The Author: Henry Cord Meyer, born at Chicago USA, has been professionally active since 1939. He holds degrees from the universities of Colorado (1935), Iowa (1937), and Yale (1941) and several honorary doctorates. During World War II he was a research analyst at the Office of Strategic Services. He has been professor of history at several American colleges and universities, most recently at the University of California, Irvine. His major works include Mitteleuropa in German Thought and Action, 1915-1945 (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1955; The Long Generation: Germany from Empire to Ruin, 1913-1945 (New York: Harper & Row, 1973); and Airshipmen, Businessmen, and Politics, 1890-1940 (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991).
Meyer analyses in detail the many changes in the conception and use of 'Drang nach Osten'. Above all, he demonstrates clearly the historical importance of slogans of this kind. His book is a model of what has come to be called 'Begriffsgeschichte'. (Norman Rich, Central European History) Ein wichtiger Beitrag zum komplexen Feld der deutsch-slawischen Beziehungen. (Wolfdieter Bihl, Mitteilungen des Instituts fuer Oesterreichische Geschichtsforschung)
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