Bernd-A. Rusinek

Bernd-A. Rusinek (born March 1, 1954 in Helmstedt ) is a German historian, head of the archive at Forschungszentrum Jülich and an adjunct professor of modern history at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf .

Live and act

After completing an apprenticeship as a banker, Rusinek earned his Abitur in 1976 on the second educational path at the Braunschweig College . From 1978 to 1984 he studied history, German studies and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Düsseldorf as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . From 1985 to 1987 he was a research associate at the Düsseldorf Memorial , where he designed the permanent exhibition Persecution and Resistance in Düsseldorf 1933-1945 . In 1988 he was with a study on youth in World War II with summa cum laude doctorate . In 1993 he completed his habilitation with a study on the history of the Jülich nuclear research facility (KFA).

After holding positions as visiting professor at the Charles University in Prague and working as a research assistant in the main state archive in Düsseldorf from 1995 to 1998, during which he prepared an expert report on the case of the Nazi past of Hans Ernst Schneider, alias Hans Schwertes , for the North Rhine-Westphalian state government Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf in 1999 as associate professor .

From 2000 to 2002 he was a substitute professor at the University of Siegen . From 2003 he worked as part of a project of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg on the biography of the physicist and longtime DFG Vice President Walther Gerlach . Rusinek has been head of the archive at Forschungszentrum Jülich since 2008; He is also a private lecturer at the University of Düsseldorf on the basis of an unscheduled professorship.

Rusinek's dissertation was commissioned by the Interior Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia. The aim of the study was to clarify whether the members of the Ehrenfeld group who were publicly hanged by the Gestapo in Cologne on November 10, 1944, were members of a resistance movement against the Nazi regime or were criminals. After evaluating the documents, Rusinek came to the conclusion that the young people who had been killed had hardly any connection with the young people known as " edelweiss pirates ".

Awards

1990: Science Award of the International Printing Fair a. Paper / DRUPA for the dissertation Society in the Disaster. Terror, illegality, resistance. Cologne 1944/45 .

1995: Science Award of the Society of Friends and Supporters of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf for the habilitation thesis Die Anlage A history of the nuclear research facility Jülich (KFA) from its foundation to the consolidation .

Publications (selection)

• Society in disaster. Terror, illegality, resistance - Cologne 1944/45 . Klartext, Essen 1989, ISBN 3-88474-134-9 . (also dissertation, University of Düsseldorf 1988)
• as editor: Introduction to the interpretation of historical sources. Focus: modern times . Schöningh, Paderborn 1992, ISBN 3-506-99426-3 .
• The research center. A history of the KFA Jülich from its foundation to 1980 (= studies on the history of large German research institutions. Volume 11). Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-593-35636-8 .
• with Wilfried Loth (Hrsg.): Umwandlungspolitik. Nazi elites in West German post-war society. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-593-35994-4 .
  • therein: From Schneider to Schwerte: Anatomy of a change. Pp. 143-180.
• (Ed.) End of war 1945. Crimes, disasters, liberations from a national and international perspective . Wallstein, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-793-4 .
• with Anselm Faust and Burkhard Dietz: situation reports of the Rhenish Gestapo offices . So far 3 volumes. Droste, Düsseldorf 2012–2016
  • Volume 1: 1934. ISBN 978-3-7700-7638-3 .
  • Volume 2.1: January - June 1935. ISBN 978-3-7700-7643-7 .
  • Volume 2.2: July - December 1935. ISBN 978-3-7700-7646-8 .
  • Volume 3.1: January - March 1936. ISBN 978-3-7700-7647-5 .
• with Andreas Kühn (ed.): The North Rhine-Westphalia reading book . Greven, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-7743-0633-2 .
• The Greifeld case , Karlsruhe - science management and the Nazi past (= publications from the archive of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. 5). KIT Scientific Publishing, Karlsruhe 2019, ISBN 978-3-7315-0844-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernd-A. Rusinek in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Bernd A. Rusinek with curriculum vitae
• Page from Prof. Dr. Bernd-A. Rusinek at the University of Düsseldorf
• Expert opinion on the Schneider Schwerte case at RWTH Aachen University
• The Greifeld Case, Karlsruhe - Science Management and the Nazi Past

Remarks

1. ↑ Bernd-A. Rusinek: curriculum vitae in tabular form. January 2017, accessed May 26, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Bernd-A. Rusinek: Autobiographical lecture for the anniversary "60 years Braunschweig-Kolleg". August 2009, accessed May 26, 2020 . 
3. ↑ See the review by Heinz Boberach in: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 54, 1990, p. 373 f.