Detlef Garbe

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Detlef Garbe (born August 10, 1956 in Göttingen ) is a German historian and lecturer in contemporary history at the Department of History at the University of Hamburg . From 1989 to 2019 he was head of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial and has since headed the Department of Memorials and Learning Places in Hamburg.

Life

After doing voluntary service at the Action Reconciliation Service for Peace and studying history with the minor subjects Protestant theology and pedagogy , he received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg as a scholarship holder of the Evangelical Study Service on the history of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third Reich . In 1982 he was one of the founders of the project group for the forgotten victims of the Nazi regime and worked in the Museum of Hamburg History and on contemporary history exhibition projects. Garbe has published numerous academic papers on the subjects of the history of the concentration camps , Wehrmacht justice, coming to terms with the past and marginalized groups of victims, especially Jehovah's Witnesses during the Nazi regime . In 1989 he became head of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. Since 1994 he has been the editor of "Contributions to the History of National Socialist Persecution in Northern Germany".

Garbe is a member of numerous advisory boards, including a. the expert committee for the promotion of memorial sites at the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the advisory board of the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, and is currently the spokesman for the working group of concentration camp memorials. In 2017 he was awarded the Lappenberg Medal by the Association for Hamburg History for his local Nazi research . In 2019 the Hamburg Senate awarded him the honorary title of Professor for "his great services to the culture of remembrance in Hamburg". In June 2019 Garbe became head of the “Department of Memorials and Learning Places” in the Office of Culture as part of a restructuring of the Hamburg memorial work. Oliver von Wrochem succeeded him as head of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial .

Fonts (selection)

  • The forgotten concentration camps? Memorial sites for the victims of Nazi terror in the Federal Republic. Lamuv, Bornheim-Merten 1983, ISBN 3-921521-84-X .
  • Despised - persecuted - destroyed. To the 'forgotten' victims of the Nazi regime. Edited by the project group for the forgotten victims of the Nazi regime. 2nd Edition. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-87975-377-6 .
  • "In each individual case ... up to the death penalty". The military criminal lawyer Erich Schwinge - A German legal life. Hamburg Foundation for Social History , Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-927106-00-3 .
  • Between resistance and martyrdom: Jehovah's Witnesses in the “Third” Reich. 4th edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-56404-8 .
  • with Brigitte Drescher: It started with Hiroshima. Lamuv, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-88977-665-5 .
  • with Carmen Lange: Inmates between annihilation and liberation. The dissolution of the Neuengamme concentration camp and its satellite camps by the SS in spring 1945. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2005, ISBN 3-86108-799-5 .
  • with Kerstin Klingel: Memorials in Hamburg: a guide to places of remembrance of the years 1933–1945. Published on behalf of the Hamburg citizenship and the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial and the Hamburg State Center for Political Education. Updated new edition. Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-929728-18-7 .
  • with Magnus Koch and Lars Skowronski with the assistance of Claudia Bade: Deserters and other victims of Nazi military justice: The Wehrmacht jurisdiction in Hamburg. Texts, photos and documents. Published by the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial in cooperation with the State Center for Civic Education Hamburg, Hamburg 2013.
  • Neuengamme concentration camp: history - post-history - memory. Catalog of exhibitions. Volume I: main exhibition; Volume II: Supplementary Exhibitions. Ed. On behalf of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial by Detlef Garbe. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8378-4047-6 .
  • Neuengamme in the concentration camp system. Studies on the history of events and reception. Metropol, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86331-220-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Haarmeyer : From nest dirtier to professor . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from 18/19. May 2019, p. 21, online here [1]
  2. ↑ New organizational structure in the memorial site at https://www.kz-gedenkstaette-neuengamme.de
personal data
SURNAME Garbe, Detlef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen