Felix Römer (historian)

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Felix Römer (* 1978 in Hamburg ) is a German historian.

Römer studied history and literature at the Universities of Kiel and Lyon from 1998 to 2003 . From 2004 to 2007, as part of a scholarship from the Schleswig-Holstein graduate support and the Gerda Henkel Foundation, he worked on a study on the history of the commissioner's order , with which he received his doctorate in 2007 at the University of Kiel . Römer's publication on the commissioner's order met with a positive response in both scientific journals and large newspapers.

From 2007 to 2012, Römer worked as a scholarship holder of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and as a research assistant in the War Perception and Collective Biography project led by Sönke Neitzel at the Department of History at the University of Mainz . He evaluated a 100,000-page file inventory from the US interrogation camp Fort Hunt , in which around 3,000 German prisoners of war were questioned and overheard from 1942 to 1945 . This project resulted in Roman's publication, Kameraden , in autumn 2012 . The Wehrmacht from within . During the same period, Römer was a lecturer at the Department of History at the University of Mainz and represented Sönke Neitzel in the 2010 summer semester. Römer has been a research assistant at the German Historical Institute in London since May 2012 .

Publications

Monographs

Articles (selection)

  • The Army Group Command Center and the War of Extermination in the summer of 1941. A response to Gerhard Ringshausen , in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 53 (2005), pp. 451-460.
  • "In old Germany such an order would not have been possible". Reception, adaptation and implementation of the war court decree in the Eastern Army 1941/42 , in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 56 (2008), pp. 53–99.
  • Alfred Andersch bugged. "Anti-Nazis" prisoners of war in the American interrogation camp Fort Hunt , in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 58 (2010), pp. 563–598.
  • The Wehrmacht and the Commissar Order. New research results , in: Military History Journal 69 (2010), pp. 243–274.
  • The Wehrmacht in the War of Ideologies: The Army and Hitler's Criminal Orders on the Eastern Front , in: Alex J. Kay , Jeff Rutherford, David Stahel (Eds.): Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941: Total War, Genocide, and radicalization . University of Rochester Press 2012 ( ISBN 978-1580464888 ), pp. 73-100.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bruno Thoss, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 8, 2010; Wolfram Wette, in: Die Zeit , January 15, 2009; Thomas Kühne, in: Historische Zeitschrift , Volume 290 (2010), pp. 560f; Christian Streit, in: Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift , Volume 68 (2009), Issue 2 (The wording of this and other reviews on the webpage given by Römers at the University of Mainz under web links)
  2. ↑ War perception and collective biography. Frame of reference for Wehrmacht soldiers 1942–1945
  3. ^ Uwe Stolzmann: The interrogation protocols from Fort Hunt , in: Deutschlandfunk , November 18, 2012; Felix Römer on “Comrades. The Wehrmacht from within ” , in: Focus , October 26, 2012.
  4. ↑ Full text of the foreword online .
personal data
SURNAME Romans, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German modern historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg