Detlef Graf von Schwerin

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Detlef Ulrich Heinrich Graf von Schwerin von Schwanenfeld (born June 13, 1944 in Göhren near Woldegk ) is a German historian and former police chief . D. Most recently, he was head of the Center for Contemporary History at the Brandenburg Police College .

family

Detlef was one of five sons from the marriage of Marianne, née Sahm (1907–1988), and Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld (1902–1944). He grew up on the family estate in Göhren (today part of the city of Woldegk ) and on the Sartowitz estate in West Prussia . After the failure of the assassination attempt against Hitler on July 20, 1944, in which his father Ulrich Wilhelm played a key role, the family was arrested and torn apart. Two of his brothers died in childhood; the other two brothers are the author and publisher, Christoph Graf von Schwerin , and the farmer and forester and former president of Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe, Wilhelm Graf Schwerin .

Paternal grandfather was the diplomat Ulrich Carl Wilhelm Graf von Schwerin (1864–1930), the grandmother Freda Elisabeth Helene Countess von Schwerin, born v. Bethmann-Hollweg (1876-1959). The maternal grandfather, Heinrich Sahm (1877–1939), was President of the Senate of Danzig until 1931. As Lord Mayor of Berlin, he was deposed by the Nazis in 1936 and sent to Oslo as envoy.

Life

Detlef von Schwerin studied modern history and political science in Munich, Berlin, Konstanz, Heidelberg and Princeton (USA). From 1969 to 1971 he collected the material for his doctoral thesis in London (England) and India, which was a contribution to the Collaborative Research Center 16 (Southeast Asian Research ) supported by the German Research Foundation and the South Asia Institute in Heidelberg . In 1974 he started with Dietmar Rothermund at the Philosophical-Historical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg with the dissertation from poverty to misery. Colonial rule and agrarian in Chota Nagpur, 1858-1908 to Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1975 to 1990 he worked in technical development cooperation with positions in the United Nations Development Program in New York (USA) and at the German Development Service (DED) in Berlin and Kathmandu (Nepal).

From 1991 to 2005 he was police chief of Potsdam . From 2007 to 2009 he was the head of the Center for Contemporary History at the Brandenburg Police College in Oranienburg.

Detlef Graf von Schwerin lives with his wife Kerrin geb. Dittmer, a historian and publisher, in Berlin and on the Bülowssiege family estate , which was regained in 1997 , for the restoration of which they received the Brandenburg Monument Preservation Prize in 2013.

Fonts (selection)

  • From poverty to misery. Colonial rule and agricultural constitution in Chota Nagpur, 1858–1908 (= contributions to research on South Asia . Vol. 31). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-515-02407-7 .
  • The boys of July 20, 1944. Brücklmeier, Kessel, Schulenburg, Schwerin, Wussow, Yorck . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-373-00469-1 .
  • "Then it's the best minds you hang". The young generation in the German resistance . Piper, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-373-00469-1 . (2nd edition 1994)
  • with Ute Bleich: Fürstenwerder and the Dominium. A Uckermärkische Mediatstadt (1648-1854) (= series of publications of the Uckermärkisches Geschichtsverein Prenzlau eV, local group Fürstenwerder . H. 4). Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86650-631-2 .
  • Stauffenberg and the young generation in the German resistance (= Stuttgart Stauffenberg Memorial Lecture . 2008). Wallsteinstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0579-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver Schwers: “Monument Prize for a Lifetime Achievement” , Märkische Online Zeitung, September 5, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Schwerin, Detlef Graf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwerin Von Schwanenfeld, Detlef Ulrich Heinrich Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and police chief
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Göhren near Woldegk