Manfred Alexander

Manfred Alexander

Manfred Alexander (born October 10, 1939 in Paderborn ) is a German historian .

Life and research

After studying history, German, comparative linguistics and philosophy, Manfred Alexander received his doctorate in 1968 with a thesis on the German-Czechoslovak arbitration agreement within the framework of the Locarno agreements at the University of Cologne . From 1967 to 1971 he was employed at the Ostkolleg of the Federal Agency for Civic Education in Cologne. Between 1971 and 1976 he worked as a research assistant at the Department of Eastern European History at the University of Cologne. In 1976 he completed his habilitation in Cologne. From 1983 to 2005 he was Professor of Eastern European History at the University of Cologne. His main research interests include the history of Russia, Poland, the Bohemian countries and Czechoslovakia. He is the German chairman of the German-Czech textbook commission .

Monographs

• The German-Czechoslovak arbitration treaty of 1925 within the framework of the Locarno treaties ( ISSN  0530-9794 ). R. Oldenbourg, Munich / Vienna 1970 (=  publications of the Collegium Carolinum. Volume 24, also dissertation at the University of Cologne 1968).
• The Petraševsky Trial. A "conspiracy of ideas" and their persecution in Russia by Nikolaus I. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1979, ISBN 3-515-02797-1 (=  sources and studies on the history of Eastern Europe. Volume 12, also habilitation thesis at the University of Cologne 1976) .
• Small history of Poland. Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010522-6 (updated and expanded edition. (=  Reclams Universal-Bibliothek 17060). Ibid 2008, ISBN 978-3-15-017060-1 ).
• Small history of the Bohemian lands , Reclam 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-010655-6 .
• with Günther Stökl : Russian history. From the beginnings to the present (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 244). 7th, completely revised and updated edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-520-24407-9 .

Editorships

• German legation reports from Prague. Domestic Policy and Minority Problems in the First Czechoslovak Republic. Volume 1: From the founding of the state to the first Beneš cabinet 1918–1921. Reports of the Consul General von Gebsattel, the Consul König and the envoy Professor Saenger (=  publications of the Collegium Carolinum. Vol. 49, 1). Oldenbourg, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-486-51571-3 .
• German legation reports from Prague. Domestic Policy and Minority Problems in the First Czechoslovak Republic. Volume 2: From the Beneš cabinet to the first supranational government under Švehla 1921–1926. Reports from the envoy Dr. Walter Koch (=  publications of the Collegium Carolinum. Vol. 49, 2). Oldenbourg, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-486-55922-2 .
• Sources on German-Czech relations from 1848 to the present day (=  sources on Germany's relations with its neighbors in the 19th and 20th centuries. Vol. 12). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-13885-6 .
• German legation reports from Prague. Domestic Policy and Minority Problems in the First Czechoslovak Republic. Volume 3: From the government under Švehla to the eve of the National Socialist seizure of power in Germany 1926–1932. Reports from the envoy Dr. Walter Koch (=  publications of the Collegium Carolinum. Vol. 49, 3). Oldenbourg, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-55923-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Alexander in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by and about Manfred Alexander at Litdok East Central Europe / Herder Institute (Marburg)
• Information on the website of the University of Cologne