Dietrich Geyer

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Dietrich Geyer (born December 14, 1928 in Cossengrün ) is a German historian .

Dietrich Geyer was born the son of a teacher and grew up in Greiz. From 1942 to 1944 he was a pupil at Napola Naumburg , then an air force helper , in the Reich Labor Service and a soldier for a short time. In 1947 he graduated from high school in Greiz and began studying Slavic, German and art history at the University of Rostock . In 1949 he moved to the University of Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in 1952 under Maximilian Braun . From 1952 to 1954 he worked in the editorial department of the Eastern Europe Manual in Göttingen, and from 1954 to 1960 assistant at the Institute for Eastern European History and Regional Studies at the University of Tübingen .

In 1960 he completed his habilitation in Tübingen with a thesis on Lenin's role in Russian social democracy and was head of the university's press office in 1961/1962. In 1962 he was appointed full professor for Eastern European history at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 1965 he returned to Tübingen, where he became professor and director of the Institute for Eastern European History and Regional Studies. He has been a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 1982 and retired in 1994 .

Geyer's research interests included the history of Russian social democracy and its relations with the German labor movement, the social and political history of the late Tsarist empire, and the history of the Russian revolutions .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Russian Empire. From the Romanovs to the end of the Soviet Union. De Gruyter, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-11-066499-7 .
  • Gloom and frenzy. The beginnings of psychiatry in Germany. Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66790-9 .
  • Russian crown, swastika and red star. An autobiographical report. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-36243-9 .
  • Kautsky's Russian dossier. German social democrats as trustees of the Russian party assets 1910–1915 (= sources and studies on social history. Volume 2). Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-593-32919-0 .
  • Russian imperialism. Studies on the connection between domestic and foreign politics 1860–1914 (= critical studies on historical science . Volume 27). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1977, ISBN 3-525-35980-2 .
  • The Russian Revolution. Historical problems and perspectives. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1968.
  • Lenin in the Russian Social Democracy. The labor movement in the Tsarist Empire as an organizational problem of the revolutionary intelligentsia, 1890–1903 (= contributions to the history of Eastern Europe. Volume 3). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne u. a. 1962.

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