Die deutsche Vereinigung in Akademia: West- und Ostdeutsche im Gründungsprozess der Universität Potsdam 1990-1994

»German Unification in Academia: The Roles of West and East Germans in the Founding of Potsdam University, 1991-1994«The University of Potsdam was not a new institution but incorporated two of three GDR elite institutions based there. This brought a disproportionately large staff with life tenure into the university. It also pitted formerly highly successful and politically experienced East Germans against a small number of West German academics tasked with the introduction of the new academic structures. Here East German interests could be largely preserved. The encounter of these two opposing cultures provides fascinating new insights into the German unification process.