Oliver from Wrochem

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Oliver von Wrochem (* 1968 in San Diego ) is a German historian who has headed the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial since 2019 .

Life

Von Wrochem was born in California in 1968 . In 1971 his family moved to Cologne .

After graduating from high school , he studied history and German at the University of Cologne and the University of Hamburg (MA). From 1997 to 1998 he was a research assistant at the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg (FZH). From 1998 to 1999 he was responsible for the permanent exhibition "Border Crossings - Life on the Elbe" in a half-timbered barn in Konau (Neuhaus District) , which documents life on the inner-German border . In 2000 he was a research assistant at the University of Hamburg. From 2001 to 2002 he worked for the exhibition " Dimensions of the War of Extermination 1941 to 1944 " at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research (HIS). In 2005 he received a scholarship from the DGB-affiliated Hans Böckler Foundation under Bernd Wegner with the Manstein dissertation . War of Extermination and Post-War Memory for Dr. phil. PhD . From 2005 to 2008 he was a research assistant at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg.

In 2009 he became head of the study and meeting center at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial in Hamburg and also deputy head of the memorial. Since June 2019 he has been head of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. He is a member of the Military History Working Group and the German Committee for the History of the Second World War .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • With Evelyn Glensk, Rita Bake : The refugees are coming. Arrival and admission in Hamburg after the end of the war. Results-Verlag, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-87916-053-8 .
  • Erich von Manstein. War of annihilation and politics of history (= war in history , 27). Schöningh, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 978-3-506-72977-4 .
  • with Ute Wrocklage: A perpetrator, follower, spectator, victim in the family? Materials on biographical family research (= Neuengammer study books , 1). Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Hamburg 2010.
  • National Socialist Germanization Policy and its Consequences. The example of Slovenia (= Neuengammer study books , 2). Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Hamburg 2010.
  • Survivors and their children in conversation. The public memory of the concentration camps and the passing on of the prison experience to the following generations. Documentation of the international conference, 5. – 7. May 2010, Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial (= Neuengammer study booklets , 3). Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Hamburg 2011.

Editorships

  • ed. with Matthias Brosch, Michael Elm, Norman Geißler, Brigitta Elisa Simbürger: Exclusive solidarity. Left anti-Semitism in Germany. From idealism to the anti-globalization movement. Metropol, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-938690-28-4 .
  • ed. with Peter Koch: Memorials of Nazi injustice and the Bundeswehr. Inventory and perspectives. Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76778-3 .
  • ed .: The Neuengamme concentration camp and its satellite camps. History, post-history, memory, education (= Neuengammer Colloquia , 1). Metropol, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940938-87-9 .
  • ed .: Scandinavia in World War II and the White Buses rescue operation. Events and memories (= Neuengammer Colloquia , 2). Metropol, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86331-060-8 .
  • ed. with Andreas Hilger : The divided nation. National losses and identities in the 20th century (= series of the quarterly books for contemporary history , 107). Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-71863-8 .
  • ed. with Michael Jonas , Ulrich Lappenküper : Dynamics of Violence. War in the field of tension between politics, ideology and society. Festschrift for Bernd Wegner . Schöningh, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-506-77939-7 .
  • Reprisals and terror. “Retaliation Actions” in German-occupied Europe 1939–1945. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-506-78721-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver von Wrochem: Erich von Manstein. War of Extermination and the Politics of History . Paderborn 2006, p. 11.
  2. ↑ New organizational structure in memorial work at https://www.kz-gedenkstaette-neuengamme.de .
personal data
SURNAME Wrochem, Oliver of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH San Diego