Adolf Rüger

Adolf Rüger (born December 27, 1934 in Berlin ) is a German historian.

Adolf Rüger passed his Abitur in 1953 and then began studying history at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB). In 1957 he completed his studies with the state examination and became an editor at Dietz Verlag . Two years later, Rüger returned to the university and became a research assistant at the Institute for General History. The doctorate took place in 1960 with Gerhard Schilfert and Professor Rose with a thesis on the topic The emergence of a working class and the situation of the workers under the imperialist German colonial regime in Cameroon (1895-1905) . The habilitation followed in 1969 with the work The colonial aspirations of German imperialism in Africa (From the end of the First World War to the Locarno Conference) . From 1968 to 1972 he worked as a lecturer in the young African nation-state of Mali . From February 1973 to August 1978 he taught as a university lecturer for general history, in September 1978 he became professor for general history of the modern era and the history of the international labor movement, which he remained until 1994. From 1980 to 1986, Rüger was director of the history section at the HUB. In 1994 it was wound up.

Rüger dealt primarily with the non-European, especially recent colonial history and the post-colonial history of Africa and the relationship of these countries to Europe. Most of his research was published in magazines.

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 518.

Web links

• Literature by and about Adolf Rüger in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 93 Germanists at the university vacation course . In: Neues Deutschland , April 9, 1985, p. 5.