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 .
Bodies
- 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
- Member of the Enquete Commission "Coming to terms with the history and consequences of the SED dictatorship"
Honors
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (1989)
Publications
- 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
editor
- 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.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 50 years of the Göttinger Arbeitskreis e. V. Göttingen 1998
- ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data | |
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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 |