Harald Schmid (political scientist)

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Harald Schmid (2011)

Harald Schmid (* 1964 in Freudenstadt ) is a German political scientist and contemporary historian .

Life

Schmid initially completed an apprenticeship as a printing form manufacturer. From 1987 to 1991 he worked as a freelance journalist for the Südwest-Presse (Freudenstadt editorial team), the Rheinische Post (Duisburg editorial office) and the Bergedorfer Zeitung . From 1988 to 1995 he studied political science and history at the University of Duisburg and the University of Hamburg . He wrote his diploma thesis on Auschwitz and the modern age. Interpretations of the rationality content of the National Socialist mass extermination (1994). From 1996 to 1999 he received a doctoral scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation . In 2001 he was awarded a Dr. phil. doctorate with the study "The dead are still needed". History politics and days of remembrance - the institutionalization of the 9./10. November 1938 in the Political Culture of the Federal Republic of Germany (1999).

Schmid then worked as a research assistant at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research (member of the team of historians of the exhibition " Crimes of the Wehrmacht. Dimensions of the War of Extermination 1941 to 1944 ", which opened in November 2001 ), at the Historical-Technical Museum in Peenemünde , lecturer at the Academy for Politics, Economics and Culture in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, lecturer at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Hamburg and research assistant at the historical seminar at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . He was co-founder and partner of the agency Clio & Co. The history service (2007-2017). From 2006 to 2018 he was a board member of the Politics and History working group of the German Association for Political Science .

Schmid has been working as a historian at the Schleswig-Holstein Memorials Community Foundation since 2011 and has been a member of the board of the State Working Group on Memorials and Places of Remembrance in Schleswig-Holstein eV, the Heinrich Böll Foundation Schleswig-Holstein eV , since 2012 . (since 2015) and the FORUM of the regional working groups of memorials, places of remembrance and initiatives in Germany (since 2016). He is a member of the speakers' council of the Lübeck Remembrance Culture Forum, which was founded in 2018, and a member of the advisory board of the Henri-Goldstein-Haus Quickborn sponsoring and support association .

His research and work focuses include historical politics , cultures and media of remembrance , memorials , regional contemporary history and political extremism . He works as an author, editor, speaker, reviewer, moderator and curator. For example, he was in charge of developing concepts for memorials and places of remembrance: in 2015 the state concept for Schleswig-Holstein and in the same year the concept for the further development of the culture of remembrance for the state capital Kiel . In 2017 he curated the permanent exhibition in the "Haus der Gegenwart" as part of the redesign of the Husum-Schwesing concentration camp memorial . He played a leading role in the redesign of the Ladelund concentration camp memorial and meeting place, which was reopened in November 2017 (including a project and exhibition concept). He has repeatedly participated in current debates as a journalist. In July 2020, in the context of the historical-political scandal surrounding statements by the managing director of the Saxon Memorials Foundation in memory of the victims of political tyranny , Siegfried Reiprich , demanded that he resign.

Publications (selection)

Schmid is co-founder, co-editor and member of the editorial board of the yearbook for politics and history, which has been published since 2010 . From 2009 to 2013 he was co-editor and member of the editorial board of the yearbook Democratic History . Since 2011 he has been the editor of the 30 to 50-page newsletter, which is published twice a year, for memorials and places of remembrance in Schleswig-Holstein .

Monographs

  • Remember the "day of guilt". The November pogrom of 1938 in German history policy (Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg, Forum Contemporary History , Volume 11), Results-Verlag, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-87916-062-7 (also dissertation, Hamburg 1999)
  • Anti-fascism and persecution of the Jews. The "Reichskristallnacht" as a political day of remembrance in the GDR (Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research: Reports and Studies , Volume 43), V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89971-146-7
  • with Peter Reichel : From catastrophe to stumbling block. Hamburg and National Socialism after 1945 (Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg: Hamburger Zeitspuren , Volume 4), Dölling and Galitz, Munich / Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937904-27-1

