Dr. Ewald Blocher

Ewald Blocher is interested in aspects of the science and environmental history of water engineering in Egypt in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning in 2003, he studied modern and contemporary history, medieval history, and political science at LMU Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität). He received his Master’s degree in 2008. From 2005 to 2009, Ewald Blocher worked for the Siemens corporate archives in Munich. He was subsequently a Research Associate at the Rachel Carson Center. For his dissertation, Ewald Blocher received funding from temporary fellowships granted by the German Historical Institutes in London and Washington D.C.

Since 2013, Ewald has been working as a freelance historian for companies like Siemens and Osram. As of October 2016, he holds a position at the Siemens Historical Institute.

Publications:

2012: “Dammed Water: Water as a National Commodity,” in: Kneitz, Agnes/Landry, Marc (Hg.): On Water - Perceptions, Politics, Perlis (Rachel Carson Center Perspectives), 2 (2012), S. 35-45)

2014: “Pyramiden der Lebenden - Der Assuan-Hochdamm als Erinnerungsort im Zeichen technischer Großplanung,“ in: Uekötter, Frank (Hg.): Ökologische Erinnerungsorte, Göttingen 2014, S. 252-273

Dissertation: Der Wasserbau-Staat. Die Transformation des Nils und das moderne Ägypten, 1882-1971 (379 pp., Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, ISBN: 978-3-506-78446-9)