Victor Dönninghaus

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Victor Dönninghaus (* 1964 ) is a German historian .

Life

Victor Dönninghaus received his doctorate in 1993 from the State University of Dnepropetrovsk ( Ukraine ) on the subject of nationality politics in the Crimea from 1921–1925 . From 1996 to 2002 Dönninghaus was a research assistant and research assistant at the Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . During the summer semesters 1999 and 2001 he was a visiting lecturer at the Institute for International Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic). In the summer semester of 2002 he worked as a research assistant at the chair for Eastern European History at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

During the years 2002–2005 Dönninghaus held an Immanuel Kant habilitation grant from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media. In 2006 he completed his habilitation at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg on the subject of “Instruments and methods of Stalinist nationality politics: the Moscow central bodies and the diaspora minorities (1917–1938)”. In the same year he began working as a research assistant in the Department of History and Sociology at the University of Konstanz and as a private lecturer in Eastern European history at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. Dönninghaus spent the summer semester 2007 as a visiting scholar at the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California , Berkeley (USA). From 2007 to 2009 he worked as a research assistant at the MdB, Minister of State in the Foreign Office Gernot Erler , and from 2008 to 2009 as a research assistant at the Chair of Eastern European History at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. In November 2009 he was appointed adjunct professor at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. From October 2009 to March 2013 Dönninghaus was initially acting director and then deputy director of the German Historical Institute in Moscow . In January 2013, the Saratov State Polytechnic University awarded him an honorary doctorate. Since April 2013 he has been a research assistant at the Nordost-Institut (Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Northeastern Europe / IKGN e.V.) in Lüneburg and since April 2014 deputy director of the IKGN e.V. V.

Research priorities

History of Russia and the Soviet Union (especially 19th and 20th centuries), nationality politics, history of conflict and violence, history of Ukraine and Crimea, Germans in Russia and the Soviet Union, personality in history - party leader Leonid Brezhnev .

Memberships, advisory boards

  • Member of the editorial board of the journal of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Rossijskaja istorija / Russian History"
  • Member of the scientific advisory board of the journal "Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski / Eastern Europe Review" (Poland)
  • Co-editor of the series "Sources and representations on the personal history of Eastern Europe"
  • Member of the editorial board of the series "Voprosy germanskoj istorii" (Ukraine)
  • Vestnik Novosibirskogo universiteta. Serija: "Istorija, filologija" [Information from the University of Novosibirsk. Series: History, Philology] (Novosibirsk, Russia)
  • Izvestija Saratovskogo universiteta. Novaja serija: istorija; meždunarodnye otnošenija (Saratov, Russia) [News from Saratov University. New series: history; International Relations]
  • Vestnik Omskogo universiteta. Serija: "Istoričeskie nauki" (Omsk, Russia) [The messenger of the Omsk University. Series: History]
  • Foreign member of the Expert Council for History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Russian Foundation for Humanities Research (RGNF)
  • Yearbooks of the Politechnical University Saratov (Russia) "Osvoboditel'noe dviženie v Rossii" [The Liberation Movement in Russia]
  • International Association of Researchers of Russian-German History and Culture

Writings and essays (selection)

  • The Brezhnev Era Through the General Secretary's Eyes: Leonid Il'ich's “Diaries” or Work Notes as a Historical Source . In: Russian Studies in History (Armonk, NY) 52 (Spring 2014), No. 4, pp. 12-18. [In collaboration with Andrej Savin]
  • "Don't Be Seen Repealing the Decree on the Jews - Just Don't Enforce It": LI Brezhnev, Détente, and Jewish Emigration from the USSR . In: Russian Studies in History (Armonk, NY) 52 (Spring 2014), No. 4, pp. 19–44. [In collaboration with Andrej Savin]
  • Leonid Il'ich as Giver and Receiver: the Light Cast on the General Secretary's Personality by Offerings and Tributes . In: Russian Studies in History (Armonk, NY) 52 (Spring 2014), No. 4, pp. 45–70. [In collaboration with Andrej Savin]
  • Leonid Brezhnev: Public Display Versus the Sacrality of Power . In: Russian Studies in History (Armonk, NY) 52 (Spring 2014), No. 4, pp. 71–93. [In collaboration with Andrej Savin]
  • Leonid Brezhnev - Fame and Decay in the Focus of the Public , in: Berliner Debatte Initial 25 (2014), No. 4, pp. 114–125. [In collaboration with Andrej Savin]
  • V teni "Bol'šogo brata". Zapadnye nacional'nye men'šinstva v SSSR (1917–1938 gg) . [In the shadow of "Big Brother". The national minorities of the West in the Soviet Union (1917–1938)], Moskva 2011 (= Istorija stalinizma )
  • Minorities in distress. The Soviet policy towards Germans, Poles and other diaspora nationalities 1917–1938 . Munich 2009 (= publications of the Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe . Volume 35)
  • Revolution, reform and war. The Germans on the Volga in the outgoing Tsarist Empire . Essen 2002 (= publications on culture and history in Eastern Europe . Volume 23)
  • Published in Russian translation as: Revoljucija, reforma i vojna. Nemcy Povolž'ja v period zakata Rossijskoj imperii . Saratov 2008. 2nd revised edition. Moscow 2015. 327 pp.
  • The Germans in Moscow society. Symbiosis and Conflicts (1494–1941) . Munich 2002 (= writings of the Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe . Volume 18). Published in Russian translation as: Nemcy v obščestvennoj žizni Moskvy. Simbioz i conflict (1494–1941) . Moskva 2004

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personal data
SURNAME Dönninghaus, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1964