H.Beck).