Helmut Altrichter

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Helmut Altrichter (born November 7, 1945 in Maletín , Czechoslovakia ) is a German historian. From 1990 to 2012 he held the chair for Eastern European History at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg .

Life

In 1964 he graduated from Melanchthon-Gymnasium in Nuremberg, in 1970 he received the state examination for teaching in the subjects of history, German and social studies. In 1974 he did his doctorate at the University of Erlangen with Karl-Heinz Ruffmann and in 1982 he completed his habilitation.
Altrichter was a professor at the University of Erlangen from 1990 to 2012. From 1993 to 1999 he was chairman of the Association of Eastern European Historians. In addition, he was chairman of the scientific advisory boards of the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin, the Humanities Center for the History and Culture of East Central Europe in Leipzig and the German Historical Institute in Moscow.

Fonts (selection)

  • Constitutionalism and Imperialism. The Reichstag and German-Russian Relations 1890–1914 (Erlanger Historical Studies Volume 1), Frankfurt am Main 1977
  • State and Revolution in Soviet Russia 1917–1922 / 23 (Results of Research Volume 148), Darmstadt 1981
    • 2nd ext. Edition Darmstadt 1996
  • The farmers of Tver. On life in the Russian village between revolution and collectivization, Munich 1984
    • abridged and paperback special edition, with a foreword by Lew Kopelew, Munich 1984
  • A Brief History of the Soviet Union 1917–1991, Munich 1993
    • second, expanded edition, Munich 2001
    • third edition, Munich 2007
    • fourth edition, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65215-8
  • Russia 1917. A country in search of itself, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 1997.
  • History of Europe in the 20th Century (together with Walther L. Bernecker ), Stuttgart 2004, 448 pp.
  • Russia 1989. The fall of the Soviet empire, Munich 2009
  • Stalin. The Lord of Terror, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-71982-0

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ www.osteuropa.phil.fau.de
  2. ↑ On the history of the "Association of Eastern European Historians" (VOH)
  3. ↑ later honorary member
  4. ↑ VfZ Heft 2/2011, p. 311ff .: Helmut Altrichter resigns as chairman of the advisory board
personal data
SURNAME Altrichter, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Maletín