German Unity
Dr. Stefan Bollinger
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Domestic Policy and System Comparison
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Areas of Expertise
- Discontinued “peaceful revolution” in the GDR 1989/90
- General orientation, changes, the rise and collapse of socialism in the 20th century
- History and politics of the GDR and problems in achieving German unification
- History of Eastern Europe in 1917 and 1944/45 to 1990/91
Dr. Hanno Hochmuth
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich Meinecke Institute
Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam
Friedrich-Meineke-Institut:
Koserstraße 20, 14495 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- History of Berlin
- Public history
- Babylon Berlin (television series)
- History in film and television
- Gentrification
- History of the GDR
Dr. Klaus Schroeder
Professor of Political Science
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Forschungsverbund SED-Staat (Research Association on the SED State)
Koserstr. 21, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- History of divided Germany, 1945-1990
- Germany after reunification
- Development of extremism in divided Germany and reunited Germany
- Unification process
- Transformation processes in East German companies
- Germany after reunification
- Similarities and differences between the Germans in East and West
- Failure of reunification policy and future prospects of Germany after the election
- Changes in the political landscape after reunification
- NPD and PDS / Die Linke (political parties)
- Right and left wings in the SPD
Dr. Jochen Staadt
Forschungsverbund SED-Staat (Research Association on the SED State)
Koserstr. 21, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany
- Intra-German relations
- Student movement
- Generational conflict in the 1960s
- Western policy of the SED (Socialist Unity Party of the GDR)
- German-German history, 1960-1989
- German reunification
- State Security of East Germany (Stasi) and the consequences
- GDR border regime and deaths at the inner-German border
- Escape across the Iron Curtain