Werner Buchholz (historian)
Werner Buchholz is a German historian, currently a professor for Pomeranian History at the University of Greifswald.
Biography
Buchholz was born in Berlin and studied History, Scandinavian and German studies at the Universities of Bochum, Marburg, Stockholm and at the Åbo Akademi in 1970–78.He passed his doctorate in 1978 and worked as a teacher in 1979–85. Buchholz was awarded a scholarship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in 1985 and habilitated at the University of Hamburg on the history of public finance and financial administration in Swedish Pomerania in 1990.
In 1992–94 he worked for the German Foreign Office in Athens and became a Professor for history and regional studies of Pomerania at the university of Greifswald in 1994.