Heinz-Dietrich Lion

Heinz-Dietrich Löwe (born July 27, 1944 in Brandenburg ) is a German historian of Eastern European history.

Heinz-Dietrich Löwe studied in Freiburg and at the London School of Economics and taught at the Universities of Freiburg, Bielefeld and Oxford , where he was a Fellow of the Oxford Center for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies and a Research Fellow of Wolfson College (1987–1990) and then a Faculty Lecturer and Fellow of St Antony's College (1990-1992).

Since 1992 he has taught as a professor for Eastern European history in Heidelberg . He was director of the formerly independent seminar for Eastern European history and head of the third-party funded "Research Center for the History and Culture of Germans in Russia". Leo was very involved in university administration. From 1997 to 1999 he was Vice Rector of the University of Heidelberg, responsible for international relations at the university, for the humanities and for teaching. From 1995 to 1996 and again from 2006 to 2010 he was dean of the Philosophical Faculty and from 1996 to 1997 he was vice dean. In July 2012 he retired.

His main research interests are Jews in Eastern Europe, Russian anti-Semitism and farmers in Russia. His academic students include a. Frank Grüner, Franziska Schedewie and Ralph Tuchtenhagen .

Fonts

Monographs

• Anti-Semitism and reactionary utopia. Russian Conservatism in the Fight against the Change in State and Society, 1890–1917 (= Historical Perspectives. Vol. 13). Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1978, ISBN 3-455-09229-2 .
• The Situation of the Peasants in Russia, 1880–1905. Economic and social changes in the rural society of the tsarist empire (= studies on economic and social history. Vol. 7). Scripta Mercaturae, St. Katharinen 1987, ISBN 3-922661-38-6 (Also: Freiburg (Breisgau), University, habilitation paper, 1987).
• The Tsars and the Jews. Reform, Reaction and Anti-Semitism in Imperial Russia 1772–1917. Harwood Academic Publishers, Chur et al. 1993, ISBN 3-7186-5289-7 .
• Stalin. The unleashed revolutionary (= personality and history. Vol. 162). 2 volumes. Muster-Schmidt, Göttingen et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7881-0153-9 ( technical review ).

Editions

• with Günther H. Tontsch and Stefan Troebst : Minorities, Regional Consciousness and Centralism in East Central Europe (= Transylvanian Archive. Vol. 35). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2000, ISBN 3-412-12799-X .
• Popular uprisings in Russia. From the time of turmoil to the “Green Revolution” against Soviet rule (= research on Eastern European history. Vol. 65). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-447-05292-9 .
• with Frank Grüner and Urs Heftrich: “Destroyer of Silence”. Forms of artistic memory of the National Socialist race and extermination policy in Eastern Europe. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2006, ISBN 3-412-36105-4 .
• with Maik Hendrik Sprotte and Wolfgang Seifert: The Russo-Japanese War 1904/05. Is the dawn of a new time? Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-447-05707-3 .
• with Felicitas Fischer von Weikersthal, Christoph Garstka and Urs Heftrich: The National Socialist Genocide of the Roma in Eastern Europe. History and artistic processing. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20181-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinz-Dietrich Löwe in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Löwe on uni-heidelberg.de