Anton Bosch

Anton Bosch (* 1934 in Kandel near Odessa , Soviet Union ) is a Russian-German historian .

In March 1944 his family was relocated to the so-called Warthegau and in January 1945 to Saxony . After Saxony was assigned to the Soviet occupation zone in July / August 1945 , the family was repatriated to a labor camp in Udmurtia / Northern Urals . In 1961 he moved to Karaganda , where he graduated from the polytechnic college. Until he emigrated to Germany in 1974, he worked as an electrical mechanic , head of a power plant and later chief engineer for the energy supply in Karaganda, Kazakhstan . In 1973 he moved to Moldova and applied there to leave for Germany. He has lived with his family in Nuremberg since 1974 , where he worked for an electrical company for 23 years.

In the compatriot of Germans from Russia , Bosch was involved as a social officer for the Nuremberg-Fürth district group from 1974 to 1978 and as its chairman from 1978 to 1982. He was then responsible for family reunification on the federal executive board for six years (in 1986 he took part in the CSCE follow-up conference in Vienna) and from 1988 to 1992 chairman of the “Cultural Council of Germans from Russia”. After retiring, he completed his studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2001 in the subjects of History, Slavic Studies, New and Modern History as a Magister Artium. Bosch was a co-founder of the "Historical Research Association of Germans from Russia" (HFDR) and its chairman from 1999 to 2007. In November 2008, he did his doctorate at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg on the subject of "The fall of the Russian Germans in the Odessa-Nikolayev settlement area under the Soviet system up to 1939 ".

In 2004, Bosch received the golden badge of honor from the country team of Germans from Russia and on December 15, 2009 the Federal Cross of Merit with ribbon .

literature

• Origin, development and dissolution of the German colonies on the Black Sea: using the example of Kandel. Bosch, Anton; Josef Lingor. Landsmannschaft d. Germans from Russia eV, 1990, ISBN 978-3-923553-02-0
• Almanach 2000/2001 (first edition with 10 articles), Nuremberg / Munich 2001, ISBN 3-980-7701-2-5 .
• Russia-German contemporary history. Vol. 2: Yearbook with the research results of the association members. Anton Bosch (Ed.), HFDR, Nuremberg / Munich / Großburgwedel 2002.
• Russia-German contemporary history. Vol. 2, reprisals in the 1930s. Anton Bosch (Ed.), HFDR, Nuremberg / Munich / Großburgwedel 2002, ISBN 3-9807701-5-X .
• Russia-German contemporary history. Volume 3. Settlement and further migration. Anton Bosch (Ed.), HFDR, Nuremberg 2003, ISBN 3-9807701-6-8 .
• Odessa mourning book: Stalin's state terror against the Germans in the regions of Odessa, Nikolajew and Cherson / Ukraine 1928–1953. Anton Bosch, HFDR, Nuremberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-9809613-3-2 .
• Stalin's pawn sacrifice on the Black Sea. Anton Bosch (Ed.), Historical Research Association of Germans from Russia eV, Nuremberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-9809613-1-8 .
• A life with painful breaks and happy fulfillments. Anton Bosch - Congratulations and appreciation for his 85th birthday. In: People on the way. No. 10, October 2019.

Web links

• Laudation for Dr. Anton Bosch ,
• The Historical Research Association of Germans from Russia is celebrating its 15th birthday ,
• Germans from Russia - win for Bavaria ,
• The Drama of Selz on the Dniester by Anton Bosch ,
• "Doubt that we can finish the job" ,
• Origin, development and dissolution of the German colonies on the Black Sea using the example of Kandel from 1808 - 1944 .