Dietrich Orlow

Dietrich Otto Orlow (born June 2, 1937 in Hamburg ) is an American historian.

Life and activity

Orlow was born as the son of Otto Hinrich Orlow and his wife Wilhelmine, geb. Haack was born in Hamburg. In 1958 he was naturalized in the USA.

Orlow studied history at Ohio University and the University of Michigan , where he earned an AM degree. 1962 followed a PhD degree at the same university, which he received for a study on the National Socialist Southeast Europe Society .

From 1962 to 1967 Orlow taught at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia as an instructor (1962–1963) and then as an assistant professor of history (1963–1967). In 1967 he moved to Syracuse University in New York, where he taught as an associate professor until 1971 .

In 1971 Orlow finally got a position as full professor of history at Boston University , where he stayed until his retirement. From 1974 to 1976 he was also a member of the editorial board of the journal Central European History . In between he also taught for a semester as a visiting professor in Hamburg (1975).

Orlov's most important work is a two-volume history of the NSDAP , which reconstructs the development of the party from its roots in the first years after the First World War to its defeat at the end of the Second World War. The first volume examines the founding of the party from its establishment to the assumption of government responsibility by the NSDAP in the spring of 1933, while the second volume looks at the period up to 1945.

Orlow is a member of the American Historical Association and the Central European History conference group.

For his research he has received grants from the American Philosophical Society , the Social Science Research Council , the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Stipend for Young Scholars. He was also a Fulbright Fellow and a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies.

marriage and family

Orlow has been married to Maria Wimmersparg since 1958, with whom he has a daughter.

Fonts

Monographs :

• A Study of the Nazi Southeast Europe Society , Ann Arbor 1962.
• The Nazis in the Balkans. A Case Study in Totalitarian Politics , University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh 1968.
• The History of the Nazi Party , Vol. 1 (1919-1933) Newton Abbot 1971.
• The History of the Nazi Party , Vol. 2 (1933-1945), Pittsburgh 1973.
• Weimar Prussia, 1918-1925. The Unlikely Rock of Democracy , University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh 1986.
• Weimar Prussia, 1925-1933. The Illusion of Strength , University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh 1991.
• Common Destiny. A Comparative History of the Dutch, French, and German Social Democratic Parties 1945-1969 , Berghahn Books, New York 2000.
• The Lure of Fascism in Western Europe. German Nazis, Dutch and French Fascists, 1933-1939 , 2009.
• A History of Modern Germany. 1871 to Present , Englewood Cliffs 1987. (New editions 1991, 1995, 2002, 2016)
• Socialist Reformers and the Collapse of the German Democratic Republic , Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2015.

Essays:

• "The Adolf Hitler Schools", in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 13 (1965), pp. 272–284.
• "Rudolf Heß - 'Stellvertreter des Führers'", in: Ronald Smelser / Rainer Zitelmann (eds.): Die brown Elite , Darmstadt 1989, pp. 84–97.

literature

• Pamela Dear: Contemporary Authors New Revision Series. A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Non-Fiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama , Vol. 89, 2000, pp. 312f.