Bettina Blank

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Bettina Blank (* 1956 ) is a German political scientist and employee of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg .

Life

Bettina Blank studied history, art history and political science. She obtained a Magister (MA) and worked for the company for corporate history , among other things . In 1990 she was taught by Hans-Peter Schwarz at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne with the contemporary history dissertation The West German States and the Emergence of the Federal Republic. On the dispute over the Frankfurt documents from July 1948 on Dr. phil. PhD . She was a scholarship holder of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and was financially supported by the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich.

In 1998 she took part in a scientific symposium organized in the Federal Archives in Koblenz on the subject of “50 Years of the Fall of the Knights Conference, 1948–1998”, where she spoke about the Frankfurt documents .

Blank works for the Baden-Württemberg State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Stuttgart, where he works in the field of left-wing extremism . She is also a speaker at the Veldensteiner Kreis and author of the yearbook Extremism & Democracy .

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Her work The West German States and the Emergence of the Federal Republic (1995) was received positively in professional circles, so it was an "important contribution to the history of the emergence of the Federal Republic" ( Klaus-Jürgen Matz ). According to the cultural journalist Gerald Koll , her dissertation was "fundamental work" on the subject. The Heidelberg historian Werner Giesselmann wrote in a review for the historical journal : "It [is] [..] a very important and thorough research contribution that substantially expands our knowledge of the historical course of July 1948." The Hamburg historian Hans -Dieter Loose praised the "broad [] source base" of the work in the journal of the Association for Hamburg History . The reviewer of the Zeitschrift für Neuere Rechtsgeschichte considers the “hard work” to be “an important contribution to the genesis of the Federal Republic of Germany”. Blank had given "for the first time a clear, comparative summary of the country perspectives", thus adding an important perspective to the research that had previously been "reduced to party-political considerations".

Your book Deutschland, einig Antifa? (2014) has been reviewed and discussed many times, with opinions differing. For example, the political scientist and extremism researcher Armin Pfahl-Traughber , who spoke of “pioneering work”, wrote: “[She] makes it clear in her study that engagement against extremists from the right can sometimes come from extremists from the left. With the help of an abundance of details, the author illustrates the instrumentalisation of an otherwise commendable political commitment by circles that reject and combat an understanding of politics directed against all forms of dictatorship, extremism and violence. ”The Munich historian Petra Weber summarized in the FAZ :“ The perspective the protection of the constitution shapes the representation, which bears the traits of a political pamphlet. [She] has done herself a disservice with this crude anti-communist pamphlet. Contrary to their intention, the reader gets the impression that the ondit is correct, that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution sees sharp in the left eye and is blind in the right. ”The specialist journalist Patrick Gensing from Publikative.org problematized the book“ from the far right was praised in the highest tones ”, newspapers at the same time attested her“ crude anti-communism ”and she kept quiet about her work for the protection of the constitution.

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Monographs

  • The West German states and the emergence of the Federal Republic. On the dispute about the Frankfurt documents of July 1948 (= studies on contemporary history . Volume 44). Oldenbourg, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-486-56108-1 .
  • Germany, some antifa ?. "Antifascism" as a field of agitation by left-wing extremists (= extremism and democracy . Volume 28). Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8487-0699-0 .

