Wolfgang Michalka

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Wolfgang Michalka at the Liberalism Colloquium of the Archives of Liberalism , Jena 2018

Wolfgang Michalka (born August 8, 1943 in Freudenthal , Sudetenland ) is a German contemporary historian . From 1997 to 2006 he was director of the memorial for the freedom movements in German history in Rastatt Castle .

Life

Michalka was born in what was then the Sudetenland. After graduating from high school in 1963, he passed the teaching examination and initially worked as a teacher . From 1970 to 1977 he was a research assistant at the History Department of the University of Mannheim . In 1976 he was at Manfred Schlenke at the Faculty of History and Geography with the dissertation Joachim von Ribbentrop and the German England policy to Dr. phil. PhD. He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Frankfurt am Main . From 1979 to 1986 he was a research assistant or university assistant at the Technical University of Darmstadt . In 1986/87 he went to Italy to study at the University of Florence as a Jean Monnet Fellow .

From 1988 to 1997 Michalka was editor at the Military History Research Office (MGFA) in Freiburg im Breisgau and Potsdam . From 1997 to 2006 he was head of the memorial for the freedom movements in German history (branch office of the Federal Archives ) in Rastatt Castle. In 2001 he became an honorary professor at the Institute for History at the University of Karlsruhe . His research focus is contemporary history, in particular the two world wars and German foreign policy in the 20th century.

He was u. a. Co-editor of the supplements to the journal Neue Politische Literatur in Franz Steiner Verlag .

Fonts (selection)

  • (Ed.): National Socialist Foreign Policy (=  ways of research . Volume 297). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1978, ISBN 3-534-07245-6 .
  • Ribbentrop and German World Politics, 1933–1940. Foreign policy concepts and decision-making processes in the Third Reich (=  publications of the Historical Institute of the University of Mannheim . Volume 5). Fink, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7705-1400-9 .
  • (Ed. With Gottfried Niedhart ): The unloved republic. Documentation on domestic and foreign policy in Weimar 1918–1933 . Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-423-02918-8 . (4th edition 1986; usually new editions: German history 1918–1933. Documents on domestic and foreign policy , Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1992/2002).
  • (Ed. With Marshall M. Lee): Gustav Stresemann (=  ways of research . Volume 539). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1982, ISBN 3-534-07735-0 .
  • The National Socialist seizure of power . Schöningh (UTB), Paderborn [u. a.] 1984, ISBN 3-506-99374-7 .
  • (Ed.): The Third Reich. Documents on domestic and foreign policy . 2 volumes, Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1985.
  • Volume 1: “Volksgemeinschaft” and great power politics, 1933–1939 , ISBN 3-423-02925-0 .
  • Volume 2: Claim to World Power and National Collapse, 1939–1945 , ISBN 3-423-02926-9 .
  • with Marshall M. Lee: German foreign policy, 1917–1933. Continuity or break? Berg, Leamington / Spa [u. a.] 1987, ISBN 0-907582-52-4 .
  • The second World War. Analyzes, basic features, research results . On behalf of the Military History Research Office , Piper, Munich [u. a.] 1989, ISBN 3-492-10811-3 (2nd edition 1990).
  • The First World War. Effect, perception, analysis . On behalf of the Military History Research Office, Piper, Munich [u. a.] 1994, ISBN 3-492-11927-1 .
  • (Ed.): German history 1933–1945: documents on domestic and foreign policy. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-596-15579-7 ; Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2002.
  • (Ed. With Gottfried Niedhart ): German history 1918–1933: documents on domestic and foreign policy. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 978-3-596-15578-1 .
  • Matthias Erzberger. "Reich Minister in Germany's most difficult time". Essays on the exhibition. An exhibition by Günter Randecker and the Federal Archives, memorial for the freedom movements in German history, Rastatt . Commissioned by the Federal Archives , Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2002, ISBN 3-935035-32-2 .
  • (Ed. With Martin Vogt): Jewish emancipation and anti-Semitism in Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. A conference volume (=  library of European freedom movements . Volume 3). Edition Isele, Eggingen 2003, ISBN 3-86142-217-4 .
  • (Ed. With Erardo Cristoforo Rautenberg , Konrad Vanja , with the collaboration of Gerhard Weiduschat): Poland enthusiasm. A contribution to the “German-Polish Year 2005/2006” on the traveling exhibition “Spring in Autumn. From Polish November to German May. The Europe of Nations 1830–1832 ” . Kupfergraben Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89181-075-X .
  • (Arrangement with Martina Jesse): "I gave everything for freedom and progress". Robert Blum (1807-1848). Visionary, democrat, revolutionary. [Book accompanying the Federal Archives exhibition] . Edited by the Federal Archives, Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86650-077-7 .
  • with Christiane Scheidemann: Walther Rathenau . Ernst Freiberger Foundation , Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-937233-46-8 .
  • (Ed. With Reinhard Schmook): Difficult neighbors? 300 years of German-Polish neighborhood. Lectures and discussions . On behalf of the rural women’s association Mittleres Oderbruch, Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86650-420-2 .

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SURNAME Michalka, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Freudenthal , Sudetenland