Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann

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Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann (born November 8, 1955 in Hanover ) is a German historian . He is director of the Institute for Didactics of Democracy and an adjunct professor at the history seminar at Leibniz University in Hanover .

Life

From 1974 to 1980 he studied history, German language and literature and pedagogy at the University of Hanover and completed his studies with a scientific examination for teaching at grammar schools. He then worked as an education officer in the youth association work. In 1986 he received his doctorate with a study on "Rural Poverty and the Beginnings of the Linden Factory Workers". As a research assistant he worked in the research project “Resistance, Refusal and Persecution in the Nazi Era in Hanover” and from 1990 to 1995 in the work area “Historical Foundations of Politics” at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin . In 1996 he completed his habilitation with a study on "National Socialism and Workers' Mileage". From 1997 to 2002 he headed two research projects on the comparison of dictatorships at the German Resistance Memorial Center and the Free University of Berlin. In 2002 he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Hanover. From 2002 to 2009 he held teaching positions and deputy professorships at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg , the University of Lüneburg and the Leibniz University of Hanover. Schmiechen-Ackermann has been director of the Institute for Didactics of Democracy at Leibniz University Hannover since 2013.

His research and teaching focuses on National Socialism and comparative dictatorship history , the history of industrialization , social movements and the inner-German border . His research activities include, in particular, work in numerous projects: From 2007 to 2015 he was the head or spokesman for two research projects on the topics of “The inner-German border as reality, narrative and element of the culture of remembrance ” and “National Socialist People's Community ? Construction, social impact and local memory ”. The question of institutions during and after the Nazi era is the focus of the projects he heads: “The Hanover Monastery Chamber under National Socialism” and “Continuities and Reorientations: The“ Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning ”and the continued work of personal networks at Lower Saxony as a science location after 1945 ". Since autumn 2016 Schmiechen-Ackermann has been the spokesman for the research network “CHER: Cultural Heritage als Ressource? Competing constructions, strategic uses and multiple appropriations of cultural heritage in the 21st century ”. He was a member of the established by the Lower Saxony Parliament Inquiry Commission "betrayal of freedom - machinations of the Stasi in Lower Saxony work up", during which he worked as an external scientific expert. At the end of 2017, the commission presented the results of its work in a three-volume publication. He is also the spokesman for the working group “19. and 20th Century ”of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen . 

Publications (selection)

  • The "block warden". The lower party functionaries in the National Socialist terror and surveillance apparatus. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . 48, Heft 4 (2000), pp. 575-602, online (linguistically modified version of the habilitation lecture of October 30, 1996, supplemented by more recent research results).
  • Dictatorships in Comparison. Series "Controversies about History", Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2002, ISBN 3-534-14730-8 (3rd edition 2010)
  • Boundaries - border experiences - border crossings. The inner-German border 1945-1990 (publisher, together with Thomas Schwark et al.), Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3534244140
  • Universities and politics in Lower Saxony after 1945 (publisher, together with Hans Otte and Wolfgang Brandes), Wallstein, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3835315358
  • Ideology and stubbornness. The technical universities in the time of National Socialism (publisher, together with Michele Barricelli and Michael Jung), Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3835330986
  • Cooperation and differentiation. Civil groups, Protestant parishes and the Catholic social milieu in the confrontation with National Socialism in Hanover. Hahn, Hannover 1999, ISBN 3-7752-5819-1
  • Rural poverty and the beginnings of the Linden factory workers. Migration in the early industrialization of the Kingdom of Hanover. Sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony, Vol. 103, ed. from the Historical Association for Lower Saxony; Zugl. Diss. University of Hannover 1986, Lax, Hildesheim 1990, ISBN 3-7848-3503-1
  • National Socialism and working class milieus. The National Socialist attack on the proletarian living quarters and the reactions in the socialist associations. Political and Social History of the Research Institute of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Vol. 47; zugl. Habil. Universität Hannover 1996, Dietz, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-8012-4081-9
  • The place of the “Volksgemeinschaft” in German social history (publisher, together with Marlis Buchholz, Bianca Roitsch and Christiane Schröder), Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn a. a. 2018, ISBN 978-3506786487
  • Withdrawal and self-assertion: the Catholic diaspora milieu in the confrontation with National Socialism in Hanover. Research Center Dictatorship and Democracy, Department of Political Science of the Free University of Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-929532-24-7
  • “Volksgemeinschaft”: Myth, powerful social promise or social reality in the “Third Reich”? Propaganda and self-mobilization in the Nazi state (editor), Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3506771650
  • A detailed list can be found on the website of the historical seminar of the Leibniz Universität Hannover

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Speaker Profiles , XXII. Königswinter meeting of the research community July 20, 1944, February 2009
  2. ^ CV of PD Dr. phil. habil. Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann , History Seminar of the Leibniz University Hannover
  3. ↑ Inner German border - the inner German border as reality, narrative and element of the culture of remembrance. Retrieved January 11, 2018 .
  4. ^ Dietmar von Reeken : National Socialist? Volksgemeinschaft ??? Construction, social impact and memory on site. Retrieved January 11, 2018 .
  5. ^ The monastery chamber of Hanover under National Socialism. Retrieved January 11, 2018 (German).
  6. ↑ Continuities and reorientations: The “Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning” and the continued operation of personal networks at the science location Lower Saxony after 1945. Accessed on January 11, 2018 (German).
  7. ↑ Cultural Heritage - Cultural Heritage as a Resource? Retrieved January 11, 2018 .
  8. ^ Lower Saxony Landtag (ed.): Stasi in Lower Saxony . tape 1-3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3165-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmiechen-Ackermann, Detlef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover