Alfred C. Mierzejewski

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Abstracts and Proceedings

• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1992). Irrationality and the Dismal Science:  Nazi Economic Preparations for War.

Book

• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2020). The Party's Over. The End of the Welfare State Boom in Western Europe. 252. Lanham, MD, Lexington.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2005). Hitler's Trains:  The German National Railway & the Third Reich. (Revised version of The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich.  A History of the German National Railway, Vol. II, 1933-1945 for the British market).
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2005). Ludwig Erhard.  Wegbereiter der Sozialen Marktwitschaft.  Eine Biographie.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2004). Ludwig Erhard.  A Biography.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2000). The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich.  A History of the German National Railway, Vol. II, 1933-1945.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1999). The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich.  A History of the German National Railway, Vol. I, 1920-1933.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1993). Bomben auf der Reichsbahn.  Der Zusammenbruch der deutschen Kriegswirtschaft (Translation of The Collapse of the German War Economy 1944-1945).
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1988). The Collapse of the German War Economy 1944-1945.  Allied Air Power and the German National Railway.

Book Chapter

• Alfred C. Mierzejewski. (2013). "Comparing Apples with Oranges. A Comparison of American and German Railways," in Regulation between Legal Norms and Economic Reality.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2010). Ludwig Erhard (1897-1977). Vater der sozialen Marktwirtschaft.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2009). Ludwig Erhard und die Soziale Marktwirtschaft," in Wirtschaft in Freiheit und Einheit. Festschrift zum 60. Jahrestag der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und zum 20. Jahrestag der Friedlichen Revolution.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2003). "America as Model?  U.S. Antitrust Policy and Ludwig Erhard's Struggle against Cartels in West Germany" The Impact of Nazism:  New Perspectives on the Third Reich and Its     Legacy, edited by Alan E. Steinweis and Daniel Rogers, 213-230.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1998). "Die Strategie der Vereinigten Staaten und das Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges in Europa," in Das Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges in Europa, ed. Roland G. Foerster.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1997). "Geschwindigkeit als Konzept.  Schnelle Züge in der Planung der Reichsbahn, 1920-1945," in Hans-Liudiger Dienel, Helmuth Trischler, eds, Geschichte der Zukunft des Verkehrs.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1993). "Railroads," in D-Day Encyclopedia.

