Rolf Steininger

Rolf Steininger (born August 2, 1942 in Plettenberg ) is a German - Austrian historian and emeritus professor for contemporary history at the University of Innsbruck .

Life

Steininger was born in Plettenberg, Westphalia, and graduated from the Jung-Stilling-Gymnasium in Hilchenbach in 1962 . He then studied English and history in Marburg , Göttingen , Munich , Lancaster and Cardiff . He received his doctorate in 1971 under Wilhelm Treue at the Technical University of Hanover with a thesis on the history of the shortwave service of the public broadcasters in the Federal Republic of Germany. phil., in 1976 the habilitation for modern and recent history including Anglo-American history followed at the University of Hanover . From 1980 he taught as a professor at the University of Hanover, in 1983 he was appointed to the University of Innsbruck .

Steininger has been a Jean Monnet Professor since 1995 . He is a Senior Fellow of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans and serves on the board of the European Community Studies Association . He taught as a visiting professor at the Universities of Tel Aviv , Queensland , New Orleans and Bolzano , and was also a visiting scholar in Saigon, Hanoi and Cape Town. He is also an Advisory Board Member for H-German .

From 1984 to 2010 he headed the Institute for Contemporary History at the Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck . Steininger mainly deals with German post-war history as well as the history of South Tyrol and Austria . Rolf Steininger has produced numerous documentaries, some of which have been awarded prizes.

Positions

In a post published in 1985, Steininger criticized A Chance for Reunification? the politics of Konrad Adenauer . He took the view that Germany should not have been divided and answered the question in the negative as to whether Adenauer's political course was the right one. In his opinion, the rejection of the Stalin note in 1952 was a mistake, as he assumed that Stalin's offer was meant seriously and that the offer should have been explored. Other historians, including Gerhard Wettig and Peter Ruggenthaler, disagreed with these theses because they viewed Stalin's offer as a foreign policy bluff .

Fonts

German history 1945–1961. Presentation and documents in two volumes. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt 1983, ISBN 3-596-24315-7 (Volume 1), ISBN 3-596-24316-5 (Volume 2); expanded new edition under the title German History since 1945. Volume 1 (1945–1947). 1996, ISBN 3-596-12841-2 ; Volume 2 (1948-1955). 1996, ISBN 3-596-12842-0 ; Volume 3 ( 1955-1974). 2002, ISBN 3-596-15582-7 ; Volume 4 (1974 to the present). 2002, ISBN 3-596-15583-5 .
A lost opportunity. The Stalin Note of March 10, 1952 and the reunification. A study based on unpublished British and American files. Dietz, Berlin / Bonn 1985, ISBN 3-8012-0112-0 .
A chance for reunification? The Stalin Note of March 10, 1952. Presentation and documentation based on unpublished British and American files. Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn 1985, ISBN 3-87831-416-7 .
Los from Rome? The South Tyrol question 1945/1946 and the Gruber-Degasperi Agreement. Haymon, Innsbruck 1987, ISBN 3-85218-030-9 ; again under the heading of autonomy or self-determination? StudienVerlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2006, ISBN 3-7065-4332-X .
A new country on the Rhine and Ruhr. The Ruhr question in 1945/46 and the emergence of North Rhine-Westphalia. Kohlhammer, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-17-011113-2 .
South Tyrol 1918–1999. StudienVerlag, Innsbruck / Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7065-1348-X .
The construction of the wall. The western powers and Adenauer in the Berlin crisis 1958–1963. Olzog, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-7892-8052-6 .
June 17, 1953. The beginning of the long end of the GDR. Olzog, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7892-8113-1 .
The Middle East Conflict. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 3-596-16121-5 .
The Vietnam War. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3-596-16129-0 .
The State Treaty. Austria in the shadow of the German question and the cold war 1938–1955. StudienVerlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2005, ISBN 3-7065-4017-7 .
The Cold War. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt 2006, ISBN 3-596-15551-7 .
The forgotten war. Korea 1950-1953. Olzog, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7892-8175-1 .
The South Tyrol question. An illustrated book. StudienVerlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2009, ISBN 978-3-7065-4624-9 .
- Starting point of the arms race , review by Marcus Heumann on Deutschlandradio , July 24, 2006
The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Thirteen days on the atomic abyss. Olzog, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7892-8275-1 .
Germany and the USA. From the Second World War to the present . Lau-Verlag, Reinbek / Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-95768-002-0 .
- Review by Detlef Junker : Germany and the USA: Many facts from the files…. , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 10, 2014
Germany and the Middle East. From Kaiser Wilhelm's trip to the Orient in 1898 to the present . Lau-Verlag, Reinbek / Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-95768-161-4 .
The Great War 1914–1918 in 92 chapters. Lau-Verlag, Reinbek 2016, ISBN 978-3-95768-177-5 .
The USA and Europe after 1945 in 38 chapters . Lau-Verlag, Reinbek 2017, ISBN 978-3-95768-187-4 .
June 17, 1953: The suppressed popular uprising. Its pre- and post-history . Lau-Verlag, Reinbek 2018, ISBN 978-3-95768-196-6 .
Toni Ebner 1918–1981. South Tyrolean politician, journalist, entrepreneur. Athesia, Bozen 2018. ISBN 978-88-6839-417-2 .
(with Brigitte Mazohl and Alexander Piff): History of South Tyrol. CH Beck, Munich 2020. ISBN 978-3-406-73412-0 .

