Werner Müller (historian)

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Werner Müller (born October 16, 1946 in Gladbeck ) is a German historian and professor a. D. at the University of Rostock .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1966, he studied political science , contemporary history , public law and philosophy at the University of Bonn from 1966–76 . In 1976 he received his doctorate from Karl Dietrich Bracher . From 1977 to 1991 he was a research project member, professorial assistant, university assistant and professor at the University of Mannheim . 1986 followed the habilitation . 1992–95 he represented chairs or had teaching assignments at the universities of Halle-Wittenberg, Bielefeld, Essen and Rostock. After being appointed associate professor in 1993, Univ. Mannheim, he became professor (C3) for the history of modern times / contemporary history in 1995 with a focus on the time after 1945 in Rostock. In 2012 he retired.

The focus is on the history of the workers' and trade union movements and the history of the GDR. Müller is a student of Hermann Weber .

Works (selection)

  • Wage war, mass strike, Soviet power. Aims and limits of the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO) in Germany, 1928 to 1933. Foreword Hermann Weber . Bund, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-7663-3063-2 (also: Mannheim, Univ., Diss., 1986)
  • The DDR. Lines of development and structures of a lost state. In: Peter March (coordination): The second all-German democracy. Questions and foundations. Events and lines of development; Assessments and perspectives (= questions and foundations 1, ZDB -ID 2093957-7 = Bavarian State Center for Political Education. Series D: put up for discussion 59). Bavarian State Center for Political Education, Munich 2001, pp. 77–103
  • The history of the SPD in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. Dietz, Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-8012-0329-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Müller: The KPD and the "unity of the working class" . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1979.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Gladbeck