Book Review

• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2021). CSX at 40. Railroad History (Fall/Winter 2021) 103-104. Railroad and Locomotive Historical Society.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2018). Das Reichsarbeitsministerium im Nationalsozialismus: Verwaltung-Politik-Verbrechen. Alexander Nützenadel, ed. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2017, German History 36(April 2018): 305-307. Other. no. 36 (2) 305-307. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2017). Cornelius Torp. Gerechtigkeit im Wohlfahrtsstaat: Alter und Alterssicherung in Deutschland und Großbritanien von 1945 bis heute. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2015. American Historical Review. 122 (4) 1710-1711.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2016). Jaron Pasher, Holocaust versus Wehrmacht. How Hitler’s Final Solution Undermined the German War Effort. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2014. Other. 49 (March 2016) 286-288. New York, Cambridge University Press.
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• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2013). George Bibel, Train Wreck: The Forensics of Rail Disasters. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Railroad History, (Spring-Summer 2013): 103..
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2013). Richard Vahrenkamp, The Logistic Revolution. The Rise of Logistics in the Mass Consumption Society. Lohmar: Eul Verlag, 2012. Transfers, June 2013..
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2008). Burghard Ciesla.  Als der Osten durch den Westen fuhr.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2007). Ivan T. Berend.  An Economic History of Twentieth Century Europe. Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2006 .
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2007). Mark Hallerberg, Domestic Budgets in a United Europe:  Fiscal Governance from the End of Bretton Woods to EMU.  Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 2004.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2006). Ursula Rombeck-Jaschinski.  Das Londoner Schuldenabkommen. Munich:  Oldenbourg, 2005.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2005). "The Latest Phase of Germany's Effort to Master its Nazi Past," review article on the controversy surrounding Götz Aly's Hitlers Volksstaat.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2005). Albrecht Ritschl.  Deutschlands Krise und Konjunktur 1924-1934.  Binnenkonjunktur, Auslandsverschuldung und Reparationsproblem zwischen Dawes-Plan und Transfersperre.  Berlin:  Akademie Verlag, 2002.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2005). Susanne Hilger, "Amerikanisierung" deutscher Unternehmen.  Wettbewerbsstrategien und Unternehmenspolitik bei Henkel, Siemens und Daimler-Benz (1845/49-1975).  Stuttgart:  Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2005). Werner Abelshauser, Wolfgang von Hippel, Jeffrey Allan Johnson, Raymond G. Stokes.  German Industry and Global Enterprise.  BASF:  The History of a Company.  New York:  Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2004). Bernhard Löffler.  Soziale Marktwirtschaft und administrative Praxis.  Das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium unter Ludwig Erhard.  Stuttgart:  Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2004). Geoffrey Channon.  Railways in Britain and the United States 1930-1940.  Studies in Economic and Business History.  Aldershot:  Ashgate, 2001.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2004). Heidrun Edelmann.  Heinz Nordhoff und Volkswagen.  Ein deutscher Unternehmer im amerikanischen Jahrhundert.  Göttingen:  Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2003.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2004). Michael Thad Allen.  The Business of Genocide:  The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2003). Christopher Kobrak.  National Cultures and International Competition.  The Experience of Schering AG, 1851-1950.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2003). Harold James.  The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War Against the Jews.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2003). Henry Burke Wend.  Recovery and Restoration:  U.S. Foreign Policy and the Politics of Reconstruction of West Germany's Shipbuilding Industry, 1945-1955.  Westport, CN:  Praeger, 2001.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2003). Terence R. Gourvish, British Rail 1974-97:  From Integration to Privatisation.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2002). Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr, Railways of the Netherlands:  A Brief History, 1834-1994.(Stanford, CA:  Stanford University Press, 2001).
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2002). Stephanie Wolff-Rohé.  Der Reichsverband der Deutschen Industrie 1919-1925/25 (Frankfurt am Main:  Peter Lang, 2001).
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2001). Lothar Gall, Manfred Pohl, eds., Die Eisenbahn in Deutschland.  Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart.  (Munich:  C.H. Beck, 1999).
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2001). Wilfried Feldenkirchen.  Siemens 1918-1945.  Columbus, OH:  Ohio State University Press, 1999.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2000). Anthony Heywood.  Modernising Lenin's Russia:  Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade and the Railways.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1999). Neil Gregor.  Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich (New Haven:  Yale, 1998).
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1998). Hans Bock, Franz Garrecht, Julius Dorpmüller - Ein Leben für die Eisenbahn, Alfred B. Gottwaldt, Julius Dorpmüller.  Die Reichsbahn und die Autobahn.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1997). Hans Bock, Franz Garrecht, Julius Dorpmüller - Ein Leben für die Eisenbahn, Alfred B. Gottwaldt, Julius Dorpmüller.  Die Reichsbahn und die Autobahn.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1997). Mark Spoerer, Von Scheingewinnnen zum Rüstungsboom.  Die Eigenkapitalretabilität der deutschen Industrieaktiengesellschaften 1925-1941, Stuttgart, 1996.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1996). Christopher Kopper, Zwischen Marktwirtschaft und Dirigismus.  Bankenpolitik im "Dritten Reich" 1933-1939.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1995). Eric E. Rowley, Hyperinflation in Germany.  Perceptions of a Process.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1995). R.J. Overy, War and Economy in Nazi Germany.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1995). Walter Naasner, Neue Machtzentren in der deutschen Kriegswirtschaft.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1993). McFarland and Newton, To Command the Sky:  The Battle for Air Superiority over Germany, 1942-1944.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1991). Middlebrook and Everitt, The Bomber Command War Diaries.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1989). Hidy, Hidy, Hofsommer, The Great Northern Railway.

Conference Proceeding

• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2011). Comparing Apples with Oranges. A Comparison of American and German Railways. German Historical institute, Washington, DC.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2009). "German Ways of Business: War, Competition, Rivalry," "German Ways of War".
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2009). Pay-as-You-Go Retirement Pension Systems:  What are they?.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2008). Commentator on Panel, "Social Policy and Political Culture after 1945:  Adoption, Education, Immigration".
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2008). From Hand to Mouth:  The Finances of the German Government Retirement Pension System in the Late 1960's.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2008). From Hand to Mouth:  The Finances of the German Government Retirement Pension System in the Late 1960's.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2008). The Unmasterable Future:  Gerhard Weinberg's Visions of Victory.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2007). Comparing Apples and Oranges:  A Comparison of American and German Railways.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2007). Der Zweite Weltkrieg und das Transportwesen in Europa.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2006). Eine standesgemäße Behandlung:  The West German Pension Reform of 1957.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2006). Turning the Corner:  The West German Old Age Pension Reform of 1957.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2005). Commentator on panel "Postwar Issues:  East and West".
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2004). Commentator on panel "Closing the Circle:  Did Nazi Victims Pay for the Cost of their own Persecution".
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2004). Ludwig Erhard and the Social Market Economy.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2004). The End of the Social Market Economy:  Ludwig Erhard and the Pension Reform of 1957.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2003). 1957:  Ludwig Erhard's Annus terribilis.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2003). Adolf Hitler.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2003). Chaired panel "Monarchy, Democracy and the Nation".
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2002). Uneasy partners:  Ludwig Erhard and the Allied Occupation Authorities, 1945-1955.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2002). Water in the Desert?  The Influence of Wilhelm Röpke on Ludwig Erhard and the Social Market Economy.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2000). Business against Free markets:  The Opposition of the Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie to Ludwig Erhard's Kartellgesetz, 1949-1957.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1999). A Public Enterprise in the Service of Mass Murder:  The Deutsche Reichsbahn and the Holocaust.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1999). Chair, "Business Ethics in Historical Perspective".
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1998). Commentator, "Markets and Business in Germany".
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1998). The Reich Association of German Industry's Proposal to "Privatize".
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1996). The German National Railway Confronts its Competitors, 1920-1939.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1995). Chaired panel entitled "Multinational Investments".
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1995). Die Amerikanische Strategie.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1995). Hochgeschwindigkeitszüge in den Planungen der Reichsbahn, 1920-1945.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1995). The Inadequacy of the Social Sciences for the Evaluation of Historical Events.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1994). Accounting Reform at the German National Railway Company, 1924-1932.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1992). Chaired panel entitled:  "European Investment in Transportation in the New World".
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1992). Payments and Profits:  The German National Railway and Reparations.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1991). Flying Trains and Streamliners:  Technology Transfer from Germany to the United States in the 1920s and 1930s.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1991). The German National Railway as a State Enterprise.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1990). Discussed impending German reunification in "Panel Discussion on the Recent Developments in Europe".
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1990). High-Speed Motortrains of the 1930s:  Technological and Aesthetic Innovation on Two Continents.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1990). High-Speed Motortrains of the 1930s:  Technological and Aesthetic Innovation on Two Continents.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1990). The Dorpmüller Controversy:  A Case Study In Weimar Cabinet Politics.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1989). "Die Kriegsvorbereitungen Nazi Deutschlands" at "Europa vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg".
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1989). Irrationality and the Dismal Science:  Nazi Economic Preparations for War.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1989). Seminar on the Vicksburg Campaign.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1989). The Collapse of the German War Economy.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1988). The German National Railway in the 1930's: Modernization or Preparation for War.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1986). Session Leader, "Intelligence and the Strategic Bombing of Germany, 1939-45".
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1986). The Strategic Failure of Robert E. Lee.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1983). Delivered lecture at Goethe-Institute, Schwäbisch Hall.

