Wilfried Loth

Wilfried Loth ( born August 29, 1948 in Wadern ) is a German historian and political scientist.

Wilfried Loth studied in 1966 to 1972, the subjects German, history, philosophy and education at the University of Saarland. 1974 saw his promotion. From 1974 to 1984 he worked there as a research assistant and teaching assistant. Loth habilitated in 1983 in Modern History Catholics in the Empire: political Catholicism in the crisis of Wilhelmine Germany. 1984/85, he was professor of political science at the Free University of Berlin. A professor of political science at the University of Münster followed in 1985 / 86th Since 1986 he is Professor of Modern History at the University of Essen. Loth was in the period from 1993 to 1997 president of the Institute for Cultural Studies in the Science Centre North Rhine -Westphalia and is since 2013 President of the German - French historian Committee. Also in 2013 gave the Babes- Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca Romanian Loth honorary doctorate.

His research focuses on the history of Catholicism and socialism, history of the German Empire, the history of France in the 20th century and the history of the East- West conflict and the European unification. Controversial is his position on Stalin Note in 1952, which he attaches more seriousness than the majority of historians.

Writings

Monographs

  • The division of the world. History of the Cold War from 1941 to 1955. dtv, Munich 1980; ext. New edition 2000, ISBN 3-423-30756-0.
  • History of France in the 20th century. Fischer, Frankfurt 1995, ISBN 3-596-10860-8.
  • Stalin's unloved child. Why Moscow, the GDR would not. Rowohlt, Berlin 1994 ISBN 3-87134-085-5.
  • The Empire. Authoritarian state and political mobilization. dtv, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-423-04505-1.
  • The Soviet Union and the German question. Studies of Soviet policy from Stalin to Khrushchev Germany. Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 3-525-36298-6.
  • Unification of Europe. An unfinished story. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2014

Editorial Boards

  • German Catholicism in transition to modernity. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-17-011729-7.
  • Together with Rolf Badstübner: Wilhelm Pieck. Records relating to the Germany policy 1945-1953. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1994 ISBN 3-050-02198-5.
  • Walter Hallstein - the forgotten Europeans? European Union -Verlag, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-7713-0499-7.
  • Together with Bernd -A. Rusinek: transformation policy: Nazi elites in postwar West German society. Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-593-35994-4.
  • The European project at the beginning of the 21st century. Leske Budrich, Opladen 2001, ISBN 3-8100-2908-4.
  • Draft a European constitution. A historical record. European Union -Verlag, Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-7713-0604-3.
  • European society. Foundations and perspectives. Publisher of Social Sciences, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14758-7.
  • Together with Jost Dülffer: dimensions of international history. Oldenbourg, München 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-71260-5.
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