Wolfgang Zank

Wolfgang Zank (DE) is Associate Professor in the European Studies Programme at the University of Aalborg, Denmark.

After graduating in history, economics and sociology from Bochum University, Germany, he taught social sciences and history at various Danish universities. For many years, he was a regular contributor to the German weekly Die Zeit.

His research includes publications on the reconstruction of Germany, particularly the GDR, after World War II and The German Melting Pot: Multiculturality in Historical Perspective (1998). After 1999 he has concentrated on problems of European integration, in particular the European Monetary Union, the transition to a Western society in Central and Eastern Europe, and the EU's Eastern enlargement. He has carried out several Simulation Games at the University of Aalborg.