German historian and publicist
Professor Michael Wolffsohn is one of the leading experts on the analysis of international politics and, not least, the relations between Germans and Jews on the state, political, economic and religious levels. Born in Tel Aviv in 1947, the son of a Jewish merchant family who fled to Palestine in 1939, Wolffsohn moved with his parents to West Berlin in 1954. After military service in Israel and studies in Berlin, Tel Aviv and New York, he taught as a professor of modern history at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich from 1981 to 2012 and was awarded University Teacher of the Year in 2017.
Wednesday, 19. April 2023, 18:30 – 20:00 h
At the University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, KOL-G-201 (Aula)
"The idea of the permanence of our contemporary world of states is absurd," says historian Wolffsohn. The idea of the nation-state is booming; isolation or consolidation of the dominance of one group in the state is seen by many as a way out of the intra- and interstate conflicts of the present. But this thinking is the reason why the number of crisis areas is growing. In the absence of completely homogeneous populations, federal structures are, according to our guest, the only way to resolve conflicts and achieve intra- and interstate peace.