Alfred Schickel

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Alfred Schickel (born June 18, 1933 in Aussig ; † September 30, 2015 in Kipfenberg ) was a German historian and publicist . He was the founder and head of the historical revisionist contemporary history research center Ingolstadt (ZFI).

Life

After the Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia , Schickel's family settled in the Black Forest . After graduating from the Jesuit College in St. Blasien in 1954, Schickel studied history and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich until 1960 . Until 1967 he worked as prefect of studies at the St. Canisius study seminar in Ingolstadt and received his doctorate in 1966 with Siegfried Lauffer with a thesis on Roman legal history .

As a full-time professional, Schickel became a history teacher at the Catholic Gnadenthal grammar school in Ingolstadt without a teaching qualification . From 1974 to 1995 he was head of the Catholic City Education Center in Ingolstadt . In 1981 he took over the management of the ZFI. He also worked as a freelancer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Die Welt , the Bavarian and Hessian broadcasts .

Schickel published mainly on topics of contemporary history . Since the mid-1980s, his work has been increasingly criticized. His book about Germans and Poles , published in 1984 , was rated as “too one-sided offsetting” by the author, whose heart beats “German” and hardly notes National Socialist crimes, but mentions every mistake made by the Polish government. His contributions to the magazine Mut represented views that brought him, among other things, the charge of trying to relativize the German guilt of the Nazi past. The fact that Schickel denied Germany's guilt for the Second World War and instead blamed US President Roosevelt for it also earned him bitter criticism from historians. For Wolfgang Wippermann , "Schickel's historical revisionism [...] changes into a political revisionism aimed at changing the status quo."

In 1980, Schickel wrote in the paper Deutschland in Geschichte und Gegenwart, published by the revisionist Grabert Verlag in Tübingen , that the number of six million murdered Jews was " no longer seriously represented in contemporary history today ". The murder of 500,000 Sinti and Roma , he described 1981 in Criticón as " latest number fiction " that " with the same uncritical zeal brought under the people [was] like the millions of numbers before ."

Schickel was awarded the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft's cultural prize for science in 1989. In 1989 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon at the suggestion of the Bavarian Prime Minister Max Streibl . The award of the Federal Order of Merit was the subject of a small inquiry in the Bundestag and was also sharply criticized in the press. In November 1993, Der Spiegel wrote : "Even Nazi protagonists [...] were [...] honored: Alfred Schickel, who, as a right-wing radical historian, struggled to repay National Socialism."

Schickel wrote for the Junge Freiheit and the Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung , among others . He published several books in the extreme right-wing Grabert publishing house and was a frequent guest at the Weikersheim study center .

Because of his proximity to right-wing extremist circles, Schickel's leadership of a series of lectures on the Second World War at the Volkshochschule Ingolstadt was highly controversial. However, the Ingolstadt city council decided in February 1995 to keep Schickel's teaching assignment. In September 1996, however, at the request of the PDS , the federal government conceded for the first time that Schickel expressed views that “partly correspond to those represented by right-wing extremists”.

Private

Schickel was married and had three children, including a son who is also a history teacher. He spent his twilight years in Dunsdorf in Upper Bavaria , a district of Kipfenberg, where he also died.

