Wilfried Loth
German historian and political scientist
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- PhD History University of Bonn
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Wilfried Loth is a German historian and political scientist. Life Wilfried Loth was born 29 August 1948 in Wadern. From 1966 to 1972, he studied German studies, History, Philosophy and Education at Saarland University. He obtained his doctorate in 1974. From 1974 to 1984 he worked there as an assistant lecturer and in 1983 he obtained his habilitation in Modern history with a dissertation on Catholics in the German Empire: Political Catholicism in the Crisis of Wilhelminian Germany. From 1984 to 1985 he was Professor of Political Science at the Free University of Berlin, then Professor of Political Science at the University of Münster from 1985 to 1986. From 1986 to 2014 he was Professor of Modern History at the University of Essen. From 1993 to 1997, Loth was President of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Essen at the North Rhine-Westphalia Academic Centre. From 2012 to 2014 he was President of the Franco-German Committee of Historians. In 2013 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Babeș-Bolyai University in the Roumanian town of Cluj-Napoca.
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- Building Europe: A History of European Unification (2015) (66)
- Documents on the History of European Integration (1982) (39)
- The division of the world, 1941-1955 (1988) (23)
- Crises and compromises : the European project 1963-1969 (2001) (21)
- Stalin's Unwanted Child: The Soviet Union, the German Question and the Founding of the GDR (1998) (17)
- The emergence of détente in Europe: Brandt, Kennedy and the formation of Ostpolitik (2009) (13)
- The making of détente : Eastern and Western Europe in the Cold War, 1965-75 (2008) (12)
- Overcoming the Cold War: A History of Détente, 1950-1991 (2001) (12)
- Moscow, Prague and Warsaw: Overcoming the Brezhnev Doctrine (2001) (12)
- Stalin’s Unwanted Child (1998) (11)
- Europe, Cold War and coexistence, 1953-1965 (2004) (10)
- Perforating the Iron Curtain. European Détente, Transatlantic Relations, and the Cold War, 1965-1985 (2010) (9)
- Experiencing Europe : 50 years of European construction 1957-2007 (2010) (8)
- The East—West Conflict in Historical Perspective — An Attempt at a Balanced View (1994) (5)
- Explaining European Integration: The contribution from Historians (2008) (5)
- Disintegration and Integration in East-Central Europe : 1919 - post-1989 (2014) (4)
- The Cold War and the Social and Economic History of the Twentieth Century (2015) (4)
- The origins of Stalin's note of 10 March 1952 (2004) (3)
- German Conceptions of Europe during the Escalation of the East-West Conflict, 1945-1949 (1986) (2)
- Hallstein and de Gaulle: the Disastrous Confrontation (1998) (2)
- Détente and European integration in the policies of Willy Brandt and Georges Pompidou (2007) (2)
- I. The Socialist International (1991) (1)
- Kristina Spohr. The Global Chancellor: Helmut Schmidt and the Reshaping of the International Order. (2018) (1)
- Stalin’s Plans for Post-War Germany (1996) (1)
- 3.EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS AND POLITICAL INTEGRATION (2009) (1)
- The German question from Stalin to Khrushchev: The meaning of new documents (2010) (1)
- The Cold War. What it was a About and Why it Ended (2010) (1)
- The Marshall Plan and European Unification: Impulses and Restraints (2004) (1)
- 60 Years ago: The Foundation of EEC and EAEC as Crisis Management (2017) (1)
- A Programme for Germany (1998) (0)
- From Paris to London (1998) (0)
- The European Parliament 1979–2014: Presidents (2015) (0)
- Keynote Address: A Long Term View (1998) (0)
- 4 Expansion and New Perspectives, 1969–1975 (2015) (0)
- 1 Foundation Years, 1948–1957 (2015) (0)
- 7 From Maastricht to Nice, 1992–2001 (2015) (0)
- 5 Consolidation, 1976–1984 (2015) (0)
- Between Two Goals (1998) (0)
- Reviews of Books:Driving the Soviets up the Wall: Soviet-East German Relations, 1953-1961 Hope M. Harrison (2004) (0)
- 3 Crises of the Community of the Six, 1963–1969 (2015) (0)
- The Origins of Human Rights Protection in the Council of Europe (2021) (0)
- Julian Jackson, A Certain Idea of France. The Life of Charles de Gaulle, London (Allen Lane) 2018 (2019) (0)
- Mikhail Gorbachev, European Security, and the Common European Home 1985–1989 (2020) (0)
- Book Reviews concerned with gaining democratic legitimacy. Indeed, Mansholt believed that the “detrimental inouence of pressure groups and electoral strategies would be abolished by transferring (2008) (0)
- The Presidents of the High Authority and the Commissions (2015) (0)
- The Cominform Line (1998) (0)
- Between France and the Bundesbank: Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Helmut Kohl and the Breakthrough of the Monetary Union (2020) (0)
- Zigzag to the Eastern State (1998) (0)
- N. Piers Ludlow. The European Community and the Crises of the 1960s: Negotiating the Gaullist Challenge. (Cass Series: Cold War History, number 9.) New York: Routledge. 2006. Pp. xiv, 269. $113.00 (2007) (0)
- Cycles and periods in the development of the EU-System (2009) (0)
- The EC and Foreign and Security Policy: The Dream of Autonomy (2020) (0)
- The Future of the European Union (2018) (0)
- Adenauer’s Final Western Choice, 1955–58 (2004) (0)
- Fighting for the Soul of Germany: The Catholic Struggle for Inclusion after Unification by Rebecca Ayako Bennette (review) (2014) (0)
- Book Reviews (2004) (0)
- European Identity: Traditions, Constructions, and Beliefs (2010) (0)
- Conclusion: The Future of the Union (2015) (0)
- Review Essay - General Views on the Cold War (2003) (0)
- The German question and its European solution (2015) (0)
- 8 Constitutional Struggle and Euro Crisis, 2001–2012 (2015) (0)
- Reshaping Europe by different Europeanisations 1984–1989. Summary and Conclusion (2020) (0)
- 2 Formative Years, 1958–1963 (2015) (0)
- Ralph L. Dietl, Beyond Parity. Europe and the SALT Process in the Carter Era, 1977–1981, Stuttgart: Steiner 2016, 306 S. (= Historische Mitteilungen, Beihefte, 93), EUR 54,00 [ISBN 978-3-515-11242-0] (2018) (0)
- The Germans and the European Communities (1997) (0)
- W. Kaiser, J.-H. Mayer (ed.), Societal Actors in European Integration (Wilfired Loth) (2014) (0)
- Land Saarland (2021) (0)
- The Making of the GDR, 1945–53: From Antifascism to Stalinism. By Gareth Pritchard Manchester, Eng.: Manchester University Press, 2000. Dist. St. Martin’s Press, ix, 244 pp. Notes. Glossary. Index. $74.95, hard bound. (2001) (0)
- Prologue: Churchill’s Congress (2015) (0)
- 8. Der 17. Juni 1953 im internationalen Kontext (2007) (0)
- M. Poster, Existential Marxism in Postwar France. From Sartre to Althusser, Princeton 1975 (1978) (0)
- 6 The Era of Development, 1984–1992 (2015) (0)
- R. Price: A Concise History of France (Wilfried Loth) (2008) (0)
- N. Piers Ludlow.The European Community and the Crises of the 1960s: Negotiating the Gaullist Challenge.:The European Community and the Crises of the 1960s: Negotiating the Gaullist Challenge.(Cass Series: Cold War History, number 9.) (2007) (0)
- The European Parliament 1979–2014: Party memberships (2015) (0)
- Helmut Kohl and the Monetary Union (2019) (0)
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