Günter Morsch

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Günter Morsch (born August 15, 1952 in St. Wendel ) is a German historian .

life and work

Günter Morsch moved from a village in Saarland in 1972 to West Berlin and studied at the Technical University and the Free University history, psychology and philosophy. He received his doctorate in 1989 at the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on the workforce under National Socialism. At the same time he worked as a research assistant in large exhibition projects such as "Berlin; Berlin. The exhibition on the history of the city". Subsequently, Morsch was a consultant for adult education at the trade unions and then for five years a museum councilor at the Rheinisches Industriemuseum in Oberhausen . From 1993 to 2018 he was in charge of the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum, and since 1997 he has also been Director of the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation .

Morsch is a professor at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Free University of Berlin and employee of the National and International Trade Union Policy department located there . Furthermore, he is or was a member of several advisory committees, including the Board of Trustees of the Foundation Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe , Expert Commission of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial (chair), Advisory Board of the Memorial Cemetery of the March Fallen , Advisory Board for the House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial , Advisory Board for "Museum Berliner Innenhafen ”, Working Committee I of the Berlin-Brandenburg Memorials (Chairman) and the Standing Conference of Memorial and Documentation Sites in the Berlin Area.

Günter Morsch is married, has two children and lives in Oranienburg.

Honors

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Sachsenhausen, the "concentration camp near the Reich capital". Establishment and expansion (= research contributions and materials from the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation, Volume 10), Berlin: Metropol 2014, ISBN 978-3-86331-170-4 .
  • Work and bread. Studies on the situation, mood, attitude and behavior of the German workforce 1933–1936 / 37 (= European university publications / Series 3 / History and its auxiliary sciences, Volume 546), Frankfurt am Main a. a .: Lang 1993, ISBN 978-3-631-42772-9 ; also Berlin, Techn. Univ., Diss., 1989.
  • Eisenheim. Oldest workers' settlement in the Ruhr area (=  hiking trails to industrial history . Volume 1 ). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-7927-1195-8 .

Editorships

  • with Bertrand Perz: New studies on National Socialist mass killings using poison gas. Historical significance, technical development, revisionist denial , 2nd edition Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-940938-99-2 .
  • with Agnes Ohm: Terror in the Province of Brandenburg. Early concentration camps 1933/34; an exhibition by the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation - Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum (= series of publications by the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation, Volume 46), Berlin: Metropol 2014, ISBN 978-3-86331-211-4 .
  • with Agnes Ohm: The headquarters of the concentration camp terror. The Inspectorate of Concentration Camps 1934-1945 (= Series of the Brandenburg Memorial Foundation), Vol. 47, metropolitan Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86331-251-0 .
  • with Detlef Garbe: End-of-war crime between the chaos of destruction and the extermination program, concentration camps (= studies on the history of Nazi terror, issue 1), Metropol Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86331-282-4 .
  • Exhibition catalog for The Concentration Camp SS 1936–1945. Excess and direct offenders in Sachsenhausen concentration camp; an exhibition at the historical site (= series of publications by the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation, Volume 52), Berlin: Metropol 2016, ISBN 978-3-86331-288-6 .
  • The concentration camp SS 1936–1945. Work-sharing perpetration in Sachsenhausen concentration camp , Berlin 2018.

Essays

  • The calculated improvisation. Strikes and work stoppages in the "Third Reich", in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 4/1988.
  • Concentration Camp Memorials in Eastern Germany since 1989, in: John K. Roth, Elisabeth Maxwell (Ed.), Remembering for the Future. The Holocaust in the Age of Genocides, Palgrave, Basingstoke 2001, pp. 367-81.
  • Sachsenhausen - a new type of camp? The concentration camp near the Reich capital in the founding phase, in Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft, 56 (year 2008), No. 10, pp. 224–239.
  • History as a weapon. Culture of remembrance in Europe and the task of memorial sites, in: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik H 5/2010, pp. 109–121.
  • The transformation of historical places. Refurbishment, reconstruction and redesign using the example of Sachsenhausen, in: Gabriele Hammermann, Dirk Riedel (Eds.), Refurbishment, reconstruction, redesign. On dealing with historical buildings in memorials, Munich 2014, pp. 74–96.
  • August 23rd - a suitable European day of remembrance for the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian dictatorships? in: Christoph Koch (ed.), Was there a Stalin-Hitler pact? Character, meaning and interpretation of the German-Soviet non-aggression treaty of August 23, 1939, Frankfurt / M. 2015, pp. 313–329.
  • Against the instrumentalization of history. The new German politics of remembrance since 1990, in: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, 9/2015, pp. 111–121.
  • The importance of archeology for historical research, for exhibitions, educational communication and redesign in the Nazi memorial sites, in: Thomas Kersting et al. (Ed.), Archeology and Memory. Researching Nazi camp sites - preserving - conveying, Petersberg 2016, pp. 17–31.
  • Oranienburg and the Sachsenhausen Memorial. Confrontations, models and conflicts of interest after German reunification, in: Horst Seferens (Ed.), Schwierige Nachbarschaft? The relationship between German cities and "their" concentration camps before and after 1945, Berlin 2018, pp. 157–173

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Ambassador Gourdault-Montagne honored the president [correct: foundation director] and head of the Sachsenhausen memorial, Günter Morsch, with the insignia of a knight of the Legion of Honor. Morsch supported the French survivors and their families and worked closely with the French Foundation to commemorate the deportation (Fondation française pour la mémoire de la déportation) and the Amicale française ”, see press release from the French Embassy in Germany on October 11th 2013 .
  2. ↑ Memorial director Morsch receives Luxembourg Order of Merit , Märkische Oderzeitung of July 28, 2017, accessed on June 1, 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME Morsch, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and memorial director
DATE OF BIRTH 15th August 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Wendel