Dörte von Westernhagen

Dörte von Westernhagen (born August 5, 1943 in Perleberg ) is a German journalist and author .

Life

She comes from the noble family von Westernhagen from Eichsfeld and is the daughter of SS Obersturmbannführer Heinz von Westernhagen (1911–1945). Dörte von Westernhagen was named Dr. with a thesis on legal and social history of the 19th century. iur. PhD and was a member of the Hamburg working group on reforming legal education . 1974 to 1979 she worked in the public service of Lower Saxony . From 1980 to 2005 she worked as a freelance journalist and author. In 1987 her book Die Kinder der Täter was published. The Third Reich and the generation after , for which she received the special prize of the city of Osnabrück in 1993 . In 1997 she published And So I Love My Verderben , the chronicle of an illicit love and a political murder in Hanover at the end of the 17th century. In her book, “Von der Herrschaft zu Gefolgschaft. The von Westernhagens in the Third Reich ”she provides an impressive description of a family history based on nine biographies, which shows what the nobility contributed to the transition from emperor to“ Führer ”. The tenth curriculum vitae traces the fate of a Western hag (without von) who belonged to the workers' resistance to make it clear that other actions were possible.

Book publications

The children of the perpetrators. The Third Reich and the generation after. 1987, ISBN 3-466-34180-9 .
Dance on the post. 1992, ISBN 3-89151-126-4 .
And so I love my ruin. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 3-89244-246-0 .
From rulership to allegiance. The von Westernhagens in the Third Reich. V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89971-969-7 .

Web links

Literature by and about Dörte von Westernhagen in the catalog of the German National Library
Article about the life of Dörte von Westernhagen

Individual evidence

^ Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize 1993: Dörte von Westernhagen (special prize) . Retrieved December 21, 2010.
↑ "From rulership to allegiance". In: "Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht". Retrieved on February 6, 2013 (book presentation at the publisher).
↑ Claus Heinrich Bill: The family von Western Hagen in the Third Reich. Book review of a remarkable new release. In: "Adelskartei.de". December 9, 2012, accessed on February 6, 2013 : “The tenth biography, which was listed somewhat incoherently, that of a worker with the name Westernhagen (without the name component“ v. ”) Who was active in the International Socialist League, must be used as cursory was. Readers only discover the context on the last page of the genealogically not belonging and therefore out of place biography: In an interview with the author, the worker's son stated that his ancestors had "drunk the nobility". "

personal data
SURNAME	Westernhagen, Dörte von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author
DATE OF BIRTH	August 5, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pearl Mountain

[1] Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize 1993: Dörte von Westernhagen (special prize) . Retrieved December 21, 2010.

[2] "From rulership to allegiance". In: "Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht". Retrieved on February 6, 2013 (book presentation at the publisher).

[3] Claus Heinrich Bill: The family von Western Hagen in the Third Reich. Book review of a remarkable new release. In: "Adelskartei.de". December 9, 2012, accessed on February 6, 2013 : “The tenth biography, which was listed somewhat incoherently, that of a worker with the name Westernhagen (without the name component“ v. ”) Who was active in the International Socialist League, must be used as cursory was. Readers only discover the context on the last page of the genealogically not belonging and therefore out of place biography: In an interview with the author, the worker's son stated that his ancestors had "drunk the nobility". "