Oliver Bange

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Oliver Bange at the Liberalism Colloquium of the Archives of Liberalism, Jena 2018

Oliver Bange (born March 30, 1964 in Gummersbach ) is a German historian , social scientist and publicist. He is a private lecturer at the University of Mannheim with the Venia Legendi for all of New History.

Life

Bange began in 1983 with a degree in political science , the economic history and the Middle and Modern History at the RWTH Aachen University and the London School of Economics (LSE), where he graduated 1989th Between 1987 and 1989 he was a. a. employed as a volunteer at the Press and Information Office of the European Communities in London and the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf. Bange then completed his four-year postgraduate degree in Modern History with Alan Sked at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1995 with a Ph.D. from. He received his doctorate in 1997 from John Barnes (London School of Economics) and John Young ( University of Leicester ) with the dissertation The European and Atlantic Crisis of 1963 .

The following year he took up a position as a lecturer at Nomos Verlag in Baden-Baden , which he held until 1997. From 1998 to 2002 he worked as a researcher and editor at the media analysis company Media Tenor , at the Institute for Media Content Analysis in Leipzig and as editor of the magazine Media Monitor International . In 2002 Oliver Bange accepted a position as a research assistant in Gottfried Niedhart's " Ostpolitik und Détente" project at the University of Mannheim's Department of History , which he held until 2005. In the meantime , he completed his habilitation in 2004 with a thesis Ostpolitik und Détente - Die Beginnings 1966–1969 as a private lecturer at the University of Mannheim. As part of his teaching activities, Bange still offers events there, most recently in the fall semester of 2014 a main seminar on the division of Germany and the inner-German border and in the spring semester of 2015 on "Secret Places - Russians and Soviets in Potsdam".

From 2005 to 2008 Bange was the coordinator of the international research project " CSCE and the Transformation of Europe". In the following year he took up his work as a historian in the research area "Military History of the GDR " of the Military History Research Office (MGFA), which he carried out until 2018. He currently works in the Federal Ministry of Defense .

He researches the history of the Cold War and has published in u. a. Archive for Social History , Military History Journal , International Journal and Journal of European Integration History . Bange lives with his family in Potsdam .

reception

Horst Teltschik , the closest foreign policy advisor to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, publicly celebrated the volume in Potsdam in spring 2014 as "an important documentary that you want as many readers as possible". The political scientist Werner Link reviewed the published volume Paths to Reunification at FAZ.NET . The two German states in their alliances from 1970 to 1990 : “The voluminous book summarizes the research results of individual scientists who have worked with different methods and concepts. The central terms - such as East-West conflict, Cold War and Détente - also differ. In one point, however, there is largely a common terminology, namely in the view that the détente is to be understood as “antagonistic cooperation”. ”He also summed up:“ After reading the volume, one will want to further discuss the question of which short formula is appropriate : Change through rapprochement or rapprochement (and then reunification) through change. "

In 2014, the historian Hermann Wentker wrote in the online review journal Sehepunkte : “Despite the methodically appealing approach of looking at German-German history in the last two decades of the systemic conflict primarily from a security policy perspective, the overall result is only partially convincing. This is due on the one hand to the poor quality of a number of contributions and on the other hand to the fact that the contributors in the individual chapters obviously did not always follow the editors' specifications. "

Bange also received a lot of international praise for his contributions to the history of the nuclear and secret services. Winfried Heinemann judged in the military history journal that no article in the anthology "Indignant You!", Which was designed as a standard work on the NATO double resolution, deserves as much attention as von Bange's on the interplay of technological developments, images of war and threat perceptions. Armin Grünbacher described Bange's analysis in the renowned English Historical Review as the “outstanding chapter” of this anthology. In 2014 , Rolf-Dieter Müller made a similarly positive statement in the FAZ about Banges in a volume published by Stanford University Press on the “comprehensive” description of the struggle of the GDR state security against the effects of the international detente of the 1970s.

According to Mark Kramer , editor of the Journal of Cold War Studies and program director of the Projects on Cold War Studies at Harvard University , Bange is one of the "most renowned historians" in the field of détente during the Cold War.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs / editorships

  • The EEC Crisis of 1963 - Kennedy, Macmillan, de Gaulle and Adenauer in Conflict (= Issues of Contemporary History ), with a foreword by Peter Catterall, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 1999, ISBN 0-312-22018-9 .
  • ed. with Gottfried Niedhart : Helsinki 1975 and the Transformation of Europe. Berghahn Books, Oxford / New York 2008, ISBN 978-1-84545-491-3 .
  • ed. with Bernd Lemke : Ways to reunification: The two German states in their alliances 1970 to 1990 (= contributions to military history , Volume 75), on behalf of the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978- 3-486-71719-8 .
  • Security and the State - The GDR's Alliance and Military Policy in an International Context 1969 to 1990 (= Military History of the GDR . Volume 25). Edited by the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr, Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86153-934-6 .
  • ed. with Poul Villaume : The Long Détente: Changing Concepts of Security and Cooperation in Europe, 1950s – 1980s. Central European University Press, Budapest 2017, ISBN 978-963-386-127-1 .

