Jörg Baberowski
Jörg Baberowski (born 24 March 1961 in Radolfzell am Bodensee) is a German historian and Professor of Eastern European History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He is an authority on the history of Stalinism, particularly Stalinist violence, genocide and terror against the peoples of Eastern and Central Europe.[1]
Baberowski was born in Radolfzell am Bodensee, West Germany. He joined the Communist League of West Germany as a pupil. He studied history and philosophy at the University of Göttingen between 1982 and 1988, and was notably influenced by Manfred Hildermeier. As a student he also learned Russian, and he wrote his master's thesis on "political justice" in the last years of the Russian Empire. From 1989, he worked as a researcher in eastern European history at the Goethe University Frankfurt and earned his doctorate there in 1993 with a dissertation titled Autokratie und Justiz im Zarenreich ("Autocracy and Justice in Czarist Russia"). He joined the Institute of Eastern European History at Tübingen in 1993, and earned his Habilitation in 2000 with the dissertation Auf der Suche nach Eindeutigkeit, which was published as a book titled Der Feind ist überall. Stalinismus im Kaukasus. He has conducted archival studies in Azerbaijan, Finland, Russia and other countries.
He was appointed to a chair in Eastern European History at the University of Leipzig in 2001, before joining the Humboldt University as a Professor of Eastern European History in 2002. He has also been director of its Institute of History.[2]
At the Leipzig Book Fair in 2012, he won the Leipzig Book Prize in the category of nonfiction/essay writing for his book Verbrannte Erde. Stalins Herrschaft der Gewalt.[3]
In response to the refugee crisis in Europe in 2015, Baberowski called for a more restrictive policy toward refugees in Germany and criticized German Chancellor Angela Merkel's approach.[4]
Selected works
- Autokratie und Justiz. Zum Verhältnis von Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Rückständigkeit im ausgehenden Zarenreich 1864-1914, Frankfurt/M. (Klostermann) 1996, ISBN 3-465-02832-5.
- Zivilisation der Gewalt. Die kulturellen Ursprünge des Stalinismus (2003)
- Der Feind ist überall. Stalinismus im Kaukasus, Munich (DVA) 2003, ISBN 3-421-05622-6.
- Der rote Terror. Die Geschichte des Stalinismus, Munich (DVA) 2003, ISBN 3-421-05486-X.
- Der Sinn der Geschichte. Geschichtstheorien von Hegel bis Foucault, Munich (C.H. Beck) 2005, ISBN 3-406-52793-0.
- Jörg Baberowski und Anselm Doering-Manteuffel: Ordnung durch Terror. Bonn (Dietz) 2006, ISBN 3-8012-0368-9.
- Moderne Zeiten? Krieg, Revolution und Gewalt im 20. Jahrhundert, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-36735-X.
- Verbrannte Erde. Stalins Herrschaft der Gewalt, Munich (C.H. Beck) 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63254-9.
- Räume der Gewalt. Frankfurt am Main (S. Fischer) 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-004818-9
References
- ↑ Wohin steuert Russland? Peter Voß fragt Jörg Baberowski, 3sat
- ↑ Jörg Baberowski, Humboldt-Universität Berlin - Lehrstuhl Geschichte Osteuropas
- ↑ Jörg Baberowski erhält Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse, Humboldt University press release.
- ↑ Jörg Baberowski: Ungesteuerte Einwanderung Europa ist gar keine Wertegemeinschaft. In: FAZ.Net, 14. September 2015 (online). Simon Strauss: Jörg Baberowski über Gewalt „Natürlich kann auch ein Analphabet einen Asylgrund haben“ In: FAZ.Net, 20. September 2015 (online). Jörg Baberowski: Der externe Standpunkt. Deutschland verwandelt sich in eine Tugend-Republik. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung vom 27. September 2015.
External links
- Literature by and about Jörg Baberowski in the German National Library catalogue
- Jörg Baberowski’s falsification of history by Christoph Vandreier