Olaf Mertelsmann

Olaf Mertelsmann (born January 15, 1969 ) is a German historian who teaches modern history at the University of Tartu (German: Dorpat ).

Life

Mertelsmann attended the Dietrich Bonhoeffer -Gymnasium in Quickborn near Hamburg from 1979 to 1988 and then studied history, German, Finno-Ugric studies and pedagogy at the University of Hamburg from 1990 to 1995 and graduated with the first state examination for teaching in history and German. He received his PhD in Modern History from the same university. From 1996 to 1998 he was an assistant at the University of Tartu. From 1998 to 2002 he was the first professor at the State Pedagogical University Novosibirsk in Siberia Novosibirsk and later as part of the DAAD -Austauschprogramms lecturer at the Novosibirsk State University . In 2003 he returned to his alma mater as a private lecturer .

Mertelsmann has been working at the University of Tartu since 2003, specializing in Soviet history and modern history.

2002: DAAD scholarship for Novosibirsk.
2004–2006: DFG research grant for Tartu.
2008: Fellowship from the Adam Smith Research Foundation at the University of Glasgow .

The Sovietization of Estonia and its Society , Kovač, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8300-6273-8 .
as editor with Kaarel Piirimäe: The Baltic Sea Region and the Cold War , Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-62310-7 .
as editor: Central and Eastern European Media under Dictatorial Rule and in the Early Cold War , Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-61103-6 .
The Stalinist rebuilding in Estonia. from the market to the command economy . Kovac, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-8300-1463-5 .
The Sovietization of Everyday Life in Estonia during Stalinism . In: Norbert Angermann ao: Baltic provinces, Baltic states and the national . LIT Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8258-9086-4 .
as editor: Estonia and Russia: Aspects of Relations between the Two Countries. Kovac, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-8300-1510-0 .
as editor: Sovietization of the Baltic States, 1940-1956 , Ajalookirjanduse Sihtasutus, Tartu 2003, ISBN 998-593041X .