Dirk Bavendamm

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Dirk Bavendamm (born May 20, 1938 in Dresden ) is a German historian , journalist , author and translator .

Life

Bavendamm is the son of the botanist Werner Bavendamm . He grew up after fleeing his family from the Soviet occupation zone in Reinbek , where 1958 he the High School took off.

Studies and first journalistic activity

He studied law, literature and history in Hamburg and Berlin and was trained by Gerhard Oestreich in 1967 with the dissertation From Revolution to Reform. The constitutional policy of the Hamburg Senate 1849/50 on Dr. phil. PhD.

As a student, he was alongside Henning von Löwis one of the regular authors of the NDR program “Politics for Young People”.

Work as a print and radio journalist, book author

He was editor of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit (1967–1969), editor and correspondent of the daily newspaper Die Welt (1969–1972) and correspondent of the Süddeutsche Zeitung (1972–1977). In addition, he continued to write radio and television programs for NDR and WDR . He has been working as a freelancer since 1980. To date, Bavendamm has written, translated and supervised around two dozen books in the fields of corporate and contemporary history . His corporate history clients included the Bertelsmann Group , the trading company C. Woermann , the Würth Group , Oetker and RWE Dea .

Historical book publications

Bavendamm also compiled a history of his hometown Reinbek as well as, together with the editorial staff, some annual chronicles from the Dortmunder Chronik-Verlag. In 1983 and 1993, Bavendamm published two extensive studies on US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt . In it he sets out the political and personal career of Roosevelt, concentrating above all on his politics in the run-up to the Second World War. The first book, although characterized as revisionist, was received positively in part. The book Roosevelt's War 1937-45 and the Mystery of Pearl Harbor was characterized by critics as a revision of history and a distortion of reality, since Bavendamm assigns Roosevelt significant responsibility at the beginning of the Second World War and at the same time Adolf Hitler is responsible for the creation of the Second Tried to relieve World War II .

From 1988 to 1997, Bavendamm headed the Bismarck Archives in Friedrichsruh until it was reorganized into a federal foundation , which is now called the Otto von Bismarck Foundation . From 2002 to 2004 he was managing director of the State and Economic Political Society in Hamburg.

Contribution to the book “1835–1985. 150 years of Bertelsmann "

In 1985, an anniversary book published by Bertelsmann was published with contributions by seven respected scientists and other authors such as Walter Kempowski and Kurt Biedenkopf , which Bavendamm was editorially coordinating. The authors relied on materials provided by Bertelsmann. The book also contained a chapter on the company's history (author Walter Kempowski), which Bertelsmann portrayed as a “resistance publisher”, although the company had done good business with the publication of Wehrmacht and Nazi literature.

At the end of the 1990s, when the Bertelsmann media group wanted to take over the American book publishing group Random House , in which many Jewish authors traditionally publish, doubts about the thesis of resistance publishing in the Third Reich grew, especially among the US public . The sociologist Hersch Fischler , in particular, countered this claim in 1998 and sharply criticized both Reinhard Mohn , then chairman of the Bertelsmann AG supervisory board, and Bavendamm. The immediate cause of criticism was an award given to the Bertelsmann Foundation by the Anti-Defamation League in Atlanta in autumn 1999. At the end of 1998, Bertelsmann had appointed an Independent Historical Commission chaired by the historian Saul Friedländer . The commission refused to involve Bavendamm because he had "not done the kind of contemporary history that we need to do". In January 2000, after the commission's first press conference, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported that the role of Bertelsmann Verlag in the Third Reich as “Hitler's best supplier” actually had to be reassessed.

family

Bavendamm lives in Reinbek near Hamburg. He is married and has three daughters. His daughter Gundula is the director of the Foundation for Flight, Displacement and Reconciliation .

Works by Dirk Bavendamm

Monographs

  • From revolution to reform. The constitutional policy of the Hamburg Senate 1849/50 (= writings on constitutional history . Volume 10). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969. (also dissertation, University of Hamburg, 1967)
  • Bonn under Brandt. Change of power or turning point . Fritz Molden, Vienna a. a. 1971, ISBN 3-217-00400-0 .
  • 100 authors . Edited by the Buch editorial team, Buchverlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 1980.
  • Roosevelt's road to war. American Politics 1914–1939 . FH Herbig, Munich a. a. 1983, ISBN 3-7766-1260-6 .
  • Bertelsmann - Poppy - Seippel. Three families - one company (= library of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels ). C. Bertelsmann, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-570-09997-0 .
  • with Günther Jantzen, Gerhard Sendler, Heinrich Woermann, Jürgen Zwernemann: Risk West Africa. 150 years of C. Woermann. The history of a Hamburg trading house 1837–1987 (= publications by the Economic History Research Center . Volume 47). Verlag Hanseatischer Merkur, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-922857-08-6 .
  • Reinbek. A Holstein city between Hamburg and Sachsenwald . Published by the municipal authorities of the city of Reinbek, Reinbek 1988, ISBN 3-9801817-0-7 .
  • Roosevelt's War 1937–45 and the Pearl Harbor Mystery . FH Herbig, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-7766-1820-5 . (2nd edition 1998)
  • with Lorenz Sönnichsen: DVZ, Deutsche Verkehrs-Zeitung - 50 years . Deutscher Verkehrsverlag, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-87154-228-8 .
  • with Lothar Witte: "Originally I just wanted to see the world". Helmut Witte - Commander of U-159 on the human and inhuman in naval warfare . Witte, Siegburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-020645-0 .
  • Young Hitler. Corrections to a biography 1889-1914 . Ares-Verlag, Graz 2009, ISBN 978-3-902475-73-2 .
  • America's grab for world power. Roosevelt, Hitler and the road to World War II. With an introduction by Stefan Scheil , Druffel & Vowinckel Verlag , Gilching 2018, ISBN 978-3-8061-1265-8 .

