Günter Neliba

Günter Neliba (born May 27, 1925 in Mainz ; † June 21, 2012 there ) was a German historian .

Life

Neliba grew up in Mainz-Gustavsburg and graduated from high school in 1943. He was then called up for military service. In French captivity , he lost both hands while clearing mines . He used prostheses to hold pencils or chalk. From 1945 to 1950 he studied history and German at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . From 1952 he was a teacher at the Immanuel Kant School and later at the Max Planck School in Rüsselsheim am Main .

After retiring in 1983, he took up his studies again and received his doctorate from the University of Frankfurt in 1992 with a dissertation on the National Socialist Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick . This was followed by numerous works on recent regional history, including the MAN plants in Gustavsburg in the Third Reich, a case of lynching against US prisoners of war in Rüsselsheim on August 26, 1944, and the Opel plants in the General Motors group in Rüsselsheim and Brandenburg from 1929 to 1948.

In 2003 Neliba received the Culture Prize of the City of Rüsselsheim and in 2005 the Medal of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . Since 2017, his portrait has been hanging as a “shining example” in the council chamber of the city of Rüsselsheim.

Publications

• Wilhelm Frick: The legalist of the unjust state. A political biography. Schöningh, Paderborn et al., 1992, ISBN 978-3-506-77486-6 .
• The Opel works in the General Motors group (1929–1948) in Rüsselsheim and Brandenburg. 2000, ISBN 978-3860991794 .
• Lynch justice against American prisoners of war in the Opelstadt Rüsselsheim (1944). Frankfurt am Main: Brandes and Apsel, 2000, ISBN 978-3860992050 .
• MAN plant in Gustavsburg near Mainz. Frankfurt am Main: Brandes and Apsel, 2002, ISBN 978-3860997642 .
• State secretaries of the Nazi regime. Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 2005, ISBN 978-3428118465 .
• War diary of Flak Regiment 155 (W) 1943–1945. Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 2006, ISBN 978-3428119257 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ City and Industry Museum Rüsselsheim : Obituary Günter Neliba.
2. ^ Frankfurter Neue Presse : Award for pedagogue Günter Neliba fighters for democracy.
3. ^ Rüsselsheim: Dr. Günter Neliba nominated as "Shining Role Model".