Tatjana Tönsmeyer

{{short description|German historian}}

Tatjana Tönsmeyer (born 1968){{cite web |title=Tönsmeyer, Tatjana, 1968- |url=https://lccn.loc.gov/no2003123621 |publisher=Library of Congress Authorities |accessdate=29 March 2020}} is a German historian who studies Germany–Slovakia relations and Central European history. She is currently a professor at the University of Wuppertal.{{cite web |title=Tönsmeyer |url=https://www.geschichte.uni-wuppertal.de/de/personen/neuere-und-neueste-geschichte/prof-dr-tatjana-toensmeyer.html |website=Geschichte - BERGISCHE UNIVERSITÄT WUPPERTAL |accessdate=6 February 2020}} Her first book, Das Dritte Reich und die Slowakai, was based on her doctoral dissertation,{{cite journal |last1=Orzoff |first1=Andrea |title=Tatjana Tönsmeyer. Das Dritte Reich und die Slowakei, 1939–1945. Politischer Alltag zwischen Kooperation und Eigensinn. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2003. Pp. 387. |journal=Austrian History Yearbook |date=28 April 2009 |volume=39 |pages=229–230 |doi=10.1017/S0667237808001399}} while Adelige Moderne is based on her habilitation. Das Dritte Reich und die Slowakei, which focused in particular on the "advisors" Germany sent to Slovakia, received positive to mixed reviews; some reviewers thought that she ignored recent Slovak scholarship in favor of dated German scholarship.{{cite journal |last1=Ward |first1=James |title=Das Dritte Reich und die Slowakei 1939-1945: Politischer Alltag zwischen Kooperation und Eigensinn (review) |journal=Journal of Cold War Studies |date=17 January 2006 |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=132–134 |doi=10.1162/jcws.2006.8.1.132 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/192221 |language=en |issn=1531-3298}}{{cite journal |last1=Dean |first1=Martin |title=Das Dritte Reich und die Slowakei, 1939–1945: Politischer Alltag zwischen Kooperation und Eigensinn |journal=The American Historical Review |date=June 2005 |volume=110 |issue=3 |pages=893 |doi=10.1086/ahr.110.3.893}}{{cite journal |last1=Lehnstaedt |first1=Stephan |title=Lehnstaedt on Tönsmeyer, 'Das Dritte Reich und die Slowakei 1939-1945: Politischer Alltag zwischen Kooperation und Eigensinn' |journal=H-Net |url=https://networks.h-net.org/node/35008/reviews/44186/lehnstaedt-t%C3%B6nsmeyer-das-dritte-reich-und-die-slowakei-1939-1945}}