Contributions

  • Hamburg's position in the dispute over the "Frankfurt Documents" in July 1948. A contribution to the emergence of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History 72 (1986), pp. 139–170.
  • The contribution of the federal states to the creation of the Federal Republic of Germany in July 1948. In: Heinz-Günther Borck , Friedrich P. Kahlenberg , Heinz Peter Volkert , Karl-Jürgen Wilbert (Eds.): 50 Years of the Fall of the Knights Conference, 1948–1998. The Prime Minister's Hour. Scientific symposium in the Federal Archives Koblenz on July 8, 1998 . Garwain Verlag, Koblenz 1998, ISBN 3-9806009-5-5 , p. 45 ff.
  • The protest against CASTOR transports and the role of left-wing extremists. In: Uwe Backes , Eckhard Jesse (Ed.): Yearbook Extremism & Democracy . 10th year (1998), Nomos, Baden-Baden 1998, ISBN 3-7890-5608-1 , p. 199 ff.
  • The PDS in Baden-Württemberg. A socialist experiment in West Germany. In: Gerhard Hirscher, Peter Christian Segall (eds.): The PDS. State and development prospects (= arguments and materials on current affairs . Volume 20). Hanns Seidel Foundation , Academy for Politics and Current Affairs, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-88795-210-3 , p. 35 ff.
  • The 'Association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime - Bund der Antifaschisteninnen and Antifaschisten' (VVN-BdA). In: Uwe Backes, Eckhard Jesse (Ed.): Yearbook Extremism & Democracy . 12th year (2000), Nomos, Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 3-7890-6979-5 , p. 224 ff.
  • The West PDS as a gravitational field of a left-extremist pluralism. In: Manfred Agethen, Eckhard Jesse, Ehrhart Neubert (eds.): The abused anti-fascism. GDR state doctrine and the lie of the German left . On behalf of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau et al. 2002, ISBN 3-451-28017-5 , p. 330 ff.
  • The “anti-fascist republic” - a “legacy” of the communists? In: Gerhard Hirsch, Armin Pfahl-Traughber (Ed.): What became of the DKP ?. Contributions to the past and present of the extreme left in Germany (= publications on research on extremism and terrorism . Volume 1). Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration , Brühl 2008, ISBN 978-3-938407-24-0 , p. 93 ff.
  • The VVN-BdA and the Basic Law. In: Uwe Backes, Alexander Gallus , Eckhard Jesse (eds.): Yearbook Extremism & Democracy . 22nd year (2010), Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-6050-6 , p. 165 ff.
  • Youth work by left-wing extremists. In: Georg Spielberg (Red.): Protection of the Constitution 1952–2012. Commemorative publication for the 60th anniversary of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg . Published by the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-040132-9 , pp. 203 ff.
  • Today's role of left-wing extremist organizations - the advance of "anti-fascist" argumentation patterns. In: Gerhard Hirscher, Eckhard Jesse (ed.): Extremism in Germany. Focuses, comparisons, perspectives (= extremism and democracy . Volume 26). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-8487-0090-5 , p. 241 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polemic with poor eyesight. In: FAZ. September 15, 2014, accessed August 17, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Hans Pohl : Foreword. In: Ulrike Duda (edit.): German Economic Archives. Evidence of historical sources in companies, corporations under public law (chambers) and associations of the Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 3, ed. on behalf of the Society for Company History , Steiner, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-515-05342-5 , o. p.
  3. ↑ a b Bettina Blank: Foreword. In: Ders .: The West German states and the emergence of the Federal Republic . Munich 1995, p. 7.
  4. ↑ TRI: A landmark of the republic lies on the knight's fall. In: Rhein-Zeitung . January 18, 1999.
  5. ^ Veldensteiner Kreis , TU Chemnitz, accessed on August 9, 2015.
  6. ↑ Klaus-Jürgen Matz : Blank, Bettina: The West German countries and the emergence of the Federal Republic. In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 146 (1998), pp. 623–624, here: p. 624.
  7. ↑ Gerald Koll : A national team discovers team spirit: The knight fall conference in July 1948 is the prime ministerial moment. In: Bundesrat (Ed.): Insight 2/2009, pp. 12–18, here: p. 16.
  8. ↑ Werner Giesselmann : The West German States and the emergence of the Federal Republic. On the dispute about the Frankfurt documents from July 1948 by Bettina Blank. In: Historische Zeitschrift 262 (1996) 3, pp. 945-946, here: p. 946.
  9. ↑ Hans-Dieter Loose : Blank, Bettina: The West German States and the Emergence of the Federal Republic, on the dispute over the Frankfurt documents of July 1948. In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History 85 (1999), p. 272.
  10. ↑ Susanne Jung: Blank Bettina, The West German Lands and the Emergence of the Federal Republic. On the dispute over the Frankfurt documents from July 1948. In: Zeitschrift für Neuere Rechtsgeschichte . 12 (1990), pp. 170-172, here: p. 172.
  11. ^ Lars Normann: Bettina Blank: Deutschland einig Antifa ?. “Antifascism” as a field of agitation for left-wing extremists . In: Uwe Backes , Alexander Gallus , Eckhard Jesse (eds.): Yearbook Extremism & Democracy . 26th year (2014), Nomos, Baden-Baden 2014, ISBN 978-3-8487-1925-9 , pp. 379-380.
  12. ↑ Christoph Rohde: Blank, Bettina: "Germany, some Antifa?" - "Antifascism" as a field of agitation by left-extremists. In: Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung (Ed.): Political Study 65 (2014) 457, pp. 103-105.
  13. ^ Anton Maegerle , Susanne Stiefel: Right terror in the model country . kontextwochenzeitung.de, March 11, 2015.
  14. ↑ Natalie Wohlleben, review of: Bettina Blank: "Deutschland, einig Antifa"? Baden-Baden 2014, In: Portal für Politikwissenschaft , http://pw-portal.de/rezension/37156-deutschland-einig-antifa_45359 published on June 5, 2014.
  15. ↑ Andreas Müller: NSU terror just "scandalized"? . stuttgarter-zeitung.de, February 24, 2015.
  16. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber : The dark side of "anti-fascism" . Humanist Press Service , January 17, 2014.
  17. ^ Petra Weber : polemic with poor eyesight . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 16, 2014, p. 8.
  18. ^ Patrick Gensing : Protection of the Constitution in the Antifa Republic . Publikative.org , October 12, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Blank, Bettina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956