Eastern Europe Institute (Regensburg)

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The Eastern European Institute (OEI) was a research institution founded in 1952 with an economics and a historical department as well as a special scientific library dedicated to research into Eastern Europe . In the Science Center for East and Southeast Europe Regensburg, it cooperated with the Institute for Eastern Law , the Southeast Institute and the Hungarian Institute .

In 2012, the OEI was merged into the newly founded Institute for East and Southeast European Studies .

tasks

The Eastern Europe Institute researched and provided information about developments in Poland and the states of the former Soviet Union , especially Ukraine . It was supported by a foundation for research into Eastern Europe and funded by the Bavarian State Ministry for Science, Research and Art . It cooperated closely with the universities of Regensburg and Munich through the heads of the work areas .

history

On February 1, 1952, the Eastern European Institute was founded in Munich, following the tradition of the institute of the same name in Breslau. Theodor Oberländer played a significant role in the founding of Munich's Eastern European research after 1945 . The first director Hans Koch accompanied the then Federal Chancellor Adenauer on his trip to Moscow. The institute, which was initially more historically oriented, began to orient itself socio-economically from 1963 under its new director Hans Raupach . A postgraduate course was organized together with other institutions. Since the 1970s, the number of research contracts, which the Federal Ministry of Economics in particular awarded the institute, has grown. With the revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union at the same time , there was a new demand for expert reports on the national economies there. However, this ended with the accession of the East Central European states to the European Union in 2004. Since then, the transformation research conducted at the institute has primarily focused on the countries of Central Asia . In September 2007 the institute moved from Munich to Regensburg based on a resolution of the Bavarian Council of Ministers in 2002 . On January 1, 2012, the newly founded Institute for East and Southeast European Studies took off. The archive of the Eastern European Institute, which is important for the history of German Eastern European research (which, in addition to the service files, also includes documents from the first director Hans Koch and the long-time library director Otto Böss) is accessible for research in the Bavarian Main State Archive in Munich.

Directors

working area

The economics, migration and integration work area focused on technology and foreign trade, labor market and social policy, Central Asia, and migration and integration. Third-party funds could be obtained to finance some projects.

In the history work area , projects were devoted to the history of Ukraine, Germany and its regions, and Eastern Europe and the Russian Middle Ages. In addition, the department was one of the sponsors of the Virtual Specialized Library for Eastern Europe (ViFaOst).

The library continuously evaluated 250 specialist journals for ViFaOst . With almost 180,000 volumes, it was one of the leading libraries in international research on Eastern Europe. It cooperated as the largest partner in the library in the science center.

Publications

The extensive publication activities of the institute included:

Magazines

Rows

  • Publications of the Eastern European Institute: History series (1953 ff., 71 volumes)
  • Publications of the Eastern European Institute: Economy and Society series (1957–2003, 25 volumes)
  • Writings on the intellectual history of Eastern Europe (1967 ff., 29 volumes)
  • Works from the Eastern European Institute (Working papers) (1975 ff., So far 269 issues)
  • Communications (1994, 58 issues)
  • Publications of the Eastern Europe Institute: Series of research on the Baltic Sea region (1995 ff., 9 volumes)
  • Brief analyzes and information / Economics Department (2002 ff., 33 issues)
  • Brief analyzes and information / historical section (2002 ff., 35 issues)

literature

  • Hermann Beyer-Thoma: Overview of the history of the Eastern European Institute Munich. In: The Eastern Europe Institute in the Science Center for Eastern and South Eastern Europe Regensburg. Eastern Europe Institute, Regensburg 2007, pp. 15–21.
  • Annual report 2007. Eastern European Institute, Regensburg. ( Online version (PDF; 598 kB), accessed Nov. 22, 2013)

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