Edits / smaller contributions

  • (Ed.): Masanori Nakumura: Operation Homecoming. Novel . Translated from Japanese by Andrea Hirner, Droemer Knaur, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-426-19056-7 .
  • 150 years of Bertelsmann: The founders and their time. A look at history . In: Bertelsmann Brief . No. 116, 1984.
  • (Red. Coordination): 1835–1985. 150 years of Bertelsmann. The history of the publishing company in texts, images and documents . On behalf of the Bertelsmann AG Executive Board by a working group led by Günther Hadding and Gert Schukies, C. Bertelsmann, Munich 1985.
  • Wolf Rüdiger Heß (Ed.): Rudolf Heß. Letters 1908–1933 . With an introduction and comments by Dirk Bavendamm. Langen Müller, Munich a. a. 1987, ISBN 3-7844-2150-4 .
  • (Arr.): South Africa. Magic and beauty of grandiose landscapes . Translated from English by Christiane Landgrebe, Verlag Das Beste, Stuttgart a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-87070-425-X .
  • Reinhold Würth : The secret of success is leadership culture. An entrepreneur's balance sheet . In cooperation with Dirk Bavendamm, Campus, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1995, ISBN 3-593-35266-4 . (translated from English: Management culture: the secret of success )
  • A recipe for success. The history of the family company Oetker . Hörnemann, Bielefeld 1996.
  • (Ed. With Klaus Brüning): 100 years of RWE-DEA. 1899-1999 . Edited by RWE-DEA-Aktengesellschaft für Mineraloel und Chemie, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-00-003548-6 .

Translations

  • Robert Scheer : And burning birds fall from the sky. Reagan and the "limited nuclear war" . Kindler, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-463-00851-3 .
  • Bruce Nussbaum: The end of our future. Revolutionary technologies are sidelining the European economy . Kindler, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-463-00877-7 .
  • (Ed.): Nicolas Baciu: Betrayed and Sold. Churchill and Roosevelt's tragic mistakes in Eastern Europe . Universitas, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-8004-1106-7 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief outline of life ( memento of the original from May 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in buch-arsenal.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.buch-arsenal.de
  2. ↑ Karl-Heinz Schmick : Rez. Dirk Bavendamm, Roosevelts way to war. American Politics 1914–1939 . In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift , June 1986, pp. 57f.
  3. ↑ Manfred Görtemaker , A German War Guilt Lie ? Bavendamm wants to hold Roosevelt responsible for the Second World War . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 16, 1994 (rates the work as interesting, but factually unclean).
  4. ↑ Nolte mortale - How an American President must serve to exonerate Hitler of his war guilt. Bernd Greiner , Die Zeit, December 3, 1993,
  5. ^ From the life of society 2002. in the members' magazine SWG Deutschland-Journal
  6. ↑ Bertelsmann (Ed.), 1835–1985. 150 years of Bertelsmann. The history of the publishing company in texts, images and documents . C. Bertelsmann, Munich 1985.
  7. ↑ Christian Mensch: The legend of the resistance  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.weltwoche.ch   . In: Die Weltwoche , No. 46/2002. A correction of the publishing history then at Bertelsmann in the Third Reich. Report by Saul Friedländer , Norbert Frei and Trutz Rendtorff . C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-570-00713-8 .
  8. ^ Die Weltwoche , October 29, 1998 edition
  9. ↑ For example in Hersch Fischler, John Friedman, Bertelsmann's Revisionist . In: The Nation , November 8, 1999.
  10. ↑ Thomas Schuler: Die Mohns: From provincial bookseller to global corporation: The family behind Bertelsmann , Campus, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3593403730 , p. 226.
  11. ↑ Mention of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 18, 2000 in Günter Frech: The Conscious Giant ( Memento of December 22, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ^ Assessment of the author and his book by the publicist Hersch Fischler in The Nation October 21, 1999 under the title Bertelsmanns Revisionist . (Assessment of the book as revisionist historiography, as Roosevelt is held responsible for the outbreak of WWII)
personal data
SURNAME Bavendamm, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden