Andreas Dornheim

Andreas Dornheim (born November 20, 1958 in Würzburg ) is a German historian .

After studying history and political science at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and receiving his doctorate ( Dr. rer. Soc. ) In 1992, Dornheim worked as a research assistant at the Institute for History at the Erfurt University of Education . After his habilitation in 2001, Dornheim taught as a private lecturer for modern history and regional history at the University of Erfurt . In October 2007 he moved to the Institute for History at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg . From 2008 to 2012 he represented the chair for modern and contemporary history, including regional history. He is also the 2nd chairman and managing director of the Society for Agricultural History .

Dornheim prepared a report for the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection "on the role of the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture in the Nazi era", which has been published online since April 29, 2011. The news magazine Der Spiegel emphasizes that the Bamberg historian sees the “personal continuities from the Third Reich to the Federal Republic of Germany the worst researched today”, especially in the field of agricultural policy. According to his report, “many Nazi agricultural politicians are high SS leaders and convinced representatives of the Nazi racial ideology “.

Andreas Dornheim is married and has two children.

Fonts (selection)

As an author

• Aristocracy in bourgeois industrialized society. A sociological-historical case study about the Waldburg-Zeil family (= European university publications. Series 31: Political Sciences. Vol. 218). Lang, Berlin et al. 1993, ISBN 3-631-44859-7 (also: dissertation, University, Tübingen 1991).
• Political upheaval in Erfurt in 1989/90. Böhlau, Weimar et al. 1995, ISBN 3-412-11293-3 .
• Röhm's man abroad. Politics and murder of the SA agent Georg Bell (= history. Vol. 18). Lit, Münster et al. 1998, ISBN 3-8258-3596-0 .
• with Bernhard Post and Burkhard Stenzel: Thuringia 1933–1945. Aspects of National Socialist Rule (= Thuringia yesterday & today. Vol. 5). State Center for Political Education Thuringia, Erfurt 1997, ISBN 3-931426-19-X .
• Development and meaning of the term “Free State” (= Factum. Backgrounds and Discussions. Vol. 8, ZDB -ID 2438096-9 ). State Center for Political Education Thuringia, Erfurt 2001.
• Inquiry and entrepreneurship. The Cologne chemist and industrialist Hermann Julius Grüneberg (1827–1894). Edited by Walther Brügelmann. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2006, ISBN 3-412-03006-6 .

As editor

• Thuringia 1989/1990. Actors of the upheaval report (= Thuringia yesterday & today. Vol. 1, ZDB -ID 2137457-0 ). State Center for Political Education Thuringia, Erfurt 1995.
• with Winfried Franzen , Alexander Thumfart and Arno Waschkuhn : Justice. Interdisciplinary basics. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen et al. 1999, ISBN 3-531-13302-0 .
• with Sylvia Greiffenhagen : Identity and Political Culture. Hans-Georg Wehling for the sixty-fifth. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-17-017602-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Dornheim in the catalog of the German National Library
• Andreas Dornheim on the website of the University of Bamberg
• An interview with Andreas Dornheim about his report for the Federal Ministry of Agriculture by Christian Mentel on Zeitgeschichte-online August 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Race, Space and Autarky. Expert opinion on the role of the Reich Ministry for Food and Agriculture in the Nazi era . Developed for the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection . Written by Andreas Dornheim. Bamberg, March 31, 2011.
2. ↑ NS-processing. Historian sees “huge deficits” in the Ministry of Agriculture . In: Der Spiegel , May 2, 2011, p. 16.