Michael Garleff

Michael Garleff (born April 2, 1940 in Kiel ) is a German historian who is best known for his work on Baltic history .

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Michael Garleff studied history and German at the Universities of Hanover , Marburg and Kiel and passed the state examinations for a higher teaching degree . He then worked as a high school teacher in Preetz .

Later, he was an assistant at the History Department of the University of Kiel and was in 1969 Georg von Rauch with a thesis on parliamentary activities of the German-Baltic parties doctorate . In 1998 he qualified as a professor for modern history at the University of Oldenburg and in 2002 was given the right to use the title of “Extraordinary Professor ”.

From 1989 he worked at the Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe , from 1997 to 2004 he was its director. In 2004 he was adopted into retirement.

Michael Garleff was a board member of the Baltic Historical Commission from 1979 to 2000 . In 1996 he became a managing board member of the Johann Gottfried Herder Research Council and in 1999 a member of the scientific advisory board of the Herder Institute in Marburg . He was deputy chairman of the Carl-Schirren-Gesellschaft Lüneburg and has been a member of the board again since 2004.

The parliamentary activities of the German-Baltic parties in Estonia and Latvia between 1919 and 1939. Dissertation. University of Kiel 1969.
Published under the title German Baltic Politics between the World Wars. The parliamentary activities of the Baltic German parties in Latvia and Estonia. Scientific archive, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1976.
Between distance and adaptation. Baltic German authors in the Third Reich. Lecture at the conference “The Baltic States. Literature, History, Politics "of the Hessian State Center for Political Education in Frankfurt am Main, March 12, 2008 ( online , PDF; 476 kB)
The Baltic countries. Pustet, Regensburg 2001, ISBN 3-7917-1770-7 .
Bulgarian: Pribaltijskite strani. Riva, Sofia 2010, ISBN 978-954-320-332-1 .

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Baltic Germans, Weimar Republic and Third Reich. 2 volumes. Böhlau, Cologne. Volume 1: 2001, ISBN 3-412-12199-1 . Volume 2: 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-12299-7 .
Georg von Rauch : writings from the estate. University of Tartu, Tartu 1994, ISBN 9985-56-062-0 .
Between confrontation and compromise. Oldenburg Symposium “Interethnic Relations in East Central Europe as a Historiographical Problem of the 1930s / 1940s”. Oldenbourg, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-486-56047-6 .
From the spirit of autonomy. Essays on Baltic history. For Gert von Pistohlkors' 60th birthday . Mare Balticum, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-929081-17-2 .
with Norbert Angermann , Wilhelm Lenz: Baltic provinces. Baltic States and the National. Festschrift for Gert von Pistohlkors on his 70th birthday. LIT, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8258-9086-4 .
Literary relations between Baltic Germans, Estonians and Latvians. Carl-Schirren-Gesellschaft, Lüneburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-923149-39-1 .
Carl Schirren as a scholar in the field of tension between science and political journalism. Carl-Schirren-Gesellschaft, Lüneburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-923149-65-0 .

Gert von Pistohlkors , Matthias Weber (Ed.): State unity and national diversity in the Baltic States. Festschrift for Michael Garleff on his 65th birthday. Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-486-57819-7 ( introduction with biographical information on Michael Garleff, pp. 9-12).

↑ Personnel from the university on presse.uni-oldenburg.de, May 10, 2002
^ Adoption by the director of the Federal Institute on presse.uni-oldenburg.de, April 27, 2004