Hans-Joachim Hoppe (born 22 September 1945, Hilden, Germany) is a German political scientist and an expert on Russia and East European affairs.
He has finished his studies of Russian and East European history, politics and languages with a doctor’s thesis on “German-Bulgarian Relations During the Second World War”. The book has been published in 1979 by the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich [1] Later he took part in projects of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich, and Institute for Research of Antisemitism, director Wolfgang Benz, Berlin, about the Holocaust, especially the fate of Bulgarian Jews and the Jews in Bulgarian occupied territories (Macedonia and Northern Greece). [2]
From 1976 to 2010 he was head of the Department for German language and East European languages at Volkshochschule Köln - the second largest adult high school in Germany. He has been also for many years a lecturer in the Institute of East European History at Universität Köln.
Numerous essays of him have been published in various political journals and in the reports of the Federal Institute of East European and International Studies in Cologne, now Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Berlin.
Hoppe has been regularly observing the developments in Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Caucasus. He has also been working on problems of multiculturalism, especially the situation of the Germans, Ukrainians, Russians and other East European communities in the USA and Canada. He has published already an essay on the Ukrainian Canadians. [3] The article has been translated into Russian, published in Liveinternet.ru. [4]
In September 1997 in the final phase of the rule of Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević Hoppe has been OSCE-election observer during the parliamentary elections in Serbia.
He is member of the Association of Historians specialized on Eastern Europe, member of the German Southeast Europe Society (Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft) as well as the German-Canadian Society (Deutsch-Kanadische Gesellschaft) and the German Canadian Business Club.
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