Bernd Rother

Bernd Rother (born July 4, 1954 in Melbeck ) is a German historian .

Rother passed his Abitur in 1973 at the Johanneum Lüneburg and from 1974 to 1981 studied history, political science and education to become a teacher at the TU Braunschweig . There he was also chairman of the General Student Committee (AStA). In 1984 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the Socialist Party of Portugal . He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Social History in Bonn from 1988 to 1990, at the History Department of the University of Hanover from 1991 to 1993 and at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies in Potsdam from 1993 to 1999 . From 1999 to 2019 he was a research assistant at the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation and, until its dissolution in 2018, a member of the historical commission of the SPD party executive .

He published on the history of the city of Braunschweig and the Free State of Braunschweig , on the history of the German and European workers' movement , on the history of the SPD , on the Holocaust , on the contemporary history of Spain and Portugal .

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Foreign policy to curb unbounded violence. Historical experiences of social democracy and current challenges . Edited by Bernd Faulenbach and Bernd Rother, Essen 2016
(Ed.): Willy Brandts foreign policy , Springer, Wiesbaden 2014 ISBN 978-3-658-02918-0
Spain and the Holocaust , Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2001 ISBN 978-3-484-57005-4 (Spanish translation 2005)
The party executive of the SPD in exile. Protocols of the Sopade 1933–1940 . Edited by Marlis Buchholz and Bernd Rother (= Archive for Social History, Supplement 15). Bonn 1995, ISBN 978-3-8012-4051-6 .
The social democracy in the state of Braunschweig 1918-1933 , Dietz, Bonn 1990 ISBN 978-3-8012-4016-5
The Obstructed Transition to Socialism - The Portuguese Socialist Party at the Center of Power (1974–1978) . Frankfurt / Main 1985