Contributions to edited volumes and articles in specialist journals

  • British, American and German Interests behind the Preamble to the Franco-German Treaty from January 1963. In: Gustav Schmidt (Hrsg.): Between securing an alliance and privileged partnership. The German-British Relations and the United States of America, 1955–1963 (= publication of the German England Research Working Group. Volume 33). Brockmeyer University Press, Bochum 1995, ISBN 3-8196-0397-2 , pp. 225-280.
  • Grand Designs and the breakdown of the negotiations for British membership in the EEC in January 1963. In: George Wilkes (Ed.): Britain's Failure to enter the European Community, 1961–1963: The Enlargement Negotiations and Crises in European, Atlantic, and Commonwealth Relations. Frank Cass Press, London 1997, ISBN 0-7146-4221-5 , pp. 191-212.
  • Germany and the British Accession Question. In: Rudolf Hrbek , Volker Schwarz (ed.): 40 years of the Roman Treaties. The German contribution. Documentation of the conference on the occasion of the 90th birthday of Dr. hc Hans von der Groeben. Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 1998, ISBN 3-7890-5435-6 , pp. 278-290.
  • Karlsprize, Crisis and Concurrence - Edward Heath and Britain's European Policy in 1963. In: Guido Müller (Ed.): Germany and the West: International Relations in the 20th Century. Festschrift for Klaus Schwabe on his 65th birthday (= historical messages. Supplement 29). Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07251-9 , pp. 298-306.
  • Kiesinger's East and Germany Policy from 1966–1969. In: Günter Buch , Philipp Gassert , Peter Lang (Eds.): Kurt Georg Kiesinger. 1904–1988: From Ebingen to the Chancellery. (on behalf of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation ). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2005, ISBN 3-451-23006-2 .
  • Self-Induced "Americanization" - the Role of Journalists in the Collapse of Democratic Confidence. In: William Uricchio, Susanne Kinnebrock (eds.): Media Cultures (= publications of the Bavarian America Academy. Volume 5). Winter, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-8253-1645-9 , pp. 23–34.
  • The USA and the Opposition Movements in Eastern Europe 1961–1990. In: Hans-Joachim Veen , Ulrich Mählert , Peter March (eds.): Interactions East-West: Dissidence, Opposition and Civil Society 1975–1989 (= European dictatorships and their overcoming. Volume 12). Böhlau, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-23306-8 , pp. 79-95.
  • NATO and the Non-Proliferation Treaty: Triangulations between Bonn, Washington, and Moscow. In: Andreas Wenger , Christian Nuenlist, Anna Locher (Eds.): Transforming NATO in the Cold War - Challenges beyond deterrence in the 1960's. Routledge, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-415-39737-7 , pp. 162-180.
  • The CSSR crisis of 1968 - The “Special Role” of the New Ostpolitik against the background of Western transformation strategies. In: Bernd Greiner , Christian Th. Müller, Dierk Walter (eds.): Crises in the Cold War (= studies on the Cold War. Volume 2). Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-936096-95-8 , pp. 411-445.
  • Ostpolitik as a source of intra-bloc tensions. In: Mary Ann Heiss, S. Victor Papacosma (Ed.): NATO and the Warsaw Pact - Intrabloc Conflicts. Kent State University Press, Kent 2008, ISBN 978-0-87338-936-5 , pp. 106-121.
  • “Keeping Détente Alive” - Inner-German Relations under Helmut Schmidt and Erich Honecker, 1974–1982. In: Leopoldo Nuti (ed.): The Crisis of Détente in Europe: From Helsinki to Gorbachev 1975–1985. Routledge, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-415-46051-4 , pp. 230-243.
  • The FRG and the GDR and the Belgrade CSCE Conference (1977-78). In: Vladimir Bilandžic, Dittmar Dahlmann , Milan Kosanović (eds.): From Helsinki to Belgrade: The First CSCE Follow-up Meeting and the Crisis of Détente. V&R unipress, Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-89971-938-3 , pp. 311-344.
  • The German Problem and Security in Europe: Hindrance or Catalyst on the Path to 1989–1990 ?. In: Mark Kramer, Vit Smetana (Ed.): Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain - The Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945–1989 (= Harvard Cold War Studies ). Lexington Books, Lanham 2014, ISBN 978-0-7391-8185-0 , pp. 197-210.
  • The Stasi Confronts Western Strategies for Transformation, 1966–1975. In: Jonathan Haslam and Karina Urbach (eds.): Secret Intelligence in the European States System, 1918–1989. Stanford University Press, Stanford (CA) 2014, ISBN 978-0-8047-8359-0 , pp. 170-208.
  • The withdrawal of the Soviet / Russian forces. In: Ministry of Unification [von Südkorea] (ed.): Documentation of the second meeting of the German-Korean consultation committee on unification issues. Seoul 2013, pp. 221–263 and 693–706, and pp. 280 f. and 722 f. (Korean and German).
