Boris Meissner was a Baltic German lawyer, well-known for his research on Eastern European history and politics. Meissner was born into family of a Baltic German judge and spent his childhood in Pärnu, Estonia. Meissner studied at Tartu University (graduating with a diploma in economics, 1935). He worked as a bank official in independent Estonia and in 1939 followed the so-called Umsiedlung.

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  • Boris Meissner was a Baltic German lawyer, well-known for his research on Eastern European history and politics. Meissner was born into family of a Baltic German judge and spent his childhood in Pärnu, Estonia. Meissner studied at Tartu University (graduating with a diploma in economics, 1935). He worked as a bank official in independent Estonia and in 1939 followed the so-called Umsiedlung. Meissner worked in Poznań, Poland, which was then held by Germany - first as an assistant at the Posen University, then in Wrocław. He also served in the German Army. In 1946, he arrived at the University of Hamburg, where he concentrated on international law and so-called Ostrecht (Eastern European law). From 1947 to 1953 he worked at the Forschungsstelle für Völkerrecht und ausländisches öffentliches Recht. From 1953 to 1959 Meissner served at the Foreign Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. Speaking many languages, he participated Konrad Adenauer's talks with Nikita Khrushchyov (the question of German POWs). Meissner began publishing books and articles in 1947, in 1954 he published his Doctor's Thesis Die Sowjetische Intervention im Baltikum und die völkerrechtliche Problematik der baltischen Frage which has not yet lost its importance . The work is a legal proof, that the USSR, without having any justifications, occupied and annexed the Baltic states, thus breaking international law. From 1959 to 1964 Meissner taught at the University of Kiel and established Seminar für Politik, Gesellschaft und Recht Osteuropas (Seminar for the Politics, Society and Law of Eastern Europe). 1965 to 1984 Meissner was a professor at the University of Cologne, where he established a new Institute (Institut für Ostrecht), director of which he remained until retiring.
  • Boris Meissner war ein deutsch-baltischer Rechtswissenschaftler, spezialisiert auf Internationales Recht und bekannt für seine Forschung in osteuropäischer Zeitgeschichte und Politik.
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  • Boris Meissner was a Baltic German lawyer, well-known for his research on Eastern European history and politics. Meissner was born into family of a Baltic German judge and spent his childhood in Pärnu, Estonia. Meissner studied at Tartu University (graduating with a diploma in economics, 1935). He worked as a bank official in independent Estonia and in 1939 followed the so-called Umsiedlung.
  • Boris Meissner war ein deutsch-baltischer Rechtswissenschaftler, spezialisiert auf Internationales Recht und bekannt für seine Forschung in osteuropäischer Zeitgeschichte und Politik.
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  • Boris Meissner
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