Erwin Oberländer

Erwin Oberländer (born March 19, 1937 in Königsberg ) is a German Eastern European historian and retired university professor .

Life

Erwin Oberländer studied history and Slavic studies at the universities of Munich , Vienna and Cologne from 1956 . In Cologne he was in 1963 when Günther Stökl with a scripture on the subject of Tolstoy and the revolutionary movement to Dr. phil. PhD. From 1963 to 1974 he was a research assistant at the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies in Cologne. In 1973 he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Cologne. In 1974 and 1975 Oberländer was senior scientific adviser in the Federal Ministry of the Interior .

In 1975 the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster appointed him Professor for Modern and Contemporary History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe . In 1985 he became Professor of Eastern European History and Head of the Institute for Eastern European History at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . In 2002 he retired.

Oberländer is connected to the history of Latvia and Riga and is co-editor of various historical journals there.

He is the son of the National Socialist and later Federal Minister Theodor Oberländer .

1965: Tolstoy and the revolutionary movement. Pustet, Munich / Salzburg / Vienna.
1967: Soviet Patriotism and History. Documentation (= documents for the study of communism. Volume 4). Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne.
1967: with Frits Kool: Workers' Democracy or Party Dictatorship (= documents of the world revolution. Volume 2). Walter, Olten / Freiburg im Breisgau.
1971: On the anti-Zionism campaign in the USSR. Federal Institute for Eastern Research and International Studies, Cologne.
1972: Anarchism. On the theory and practice of the domineering society (= documents of the world revolution. Volume 4). Walter, Olten / Freiburg im Breisgau, ISBN 3-530-16784-3 .
1976: The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 1969 . Federal Institute for Eastern Research and International Studies, Cologne.

Edited volumes:

1989: Hitler-Stalin Pact 1939. The end of East Central Europe ? Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-596-24434-X .
1991: History of Eastern Europe. On the development of a historical discipline in Germany, Austria and Switzerland 1945–1990 (= sources and studies on the history of Eastern Europe. Volume 35). Steiner, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-515-06024-3 .
1993: Cooperatives in Eastern Europe - an alternative to a planned economy? German Cooperative Publishing House, Wiesbaden 1993.
1993: Poland after communism. Steiner, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-515-06213-0 .
1993/2001: The Duchy of Courland 1561–1795. Constitution, economy, society. 2 volumes. Verlag Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk, Lüneburg, ISBN 3-922296-72-6 , ISBN 3-932267-33-8 .
2001: Authoritarian regimes in East Central and Southeast Europe 1919–1944. Schöningh, Paderborn, ISBN 3-506-76186-2 .
2004: with Kristine Wohlfahrt: Riga. Portrait of a multiethnic city on the edge of the tsarist empire 1857–1914. Schöningh, Paderborn, ISBN 3-506-71738-3 .
2008: with Volker Keller as co-editor: Kurland. From the Polish-Lithuanian feudal duchy to the Russian province. Documents on the constitutional history 1561–1795. Schöningh, Paderborn, ISBN 978-3-506-76536-9 .

Jan Kusber : Erwin Oberländer on his 75th birthday. In: Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe. Vol. 60 (2012), no. 1, p. 148 f. ( online ).
Svetlana Bogojavlenska; Jan Kusber Ed .: Tradition and New Beginning: Research on the history of Latvia at the turn of the 10th to the 21st century. Small commemorative publication for Erwin Oberländer. LIT, Berlin / Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12732-7 .