  • The CSCE Process and the Security Policy Dynamics of the East-West Conflict 1970–1990. In: Bange, Lemke (Ed.): Ways to Reunification - The two German states in their alliances 1970 to 1990. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-71719-8 , pp. 87-104.
  • Německýproblemém a bezpečnost v Evropě - Překážka, nebo katalyzátor na cestě k událostem let 1989/1990 ?. In: Soudobé Dějiny. Volume XIX / 3–4, pp. 457–471, (2012, published 2013).
  • SS-20 and Pershing II - Weapon Systems and the Dynamization of East-West Relations. In: Christoph Becker-Schaum, Philipp Gassert et al. (Ed.): “Indignant Yourself!” - Nuclear Crisis, NATO Double Resolution and Peace Movement. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2012, pp. 71–87.
  • "The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number ...": The FRG and the GDR and the Belgrade CSCE Conference (1977-78). In: Vladimir Bilandžić, Dittmar Dahlmann, Milan Kosanović (eds.): From Helsinki to Belgrade - The First CSCE Follow-up Meeting and the Crisis of Détente. V&R unipress, Bonn 2012, pp. 225-254.
  • "Scenes from a Marriage" - East-West détente and its impact on the Atlantic Community, 1961-1977. In: Giles Scott-Smith, Valérie Aubourg (Eds.): Atlantic, Euratlantic, or Europe-Atlantic? Soleb, Paris 2011, pp. 262-282.
  • (with Tim Geiger) Kościelne inicjatywy pojednania z Polską a polityka wielkich niemieckich partii politycznych w latach 1965–1972. In: Friedhelm Boll et al. (Ed.): Pojednanie i polityka: Polsko-niemieckie inicjatywy pojednania w latach sześćdziesiątych XX wieku a polityka odprężenia. Warsaw 2010, pp. 244-269; in German: The church reconciliation initiatives and the reaction of the German people's parties. In: Friedhelm Boll et al. (Ed.): Reconciliation and Politics - Polish-German reconciliation initiatives of the 1960s and the policy of détente. Bonn 2009, pp. 269-295.
  • Between threat perception and socialist self-image - The GDR State Security and Western Transformation Strategies 1966–1975. In: Torsten Diedrich, Walter Suess (ed.): Military and state security in the security concept of the Warsaw Pact states. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2010, pp. 253–296.
  • Comments on and Contextualization of Polish Documents related to SOYUZ 75 and SHCHIT 88. In: Woodrow-Wilson Center, Washington 2010, CWIHP E-Dossier No. 20, Roundtable Discussion on Warsaw Pact Exercises SOYUZ-75 and SHCHIT-88 ( wilsoncenter.org PDF).
  • The GDR in the Era of Détente - Conflicting Perceptions and Strategies, 1965-1975. In: Poul Villaume, Odd Arne Westad (ed.): Perforating the Iron Curtain - European Détente, Transatlantic Relations, and the Cold War, 1965–1985. Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen 2010, pp. 57–77.
  • "A German finger on the trigger" - the fear of the German nuclear aspirations, the non-proliferation treaty and the dawn of the era of détente. In: Bernd Greiner / Christian Th. Müller / Dierk Walter (eds.): Fear in the Cold War (= studies on the Cold War. Volume 3). Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86854-213-4 , pp. 278-307.
  • Changing Concepts and Understandings of Neutrality in the Cold War: The Neutral and Non-Aligned States (N + N). In: Pascal Lottaz, Herbert R. Reginbogin (Ed.): Notions of Neutralities. Lexington Books, Lanham (MD) 2019, pp. 29-40.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Schmidt University (ed.): Scientific colloquium: Helmut Schmidt and international politics. Hamburg, November 26th and 27th, 2018.
  2. ^ Book presentation and lecture by Prof. Horst Teltschik on May 13, 2014 in Potsdam.
  3. ^ Hermann Wentker : Oliver Bange / Bernd Lemke (eds.): Paths to reunification . In: Sehepunkte . Issue 14, No. 2, 2014 (review).
  4. ↑ Winfried Heinemann : Book review on Christoph Becker-Schaum ( inter alia): Indignant yourselves !: Nuclear crisis, NATO double decision and peace movement. In: Military History Journal . Volume 72, Issue 1, Paderborn 2012, pp. 226-227 ( degruyter.com ).
  5. ↑ Armin Grünbacher: Review of Christoph Becker-Schaum ( inter alia): Indignant yourselves !: Nuclear crisis, NATO double decision and peace movement. In: The English Historical Review. Vol. 129, No. 538, 2014, pp. 779-781 ( oxfordjournals.org ).
  6. ^ Rolf-Dieter Müller: Von Kriechern und Riechern (Jonathan Haslam / Karina Urbach (ed.): Secret Intelligence in the European States System 1918-1989) In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 24, 2014 ( faz.net ).
  7. ^ Mark Kramer: Editor's Note. In: Journal of Cold War Studies. Vol. 18, No. 3, 2016, pp. 1–2, here: p. 2 ( mitpressjournals.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Afraid, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Gummersbach