Bernd Stöver

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Bernd Stöver (born April 4, 1961 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ) is a German historian with a focus on the history of National Socialism, the USA and the Cold War, emigration research and German-German history.

Life

From 1983 to 1989 he studied history and German at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and at the University of Bielefeld and graduated with the state examination for teaching secondary level II / I. In 1991 he was at Christoph Kleßmann at Bielefeld University with the theme willingness to build consensus in the "Third Reich" in the mirror socialist reports Dr. phil. PhD.

After his legal clerkship, which lasted until 1993, Stöver worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Contemporary History at the University of Potsdam . In 1994/95 he was a fellow at the German Historical Institute Washington, DC. 2000/2001 he completed his habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Potsdam on the subject of “Liberation Policy. Development, career, perception and effects of an offensive foreign policy concept in the Cold War 1947 to 1991 ”. The habilitation thesis was examined by Christoph Kleßmann , Manfred Görtemaker and Peter Steinbach .

From 2001 he was a research assistant at the Center for Contemporary History Research (ZZF). In the same year he became a private lecturer at the Historical Institute of the University of Potsdam, where he has been an adjunct professor at the Chair of Modern History and Contemporary History since July 2006 .

reception

In 2012 he published a history of the USA in the publishing house CH Beck , in which, according to Volker Depkat from the Institute for English and American Studies at the University of Regensburg , “an overall rather stereotypical picture of American history is drawn up, which admittedly uses many of the clichés common in Germany , but contributes little to the explanation of the complex and highly ambivalent historical development of the USA ”. Simon Wendt from the Institute for English and American Studies at the University of Frankfurt am Main criticized the work as “the lack of discussion of methods and terms, content-related gaps, factual inaccuracies and the lack of subject index”, but saw the author's merit in the fact that he wrote American history for a "broad German audience". Gert Raeithel , former professor at the Social Science Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , found that with "some factual errors" and the weighting in the cultural part, which in contrast to the political, economic and part of society not convinced that there is no way to speak of a "Histoire totale". Despite good research and description, Stöver used hardly any archive material and "a consistent theoretical primer" was not recognizable.

Fonts (selection)

  • Volksgemeinschaft in the Third Reich. The willingness of Germans to reach consensus from the point of view of socialist exile reports. Droste, Düsseldorf 1993, ISBN 3-7700-0999-1 .
  • (Ed.): Reports on the situation in Germany. The situation reports of the Neu Beginnen group from the Third Reich 1933–1936 (= Archive for Social History . Supplement 17). Dietz, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-4068-1 .
  • with Arnd Bauerkämper , Martin Sabrow (eds.): Double contemporary history. German-German relations 1945–1990 . Dietz, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-8012-4090-8 .
  • with Christoph Kleßmann (Ed.): 1953 - the year of the crisis in the Cold War in Europe (= contemporary historical studies . Vol. 16). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-412-03799-0 .
  • The Federal Republic of Germany (= controversies about history ). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2002, ISBN 3-534-14728-6 .
  • Liberation from communism. American Liberation Policy in the Cold War 1947–1991 (= Zeithistorische Studien. Vol. 22). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-412-03002-3 (At the same time: Potsdam, Universität, habilitation paper, 2000).
  • The Cold War (= Beck series. Vol. 2314). Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-48014-4 (3rd edition 2008).
  • The Cold War, 1947-1991. Story of a radical age. Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-55633-3 (licensed edition bpb 2007; Korean translation 2008; special paperback edition 2011).
  • with Christoph Kleßmann (ed.): The Korean War. Perception - Effect - Memory . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20178-4 .
  • Refuge GDR. Spies and other emigrants (= historical library of the Gerda Henkel Foundation ). Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59100-6 .
  • History of Berlin (= Beck's series, vol. 2603). Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-60067-8 (English translation 2013).
  • United States of America. History and culture. From the first colony to the present . Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63967-8 (2nd edition 2013).
  • Little history of Berlin . Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-64049-0 .
  • History of the Korean War. Battlefield of the superpowers and unresolved conflict (= Beck'sche Reihe. Vol. 6094). Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64447-4 (3rd edition 2015).
  • History of Cambodia. From Angkor to the present (= CH Beck Paperback . Vol. 6191). Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-67432-7 .
  • CIA. History, organization, scandals (= Beck series Volume 2871). Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70410-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Stöver: Liberation from communism . Cologne 2002, p. 34.
  2. ↑ Volker Depkat: Review of: Stöver, Bernd: United States of America. History and culture. From the first colony to the present. Munich 2012 . In: H-Soz-Kult, July 26, 2013
  3. ↑ Simon Wendt: Review by: Bernd Stöver: United States of America. History and culture. From the first colony to the present, Munich: CHBeck 2012 . In: sehepunkte , 13, 2013, No. 3, March 15, 2013.
  4. ↑ Gert Raeithel: Rock 'n' Roll and Atomic Bomb . In: sueddeutsche.de, October 15, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Stöver, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg (Oldenburg)