Dirk Dähnhardt

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Dirk Dähnhardt (around 1995)

Dirk Dähnhardt (born December 8, 1944 in Berlin ; † January 24, 2007 in Bad Schwartau ) was a German historian and high school teacher.

Life

Dirk Dähnhardt was born in Berlin, but grew up in Hamburg-Bergedorf because his parents, Heinz Dähnhardt, and his wife and his three older brothers moved there in 1945. After ten years the family moved again because the father took over the management of the Grenzakademie in Sankelmark near Flensburg, where the family lived. Dirk Dähnhardt attended high school in Flensburg and passed his Abitur there in 1965. He then did his basic training in the German Armed Forces and served in a pioneer unit. From 1967 Dirk Dähnhardt began studying history and English for a higher teaching post at the University of Kiel, which he completed with the state examination and a subsequent doctorate. During his studies he spent two years in England, where he also worked as a teacher. Before completing his dissertation, Dähnhardt began his work as a trainee lawyer (February 1, 1977), first at a Lübeck high school and later at the Mühlenberg high school in Bad Schwartau. Here he also became chairman of the staff council.

Dähnhardt died on January 24, 2007 after his third heart attack. His academic legacy was handed over to the Kiel City Archives in 2012 . The estate was given the signature: 65496.

Work on the Kiel sailors' uprising

Dähnhardt's dissertation, supervised by Hartmut Lehmann and accepted in 1977 by the Philosophy Department of the Christiana Albertina , dealt in detail with the Kiel sailors' uprising . Volker Ullrich wrote in a review for the Frankfurter Rundschau (December 18, 1979): “On the basis of as yet unpublished archive material, especially the naval files in the military archive in Freiburg, she tries for the first time to trace the course of the revolutionary events in Kiel as precisely as possible. ”In his work, Dähnhardt comes to the conclusion that the events in Kiel between November 3rd and 7th, 1918 were“ an uprising with a revolutionary character and a tendency beyond Kiel ”. “The revolutionary character is documented in the expansion of the sailors' mutiny to include the workers and in the formation of a soldiers' and workers' council. The revolutionary tendency results mainly from the fact that the '14 Kiel Points 'served as a model for a whole series of local workers and soldiers' councils. "

Wolfram Wette assessed Dähnhardt's work in the Badische Zeitung of April 4, 1979 as follows: “Dähnhardt's well legible and solidly prepared local study has not only enriched our knowledge of the beginnings of the revolution in Kiel, but also, for example, in the sectors of military policy and , the democratization efforts, created the conditions for a better understanding of some of the birth defects of the Weimar Republic. "

Further reviews, which gave Dähnhardt's work an unreservedly positive assessment, were submitted by Hans-Dieter Loose in 1979 in the journal of the Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte , by Michael Salewski in 1979 in the journal Das Historisch-Politische Buch and by Ulrich Kluge in 1980 in the renowned historical journal . For example, Kluge speaks of “a material-rich, fluently written and carefully researched study”.

In a press release by the state capital Kiel on the occasion of the handover of the background documents from Dirk Dähnhardt's estate to the city archive, his doctoral thesis is described as “groundbreaking”. It goes on to say: “With his meticulous processing of this controversial topic, he became known far beyond Kiel. Dähnhardt's work was published by the Society for Kiel City History. He succeeded in making the debate, which had hitherto been more ideological, extremely objective, so that the various political camps were motivated to take a fact-oriented look at the events. Dähnhardt also conceived a highly acclaimed exhibition on this topic, which he presented in 1988 and which was shown again in the Maritime Museum on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the revolution. His research results and suggestions also flowed into the discussion about the revolutionary monument in Kiel. "

However, various reviewers, such as Volker Ullrich, also found inadequacies in the study. They complained, for example, that the designation of the support campaign by parts of the Kiel workers for the Bremen Council Republic in early February 1919 as “Spartacus uprising in Kiel” uncritically follows the perspective of contemporary bourgeois commentators. In contrast, the study by Erhard Lucas showed how inadmissible it is to label the radical grassroots initiatives of spring 1919 as “Spartakist” or “putschist” from the outset.

Works

  • Dirk Dähnhardt: Revolution in Kiel. The transition from the German Empire to the Weimar Republic in 1918/19 . Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster, 1978, ISBN 3-529-02636-0 , ( Communications of the Society for Kiel City History 64), (At the same time: Kiel, Univ., Diss., 1977).
  • Edited by Dirk Dähnhardt and Gerhard Granier: Kapp-Putsch in Kiel . Society for Kiel City History, Volume 66, Kiel 1980.
  • Dirk Dähnhardt: 'From mutiny to revolution. Kiel as the starting point of the November Revolution 1918 ', in: Gerhard Paul, Uwe Danker, Peter Wulf, (Eds.), Geschichtsumschlungen. Social and cultural history reader Schleswig-Holstein 1848–1948 , Bonn 1996, pp. 133–140. ISBN 978-3-8012-0237-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dirk Dähnhardt, estate in the Kiel city archive.
  2. ↑ a b Klaus Kuhl, Conversations with Ursula Dähnhardt, Dirk Dähnhardt's wife, 2012, unpublished.
  3. ↑ Thomas Gransow, In memory of Dr. Dirk Dähnhardt. Accessible online as an archive link of the article last updated on April 10, 2012 3:33 pm (accessed August 11, 2018) at: [1] .
  4. ^ Dirk Dähnhardt: Revolution in Kiel . Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster, 1978, p. 165.
  5. ↑ Dirk Dähnhardt in Festschrift for Jürgen Jensen - ... the most distant future will thank you . Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster, 2004.
  6. ↑ Ulrich Kluge in: Historische Zeitschrift, Vol. 231, 1980, pp. 225 ff.
  7. ↑ a b Reviews and critical comments on Dirk Dähnhardt's doctoral thesis (excerpts), published in 2012 at: http://www.kurkuhl.de/docs/rezensions-daehnhardt.pdf
  8. ^ State capital Kiel, press service, city ​​archive receives documents on revolutionary research from the estate of Dr. Dirk Dähnhardt . 2nd August 2012.
  9. ↑ Erhard Lucas: Worker Radicalism - Two forms of radicalism in the German workers' movement . Roter Stern publishing house, Frankfurt, 1976
personal data
SURNAME Dähnhardt, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2007
Place of death Bad Schwartau