Burkhard Asmuss

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Burkhard Asmuss (born August 2, 1951 ; † April 12, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German historian . Since 1990 he has worked as a contemporary historian at the German Historical Museum (DHM).

Life

Asmuss was in 1993 at the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on the Weimar Republic doctorate . At the DHM he acted as a curator of various exhibitions on the Weimar Republic and the time of National Socialism . He directed the collection of Contemporary History Documents , built the Central documentation and made themselves as IT coordinator of the museum with which he founded Living Museum Online (LeMO) the presentation of contemporary history topics deserves in the new media.

Fonts

  • On the history of the Jews in Berlin and the Jewish Community Center on Fasanenstrasse (with Andreas Nachama), in: Wolfgang Ribbe (ed.), From the Residenzstadt to the City (Festschrift for Charlottenburg), Berlin 1980, pp. 165–228
  • Republic without a chance? The debate about the legitimation and acceptance of the Weimar Republic in the daily press between 1918 and 1923 (diss.), Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-11-014197-3
  • Historic sites from the time of National Socialism. Places of remembrance, commemoration and cultural development? On dealing with memorial sites of national importance in the Federal Republic of Germany , symposium on November 23 and 24, 1998 in the German Historical Museum (documentation, edited with Hans-Martin Hinz), Berlin 1999
  • For the presentation of Nazi history in the German Historical Museum. Reflections on the reception behavior of visitors in the 21st century , in: Museums of the City of Nuremberg (ed.), The future of the past. How should the history of National Socialism be conveyed in museums and memorials in the 21st century ?, Nürnberg 2000, pp. 29–42
  • Holocaust. The National Socialist Genocide and the Motives of its Memory (exhibition catalog, published on behalf of the German Historical Museum), Berlin 2002
  • The war and its consequences. 1945 - End of the war and the politics of remembrance in Germany (exhibition catalog, edited with Kay Kufeke and Philipp Springer on behalf of the German Historical Museum), Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86102-133-1
  • Germans and Poles - 1.9.39: Abysses and Hopes , (exhibition catalog, edited with Bernd Ulrich), Dresden 2009, ISBN 978-3-940319-66-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice from the German Historical Museum in: Tagesspiegel from April 15, 2012, p. 15
personal data
SURNAME Asmuss, Burkhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1951
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 2012
Place of death Berlin