Othmar Haberl

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Othmar Nikola Haberl (born December 4, 1943 in Sarajevo ; † February 2, 2019 in Essen ) was a German political scientist . He was professor for international relations with special focus on Europe at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Essen.

His research focus was the politics of the Soviet Union and the socialist states of Eastern Europe, especially Yugoslavia .

Career

After attending school in Ustikolina , Trebinje and Sarajevo , Othmar Haberl moved to the Federal Republic of Germany in December 1955. In 1964 he passed the Abitur at the Theodorianum grammar school in Paderborn and began studying at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , which he graduated from the Free University of Berlin in 1969 with a diploma in political science after a stopover at the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg .

In 1974, after working at the Faculty of Political Science and the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Belgrade, he received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin on the subject of party organization and national issues in Yugoslavia . From 1974 he was a research assistant at the University of Essen and in 1978 he became a consultant for the OECD with a research assignment in Yugoslavia.

In 1983 he received his habilitation at the University of Essen for the subject of modern history with a special focus on Eastern Europe , and in the following year he was appointed professor (temporary) for the latest history of Eastern Europe and historical migration research. In 1987 he was appointed university professor (temporary).

In 1989 he accepted a substitute professorship for political science, with special reference to the politics of the Soviet Union and the socialist states of Eastern Europe at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institut of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , which in the same year became a substitute professor for political science, especially foreign and international international politics of Eastern European countries at the University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg followed.

In 1991 he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Essen and in 1992 accepted a substitute professorship for Eastern European history at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .

In October 1992 he was appointed university professor for political science with a focus on international politics, with particular attention to Europe, at the University of Essen. From 1994 to 2000, Othmar Haberl was Dean of Faculty 1 (Philosophy, History, Religious Studies and Social Sciences) at the University of Essen.

From 2000 to 2003 Haberl was chairman of the Senate of the University-GHS Essen, from 2003 to 2008 of the merged University of Duisburg-Essen. He retired in April 2009.

Monographs (selection)

  • The emancipation of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia from the control of the Comintern / CPSU 1941–1945. Munich 1974.
  • Party organization and national question in Yugoslavia. Berlin 1976.
  • The emigration of workers from Yugoslavia. On the problem of their employment abroad and repatriation. Munich 1978.
  • Bibliografija ekonomskih migracija iz Jugoslavije u evropske zemlje. Bibliography of Economic Migrations from Yugoslavia to European Countries, Zagreb 1979.
  • Yugoslavia at the end of the Tito era. Contributions to foreign and domestic policy in the 1970s (ed. Together with K.-D. Grothusen and W. Höpken). Vol. 1. Foreign Policy. Munich / Vienna 1983; Vol. 2. Domestic Policy. Munich / Vienna 1986.
  • The Marshall Plan and the European Left (Ed. Together with Lutz Niethammer ). Frankfurt 1986
  • Soviet Union and Eastern Europe between World War I and Cold War. The situation in the Soviet Union at the end of the war and its policy in Eastern Europe up to the founding of the Cominform. Habilitation thesis. Essen 1983.
  • Unfinished neighborhoods. The states of Eastern Europe and the Federal Republic of Germany (ed. Together with H. Hecker). Essen 1989
  • Political cultures of interpretation. Festschrift for Karl Rohe (Ed. Together with T. Korenke). Baden-Baden 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Professor Othmar Haberl. University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Social Sciences, accessed on February 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Beate Kostka: Obituary Prof. Dr. Othmar Nikola Haberl. University of Duisburg-Essen, February 11, 2019, accessed on February 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Haberl, Othmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haberl, Othmar Nikola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 4, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarajevo
DATE OF DEATH 2nd February 2019
Place of death eat