Andreas Hilger

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Andreas Hilger (* 1967 in Cologne ) is a German historian .

Life

Hilger studied history and Slavic as well as library and documentation studies (diploma) in Cologne, Volgograd (Russia) and Greystones (Ireland). He was then in 1998/99 Jost Dülffer and Andreas Kappeler at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne with a dissertation German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union 1941-1956 to Dr. phil. PhD.

From 2000 to 2005 he was a research assistant at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism in Dresden and at the Department of Eastern European History at the Department of History at the University of Cologne. He was involved in projects of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records and took on research assignments. Since 2001 he has also been a lecturer at the universities in Hamburg, Heidelberg and Bremen. From 2003 he also took on consulting activities for television productions and exhibitions (including "Russia and Germany. From Confrontation to Cooperation" in the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst ).

From 2006 to 2015 he completed his habilitation at the Helmut Schmidt University of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg on the subject of Soviet-Indian relations 1941–1965 / 1966: communism, decolonization and the cold war . He received the Venia legendi for Modern History and Eastern European History . From 2009 to 2011 he was a lecturer for special tasks at the Professorship for Modern History, taking Western Europe into account ( Bernd Wegner ) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Helmut Schmidt University. From 2011 to 2016 he was a research associate at the Independent Commission of Historians researching the history of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945–1968. In the summer semester of 2016, he represented the professorship for modern history ( Roland Wenzlhuemer ) at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . He then became scientific director of the Russian-German project for the search and digitization of archive documents “Soviet and German prisoners of war and internees” at the German Historical Institute in Moscow .

His main research interests are German, Russian / Soviet and South Asian history and the history of international relations, the Second World War and National Socialism as well as security concepts and structures.

Hilger lives in Hamburg. He is married and has one child.

Fonts (selection)

  • German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union, 1941–1956. POW policy, everyday life in the camp and memories (= writings of the library for contemporary history . NF, vol. 11). Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2000, ISBN 3-88474-857-2 .
  • with Ute Schmidt , Mike Schmeitzner (eds.): Soviet military tribunals (= writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research . Vol. 17). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2001/03.
  • Volume 1: The sentencing of German prisoners of war 1941–1953 . 2001, ISBN 3-412-06701-6 .
  • Volume 2: The conviction of German civilians 1945–1955 . 2003, ISBN 3-412-06801-2 .
  • (Ed.): "Death to the spies!". Death sentences by Soviet courts in the Soviet Zone / GDR and in the Soviet Union until 1953 (= reports and studies by the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism, No. 51). V and R Unipress, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89971-286-2 .
  • with Mike Schmeitzner, Clemens Vollnhals (eds.): Sovietization or neutrality ?. Options of Soviet occupation policy in Germany and Austria 1945–1955 (= publications of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism . Vol. 32). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-525-36906-7 .
  • (Ed.): The Soviet Union and the Third World. USSR, State Socialism and Anti-Colonialism in the Cold War 1945–1991 (= series of the quarterly books for contemporary history . Vol. 99). Oldenbourg, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-59153-8 .
  • (Ed.): Diplomacy for German Unity. Documents of the Foreign Office on German-Soviet relations 1989/90 (= series of the quarterly books for contemporary history . Vol. 103). Oldenbourg, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-70659-8 .
  • with Rüdiger Overmans , Pavel Polian (eds.): Red Army soldiers in German hands. Documents on the captivity, repatriation and rehabilitation of Soviet soldiers of the Second World War . Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-76545-1 .
  • with Corinna R. Unger (Ed.): India in the world since 1947. National and transnational perspectives . Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-61178-4 .
  • with Oliver von Wrochem (Ed.): The divided nation. National losses and identities in the 20th century (= series of the quarterly books for contemporary history . Vol. 107). Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-71863-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Hilger: German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union 1941–1956 . Essen 2000, p. 486.
personal data
SURNAME Hilger, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne