Michael Buddrus (born 1957) is a German historian.

Life

Born in

Bad Doberan Bad Doberan () is a town in the district of Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It was the capital of the former district of Bad Doberan. In 2012, its population was 11,427. Geography Bad Doberan is situated just west of Rostock's city c ...

, from 1974 Buddrus completed a three-year

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apprenticeship in

Warnemünde (, literally ''Mouth of the Warnow'') is a seaside resort and a district of the city of Rostock in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Mecklenburg, Germany. It is located on the Baltic Sea and, as the name implies, at the estuary of the river Warnow (river ...

. From 1978 to 1983, he studied at the

University of Rostock The University of Rostock () is a public university located in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Founded in 1419, it is the third-oldest university in Germany. It is the oldest university in continental northern Europe and the Baltic Se ...

. Afterwards he worked as a research assistant at the Schiffbau- und Schifffahrtsmuseum Rostock. In the years 1985–1988, he was an aspirant at the University of Rostock. With a doctoral thesis on the history of the

Hitler Youth The Hitler Youth ( , often abbreviated as HJ, ) was the youth wing of the German Nazi Party. Its origins date back to 1922 and it received the name ("Hitler Youth, League of German Worker Youth") in July 1926. From 1936 until 1945, it was th ...

he succeeded in 1989 in obtaining the Promotion A. He then worked until 1991 as a research assistant at the Institute for German History of the

German Academy of Sciences at Berlin The German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, , in 1972 renamed the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (''Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR (AdW)''), was the most eminent Research institute, research institution of East Germany (German Democratic Repub ...

, then until 1993 as a research assistant at the

University of Siegen The University of Siegen () is a public research university located in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia and is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, a society of Germany's leading research universities. The university was founded in 1972. ...

. In 1994 he moved to the

Institute of Contemporary History (Munich) The Institute of Contemporary History (''Institut für Zeitgeschichte'') in Munich was conceived in 1947 under the name ''Deutsches Institut für Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Zeit'' ("German Institute of the History of the National Socia ...

.Institut für Zeitgeschichte
/ref> He conducts biographical research on National Socialist functionaries and researches on Mecklenburg history in

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalit ...

. He argues that there was no involuntary membership in the

NSDAP The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party ( or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism. Its precursor, the German Workers ...

. In October 2013 he was appointed to the .

Publications

* with Ingo Koch: ''Ausgewähltes Protokoll der Wissenschaftlichen Konferenz „Geschichte der Beziehungen der Deutschen Arbeiterjugendbewegung und der FDJ zum Leninschen Komsomol – ihre Bedeutung für den Kampf um den Frieden“'' (= ''Schriftenreihe zur Geschichte der FDJ.'' 66, ). Verlag Junge Welt (in Kommission), Berlin 1987. * ''Die Organisation „Dienst für Deutschland“. Arbeitsdienst und Militarisierung in der DDR.'' Juventa, Weinheim u. a. 1994, . * collaboration at the ''Biographisches Lexikon für Mecklenburg.'' * ''Anmerkungen zur Jugendpolitik der KPD 1945/46.'' In Hartmut Mehringer, Michael Schwartz, Hermann Wentker (editor): ''Erobert oder befreit? Deutschland im internationalen Kräftefeld und die Sowjetische Besatzungszone (1945/46)'' (= ''Schriftenreihe der Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte. Sondernummer.''). Oldenbourg, München 1999, , . * ''Totale Erziehung für den totalen Krieg. Hitlerjugend und nationalsozialistische Jugendpolitik'' (= ''Texte und Materialien zur Zeitgeschichte.'' 13). 2 Teile. K. G. Saur, Munich 2003, . * with Sigrid Fritzlar: ''Die Professoren der Universität Rostock im Dritten Reich. Ein biographisches Lexikon'' (= ''Texte und Materialien zur Zeitgeschichte.'' 16). K. G. Saur Verlag, Munich 2007, . * with Sigrid Fritzlar: ''Mecklenburg im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Die Tagungen des Gauleiters Friedrich Hildebrandt mit den NS-Führungsgremien des Gaues Mecklenburg 1939–1945. Eine Edition der Sitzungsprotokolle'' (= ''Quellen und Studien aus den Landesarchiven Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns.'' 10). , Bremen 2009, . * with Sigrid Fritzlar: ''Die Städte Mecklenburgs im Dritten Reich. Ein Handbuch zur Stadtentwicklung im Nationalsozialismus, ergänzt durch ein biographisches Lexikon der Bürgermeister, Stadträte und Ratsherren''. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2011, . * with Sigrid Fritzlar: ''Landesregierungen und Minister in Mecklenburg 1871–1952. Ein biographisches Lexikon.'' Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, . * ''Hennecke von Plessen (1894–1968). Gutsbesitzer, Gauwirtschaftsberater, Geheimdienstoffizier, Gefangener, Grubenholzvertreter, Geschäftsführungsgehilfe. Biographie eines mecklenburgischen Adligen.'' Thomas Helms, Schwerin 2015, .

References

External links

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Vita bei der Historischen Kommission für Mecklenburg
{{DEFAULTSORT:Buddrus, Michael 1957 births Living people People from Bad Doberan Contemporary historians 20th-century German historians 21st-century German historians