Rolf Keller (historian)

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Rolf Keller (* 1956 ) is a German historian . He has been involved in memorial work in Lower Saxony for more than thirty years and has authored a fundamental study on Soviet prisoners of war in the German Reich .

Life

Rolf Keller studied modern history . From 1985 to 2004 he worked as a consultant at the then Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education (NLpB) in Hanover , which was also responsible for the Bergen-Belsen Memorial and the Wolfenbüttel Prison Memorial . At the NLpB, Keller was primarily concerned with coming to terms with the Nazi era and with the culture of remembrance . Among other things, he worked on the history of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and also carried out an extensive investigation into certain National Socialist main camps in Lower Saxony, in which mainly Soviet prisoners of war were imprisoned during the Second World War .

From 1999 to 2004 he was the representative of the State of Lower Saxony in the German-Russian research project “Soviet Prisoners of War” and researched the general history of Soviet soldiers in German captivity during the Nazi era. He also worked from 2000 to 2007 as head of the research and exhibition project “ POW camp ” as part of the redesign of the Bergen-Belsen memorial.

Around 2002 he did his doctorate at the University of Hanover with the study Soviet prisoners of war in the German Reich, 1941–42. The Wehrmacht prisoner-of-war organization and the prisoners' labor in the conflict between pragmatism and ideology .

The Thaersche Villa in Celle  - the seat of the Lower Saxony Memorial Foundation

When the Lower Saxony State Center for Civic Education was dissolved by a cabinet decision at the end of 2004 , Keller switched to the newly established Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation , based in Celle, as the successor organization to the NLpB department for memorial work and coming to terms with National Socialism and its consequences . Since then he has worked there as a department head. Keller heads the Lower Saxony Memorial Funding Department , which supports the regional memorial work in the state financially and in the development of memorial concepts, and coordinates the scientific and educational work of the memorials in Lower Saxony.

His main research interests are the history of National Socialism, in particular the captivity of war and the prisoner of war, concentration and labor camps as well as forced labor . Keller is the author, co-author and editor of numerous publications on the history of Nazi concentration camps, prisoner of war and labor camps, as well as the Soviet prisoners of war, and has curated several exhibitions on this topic.

Publications

as an author

  • Soviet prisoners of war in the German Reich 1941/42. Treatment and employment between the politics of extermination and war economic constraints (=  series of publications by the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation , Volume 1) Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0989-0 (reviews: H-Soz-Kult , Kulturthemen.de , literaturkritik .de ).

as a co-author

  • Forced labor in uniform. Italian military internees at Rammelsberg. In: Bernhild Vögel (Ed.): System of arbitrariness. Operational repression and National Socialist persecution on the Rammelsberg and in the Braunschweig region (=  Rammelsberger Forum , Volume 1). Verlag Goslarsche Zeitung, Goslar 2002, ISBN 3-9804749-5-X , pages 51-70.
  • together with Klaus-Dieter Müller u. a .: Memorial book of deceased Soviet prisoners of war. Hammelburg Cemetery, Bavaria. Published by the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. , Kassel 2002 (German, partly Russian).
  • together with Wolfgang Marienfeld u. a .: Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Reports and documents (=  Bergen-Belsen-Schriften , Volume 1). Published by the Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education with the participation of the Scientific Advisory Board for Memorial Work. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-525-35488-6 .

as co-editor and co-author

  • together with Alfred Fleßner u. a .: Research on medicine under National Socialism. Prehistory - crime - aftermath (=  series of publications by the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation , Volume 3). Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8353-1407-8 .
  • together with Silke Petry: Soviet prisoners of war on the job 1941–1945. Documents on living and working conditions in Northern Germany (=  series of publications by the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation , Volume 2). Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1227-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Authors >> Rolf Keller. In: publisher's website (www.wallstein-verlag.de). Wallstein Verlag , accessed on April 25, 2015 (short biography).
  2. ^ A b Forced and Slave Labor in Nazi-Dominated Europe. One-Day Symposium, October 24, 2002 >> Rolf Keller. In: USHMM website (www.ushmm.org). United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), accessed April 25, 2015 (English, German).
  3. ↑ Jörg Osterloh (author): Soviet prisoners of war 1941–1945 as reflected in national and international studies. Research overview and bibliography . Ed .: Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism e. V. at the TU Dresden (=  Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research. Reports and Studies . No. 3 ). 2nd supplemented edition. Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism V. at the TU Dresden, Dresden 1996, ISBN 3-931648-02-8 , p. 29 ( tu-dresden.de [PDF; 1.4 MB ; accessed on April 25, 2015]).
  4. ^ A b Jens Nagel: "Russian Camp" in the Reich . In: Fritz Bauer Institute (Ed.): Insight 09 - Bulletin of the Fritz Bauer Institute . Spring 2013. Frankfurt am Main ( fritz-bauer-institut.de [PDF; 16.0 MB ; accessed on April 26, 2015] Review of Rolf Keller's book Soviet prisoners of war in the German Reich 1941/42 ).
  5. ↑ Simon Benne: Historians on death marches: "An escalation of violence" >> About the person . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) . Hanover April 2, 2015 ( online edition of the HAZ [accessed on April 26, 2015] Cf. information on the person of Rolf Keller).
  6. ↑ Organization >> Dr. Rolf Keller. (No longer available online.) In: Website of the Lower Saxony Memorial Foundation (www.gedenkstaettenfoerderung.stiftung-ng.de). Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation, archived from the original on January 24, 2015 ; Retrieved April 25, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gedenkstaettenfoerderung.stiftung-ng.de

Remarks

  1. ↑ Rolf Keller dealt in his investigation in particular with the three so-called "Russian camps" in the Lüneburg Heath  - the NS main camps (Stalag) Stalag XI C in Bergen-Belsen, Stalag XI D in Fallingbostel-Oerbke and Stalag X D in Wietzendorf. In these camps mainly Soviet prisoners of war were imprisoned by the German Wehrmacht under mostly inhuman conditions during the Second World War , many of whom died. He reported on his research results in various publications and processed the material in his 2011 book Soviet prisoners of war in the German Reich 1941/42 .
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1956