Wolfgang Gust

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Wolfgang Gust during a book signing (2006)

Wolfgang Gust (born April 9, 1935 in Hanover ) is a German journalist and author .

Life

He studied Romance languages ​​in Freiburg, Bonn and Toulouse (France) and business administration in Hamburg. From 1965 he worked for the news magazine Der Spiegel - first as a business editor, then as a foreign editor. From the beginning of 1970 he went to Paris as chief correspondent; In 1977 he became deputy head of foreign affairs, and in 1981 head of the SPIEGEL-BUCH department. After the book series was discontinued, Gust was editor in the series department and author of the series Nagorno-Karabakh and the Genocide . Since 1993 he has been working as a freelance journalist and author. So far published The Genocide of the Armenians and Empire of the Sultans. A history of the Ottoman Empire .

Gust examined the files of the German Foreign Office published in 1919 by the Protestant theologian Johannes Lepsius and found that in many documents, omissions and forgeries in particular had covered up the German part of the responsibility for the Armenian genocide . In collaboration with his wife in March 2000, he published the wording of the original files, including the English translation, and the individual manipulations on the Internet. Three years later he published hundreds of other German AA files on the genocide on the same portal . In 2005 a selection of the most important documents appeared in the book The Genocide of the Armenians 1915/16 . The critical review written on this by Hilmar Kaiser triggered a fierce historical controversy.

Works

  • The Armenian Genocide: The Tragedy of the World's Oldest Christian People . Hanser, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-446-17373-0 .
  • The empire of the sultans. A history of the Ottoman Empire. Hanser, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-446-17374-9 ; Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-56-8 .
  • The Armenian genocide in 1915/16. Documents from the Political Archive of the German Foreign Office . zu Klampen, Springe 2005, ISBN 3-934920-59-4 , English edition: The Armenian genocide: evidence from the German Foreign Office archives, 1915-1916 , New York, NY; Oxford: Berghahn Books 2014, ISBN 978-1-78238-143-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ We will exterminate you. Battle of Nagorno-Karabakh and the Armenian genocide . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , 1992, pp. 138-148 ( online - part 1).
  2. ↑ We will exterminate you. Battle of Nagorno-Karabakh and the Armenian genocide . In: Der Spiegel . No. 14 , 1992, pp. 150–166 ( online - part 2).
  3. ↑ We will exterminate you. Battle of Nagorno-Karabakh and the Armenian genocide . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1992, pp. 158–170 ( online - part 3).
  4. ↑ Homepage of Wolfgang Gust
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Gust: Magical Square. Johannes Lepsius, Germany and Armenia . Armenocide
  6. ↑ armenocide.net ( Memento from July 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) armenocide.net
  7. ↑ Hilmar Kaiser: Wolfgang Gust, “The Armenian Genocide 1915/16”. Documents from the Political Archive of the German Foreign Office . In: Journal of Genocide Research , Volume 8, Issue 3, 2006, pp. 355-359.
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Gust: Reply to Hilmar Kaiser's review of The Armenian Genocide 1915/16 . In: Journal of Genocide Research , Volume. 9, Issue 2, pp. 340-343. Hilmar Kaiser: Response to Wolfgang Gust . In: Journal of Genocide Research , Volume. 9, Issue 2, pp. 343-345.
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Gust: Answer to Hilmar Kaiser's criticism . armenocide.de (undated)
personal data
SURNAME Gust, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover