Friso Wielenga

Johan Willem Friso Wielenga (* 1956 in Rotterdam ) is a Dutch historian .

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Friso Wielenga studied history and politics at the University of Amsterdam from 1975 to 1978 and at the University of Bonn in 1982/1983 with a DAAD scholarship . In 1989 he received his doctorate . He then taught international relations at the University of Groningen and, from 1990, political history at the University of Utrecht . In 1992 he became Associate Professor of German Contemporary History and Dutch-German Relations at the University of Groningen and in 1997 Associate Professor of German Contemporary History at the University of Utrecht.

Friso Wielenga has been director of the Center for Dutch Studies at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster since 1999 . He works as a journalist for the Dutch daily newspapers de Volkskrant and NRC Handelsblad . From 2001 to 2005 he was the commissioner of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia for the promotion of relations between the universities of the state and the universities of the Benelux countries .

In 2015 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his services to German-Dutch relations .

West Duitsland. Partner uit noodzaak. Nederland an de Bondsrepubliek 1949–1955. Het Spectrum, Utrecht 1989, ISBN 90-274-2187-0 .
Schaduwen van de Duitse is divorced. De omgamg met het nazien DDR-verleden in de Bondsrepubliek Duitsland. Boom, Amsterdam 1993, ISBN 90-5352-109-7 .
German edition: Shadow of German History. Dealing with National Socialism and the GDR past in the Federal Republic. From the Dutch by Christoph Strupp . SH, Vierow near Greifswald 1995, ISBN 3-89498-015-X .
From enemy to partner. The Netherlands and Germany since 1945. With a foreword by Wolfgang Clement . (Original title Van vijand tot bondgenoot. ) From the Dutch by Christoph Strupp and Anne Wielenga-Flohr. Agenda, Münster 2000, ISBN 3-89688-072-1 .
with Ilona Riek: Netherlands and Belgium research in the Federal Republic of Germany. Waxmann, Münster / New York / Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8309-1250-1 .
The Netherlands. Politics and Political Culture in the 20th Century. Waxmann, Münster / New York / Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8309-1844-8 .
Dutch edition: Nederland in de twintigste eeuw. Boom, Amsterdam 2009, ISBN 978-90-850-6714-6 .
History of the Netherlands. From the Dutch by Annegret Klinzmann. Reclam, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-15-010893-2 .

Literature by and about Friso Wielenga in the catalog of the German National Library
Friso Wielenga on the website of the University of Münster
Friso Wielenga in the FID Benelux research directory

personal data
SURNAME	Wielenga, Friso
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wielenga, Johan Willem Friso (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch historian
DATE OF BIRTH	1956
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rotterdam