Bernd Bonwetsch

Bernd Bonwetsch (born October 17, 1940 in Berlin ; † October 13, 2017 in Ebeltoft ) was a German historian . Bonwetsch was founding director in 2003 and director of the German Historical Institute in Moscow until 2009 . He was an expert on the history of the Soviet Union and German-Soviet relations.

Life

Bernd Bonwetsch studied history , Slavic studies and comparative education in Hamburg and at the Free University of Berlin from 1962 to 1967 . In 1968/69 he studied at Stanford University in the USA , which was followed by archival studies. His doctorate followed in 1972 at the historical seminar in Hamburg. From 1973 to 1980 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Eastern European History and Regional Studies at the University of Tübingen . Bonwetsch taught from 1980 to 2003 as a professor for Eastern European history at the Ruhr University in Bochum . This teaching activity was only interrupted by stays abroad in 1992 and 1993. In 1992 he went to the University of Innsbruck as a visiting professor and in 1993 to the State University of Kemerowo . In 2000 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Kemerovo State University and in 2004 he received another honorary doctorate from the Karasin National University of Kharkiv . His research focus was the history of the National Socialist and Stalinist tyranny.

Monographs

War Alliance and Economic Interests. The position of Russia in the economic plans of England and France 1914-1917 (= studies of modern history. Vol. 10). Bertelsmann-Universitäts-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1973, ISBN 3-571-09040-3 .
The Russian Revolution in 1917. A Social History from the Liberation of the Peasants in 1861 to the October Revolution. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1991, ISBN 3-534-10099-9 .
together with Rolf Binner and Marc Junge: mass murder and imprisonment. The other story of the great terror (= publications of the German Historical Institute Moscow. Vol. 1). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-05-004662-4 ; Wladislaw Hedeler : Review of mass murder and camp imprisonment . In: H-Soz-u-Kult from May 18, 2010.

Editorships

with Rolf Binner and Marc Junge: Stalinism in the Soviet Province 1937–1938. The mass action based on the operational order No. 00447 (= publications of the German Historical Institute Moscow. Vol. 2). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-05-004685-3 .

Beate Fieseler : On the death of Bernd Bonwetsch (1940–2017). In: Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe 66 (2018), p. 695.