Erwin Oberländer
Introduction '''Erwin Oberländer''' (born 19 March 1937) is a German historian and expert on Eastern European history. He is Professor Emeritus of Eastern European History at the University of Mainz. He is also a former President of the German Association of Historians of Eastern Europe, and was appointed by the Latvian government as a foreign member of the Commission of the Historians of Latvia, which was tasked with studying crimes against humanity in Latvia during the Soviet and Nazi occupations.
Biography He studied history at the universities of Munich, Vienna and Cologne from 1956, and earned a doctorate in 1963.He was employed at the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies 1963-1974, and earned his Habilitation in 1972.He was appointed as Professor at the University of Cologne in 1973, and was a senior adviser in the culture department of the Federal Ministry of the Interior 1974-1975, where he was responsible for research on Eastern European affairs.From 1975 to 1985 he was Professor of Modern Eastern European History at the University of Münster and served as Dean at the Faculty of History 1976-1977.Subsequently, he was Professor of Eastern European History and head of the Institute for Eastern European History at the University of Mainz from 1985 to 2002.He also served as Dean of the Faculty of History 1990-1992.
Personal He is the son of Theodor Oberländer, a Nazi party member and alleged war criminal. Theodor Oberländer was a German CDU politician and former Federal Minister until he was pushed out of the party for advocating far-right causes. Theodor was also a leader of the All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights, a political party that resisted denazification. Theodor advocated for the ethnic cleansing of Poland and participated in the organization of anti-partisan actions, for which he was investigated by German prosecutors as late as 1996.
Honours * 1993: Honorary doctor of the University of Riga (Latvia)* 2008: Elected member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences* 2017: Cross of Recognition (IV Class)
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