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12/15/2017 | Porträts und Geschichten

Dr. Randolf Oberschmidt is the new Head of the Internationalization and International Cooperation Department

The Eastern Europe expert has already worked for several international organizations, including the OSCE.

Image: University of Kassel

He thus succeeds Katharina Linke. Oberschmidt can draw on a wealth of experience for his new post at the university in northern Hesse. For 15 years, he worked for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Here, he was responsible not only for personal and project funding Eastern Europe. Between 2007 and 2012, he was also head of the DAAD branch office in Warsaw. Oberschmidt studied Eastern European history, Slavic philology and Eastern law in Kiel from 1983 to 1990. He received his doctorate in Eastern European history in 1993. From 1999 to 2002, he was a staff member at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, where he worked primarily on conflict and crisis prevention. (dwü/Photo: University of Kassel)