Detlef Korte

Detlef Korte (born May 5, 1956 , † December 9, 1995 ) was a German historian.

Life

In his youth, Korte was a member of the Communist League of West Germany (KBW) and belonged to the anti-nuclear movement . From 1978 he studied history at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , where he received his doctorate in 1990. Even as a student he was involved in the working group for economic and social history in Schleswig-Holstein and in 1983 was one of the initiators of the founding of the working group for the study of National Socialism in Schleswig-Holstein (AKENS), which elected him as its spokesman. From 1984 Korte was a member of the Advisory Board for the History of the Labor Movement and Democracy in Schleswig-Holstein , which he had also co-founded. From 1992 until his death, Korte worked as a research assistant at the newly founded Institute for Schleswig-Holstein Contemporary and Regional History . Korte died of suicide in 1995.

Korte's work, as it was summed up, "was characterized by intense political commitment to a democratic, just and humane society that understands the legacy of the National Socialist past as a mandate and deals with it actively and responsibly." An example of this is the one with his doctorate Work started on the history of the Nordmark labor education camp , which met with great public response.

Publications

(with Margot Knäuper): Bibliography on National Socialism in Schleswig-Holstein (reporting period 1945–1985). Neuer Malik-Verlag, Kiel 1987, ISBN 3-89029-903-2 .
Preliminary stage to the concentration camp. The "Arbeitsserziehungslager Nordmark" in Kiel (1944/45). In: Dachauer Hefte. Studies and documents on the history of the National Socialist concentration camps 5 (1989), pp. 3–14 ISSN 0257-9472.
"Education" in the mass grave. The history of the "Arbeitsserziehungslager Nordmark" Kiel Russee 1944–1945. Neuer Malik-Verlag, Kiel 1991, ISBN 3-89029-922-9 ( publications of the Advisory Board for the History of the Labor Movement and Democracy in Schleswig-Holstein, Society for Politics and Education Schleswig-Holstein Volume 10 ZDB -ID 11313377 ).

literature

Hans-Georg Pott: Detlef Korte. May 5, 1956 - December 9, 1995. In: Local Reports , No. 25, 1995, accessed September 30, 2017.

Eckhard Colmorgen, Kay Dohnke: Detlef Korte (1956–1995). In: Informations zur Schleswig-Holsteinische Zeitgeschichte , issue 28, December 1995, pp. 3–8, accessed on September 30, 2017.

K.-J. Lorenzen-Schmidt : Detlev [sic!] Korte 1956–1995. In: Circular letter of the Working Group for Economic and Social History Schleswig-Holstein, No. 65, February 1996, pp. 12-13, ( online ; PDF 11.2 MB).

Manfred Jessen-Klingenberg : Detlef Korte, b. May 8, 1956, d. December 9, 1995. In: Demokratische Geschichte 10 (1996), pp. 7-8.

Web links

Detlef Korte: Twelve years of Nazi research from below: The AKENS. (From a paper given in July 1995). www.akens.org, accessed August 11, 2018.

Individual evidence

↑ Hans-Georg Pott: Detlef Korte. May 5, 1956 - December 9, 1995. In: Local reports No. 25, 1995, accessed on September 30, 2017.

↑ Eckhard Colmorgen, Kay Dohnke: Information on Schleswig-Holstein Contemporary History. Issue 28, December 1995, p. 3, accessed on September 30, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Korte, Detlef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian
DATE OF BIRTH	May 5th 1956
DATE OF DEATH	December 9, 1995

[1] Hans-Georg Pott: Detlef Korte. May 5, 1956 - December 9, 1995. In: Local reports No. 25, 1995, accessed on September 30, 2017.

[2] Eckhard Colmorgen, Kay Dohnke: Information on Schleswig-Holstein Contemporary History. Issue 28, December 1995, p. 3, accessed on September 30, 2017.