Andreas Dorpalen

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Andreas Dorpalen (born May 2, 1911 in Berlin , † December 18, 1982 in Columbus , Ohio ) was a German-American lawyer and historian .

Dorpalen studied law in Freiburg and Munich and received his doctorate in 1932 from the University of Bonn . In 1936 he emigrated to the USA and worked as a freelancer for various newspapers and magazines. From 1943 he taught at Kenyon College in Ohio and then at St. Lawrence University . From 1958 to 1978 he was Professor of German and European History at Ohio State University , Columbus. He was also a Guggenheim Fellow in 1953/54 and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1969 .

Fonts

  • The contestation of shareholder resolutions in GmbH law. Würzburg 1933 (at the same time: jur. Diss., Bonn 1932).
  • The World of General Haushofer. Geopolitics in Action. Farrar & Rinehart, New York, NY / Toronto 1942.
  • Heinrich von Treitschke. Yale University Press, New Haven / Oxford University Press, London 1957.
  • Hindenburg and the Weimar Republic. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1964 (German edition 1966).
  • Europe in the 20th century. A history. Macmillan, New York 1968.
  • SPD and KPD in the final phase of the Weimar Republic . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 31 (1983), pp. 77-107.
  • German History in Marxist Perspective. The East German Approach. Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Mich./Tauris, London 1985, ISBN 0-8143-1804-5 .

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SURNAME Dorpalen, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 1982
Place of death Columbus , Ohio