Journal Article

• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2017). Robert Ley’s Dream of a Racist Utopia: The Welfare Program of the German People. 79 (4) 752-776. Phi Alpha Theta.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2017). Taking from the Weak, giving to the Strong: The Jews and the German Statutory Pension System, 1933-1945. Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 31 (2) 193-214.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2017). Wohlstand und soziales Gleichgewicht. (June 2017) 44. Hamburg,
• Mierzejewski, A.C. Ludwig Erhard - Stationen seiner Biographie. Die Politische Meinung. Spring/Frühjahr (May 2017) 18-21. Sankt Augustin, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Ludwig-Erhard-Stiftung.
• Alfred C. Mierzejewski. Paradigm Shift: The Reform of the German Public Pension System in 2001 and its Aftermath. 22 (4/2015) 695-721.
• Alfred C. Mierzejewski. (2012). "Plundering Pensions: The Destruction of the German Pension System by the Third Reich," The Historian 74(Summer 2012): 286-306..
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2009). Ludwig Erhard und die Soziale Marktwirtschaft.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2006). Social Security Reform the German Way:  The West German Pension Reform of 1957.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2006). Water in the Desert?  The Influence of Wilhelm Röpke on Ludwig Erhard and the Social Market Economy.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2004). 1957:  Ludwig Erhard's Annus terribilis.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2004). One Size does not fit All.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2002). German Railroaders and the Holocaust.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2002). Hitler's Locomotives:  Part 1.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2002). Hitler's Locomotives:  Part 2.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (2001). A Public Enterprise in the Service of Mass Murder:  The Deutsche Reichsbahn and the Holocaust.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1998). Ludwig Homberger:  An Exceptional Man.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1998). The Reich Association of German Industry's Proposal to "Privatize" the German National Railway, 1921-1922.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1996). High Speed Motor Trains of the German National Railway, 1920-1945.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1996). The German National Railway Confronts its Competitors, 1920-1939.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1995). Payments and Profits:  The German National Railway Company and Reparations, 1924-1932.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1994). Accounting Reform at the German National Railway Company, 1924-1932.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1993). The German National Railway Company, 1924-1932:  Between Private and Public Enterprise.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1992). The Dorpmüller Controversy:  Cabinet Politics and Reparations in Weimar Germany.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1990). The German National Railway between the World Wars:  Modernization or Preparation for War?.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1989). Intelligence and the Strategic Bombing of Germany:  The Combined Strategic Targets Committee.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1988). When Did Albert Speer Give Up?.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1987). The Deutsche Reichsbahn and Germany's Supply of Coal, 1939-1945.
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (1981). American Military Ethics in World War II: An Exchange.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research

• Mierzejewski, A.C., "Pension Debacle 1976," sponsored by CLASS, Local, $4000 Funded. (2023 - 2023).
• Mierzejewski, A.C., "Pension Debacle 1976," University of North Texas, $1500 Funded. (2022 - 2022).
• Mierzejewski, A.C., "Pension Reform Law 1972," sponsored by History Department, University of North Texas, $3150 Funded. (2019 - 2019).
• Mierzejewski, A.C., "Departmental Travel Grant," sponsored by UNT History Department, University of North Texas, $500.00 Funded. (2018 - 2018).
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (Principal), "Scholarly and Creativity Award," University of North Texas, $4554 Funded. (2017 - 2017).
• Mierzejewski, A.C. (Principal), "Faculty Research Grant," University of North Texas, $500 Funded. (2016 - 2016).