Dieter Heinzig

Dieter Heinzig (born June 6, 1932 in Burkhardtsdorf ) is a German historian of China and Eastern Europe.

Life

After studying Sinology and Japanese Studies for two years at the Humboldt University (East Berlin), he was forcibly de-registered for political reasons in 1954 and went to West Germany. He studied the history of China, the history of Eastern Europe and law at the Universities of Hamburg, Kiel, Cologne and Bochum and was awarded a doctorate in 1977 with a dissertation on Soviet-Chinese relations in the 1920s at the University of Bochum. phil. PhD. From 1962 to 1964 he was a research assistant at the Department of Politics, Society and Law of Eastern Europe at the University of Kiel, from 1962 to 1997 research assistant at the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies in Cologne (BIOst), most recently as deputy director and head of the Asia department. During this time he worked several times as a lecturer at the University of Cologne on topics of international relations in Asia. From 1973 to 1999 he was deputy chairman of the German Society for Asian Studies e. V. (Hamburg).

Fonts (selection)

• The Chinese Communist Party Crisis in the Cultural Revolution . Harrasowitz, Wiesbaden 1969.
• Disputed Islands in the South China Sea. Paracels, Spratlys, Pratas, Macclesfield Bank . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1976. ISBN 978-3-447-01804-3
• Soviet military adviser to the Kuomintang 1923–1927 . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1978. ISBN 978-3-7890-0371-4
• (Ed. With Joachim Glaubitz): The Soviet Union and Asia in the 80s, goals and limits of Soviet Asia policy between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1988. ISBN 978-3-7890-1553-3
• The Soviet Union and Communist China 1945 - 1950. The arduous path to an alliance . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1998. ISBN 978-3-7890-5370-2 . English: The Soviet Union and Communist China 1945 - 1950- The Ardouos Road to the Alliance . ME Sharpe, Armonk (New York) and London (England) 2004. ISBN 0-7656-0785-9
• 迪特 ・ 海 茵 茨希 Dite Haiyincixi: Zhong-Su zou xiang lianmeng de jiannan licheng, Xinhua Publishing House , Beijing 2001. ISBN 978-7-5011-5171-4

Web links

• Short vita for the publication of the 2007 Yearbook for Historical Research on Communism