honors and awards

Publications

  • The repetition sums in Cicero's Verrinen. Munich, Phil. F., Diss. V. October 14, 1966., Munich 1966.
  • The Versailles Peace Treaty. Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 1969.
  • The National Assembly of Weimar. People, goals, illusions Fifty years ago. Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 1969.
  • with Otto Maurer: Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Canisiuskonvikt study seminar in Ingolstadt. Ingolstadt 1970.
  • Questions, arguments and problems about Ostpolitik. The Treaty of Moscow, the Treaty of Warsaw and the problem of d. Munich Agreement; Work folder. Ackermann congregation, Munich 1972.
  • The Polish war losses. 1939-1945. Stadelmeier, Ingolstadt 1978.
  • Setting the course for the catastrophe. On the prehistory of the German-Polish war. State and Economic Political Society eV SWG, Hamburg 1979.
  • Contemporary history at a crossroads. Claims and deficiencies in West German contemporary history. 2nd Edition. Naumann, Würzburg 1981.
  • Reveal secret documents. The German-Polish relationship according to US embassy reports. State and Economic Political Society, Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-88527-055-2 .
  • Priests and lay people against National Socialism in the Diocese of Eichstätt. Contemporary memory of a forgotten resistance. Contemporary history research center Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt 1983.
  • Germany and the USA. From the First World War to the Third Reich: an interim balance sheet. MUT-Verlag, Asendorf 1984.
  • Germans and Poles. A millennium shared history . Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1984, ISBN 3-7857-0364-3 .
  • Forgotten contemporary history. Additions and corrections to German, Polish and American contemporary history. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-548-33047-9 .
  • The Germans and their Slavic neighbors. Materials on Ostkunde . Ullstein, Herbig, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Munich 1985, ISBN 3-548-33049-5 .
  • From Greater Germany to the German Question 1938–1949; Stations of German contemporary history in a critical backlight. MUT-Verlag, Asendorf 1986, ISBN 3-89182-023-2 .
  • The expulsion of the Germans. History, background, reviews. 2nd Edition. MUT, Asendorf 1987, ISBN 3-89182-014-3 .
  • As editor: From the archives. Finds from the contemporary history research center Ingolstadt 1981 to 1992. Herbig, Munich / Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-7766-1701-2 .
  • History of South Moravia. Volume 2. 1918-1946 . Publishing house of the South Moravian Landscape Council Geislingen / Steige, Geislingen an der Steige 1996, ISBN 3-927498-18-1 .
  • Historical corrections. How historical untruths proliferate in gaps in knowledge. In: Quarterly books for free historical research . Volume 1, No. 3 (1997), pp. 199 ff.
  • with Gerald Frodl: History of South Moravia . tape 3 : The history of the German South Moravians from 1945 to the present . Publishing house of the South Moravian Landscape Council Geislingen / Steige, Geislingen an der Steige 2001, ISBN 3-927498-27-0 .
  • Alfred Schickel (Ed.): No dogma! No ban! No taboo! History belongs to the historian. Parliament and the judiciary may be silent. Festschrift for Franz W. Seidler . Pour le Mérite Verlag , Selent 2008, ISBN 978-3-932381-44-7 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Historian Alfred Schickel has died. In: Donaukurier. October 1, 2015. (donaukurier.de)
  2. ↑ Lisäweta von Zitzewitz: An all too one-sided set-off. In: The time. No. 46, November 9, 1984. (zeit.de)
  3. ↑ Hans Sarkowicz: The old right on new ways. In: The time. No. 3, January 9, 1987. (zeit.de)
  4. ↑ Katja Eddel: The magazine MUT - a democratic opinion forum? Analysis and classification of a politically changed magazine. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011, p. 234.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Wippermann: Victim complaints and war guilt lie. The Second World War was unleashed 65 years ago
  6. ^ Wolfgang Wippermann: Honored Revisionists. Alfred Schickel and the Contemporary History Research Center Ingolstadt (ZFI). In: Johannes Klotz, Ulrich Schneider (Ed.): The self-conscious nation and its historical image. New Right history legends. Papyrossa, Cologne 1997, p. 87.
  7. ^ Anton Maegerle: From Obersalzberg to NSU. The extreme right and the political culture of the Federal Republic 1988–2013. Edition Critic, Berlin 2013, p. 178 f.
  8. ^ German Bundestag, 12th electoral period, printed matter 12/4111, January 14, 1993.
  9. ↑ The mirror. 47/1993, November 22, 1993, p. 51. (spiegel.de)
  10. ^ Anton Maegerle : Author network in the gray area. She leaves between conservatism and right-wing extremism. In: Stephan Braun , Daniel Hörsch (ed.): Right networks, a danger . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-8100-4153-X , p. 37.
  11. ^ Meinrad Heck: Weikersheim Study Center. The Right Thinkers Club. In: Stephan Braun, Daniel Hörsch (ed.): Right networks, a danger . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-8100-4153-X , p. 95.
  12. ↑ Konrad Löw: Dr. Alfred Schickel - historian and patriot: appreciation of the deceased ZFI founder. (PDF) In: Documentation for the ZFI spring conference from 3./4. June 2016. Gernot Facius, p. 9 , accessed April 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Schickel, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Ústí nad Labem
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 2015
Place of death Kipfenberg