Karl-Heinz Ruffmann

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Karl-Heinz Ruffmann (born March 7, 1922 in Memel , † December 17, 1996 in Traunstein ) was a German historian.

Life

One of his ancestors was the merchant who came from Pillau and who was friends with Kant in Königsberg, the bar director Wilhelm Ludwig Ruffmann (1737–1794).

Karl-Heinz Ruffmann attended the Luisengymnasium Memel . After graduating from high school, he studied at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Jena from 1939 to 1941 . He was wounded as a soldier and was able to attend the Albertus University in Königsberg in 1944 . When the East Prussian operation broke out in 1945 , he fled to Copenhagen by ship via Hel . After returning from internment, he continued his studies at the Georg August University in Göttingen from 1946 to 1950. With a doctoral thesis with Reinhard Wittram , he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1950/51 he stayed in Hull and London at the expense of the British Council, and until 1954 he received a grant from the German Research Foundation . He worked as a research assistant at the University of Göttingen. After the Ostkolleg of the Federal Center for Homeland Service was founded in Cologne in 1957 , he acted here as a research assistant, study director and member of the board of directors. In the same year he was accepted into the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research . In 1961 he completed his habilitation at the University of Cologne with a topic on Eastern European history. In the winter semester of 1962/63 he was appointed full professor at the newly created chair for Eastern European history at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . At the end of March 1990 he retired.

Fonts (selection)

  • The image of Russia in Shakespeare's England . Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1952 (Göttingen building blocks for historical science, vol. 6) (= dissertation University of Göttingen).
  • (as co-editor): The Soviet Communism. Documents . Two volumes. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1963/1964.
  • Soviet Russia. Structure and development of a world power . Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1967 (dtv world history of the twentieth century, vol. 8) (9th edition 1981).
  • Sports and physical culture in the Soviet Union . Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-423-01578-0 .
  • Questions about Soviet history. From Lenin to Gorbachev . Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-423-10792-8 .

Festschrift

  • Clemens Burrichter (Ed.): "No future without memories!" To come to terms with the past in some European societies of our day [Karl-Heinz Ruffmann on his 70th birthday on March 7, 1992]. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-8046-8780-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Preußenland 35/2 (1997), p. 59. Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hiko-owp.eu
  2. ↑ Karl-Heinz Ruffmann in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  3. ↑ annaberger-annalen.de (PDF; 168 kB)
  4. ↑ gedbas.genealogy.net
  5. ↑ Dissertation: The image of Russia in Shakespeare's England .
  6. ↑ Preußenland 35/2 (1957), pp. 57–59 Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Old Prussian Biography, Vol. 5, 1676 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hiko-owp.eu
personal data
SURNAME Ruffmann, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Memel
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1996
Place of death Traunstein