Prof. Dr. Martin Schulze Wessel

Director of the center

Office address:

Historicum, Schellingstraße 12

Room K 432

80799 München

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+49 (0)89/2180-5825

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Postal address:

Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1

80539 München

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Research project

Ukraine and Germany in the 20th Century

Current position

Full Professor (C4; Chair) in History of Eastern Europe, LMU Munich

Education

  • 2002: Habilitation / venia legendi in Modern History and History of Eastern Europe, University Halle (Saale)
  • 1994: Ph.D. in History, FU Berlin; summa cum laude
  • 1989: M.A. in History, FU Berlin (History of Eastern Europe, Modern History, Slavonic literature)

Research areas

  • History of Eastern Europe (since the 18th century): International relations between Russia, Poland, Germany, and Ukraine
  • History of Russia and the Soviet Union in the 19th and early 20th centuries
  • Religious cultures in Central and Eastern Europe since the 19th century
  • History of science in Eastern Europe during the Cold War
  • History of post-Stalinism in Czechoslovakia
  • History of Ukraine