Walter Grottian

Walter Grottian (born February 15, 1909 in Frankfurt am Main , † December 10, 1968 in Würzburg ) was a German political scientist .

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After attending school, Walter Grottian studied economics and history and received his doctorate in 1938 from the University of Berlin . From 1951 he taught at the German University of Politics in Berlin, where he was deputy head of the foreign policy department. In 1963 he was appointed professor of political science at the University of Würzburg , where he taught until his untimely death.

In addition to agricultural policy, Grottian mainly dealt with the politics of the states in Eastern Europe and East Asia and was an expert on the political system of the Soviet Union .

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• Wood. Wood consumption and production in the world in the post-war period . Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1938 (Changes in the World Economy, Vol. 14) (= Dissertation University of Berlin).
• The volume of sales in the world timber trade 1925–1938 . Center Internat. de Sylviculture, Berlin 1942.
• The crisis in the German and European timber supply . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1948 (German Institute for Economic Research / special issue, vol. 1).
• The Soviet system of government . Westdeutscher Verlag, Cologne 1956 (The Science of Politics, Vol. 2) (2nd edition 1965).
• Theory and Practice of Soviet Foreign Policy under Lenin , Stalin , Khrushchev . Bad Godesberg 1959.
• Lenin's Guide to Action. Theory and Practice of Soviet Foreign Policy . West German publishing house, Cologne 1962.
• (as co-editor): The Soviet Communism. Documents . Two volumes. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1963/1964.

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• Obituary by Ernst Fraenkel. In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift , Vol. 10 (1969), pp. 165f.
• Munzinger Archive (International Biographical Archive, March 17, 1969) ( online ).