Gisela Diewald-Kerkmann

Gisela Diewald-Kerkmann (born March 4, 1953 in Essen ) is a German historian and professor at Bielefeld University .

Life

Diewald-Kerkmann studied educational science, sociology and psychology at the University of Essen (major: further education, didactics and methodology) up to a diploma (degree: qualified pedagogue). She then studied history from 1983 to 1989 at Bielefeld University , majoring in history of the 19th and 20th centuries, minor subjects in ancient history and educational science ( Magister artium (MA)). She was active in adult education outside the university. The dissertation project (1990-1994) Political denunciations in the Nazi regime in Christoph Kleßmann and Joachim Radkau she graduated in 1995 with the promotion of Dr. phil. (Overall result summa cum laude ) with Christoph Kleßmann. She completed the research project Investigations and criminal proceedings against women for politically motivated acts of violence 1970–1990 from 2001 to 2007.

From 2004 to 2008 she held regular lectures in the field of contemporary history at the Faculty of History at Bielefeld University as a lecturer . After the habilitation at the University of Bielefeld in March 2008 (reviewers: Heinz-Gerhard Haupt , Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey , Ute Frevert and Klaus Marxen ) and after the lecture on December 10, 2008 in the habilitation colloquium Eyewitnesses, Images and War Perception: Front Reporting in German- French War 1870/71 she was appointed Privatdozentin with venia legendi for the subject history of the 19th and 20th centuries in December 2008 .

From October 1st, 2008 to June 30th, 2009 she was a professor for general history with a special focus on contemporary history (Bielefeld University, chair: Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey). In February 2009 she was appointed a member of the State Examination Office for First State Examinations for teaching positions in schools (history: primary level, secondary level I and II; LBSU social studies: primary level). From January 2010 to September 2013 she carried out the research project “Between the Fronts” - On the Self-Image of Lawyers in the Federal Republic of Germany . In 2011 she was appointed adjunct professor at Bielefeld University.

Since 2014 she has been teaching as a professor at Bielefeld University.

Her research areas are the history of National Socialism, the history of political violence in the 19th and 20th centuries, historical terrorism research and legal history after 1945.

Fonts (selection)

• with Kerstin Kunz and Andreas Knobelsdorf: In front of brown judges. The persecution of acts of resistance, resistance and so-called treachery in Bielefeld 1933–45 (= Bielefeld contributions to city and regional history. Volume 10). City Archives and State History Library, Bielefeld 1992, ISBN 3-928884-10-7 .
• Political denunciation in the Nazi regime or the small power of the "Volksgenossen" . Dietz, New York 1995, ISBN 3-8012-5018-0 (also dissertation, Bielefeld 1994).
• Women, terrorism and justice. Trials against female members of the RAF and the June 2nd Movement (= writings of the Federal Archives. Volume 71). Droste, Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 3-8012-5018-0 (also habilitation thesis, Bielefeld 2008).
• Edited with Ingrid Holtey : Between the Fronts. Defense lawyers, judges and federal prosecutors in the field of tension between justice, politics, APO and RAF. Conversations . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-13805-0 .
• Justice against Terrorism: "Terrorist Trials" in the Federal Republic, Italy and Great Britain , in: Johannes Hürter (Ed.), Combating Terrorism in Western Europe. Democracy and Security in the 1970s and 1980s, Berlin 2015, pp. 35–61.
• The Terrorism of the Red Army Fraction , in: Stefan Schieren (Ed.), Populismus - Extremismus - Terrorismus, Schwalbach / Ts. 2014, pp. 59–79.
• Challenge of the federal German judiciary. Terrorists in court, in: The left-wing terrorism of the 1970s and the order of the sexes, ed. by Irene Bandhauer-Schöffmann / Dirk van Laak , Trier 2013, pp. 163–182.
• The RAF and the Movement June 2: The Relationship of Violent Groups and Radical Milieu in Comparison , in: Stefan Malthaner / Peter Waldmann (eds.), Radikal Milieus. The social environment of terrorist groups, Frankfurt / Main 2012, pp. 121–142.
• Denouncer is not the same as denouncer , in: Klaus Behnke / Jürgen Wolf (eds.), Stasi on the schoolyard. The abuse of children and young people by the Ministry for State Security, 2nd revised and supplemented edition, Hamburg 2012, pp. 63–73.
• Exit and pacification strategies using the example of German left-wing terrorism. In: Klaus Weinhauer / Jörg Requate (Ed.): Violence without a way out? Terrorism as a communication process in Europe since the 19th century. Frankfurt / Main 2012, pp. 223–240.
• The Red Army faction in the original sound: The tape recordings from the Stuttgart Stammheim trial , in: Zeithistorische Forschungen 2008/2, 5 vol., Pp. 299-312.

Web links

• Bielefeld University