Alexander Fischer (historian)

Alexander Fischer (born January 24, 1933 in Thum ; † June 24, 1995 in Friedrichsdorf ) was a German historian.

Life

From 1951 Fischer was a new teacher at the elementary school in Annaberg-Buchholz . In 1955 he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany. From 1956 he studied history, political science, philosophy and German at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . Even then, he was particularly interested in Eastern European, modern and contemporary history. After receiving his doctorate in 1964, he became a research assistant to Klaus Zernack at the Department of Eastern European History at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and a lecturer (1967–1972). In 1969 he went to Czechoslovakia to study . In 1972 he became Professor of Eastern European History in Frankfurt. From 1986 to 1995 he was professor and director of the seminar for Eastern European history at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . From 1992 he was the founding director of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism in Dresden for two years .

Member of the working group for comparative research on Germany of the Federal Ministry for Internal German Relations (1976–1978)

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (Research Funding Working Group) of the Federal Ministry for Internal German Relations (1978–1990)

Member of the board of directors of the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies in Cologne (from 1981)

Head of the Department of History of the Society for Research in Germany (1984)

Member and chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Military History Research Office in Freiburg (1988)

Member of the commission for the Ostkolleg and the scientific advisory board of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (since 1990)

Member of the evaluation commission of the Science Council for the historical academy institutes in East Berlin (1990)

Deputy Chairman of the Göttingen Working Group (1989–1991)

Member of the scientific advisory board of the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich

Russian social democracy and armed uprising in 1905 . Wiesbaden 1967.
Politics, Strategy and Armaments in the Soviet Union . Bernhard and Graefe, Munich 1977.
Russia, Germany, America: Festschrift for Fritz T. Epstein on his 80th birthday . Franz Steiner Verlag , Wiesbaden 1978.
Demilitarization and rearmament in Central Europe 1945–1956. ES Mittler & Sohn , Herford Bonn 1983.
The question of Germany and the beginnings of the East-West conflict 1945–1949 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1984.
The military resistance against Hitler and the Nazi regime 1933–1945 . ES Mittler & Sohn, Herford Bonn 1984.
with A. Karger: Political World Studies: The Soviet Union . Stuttgart 1985.
with Maria Haendcke-Hoppe-Arndt: On the way to realizing the unity of Germany . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1992.
Studies on the history of the Soviet occupation zone, GDR . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1993.
with Manfred Wilke : Problems of growing together in reunified Germany . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994.
with Günther Heydemann: The political “turning point” in Saxony in 1989/90 - review and interim balance . Böhlau Verlag , Weimar Cologne Vienna 1995

Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam . Cologne 1968, 3rd edition 1985.
Soviet foreign policy since 1945 . Stuttgart 1973.
Soviet policy on Germany in the Second World War 1941–1945 . Stuttgart 1975.
Ploetz, the German Democratic Republic. Data – fact – analysis . Freiburg im Breisgau 1988.
History in the GDR , Vol. I: Historical Development, Theory Discussion and History Didactics , Berlin 1989. Vol. II (with Günther Heydemann ): Pre- and Early History to the Latest History , Berlin 1990.
Rearmament in Germany after 1945 . Berlin 1986.
Writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism, Vol. 1. Dresden 1995.
Documents on Germany policy (co-editor). Munich 1992 ff.
with Manfred Agethen, Günter letter (ed.): The CDU in the Soviet-occupied zone, GDR 1945–1952 . St. Augustine 1994.

personal data
SURNAME	Fischer, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 24, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH	Thum
DATE OF DEATH	June 24, 1995
Place of death	Friedrichsdorf