Clemens Vollnhals

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Clemens Vollnhals (born January 26, 1956 in Munich ) is a German contemporary historian .

Life

Vollnhals studied modern and contemporary history , social and economic history and political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . There he did his doctorate in 1986 under Friedrich Prinz - in his dissertation Vollnhals examined denazification in the Evangelical Church . From 1989 to 1992 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. He then worked as a department head in the Education and Research Department at the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR in Berlin until he was appointed Deputy Director of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research (HAIT) at the Technical University of Dresden in 1998 he was acting director from November 2007 to September 2009. At the TU Dresden he has been entrusted with a teaching position at the Philosophical Faculty since 1998 , while Vollnhals also held teaching positions as a DAAD lecturer at the universities in Prague and Sofia. From October 2016 to September 2017 Vollnhals was once again acting as provisional director of the Hannah Arendt Institute.

Research activity

In his research, Clemens Vollnhals mainly deals with the Conservative Revolution and the National Socialist movement , denazification, state security and political justice as well as contemporary Jewish and church history.

Works

  • Evangelical Church and Denazification 1945–1949. The burden of the National Socialist past (= studies on contemporary history. Volume 36). Munich 1989 [Diss. Munich 1986].
  • Denazification and self-purification in the judgment of the evangelical church. Documents and reflections 1945-1949 (= study books on contemporary church history. Volume 8). Munich 1989.
  • Denazification. Political cleansing and rehabilitation in the four zones of occupation 1945–1949. Munich 1991.
  • “There is no censorship in the GDR”. The Evangelische Verlagsanstalt and the practice of printing permission 1954–1989. Leipzig 1995 (together with Siegfried Bräuer ).
  • The Havemann case. A lesson in political justice. Berlin 1998 (excerpt, books.google.com ).

Editorships

  • The Protestant Church after the collapse. Reports from foreign observers from 1945. Göttingen 1988 (excerpt, books.google.com ).
  • Hitler. Speeches, writings, orders. February 1925 to January 1933: The re-establishment of the NSDAP. Volume 1. Munich 1992.
  • The church policy of the SED and state security. An interim balance. Berlin 1996 (excerpt, books.google.de ).
  • Justice in the service of party rule. Legal Practice and State Security in the GDR. Berlin 1999 (edited with Roger Engelmann ).
  • William L. Shirer : This is Berlin. Radio reports from Germany 1939–1940. Leipzig 1999.
  • The appearance of normality. Rule and everyday life in the SED dictatorship. Munich 2002 (edited with Jürgen Weber).
  • Saxony in the Nazi era. Leipzig 2002.
  • Repression and self-assertion. The Jehovah's Witnesses under the Nazi and SED dictatorship. Berlin 2003 (edited with Gerhard Besier ).
  • Wehrmacht - Crime - Resistance. Four contributions to the National Socialist Weltanschauung war. Dresden 2003.
  • Völkische Movement - Conservative Revolution - National Socialism. Aspects of a politicized culture. Dresden 2005 (edited with Walter Schmitz ).
  • Sovietization or Neutrality? Options of Soviet occupation policy in Germany and Austria 1945–1955. Göttingen 2006 (ed. With Andreas Hilger and Mike Schmeitzner ).
  • Nazi trials and the German public. Occupation, early Federal Republic and GDR. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-36921-0 <, (edited with Jörg Osterloh).
  • Years of change. Peaceful revolution in the GDR and transition in East Central Europe. Göttingen 2011.
  • The Volkisch-Religious Movement in National Socialism: a history of relationships and conflicts. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012 ISBN 978-3-525-36996-8 (edited with Uwe Puschner ).
  • With heart and mind - Protestant women resisting Nazi racial politics. Göttingen: V & R unipress 2013 (ed. With Manfred Gailus ).
  • After the dictatorships. Dealing with the victims in Europe. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2015 (ed. With Günther Heydemann ).
  • From Stalingrad to the SBZ. Saxony 1943 to 1949. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2015 (ed. With Mike Schmeitzner and Francesca Weil).
  • For a species-appropriate Christianity indeed. Volkish theologians in the "Third Reich". Göttingen: V & R unipress 2016 (edited with Manfred Gailus ).
  • State socialisms in comparison. State Party - Social Policy - Opposition. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2019 (ed. With [Uwe Backes] and [Günther Heydemann]).
  • Christian anti-Semitism in the 20th century: The Tübingen theologian and "Jew researcher" Gerhard Kittel. Göttingen: V & R unipress 2020 (ed. With Manfred Gailus).

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