Editorships

  • with Justyna Krzymianowska: Political Memory. History and collective identity. Peter Reichel on his 65th birthday , Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 3-8260-3656-5
  • with Peter Reichel and Peter Steinbach : National Socialism - the second story. Overcoming - Interpretation - Memory , CH Beck-Verlag, Munich 2009
  • History Politics and Collective Memory. Cultures of remembrance in theory and practice (Forms of Remembrance, Volume 41), V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89971-575-0
  • Culture of remembrance and regional history . Martin Meidenbauer, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-89975-169-7
  • with Robert Bohn , Susanne Bohn, Uwe Danker , Sebastian Lehmann and Astrid Schwabe , Dirk Stegmann : Democratic History , Yearbook for Schleswig-Holstein, volumes 20–23, 2009–2012
  • with Janina Fuge and Rainer Hering : The memory of the city and region. Historical images in Northern Germany (Research Center for Contemporary History Hamburg: Hamburger Zeitspuren , Volume 7), 2nd edition, Munich, Hamburg, 2011
  • with Janina Fuge and Rainer Hering : memory rooms. Historical images and cultures of remembrance in Northern Germany ( Time + History series of the Sparkassenstiftung Schleswig-Holstein , Volume 33) ( Forms of Remembrance , Volume 56), V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 3-8471-0243-5
  • with Susanne Ehrlich, Nina Leonhard and Horst-Alfred Heinrich : Difficult memory. Political Science and National Socialism. Contributions to the controversy about continuities after 1945 , Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 3-8487-1074-9
  • with Henning Borggräfe and Hanne Leßau: The changing perception of Nazi crimes and their victims (International Tracing Service, Bad Arolsen: Fundstücke , Volume 3), Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 3-8353-1744-X
  • with Claudia Fröhlich, Horst-Alfred Heinrich and Birgit Schwelling: Yearbook for Politics and History , Volumes 1–7, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 2010–2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clio & Co. The history service. Internet Archive, accessed May 20, 2020 .
  2. ^ Peter Intelmann: Meckel and a new forum for the culture of remembrance. Lübecker Nachrichten, January 24, 2019, accessed on November 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Ministry of Justice, Culture and Europe of the State of Schleswig-Holstein: State concept for the promotion and further development of remembrance work at historical learning locations for dealing with the National Socialist dictatorship in Schleswig-Holstein. April 2015, accessed November 11, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Harald Schmid (with Jens Rönnau and Johannes Rosenplänter): Kiel and National Socialism Concept for the further development of the culture of remembrance. October 2015, accessed November 11, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Thomas Steensen: Against forgetting. Schwesing Concentration Camp Memorial Re-opened . In: North Friesland . 198, June 2017, p. 24 f .
  6. ↑ Raimo Alsen, Angelika Königseder (ed.): The concentration camp in the village. History and post-history of the Ladelund satellite camp. Exhibition catalog . Metropol, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-374-6 .
  7. ↑ Harald Schmid: The other genocide. A reminder on the 60th anniversary of Himmler's “Auschwitz Decree” . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . December 16, 2002.
  8. ↑ Harald Schmid: Shock from Hessen 40 years ago In November 1966 the newly founded NPD began to move into seven state parliaments. In: Friday - The East-West weekly newspaper. November 10, 2006, accessed November 20, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Harald Schmid: Anti-Zionist Antifascism How anti-Semitic was the GDR? About the first and last justification of the other German state. In: Freitag - the east-west weekly newspaper. June 8, 2007, accessed November 20, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Harald Schmid: commemorative commemoration. The culture of remembrance of united Germany . In: Sheets for German and international politics . tape 53 , no. 11 , 2008, p. 41-50 .
  11. ↑ Harald Schmid: "Islamophobes are more widespread than Islamists" (interview with Maria Sterkl). In: The Standard. June 27, 2011, accessed May 20, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Harald Schmid: More presence in the memorials! Places of remembrance in times of memory drain and depoliticization. In: memorials circular. 2015, accessed November 20, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Harald Schmid: Double "coping with the past" in Germany (interview). In: May 8, 1945: End of the Second World War. Deutschlandfunk Nova, May 1, 2020, accessed on May 20, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Harald Schmid: Liberation or Defeat? 75 years of the end of the war. In: Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation. May 8, 2020, accessed May 20, 2020 .
  15. ↑ According to the NS comparison: organizations nationwide demand the resignation of the head of the memorial site Reiprich. July 2, 2020, accessed July 10, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Harald Schmid: “Completely unacceptable comparison” The head of the memorial sites in Saxony compares the Stuttgart riots with the “Reichskristallnacht”. Nazi researcher Harald Schmid calls for his resignation (interview). In: the daily newspaper. July 7, 2020, accessed July 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Freudenstadt