Markus Alexander Schertler

Markus Alexander Schertleris a German technical historian who graduated from the Technical University of Darmstadt in 2016. After his studies, he worked for a short time in the insurance industry before joining the graduate college “Critical Infrastructures: Construction, Functional Crises and Protection in Cities”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), in 2017, in order to prepare a dissertation. In his doctoral project, he deals with the question of whether the concepts of criticality, vulnerability, resilience, preparedness and prevention developed by the Research Training Group Critical Infrastructures (KRITIS) can be applied to the infrastructures in the German protectorate in East Africa. The main aim is to investigate the extent to which the railway in particular had proven to be a highly critical infrastructure for the development and utilization of D e u t s c h – O s t a f r i k a . However, the other KRITIS concepts mentioned above should also be used when considering all the infrastructures created by the German colonial rulers. Furthermore, it was examined whether at least parts of the infrastructures in D e u t s c h – O s t a f r i k a , regardless of their rudimentary nature, already had the character of a network.

Since 2017, Research Associate at the DFG Research Training Group 2222 “Critical Infrastructures” at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Department of Technical History

2013-2016, MA History of Modernity

2010-2013, BA History of Modernity

2007-2010, Dual studies to the Dipl.-Finanzwirt (FH) in the context of the preparatory service for the career of the upper service of the Hessian tax administration

2003-2007, law studies at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany