Research Fellow of the Project "Discourses of Victim Associations"

Subject: History
E-Mail: erik.franzen[at]extern.lrz-muenchen.de
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Research Areas

Bavaria and the Sudeten Germans since 1945
Research of migration and integration
Displacement, deportation and evacuation of the Germans

Personal Data

1. Born in 1964
2. Studied history, political science and philosophy at the universities in Osnabrück, Münster and Cologne
3. 2008: Doctorate at the university Osnabrück with the dissertation "Die Schirmherrschaft Bayerns über die Sudetendeutschen (1954-1974)" (The patronage of Bavaria for the Sudeten Germans (1954-1974))
4. Since 1999: Freelance writer for the Frankfurter Rundschau
5. 1999-2007: Research Assistant and Director of the biographical collection of the Collegium Carolinum
6. 2003-2005: Project Assistant at the Collegium Carolinum as a part of the research project "Discourses of Victim Associations"
7. 2007-2010: Scholarship holder of the German-Czech and German-Slovak Commission of Historians
8. Since December 2010: Research Assistant of the Collegium Carolinum

Roles

Historical Commission for the Bohemian Lands

Publications

Selected Publications
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