Michael Buddrus Explained

Michael Buddrus
Birth Place:Bad Doberan, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Alma Mater:University of Rostock
Occupation:Historian

Michael Buddrus (born 1957) is a German historian.

Life

Born in Bad Doberan, from 1974 Buddrus completed a three-year locksmithing apprenticeship in Warnemünde. From 1978 to 1983, he studied at the University of Rostock. 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 he succeeded in 1989 in obtaining the Promotion A.[1] [2] He then worked until 1991 as a research assistant at the Institute for German History of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, then until 1993 as a research assistant at the University of Siegen. In 1994 he moved to the Institute of Contemporary History (Munich).[3]

He conducts biographical research on National Socialist functionaries and researches on Mecklenburg history in Nazi Germany. He argues that there was no involuntary membership in the NSDAP. In October 2013 he was appointed to the .

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Notes and References

  1. Zur Geschichte der Hitlerjugend (1922–1939). Rostock 1989, (University of Rostock, Dissertation A, 1989).
  2. , retrieved on 17 April 2019
  3. http://www.ifz-muenchen.de/das-institut/mitarbeiterinnen/ea/mitarbeiter/michael-buddrus/ Institut für Zeitgeschichte