Bodo Ritscher

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Bodo Ritscher (* 1948 ) is a German historian . He is best known for his research and publications on the history of the Buchenwald concentration camp and the Soviet special camps in Germany.

Live and act

Bodo Ritscher studied Scientific Socialism at the University of Leipzig from 1969 to 1973 and graduated with a diploma . He then worked as a research assistant at the universities of Dresden and Jena . In 1979 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD .

From 1981 he worked at the Buchenwald National Memorial, initially as head of the historical department. In October 1985 he was collectively awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold for the design of the museum of the anti-fascist resistance struggle in the Buchenwald National Memorial and Memorial . From 1990 he was custodian for the area of ​​special bearings. He retired in 2013.

Fonts

  • To deal with bourgeois and revisionist attacks on socialist economic integration. Dissertation. Technical University of Dresden 1979.
  • with Anton Hermann: Walter Krämer - a doctor for the prisoners. Buchenwald National Memorial, Buchenwald 1983.
  • Beech forest. Tour of the National Memorial and Memorial. Buchenwald National Memorial and Memorial, Buchenwald 1986.
  • Special camp No. 2 Buchenwald . On the history of the Buchenwald camp from 1945 to 1950. Buchenwald Memorial, Weimar-Buchenwald 1993. 2nd edition 1995.
  • (Staff): Alexander Latotzky: Childhood behind barbed wire. Mothers with children in special Soviet camps and GDR detention. Forum, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-931801-26-8 .
  • with Kathrin Krypczyk: Every disease could be fatal. Medical care, diseases and mortality in the Soviet Buchenwald special camp, 1945–1950. Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-953-8 .

Editing

  • Buchenwald news. No. 1 to No. 28. Buchenwald National Memorial and Memorial, Buchenwald 1983.
  • (Mithrsg.): The Soviet special camps in Germany 1945–1950. A bibliography. Wallstein, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-89244-242-8 .
  • (Mithrsg.): The Soviet Special Camp No. 2 1945–1950. Catalog for the permanent historical exhibition. Wallstein, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-89244-284-3 .
  • with Peter Reif-Spirek: Special camp in the SBZ: memorials with a “double past”. Links, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-86153-193-3 .
  • with Volkhard Knigge : Book of the Dead. Buchenwald special camp 1945–1950. Buchenwald and Mittelbau Dora Memorials Foundation, Weimar 2003, ISBN 3-935598-08-4 .
  • (Mithrsg.): Instrumentalization, repression, processing. The Soviet special camps in the social perception. 1945 until today. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0051-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the Library of Congress Name Authority File.
  2. ↑ High government awards . In: Neues Deutschland , October 4, 1985, p. 4.
  3. ↑ Author's entry in the special camp in the Soviet occupation zone: memorials with a “double past”. P. 328.
personal data
SURNAME Ritscher, Bodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1948