Georg Alexander Kornelius Erich von Rauch (1904–1991) was a
Baltic German historian specializing in Russia and the
Baltic states
The Baltic states, et, Balti riigid or the Baltic countries is a geopolitical term, which currently is used to group three countries: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. All three countries are members of NATO, the European Union, the Eurozone, ...
.
Rauch was born in
Pskov
Pskov ( rus, Псков, a=pskov-ru.ogg, p=pskof; see also names in other languages) is a city in northwestern Russia and the administrative center of Pskov Oblast, located about east of the Estonian border, on the Velikaya River. Population ...
, the son of Kornelius Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Rauch, an officer in the Russian army. In 1911 the family moved to
Sangaste in
Governorate of Livonia. Rauch graduated from the
University of Tartu with a degree in history in 1927, leaving for
Germany in 1939. He joined the staff of the
University of Marburg, where he taught Russian history, in 1946, becoming a professor in 1953. In 1958 he accepted an offer from the
University of Kiel, where he became head of the Institute on East European History. His pioneering history of the
Soviet Union was translated into other languages and became a standard textbook.
His son was the anarchist
Georg von Rauch
Georg von Rauch (1947–1971) was a radical activist in West Berlin at the end of the 1960s German student movement.
See also
* West Berlin Tupamaros
* Movement 2 June
* Rauch-Haus-Song
The Rauch-Haus-Song is a track performed by West Berl ...
, killed by the police in 1971.
Works
* ''Geschichte des bolschewistischen Russland'' (Wiesbaden: Rheinische Verlags-Anstalt, 1955); tr. as ''A History of Soviet Russia'' (New York: Praeger, 1957; rev. edd. 1958, 1962, 1964, 1967, 1972).
* ''Die Geschichte der baltischen Staaten'' (München: Deutsche Taschenbuch Verlag, 1990); tr. as ''The Baltic States: The Years of Independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, 1917–1940'' (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995).
References
1904 births
1991 deaths
People from Pskov
People from Pskovsky Uyezd
Baltic-German people
Historians of Russia
20th-century German historians
German male non-fiction writers
University of Tartu alumni
Academic staff of the University of Marburg
Academic staff of the University of Kiel
German military personnel of World War II
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