Winfried Baumgart

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Winfried Baumgart (born September 29, 1938 in Linienbach , Silesia ) is a German historian .

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Baumgart was born in 1938 as the son of a Silesian railway official. At the end of the war , the six-year-old fled west with his two brothers. He found his new home in the Oldenburger Land , in today's Lower Saxony .

Baumgart studied history and English in Saarbrücken from 1958 to 1963, as well as studying abroad in Edinburgh and Geneva . In 1965 he was at Konrad Repgen at the Faculty with the thesis The German Ostpolitik in the summer of 1918. Between Brest-Litovsk and Compiègne to Dr. phil. PhD. He also completed interpreting studies (English, French and Russian) and received a diploma.

From 1966 to 1970 Baumgart was an assistant at the University of Saarland and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1971 he completed his habilitation at the philosophy faculty there with the thesis The Peace of Paris 1856. Studies on the relationship between warfare, politics and the preservation of peace . In 1971 he became an adjunct professor for modern and contemporary history.

From 1973, Baumgart worked as the successor to Eberhard Kessel as a full professor for Medieval and Modern History at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . He was also visiting Konrad Adenauer Professor at Georgetown University (1977/78) and visiting professor at the University of Paris III (1988/89), the University of Glasgow (1990/91) and the University of Riga (1993). He has been retired since 2003 . His academic students include Frank Buchwald , Wolfgang Elz , Ralph Erbar , Gerhard P. Groß , Johannes Hürter and Sönke Neitzel .

Baumgart published numerous works as an author and editor, including files on the history of the Crimean War (multi-volume, 1979 ff.), Germany in the Age of Imperialism (5th edition, 1986) and the book directory on German history (17th edition, 2010). He is also the editor of the literature on German history in modern times (in several volumes, 1982 ff.) And the Freiherr vom Stein memorial edition (1996 ff.).

Baumgart is married and has two children.

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Monographs

Editorships

  • From Brest-Litovsk to the German November Revolution. From the diaries, letters and notes of Alfons Paquet, Wilhelm Groener and Albert Hopman March – Nov. 1918 (= German historical sources of the 19th and 20th centuries . Volume 47). With a foreword by Hans Herzfeld . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1971, ISBN 3-525-35816-4 .
  • Files on the history of the Crimean War . Oldenbourg, Munich 1979 ff.
  • (with Wolfgang Elz :) Konrad Fuchs. Selected essays on social and economic history. For the 65th birthday . Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-631-44818-X .
  • Source studies on German history in modern times from 1500 to the present . 3. Edition. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2018, ISBN 978-3-506-78914-3 .
  • Emperor Friedrich III. Diaries 1866–1888 . Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-77384-5 .
  • King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. And Wilhelm I. Correspondence 1840–1858 . Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-506-77597-9 .
  • General Albrecht von Stosch. Political correspondence 1871–1896 (= German historical sources of the 19th and 20th centuries . Volume 70). Oldenbourg, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-034612-1 .
  • Herbert Count von Bismarck. Memoirs and Notes 1871–1895. Schöningh, Paderborn 2015; ISBN 978-3-506-78263-2 .
  • Ambassador Rudolf Nadolny. Russia connoisseur or Russia understanding? Notes, correspondence, speeches 1917–1953 . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-506-78663-0 .
  • A Prussian envoy in Munich. Georg Freiherr von Werthern. Diary and political correspondence with Bismarck 1867–1888. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-428-15444-9 .
  • Friedrich Freiherr Kreß von Kressenstein. Bavarian general and expert on the Orient. Memoirs, diaries and reports 1914-1946 , Paderborn (Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh) 2020. ISBN 978-3-506-70344-6 . ISBN 3-506-70344-7

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Elz , Sönke Neitzel : Foreword. Winfried Baumgart on his 65th birthday . In the S. (Ed.): International Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Festschrift for Winfried Baumgart on his 65th birthday . Paderborn 2003, pp. XI ff.
  2. ↑ Winfried Baumgart: Deutsche Ostpolitik 1918. From Brest-Litowsk to the end of the First World War . Vienna 1966, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Baumgart, Winfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Linienbach , Silesia