Klaus Popa

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Klaus Popa (born November 10, 1951 in Brașov , Romania ) is a German historian . The focus of his research and publications is on the history of the Germans in Romania , especially that of the Transylvanian Saxons .

Life

Popa's mother came from the family of the soap manufacturers Eitel in what was then Kronstadt (now Brașov ); his father was a family of large farmers and officials from Mühlbach (today Sebeş ). He studied German and English in Cluj-Napoca and worked as a teacher in and around Brașov until he left for Germany in 1990.

In his work as a historian, Popa deals with the medieval history of Transylvania , the history of the Germans in Romania from 1919 to 1945 and the influence of National Socialism on the "German ethnic group in Romania" before and during the Second World War . Popa published numerous articles, including in the Karpaten-Rundschau (as a supplement to the Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung für Romania ), in the Siebenbürgische Zeitung , the magazine for Transylvanian cultural studies and in the half-yearly publication for Southeast European history, literature and politics .

Popa currently lives in Bestwig in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Publications (selection)

  • Insights into the history of southern Transylvania and the non-Carpathian region. Aldus, 2000, ISBN 9739314619 , 326S.
  • The Romanian Germans between democracy and dictatorship. The political estate of Hans Otto Roth 1919-1951. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, New York, 2003, ISBN 978-3-631-50978-4 , 821S.
  • Files on the German ethnic group in Romania 1937 - 1945: a selection. ( Romanian "Documente privind Grupul Etnic German din România. 1937-1945. O selecție." ) Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-631-54441-3 .
  • From Nazi nationality to functionary for expellees. The founding members of the Südostdeutschen Kulturwerk München and the country teams of Germans from Romania, Hungary and Yugoslavia. With Johann Böhm , Peter Lang Edition, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-631-65240-4 , 358S.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Files on the German ethnic group in Romania 1937-1945. A selection.
  2. ↑ Critical Edition , Klaus Popa: "Self-evident" and "Uniqueness" of National Socialist Philosophy and Science? - About Volker Böhnigk's volume Kulturanthropologie als Rassenlehre , 2/2004
  3. ^ Klaus Popa; Contributions to Transylvanian history since 1986
  4. ↑ H-Soz-u-Kult , Klaus Popa: Better to open the door once too much than once too little. 2001
personal data
SURNAME Popa, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Brașov , Romania