Martin Kristoffer Hamre is a research associate and lecturer in history at Freie Universität Berlin, and currently interim coordinator of the MA program Global History. His research interests include modern European history in transnational and global perspectives, the history of European fascism and the far right, and the history of internationalism.

He completed the Graduate School of Global Intellectual History at Freie Universität Berlin, where he received his PhD (Dr. phil) in 2024. His dissertation analyzed "Notions and Activities of Fascist Internationalism in the 1930s", supervised by Margrit Pernau and Sebastian Conrad. During his doctoral studies, he participated in the Younger Fellow Visiting Program at C-REX, Center for Research on Extremism at the University of Oslo, and was awarded a post-graduate scholarship at the German Historical Institute London. Prior to joining the FMI, he worked as a project assistant at the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation and completed an internship at the German Historical Institute in Washington DC.

Martin Hamre is a graduate of the international MA program in European History, obtaining a joint degree with study semesters at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Vienna, and King's College London. He holds a BA in History and Philosophy/Ethics from the Humboldt University of Berlin (including an exchange at the University of Bergen).

Summer Semester 2024

European fascism in the context of global crises and transformations

An alternative, radical right-wing Europe? A history of ideas of fascism and neo-fascism, 1923-2023, co-taught with Christian Jacobs

Summer Semester 2022

Right-wing radicalism in Europe after the Second World War, co-taught with Christian Jacobs

Martin Kristoffer Hamre studies the transnational and comparative history of fascist internationalism in Europe in the 1930s. His research explores notions, legitimation strategies, and activities of fascist movements and regimes from various countries regarding the tension between nationalism and internationalism. He analyzes four organizations founded and financed by the two fascist regimes in Italy and Germany in interplaywith seven minor fascist movements from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Britain, Ireland, and Switzerland. It explores how these groups formed international organizations and networks, hosted conferences and exhibitions, disseminated multilingual publications, and exchanged propaganda across borders. The analysis demonstrates how competing organizations from the two ‘centers’ of European fascism in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, such as the Action Committees for the Universality of Rome and the German Nationalist International, propagated their ideology internationally. Yet it also outlines the functions and legitimization of fascist internationalism from a ‘peripheral’ perspective, highlighting how minor movements in northwestern Europe comprehended, contested, and utilized ideas of ‘international fascism’ for their own ends to counter their marginality.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

‘Nationalists of All Countries, Unite!’: Hans Keller and Nazi Internationalism in the 1930s, Contemporary European History 33, no. 2 (2024): pp. 477–496, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777322000455

Co-written with Sabrina Proschmann and Frederik Forrai Ørskov, Editorial Introduction: Approaches to Transnational and International Fascism: Actors, Networks and Ideas 1919-1945, Fascism. Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies 13, no. 1 (2024), pp. 1-12, https://doi.org/10.1163/22116257-bja10072

‘Organic Unity through a New Order’: Ideas of Corporatism and the Norwegian Nasjonal Samling, Laboratoire Italien 32 (2024), https://doi.org/10.4000/122lf

Co-written with Celestine S. Kunkeler, Conceptions and Practices of International Fascism in Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands, 1930–40, Journal of Contemporary History 57, no. 1 (2022): pp. 45–67, https://doi.org/10.1177/00220094211031992

Norwegian Fascism in a Transnational Perspective: The Influence of German National Socialism and Italian Fascism on the Nasjonal Samling, 1933-1936, Fascism. Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies 8, no. 1 (2019): pp. 36–60, https://doi.org/10.1163/22116257-00801003

Edited special issue

Together with Sabrina Proschmann and Frederik Forrai Ørskov, Approaches to Transnational and International Fascism: Actors, Networks, and Ideas, 1919–1945, Fascism. Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies 13, no. 1 (2024), pp. 1–97

Book chapters

Die besondere Rolle der Faschismusforschung in Deutschland: Eine Einleitung des Übersetzers, Roger Griffin, in Faschismus. Eine Einführung in die vergleichende Faschismusforschung (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2020), pp. 9–20

How the Germans became the Huns, in Barbara Metzler et al (Hg.): Von der Reflexion zur Dekonstruktion? Kategorien und Stereotype als Gegenstand junger Forschung (Wien: danzig & unfried, 2017), pp. 81-102

Book reviews

„Book Review. A European Conceptual History of Internationalism“, Contributions to the History of Concepts 17, no. 2 (2022), pp. 128–132

Conference reports

Rethinking Practices and Notions of Fascist Internationalism 1919–1945, H-Soz-Kult (2022), https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-127923

Deutsche Demokratiegeschichte – Eine Aufgabe der Erinnerungsarbeit H-Soz-Kult (2019), https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-8212

Conference Report: Cultures of Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany, GHI Bulletin, 63, 2018 (2), pp 91-96