Olaf Mertelsmann

Olaf Mertelsmann ( born January 15, 1969) is a German historian who ( German: Dorpat ) at the University of Tartu teaches contemporary history.

Life

Mertelsmann attended from 1979-1988 by Dietrich Bonhoeffer -Gymnasium in Quick Born in Hamburg, and then studied at the University of Hamburg in the years 1990 to 1995, the subjects of history, German, Finno - Ugric Studies and Education and graduated with the first state exam for teaching in history and from German. He received a doctorate in modern history at the same university. In the years 1996 to 1998 he was an assistant at the University of Tartu. From 1998 to 2002 he was the first professor at the State Pedagogical University of Novosibirsk in Novosibirsk, Siberia, and later as part of the DAAD exchange program professor at the Novosibirsk State University. In 2003, he returned as a lecturer back to his alma mater.

Since 2003 Mertelsmann works at the University of Tartu with a focus on Soviet history and modern history.

Prizes and awards

  • 2002: DAAD scholarship for Novosibirsk.
  • 2004-2006: DFG research fellowship for Tartu.
  • 2008: Fellowship ( Fellowship ) of the Adam Smith Research Foundation at the University of Glasgow.

Publications (selection)

  • The Sovietization of Estonia and its society, Kovač, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8300-6273-8.
  • As editor with Kaarel Piirimäe: The Baltic Sea Region and the Cold War, Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-62310-7.
  • As editor: Central and Eastern European Media under dictatorial rule and in the Early Cold War, Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-61103-6.
  • The Stalinist reconstruction in Estonia. of the market to the command economy. Kovac, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-8300-1463-5.
  • The Sovietization of the Estonian daily during Stalinism. In: Norbert Angermann include: Baltic provinces, the Baltic States and the National. LIT Verlag, Münster, 2005, ISBN 3-8258-9086-4.
  • As editor: Estonia and Russia: aspects of the relations between the two countries. Kovac, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-8300-1510-0.
  • As editor: sovietization of the Baltic States, 1940-1956, Ajalookirjanduse Sihtasutus, Tartu 2003, ISBN 998- 593041X.
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