Hans-Dieter Arntz

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Hans-Dieter Arntz (2008)

Hans-Dieter Arntz (born June 24, 1941 in Königsberg ) is a former high school teacher and German regional historian . Since 1975 he has been researching contemporary history issues in the Rhineland with a focus on the Eifel and northern Voreifel .

biography

Arntz attended the state Beethoven grammar school in Bonn and, after graduating from high school , studied social sciences , sociology , psychology and educational science at the universities of Bonn and Cologne . He retired as a senior student councilor in June 2006 after 40 years of teaching in the district town of Euskirchen .

Arntz mainly publishes in historical yearbooks and daily newspapers and gives lectures. His books concentrate on Rhenish regional studies as well as contemporary history and deal mainly with National Socialism , the persecution of Jews and the end of the war in 1944/45.

He made recommendations for naming streets and erecting memorials to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and the Second World War . Because of his German-Jewish reconciliation work, which u. a. Arntz received national and international awards in the form of the provision of completed pension notices, the reunification of Jewish families and the organization of meetings with former Jewish fellow citizens.

Published in 1986 the book Arntz Order Castle Vogelsang 1934-1945 - education for political leaders in the Third Reich , which as Ordensburg Vogelsang talent hotbeds of designated Nazism discussed. His main work is the regional historical documentation of the persecution of Jews and escape assistance in the German-Belgian border area . Here u. a. Court files of exemplary synagogue fire trials and previously unknown escape aid organizations that brought refugees across the Green Border until 1943/44 are shown .

The work The Last Jewish Elder of Bergen-Belsen , first published in 2012 , contains the biography of Josef Weiss and documents a respected "concentration camp Jewish elder" for the first time as an overall representation. Up to now, Holocaust research has not known any “prison functionary” who can be shown to remain so “worthy in an unworthy environment”.

Works

  • JUDAICA - Jews in the Voreifel. Kümpel, Euskirchen 1983; 3rd, revised edition 1987, ISBN 3-9800787-0-1 , 539 pages
  • End of the war 1944/1945 - Between the Ardennes and the Rhine. Kümpel, Euskirchen 1984; 3rd, supplemented edition 1986, ISBN 3-9800787-1-X , 679 pages
  • The Kuchenheimer Jewish community. In: Cuchenheim 1084-1984. Vol. 2 (Scientific and historical contributions). Publication of the Association of History and Home Friends of the District of Euskirchen eV, A-series, Vol. 14.2, 1985, pp. 415-432.
  • Ordensburg Vogelsang 1934–1945. Education for political leadership in the Third Reich. Kümpel, Euskirchen 1986, ISBN 3-935221-69-X ; 6th, revised and expanded edition: Helios, Aachen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86933-018-1 , 254 pages
  • Persecution of Jews and help to escape in the German-Belgian border area. Kümpel, Euskirchen 1990, ISBN 3-9800787-6-0 , 810 pages
  • End of the war in 1944/1945 in the old district of Euskirchen. Kümpel, Euskirchen 1994; 2nd, expanded edition 1995. ISBN 3-9802996-4-3 , 358 pages
  • End of the war in 1944/1945 in the old district of Schleiden. Kümpel, Euskirchen 1995, ISBN 3-9802996-6-X , 368 pages
  • Ordensburg Vogelsang - Through the ages. Helios, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-938208-51-9 .
  • End of the war - through the Voreifel to the Rhine. Helios, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-938208-61-8 , 162 pages
  • Vogelsang. History of the former NS-Ordensburg. Helios, Aachen 2008, ISBN 978-3-938208-71-7 .
  • Reichskristallnacht. The November pogrom in 1938 in the Eifel and Voreifel. Helios, Aachen 2008, ISBN 978-3-938208-69-4 , 196 pages
  • Religious life of the Cologne Jews in the Riga ghetto, in: Yearbook of the Cologne History Association, No. 53 (1982), pp. 127-152
  • Isidore's letters. About the correspondence of a Jew from Euskirchen. Helios, Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86933-007-5 .
  • The last Jewish elder from Bergen-Belsen. Josef Weiss - worthy in an unworthy environment. Helios, Aachen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86933-082-2 , 710 pages
  • The desperate escape of “unaccompanied Jewish children” through the Eifel to Belgium (1938/39). Remembering a German-Belgian refugee crisis , in: Eifeljahrbuch, Düren 2017, pp. 22–34, ISBN 978-3-944 620-12-1

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Missing only 9 days . In: Kölnische Rundschau , April 2, 2006
  2. ↑ May 16, 1893 The life of Josef Weiss . In: Zeitzeichen , May 16, 2013
  3. ^ Wording of the laudation from Prime Minister Hannelore Kraft . In: WIR in NRW Das Landesportal , September 16, 2015
  4. ^ Ordensburg Vogelsang: 1934-1945 - Education for political leadership in the Third Reich (paperback, 6th edition - February 2010)
  5. ↑ The last Jewish elder from Bergen-Belsen . In: Jüdisches Leben Online HaGalil on September 27, 2012
  6. ↑ Dangerous balancing act . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 1, 2013, page 8
  7. ↑ Hans-Dieter Arntz returned his dignity to Josef Weiss , article by Bettina Klix in: Freiburger Rundbrief , issue 2 v. 2014, pp. 128–130
personal data
SURNAME Arntz, Hans-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German regional historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)