Barbara Becker-Jákli

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Barbara Becker-Jákli (2016)

Barbara Becker-Jákli (* 1952 in Rosenheim ) is a German historian and author of publications with a focus on the topics of National Socialism and the persecution of Jews in Cologne from 1933 to 1945.

Life

As the daughter of a Hungarian father and a German mother, Barbara Becker-Jákli was born in Rosenheim, Upper Bavaria, but has lived in Cologne since childhood. After attending a grammar school there, she studied history , ethnology and philosophy at the University of Cologne . In 1981 she submitted her dissertation, Die Protestanten in Köln , to the Philosophical Faculty of the University , which was also published in 1983 in the series of the Verein für Rheinische Kirchengeschichte .

From 1988 until she retired on December 31, 2017, Barbara Becker-Jákli worked as a research assistant at the NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne , researching the former Jewish population in Cologne and their lives. In addition to her publications on the history of the Jewish population of the city of Cologne, especially during the years 1933 to 1945, she published a detective novel in 1998, which has now been published in several editions, and edited the handwritten manuscript of the then Cologne city ​​physicist Bernhard Elkendorf “Medical Topography of the city of Cologne ”.

Barbara Becker-Jákli is married and lives in Cologne.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

As an author

  • The Protestants in Cologne. The development of a religious minority from the middle of the 18th to the middle of the 19th century. (= Series of publications of the Association for Rhenish Church History. Volume 75), Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-7927-0780-2 (also dissertation, University of Cologne, 1981.)
  • Jews in Brühl. (= Series of publications on the history of Brühl. Volume 14), Brühl 1988, ISBN 3-926076-22-4 .
  • "Fear God, honor the king". Evangelical life in Cologne on the left bank of the Rhine 1850-1918. (= Series of publications of the Association for Rhenish Church History. Volume 91), Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-7927-1018-8 .
  • I loved Cologne so much. Life stories of Jewish citizens of Cologne. (= Publications by the NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne in conjunction with the EL-DE-Haus association), Volksblatt Verlag, Cologne 1993.
  • Murder in the Biedermeier period. (= Köln-Krimi ), Emons Verlag , Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-89705-102-8 (revised new edition: cmz-Verlag, Rheinbach 2017, ISBN 978-3-87062-184-1 ).
  • The Jewish hospital in Cologne. The history of the Israelite asylum for the sick and the elderly 1869-1945. (= Writings of the NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne. Volume 11), Emons Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89705-350-0 .
  • Jewish Cologne. History and present. A city guide. Emons Verlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-89705-873-6 .
  • Eberhard von Groote. Diary 1815-1824. First volume 1815 . (= Publications of the Society for Rhenish History, LXXXII / 1) Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2015, ISBN 978-3-7700-7644-4 .
  • The Jewish cemetery in Cologne-Bocklemünd. History, architecture and biographies . Ed. NS Documentation Center Cologne, Emons Verlag, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-95451-889-0 .

As a co-author

  • Contemporary witness reports on: Jewish fate in Cologne 1918-1945. (= Catalog for the exhibition of the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne / NS Documentation Center 1988/89) Cologne 1988.

As editor

  • together with Horst Matzerath and Harald Buhlan: Hidden Past. About dealing with the Nazi era in Cologne. Articles and essays. (= Writings of the NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne. Volume 1), Emons Verlag, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-924491-51-8 .
  • Cologne around 1825 - a doctor sees his city. The medical topography of the city of Cologne by Dr. Bernhard Elkendorf. Edition and commentary. (= Publications of the Cologne City Museum, Volume 1), Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-927396-75-3 .
  • together with Werner Jung and Martin Rüther: National Socialism and Regional History. Festschrift for Horst Matzerath. (= Writings of the NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne. Volume 8), Emons Verlag, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-89705-255-5 .

Web links

Commons : Barbara Becker-Jákli  - Collection of Images

literature

  • Annual report 2011 / NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne. Self-published. Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-938636-17-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Price page ( Memento from April 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger, April 18, 2016, p. 24.
personal data
SURNAME Becker-Jákli, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and specialist author
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosenheim