Gideon Botsch

Gideon Botsch (* 1970 in Berlin ) is an adjunct professor of political science at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, as well as head of the Emil Julius Gumbel Research Center for Antisemitism and Right-Wing Extremism at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam .

Life

Gideon Botsch studied political science at the Free University of Berlin and obtained his diploma in 1997 with a thesis on the continuity of National Socialist Europe concepts in early right-wing extremism in the Federal Republic of Germany . From 1999 he received a doctoral scholarship from the Hans Böckler Foundation . In 2003 he was employed at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science with the dissertation "Political Science" supervised by Peter Steinbach and Johannes Tuchel . The German Institute for International Studies and the Faculty of International Studies at the University of Berlin 1940–1945 as Dr. phil. PhD .

From 2000 to 2004 he was a lecturer at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Free University of Berlin and in 2004/05 he was a research assistant at the House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial and Education Center , where he helped design a new permanent exhibition. Since 2004 he has been a lecturer at Touro College Berlin and since 2006 research assistant for anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism research at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies, which is affiliated with the University of Potsdam, where he also worked as a lecturer. In 2007 he became the managing editor of the journal for the history of religion and intellectual history . Since 2010 he has been a liaison professor at the Hans Böckler Foundation . In 2012 he presented a comprehensive overview of the history of the extreme right in the Federal Republic. In 2014 he completed his habilitation (Professorship Heinz Kleger ) and a private lecturer in political science at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences. Since 2015 he has also coordinated the PhD program Ludwig Rosenberg Kolleg “Historical Relationships between the Labor Movement and Judaism” of the MMZ and the Hans Böckler Foundation. Botsch has been an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam since 2018.

In a report on Thilo Sarrazin's interview in Lettre International , commissioned by two Berlin SPD district associations , Botsch described parts of Sarrazin's statements as “racist, elitist and degrading”. The regional arbitration tribunal of the Berlin SPD ruled, however, that Sarrazin had not made racist statements; he was therefore not expelled from the party.

Botsch is a member of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW), the Society for Intellectual History (GGG) and the Association of Historians in Germany (VHHD).

Publications

• "Political Science" in World War II: the "German Foreign Studies" in action 1940-1945 (with an escort from Peter Steinbach ). Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 978-3-506-71358-2
• "Political Science" in World War II. The "German Foreign Studies" in action 1940–1945. Schöningh, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-506-71358-2
• The NPD and its milieu: studies and reports. Klemm & Oelschläger, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-932577-41-3
• Politics of hatred. Anti-Semitism and radical rights in Europe , as ed., (Haskala - Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen Vol. 44). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, 2010, ISBN 978-3-487-14438-2
• Islamophobia and anti-Semitism - a controversial comparison. , as co-editor Gideon Botsch, De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-026510-1
• The extreme right in the Federal Republic from 1949 until today. History compact. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-534-23832-3 ( review ); Parallel edition in the publication series of the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Volume 1283 . Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-838-90283-8
• Youth Movement, Anti-Semitism and Right-Wing Politics. From the "Freideutschen Jugendtag" to the present , as editor with Josef Haverkamp: ( European-Jewish studies, contributions . Vol. 13). De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin a. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-030622-4 . [belongs to the Anne Frank Shoah Library ]
• True democracy and national community. Ideology and program of the NPD and its right-wing extremist environment , (Edition right-wing extremism), Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2017.
• "Umvolkung" and "Volkstod". On the continuity of an extreme right-wing paranoia , as editor with Christoph Kopke , edition pyrrhus, vol. 5, Ulm: Klemm & Oelschläger 2019, ISBN 978-3-86281-148-9
• Right skirt. Rise and change in neo-Nazi youth culture using the example of Brandenburg , as editors with Jan Raabe , and Christoph Schulze, be.bra Verlag Berlin, (Potsdam contributions to anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism research, vol. 1), 2019, 432 pages, ISBN 978-3954102297

Web links

• Literature by and about Gideon Botsch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gideon Botsch at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Review “Political Science”… by Uwe Ullrich; Review online at Shoa.de ( memento from September 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), doi: 10.1007 / s11615-006-0074-2
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Priv. Doz. Gideon Botsch - Moses Mendelssohn Center - Potsdam. Retrieved February 9, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Review by Lars Legath: Gideon Botsch: Die extreme right in the Federal Republic of Germany 1949 to today , in: Sehepunkte, Review journal for the historical sciences, edition 12/2012, No. 7/8
5. ↑ Priv. Doz. Gideon Botsch - Moses Mendelssohn Center - Potsdam. Retrieved February 9, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Dr. Gideon Botsch: Report from December 22, 2009 (PDF; 299 kB)
7. ^ Opinion on Thilo Sarrazin "Racist, elitist and degrading" Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 8, 2010. Retrieved September 27, 2012
8. ↑ Martin Klesmann: The arbitral tribunal discontinues proceedings - without complaint: The SPD wants to hold out Sarrazin. In: Berliner Zeitung . March 16, 2010, accessed September 20, 2015 .