Walter Aschmoneit

Walter Aschmoneit (b. 1941) is a global historian and development expert who worked in Cambodia during the crucial phase of reconstruction, from 1994 to 1998.

He studied political science, history, agricultural economics of the Third World and Chinese language at Heidelberg University, Hanover College (Indiana, USA), Free University of Berlin, Fu-Ren University (Xinzhu,Taiwan) and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. 

From 1978, he taught and led research on the history of social movements in East and Southeast Asia at University of Osnabrück, Germany, the historic city where the 1648 Peace of Westphalia treaty was negotiated.

Adviser on economical and agrarian development in China (1987−1989) and Cambodia (1994−1998), he has published on China, Cambodia, intercultural communication and development cooperation, also contributing to the review of Khmer Studies Kambodschanische Kultur, published in Berlin between 1986 and 2003.

Publications

• Berliner Hefte. Heft 1: Zeitschrift für Kultur und Politik. McCarthyismus: Politische Unterdrückung in USA Aktio Silberpfeil: Kommunistenjagd in Hamburg…, Berlin, Kantstraße, 1976.
• [ed. with Rainer Werning] Kampuchea : Lesebuch zur Geschichte, Gesellschaft, Politik, SZD-Verlag, 1981.
• [ed. with Michael Daxner] Krieg Und Frieden, Osnabrücker Vorlesungen 1983 – 1984, Osnabrück, 1984.
• “Deutsche Publizistik zu Kambodscha (und seine Nachbarn) von 1858 bis 1954 unter besonderer Berücksichtung der Zeit des Dritten Reiches”, Seksa Khmer 7, 1984
• “Kambodscha 85/86: Aspekte zu Religion und Politik”, SOA-Information, Apr. 1986.
• “Christliche Missionen unter kambodschanischen Flüchtlingen in Thailand”, Kambodschanische Kultur 1, 1986, 79 – 86.
• [contrib. to] Remaking Peasant China, Problems of Rural Development and Institutions at the Start of the 1990s, En del af fagområdet Østasienstudier, Flemming Christiansen, Jørgen Delman og Clemens Stubbe Østergaard eds.,1991, ISBN 87 7288 294 8.
• Literature on Cambodia, Bibliography in progress, Osnabrück/​Kompong Thom, 1992 (draft III kept at CKS Library).
• Village population statistics of Cambodia : the UNTAC electoral data of 1992, processed for development planning, [with Jochen Thoma], Phnom Penh, 1995.
• “Working with Pagoda Committees in Kampong Thom Province (Summary of Experiences in Development Cooperation with self help groups)”, Kambodschanische Kultur 5, 1997, 108 – 112.
• Zhou Daguan — Aufzeichnungen über die Gebräuche Kambodschas, Berlin/​Osnabrück, 2006.