Frank Bajohr

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Frank Bajohr (born August 16, 1961 in Gladbeck ) is a German historian .

Frank Bajohr studied history, social and educational sciences at the University of Essen . After the state examination in 1989 he became a research assistant at the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg . In 1997 he received his doctorate in Hamburg from Axel Schildt with a study on the displacement of Jewish entrepreneurs in Hamburg from 1933 to 1945 . In 2000/2001 he was a Fellow at the International Institute for Holocaust Research in Yad Vashem , and in 2010/11 he was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the USHMM United States Holocaust Memorial Museum . Since 2013 he has been head of the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) in Munich . At the same time he teaches as an adjunct professor at the historical seminar of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. He often drives to former Nazi extermination camps with students.

His work focuses on contemporary history, the history of the elites in the 20th century, the history of the Nazi era , the history of the Holocaust , the history of anti-Semitism and the history of tourism.

At the Auschwitz trial against Oskar Gröning in 2015, he was invited as an expert as part of his work at the IfZ .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Displaced years. Gladbeck under the swastika , clear text, Essen 1983, ISBN 3-88474-103-9 .
  • with Detlev Peukert : Traces of Resistance. The miners' movement in the Third Reich and in exile. Beck, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-406-31993-9 .
  • "Aryanization" in Hamburg. The displacement of Jewish entrepreneurs 1933–1945. 2nd edition, Christians, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-7672-1302-8 .
  • Parvenus and profiteers. Corruption in the Nazi Era. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-004812-1 .
  • "?? Our hotel is free of Jews". Baths anti-Semitism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 978-3596157969 .
  • with Dieter Pohl : The Holocaust as an open secret. The Germans, the Nazi leadership and the Allies. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-54978-0 . Paperback under the title:
The Holocaust as an open secret. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2008.
  • Hanseatic and cross-border commuters. Erik Blumenfeld, a political biography. Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0600-4 .

Editorships

  • with Ernst Schmidt (Ed.): Survival and Resist: National Socialism, War and Post-War in the Diaries of Social Democrats (= history in plain language. Volume 1). Published by the SPD Essen. Anton Klein, Fritz Labudat. Klartext, Essen, 1985, ISBN 3-88474-110-1 .
  • with Michael Wildt : Volksgemeinschaft. New research on the society of National Socialism. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-18354-8 .
  • with Christoph Strupp : Foreign views of the »Third Reich«. Reports by foreign diplomats on rule and society in Germany 1933–1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 3-8353-0870-X .
  • with Beate Meyer and Joachim Szodrynski: Threat, Hope, Skepticism, four diaries from 1933. Wallstein, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1365-1 .
  • with Andrea Löw: The Holocaust. Results and new research questions. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-596-03279-2 .
  • with Jürgen Matthäus: Alfred Rosenberg - the diaries from 1934 to 1944. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-002387-2 .
  • with Sybille Steinbacher : "... testify to the last". Diaries and personal testimonies from the time of National Socialism and the Holocaust (= Dachau Symposia on Contemporary History. Vol. 15). Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 3-8353-1742-3 .
  • with Anselm Doering-Manteuffel, Claudia Kemper and Detlef Siegfried (eds.): More than a story. Contemporary historical perspectives on the Federal Republic. Festschrift for Axel Schildt. Wallstein, Göttingen 2016. ISBN 978-3-8353-1882-3 .
  • with Andrea Löw: The Holocaust and European societies. Social processes and social dynamics. Palgrave Macmillan, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-137-56983-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Center for Holocaust Studies , accessed May 29, 2017
  2. ^ Historical seminar of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , accessed on May 29, 2017
  3. ↑ Martina Scherf: Every generation asks its own questions. (About Frank Bajohr's work.) In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of June 26, 2019, p. 40.
  4. ↑ Per Hinrichs: Auschwitz Trial: An SS man had more power than God . Article in Die Welt of April 28, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Bajohr, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Gladbeck