Günter Rosenfeld

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Günter Rosenfeld (born  September 2, 1926 in Osterode , East Prussia, † April 16, 2015 ) was a German historian . Until 1991 he was Professor of History at the Humboldt University in Berlin . The focus of his work was the history of the Soviet Union and the relations between Soviet Russia and Germany.

Life

From 1959 until his retirement in 1991, Rosenfeld belonged to the Institute for the History of the Peoples of the Soviet Union at Humboldt University and was its director from 1966 to 1979. Rosenfeld actively participated in the joint commission of historians from the USSR and the GDR , which was founded in 1957 . "He did not shy away from including the" white spots "(such as the cooperation between the Reichswehr and the Red Army in the 1920s and the problem of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact in 1939) in his research."

He was chairman of the university group of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF) at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Rosenfeld died at the age of 88.

Awards and honors

Fonts

until 1990
  • Soviet Russia and Germany 1917–1922 . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1984 (2nd edition) and Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7609-0867-5 .
  • Soviet Union and Germany 1922–1933 . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1984 (2nd edition) and Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7609-0868-3 .
  • with Horst Schützler: Brief History of the Soviet Union 1917–1983 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1985.
  • Kurt Pätzold , Günter Rosenfeld (ed.): Soviet Union and swastika 1938 to 1941. Documents on German-Soviet relations . Akademie Verlag, Berlin.
  • with Günter Gorski, Alfred Anderle (ed.): German-Soviet friendship. A historical outline from 1917 to the present . German Science Publishers, Berlin 1975.
  • Associate Editor: The Soviet Society. Studies on their past and present . Publishing House of Science, Berlin. 1984.
  • Author collective under the direction of Günter Rosenfeld: History of the USSR. From the beginning to the present . VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1977.
since 1990
  • The October Revolution in Russia. On their possibilities and limits , in: Historikergesellschaft der DDR. Scientific communications, issue 1990 / II-III.
  • Soviet star and swastika 1938 to 1941. Documents on German-Soviet relations. Edited and introduced by Kurt Pätzold and Günter Rosenfeld, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1990.
  • Epilogue and glossary in: Wladimir Nabokow, Petrograd 1917. The short summer of the revolution , Rowohlt Berlin 1992.
  • Culture and science in the relations between Germany and the Soviet Union from 1933 to June 1941 , in: Berliner Jahrbuch für East European History, 1995, part 1.
  • Pavlo Skoropads'kyj, recollections 1917 to 1918. Edited and edited by Günter Rosenfeld (= sources and studies on the history of Eastern Europe, vol. 55), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1999.
Editorial activity

Member of the editorial board of the series “Sources and Studies on the History of Eastern Europe” (New Series) for volumes XXX – XXXIV (1993–1995) at Akademie Verlag, Berlin. - The series was discontinued after the Academy-Verlag was taken over by R. Oldenbourg Verlag.

See also the reprint of reviews and articles that have appeared in the newspaper Neues Deutschland , in: Osteuropakunde at the Leipzig University and in the GDR, Eastern Europe in Tradition and Change , Leipziger Jahrbücher, No. 8/2 (2006), p 619-685.

literature

  • Historian in Central Germany . Dümmler, Bonn 1965.
  • Günter Rosenfeld on his 80th birthday . In: East European Studies at Leipzig University and in the GDR . Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Saxony, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-89819-252-0 , p. 615-617 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From the obituary in: Junge Welt , April 20, 2015, p. 11.
  2. ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung , April 25, 2015, p. 11.
  3. ^ New Germany , April 30th / April 1st. May 1988, p. 3

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personal data
SURNAME Rosenfeld, Günter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenfeld, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterode , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 2015