as editor

2012ff .: files on South Tyrol policy 1959–1969 :
- Annual volume 1965/66. StudienVerlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen, ISBN 978-3-7065-4271-5 .
- Annual volume 1967. StudienVerlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen, ISBN 978-3-7065-4272-2 .
- Annual volume 1968/69. StudienVerlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen, ISBN 978-3-7065-4273-9 .

Awards

2005: Cross of Merit of the State of Tyrol
2010: Tyrolean State Prize for Science

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Gerhard Wettig: Review of Peter Ruggenthaler: Stalin's great bluff. The history of the Stalin Note in documents of the Soviet leadership. Munich 2007. In: H-Soz-u-Kult, January 7th, 2008. Peter Ruggenthaler (Ed.): Stalin's great bluff. The history of the Stalin Note in documents of the Soviet leadership (= series of the quarterly books for contemporary history; Volume 95). Oldenbourg, Munich, 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58398-4 .

↑ "The central chapters of the book prepare [...] only those interested parties who are not disturbed by the fact that the author's text mainly consists of direct quotations and paraphrases of the file content in indirect speech. The files are anything but boring texts, but the author lacks independent conceptual power. An overall interpretation supported by leitmotifs that goes beyond the analysis of the respective decision-making situations is not recognizable. "

↑ Bureaucratic monster piece. In: FAZ . July 22, 2013, p. 8.

^ Tyrolean State Prize for Science - Prize Winners 1984 to 2014 ( Memento from October 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved October 14, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Steininger, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 2, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Plettenberg

[1] Gerhard Wettig: Review of Peter Ruggenthaler: Stalin's great bluff. The history of the Stalin Note in documents of the Soviet leadership. Munich 2007. In: H-Soz-u-Kult, January 7th, 2008. Peter Ruggenthaler (Ed.): Stalin's great bluff. The history of the Stalin Note in documents of the Soviet leadership (= series of the quarterly books for contemporary history; Volume 95). Oldenbourg, Munich, 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58398-4 .

[2] "The central chapters of the book prepare [...] only those interested parties who are not disturbed by the fact that the author's text mainly consists of direct quotations and paraphrases of the file content in indirect speech. The files are anything but boring texts, but the author lacks independent conceptual power. An overall interpretation supported by leitmotifs that goes beyond the analysis of the respective decision-making situations is not recognizable. "

[3] Bureaucratic monster piece. In: FAZ . July 22, 2013, p. 8.

[4] Tyrolean State Prize for Science - Prize Winners 1984 to 2014 ( Memento from October 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved October 14, 2015.