Hans-Joachim Lang (Germanist)

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Hans-Joachim Lang in December 2014.

Hans-Joachim Lang (born August 6, 1951 in Speyer ) is a German journalist, cultural scientist, Germanist and honorary professor.

biography

After graduating from high school, Lang studied German, cultural and political science at the University of Tübingen , which he completed in 1976 with the academic degree Magister artium . In 1980 he received his doctorate degree in German studies with a thesis on the influence of political advertising on news texts. phil. PhD . After a short time as a freelancer for the Schwäbisches Tagblatt in Tübingen, he worked there as an editor from 1982 to 2016. He has also been an honorary professor for empirical cultural studies at the University of Tübingen since 2013. Following the journalist Wolfgang Moser, he also rejected the Fritz-Singer-Prize awarded in the spring of 1989 . The background was Fritz Sanger's activity as a journalist at the time of National Socialism , which - according to Moser - the SPD could not have presented as the "intellectual father of a prize for 'courageous journalism'".

Lang published on regional history , the Holocaust and Nazi medicine . He succeeded u. a. after years of research, to determine the names and origins of the 86 murder victims for the planned August Hirt skeleton collection at the University of Strasbourg . From the perspective of the women concerned, he also described the cruel everyday life in Block 10 of the main camp of Auschwitz , where SS doctors ( Carl Clauberg , Horst Schumann and others) carried out medical experiments on over 800 Jewish women .

controversy

In 2018 the historian Julien Reitzenstein published a scientific monograph on the crime of the Strasbourg skull collection . In it, some of Lang's theses are called into question by submitting sources. Lang has rearranged and expanded his book and published it in France in 2018 (only in French). Most of Reitzenstein's criticisms were removed.

Essentially, the two authors still differ in their assessment of the then anatomy assistant Henri Henripierre . Reitzenstein describes him as a collaborator because he actively sought citizenship of the German Reich and was paid by the SS. Lang credits Henripierre for reporting the crime after the liberation of Strasbourg and handing over the list of prisoner numbers.

Lang counters the claims of the Canadian historian Michael Kater that it was not Hirt but Bruno Beger who examined the alleged skull of King Heinrich in Quedlinburg. Lang refers to a correspondence between August Hirt and SS-Untersturmführer Rolf Höhne from the "Arbeitsstab Quedlinburg" discovered in Strasbourg in 1936. Based on this assertion, Kater had started the discussion with Beger as the initiator of the murder of 86 Jews in the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp brought. Reitzenstein supports Kater's opinion and takes a critical look at Lang's evidence.

Awards

  • Guardian Prize of the German daily press for the investigation of the practices of a large criminal chamber at the Tübingen Regional Court (1989)
  • Prize of the Auschwitz Foundation in Brussels for the book The Names of Numbers (2004)
  • Leonhart Fuchs Medal of the Medical Faculty of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (2008)
  • Champions Award 2017 , Research Award of the Center for Medicine After The Holocaust, Houston (2017)
  • Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (2019)

Fonts (selection)

  • Party press releases in the flow of political news. A case study on the influence of political advertising on news texts (= Europäische Hochschulschriften. Series 21: Linguistics. 9). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1980, ISBN 3-8204-6781-5 (also: Tübingen, Universität, Dissertation, 1980).
  • In the foyer of the revolution. When Schiller was to become editor-in-chief in Tübingen: the early days of Cotta's “Allgemeine Zeitung”. Schwäbisches Tagblatt publishing house, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-928011-28-6 .
  • The names of the numbers. How it was possible to identify the 86 victims of a Nazi crime. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-455-09464-3 (In Polish: Nazwiska numerów. Wołoszański, Warsaw 2006, ISBN 83-89344-25-4 ; in Czech: Jména čísel. Jak se podařilo identifikovat 86 obětí jednoho nacistického zločinu. Ikar, Prague 2016, ISBN 978-80-249-2953-8 ).
  • Name memory. About the Jewish students at the Eberhard Karls University (= Tübingen University Speeches . New Part 48, ISSN  0564-4283 ). Lecture at the Dies Universitatis 2007. Rector of the Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen 2008.
  • "As a Christian, I call you a liar". Theodor Rollers rebellion against Hitler. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-455-50104-9 .
  • The women from Block 10. Medical experiments in Auschwitz. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-455-50222-0 (In Finnish: Parakki 10. Naiset Auschwitzin koe-eläiminä. Minerva Kustannus, Helsinki 2013, ISBN 978-952-492-711-6 ; in Polish Language: Kobiety z bloku 10. Eksperymenty medyczne w Auschwitz. Świat Książki, Warsaw 2013, ISBN 978-83-7943-097-0 ; in Czech: Ženy z bloku 10. Lékařské pokusy v Osvětimi. Ikar, Prague 2014, ISBN 978 -80-249-2394-9 ).
  • Des noms derrière des numéros. L'identification des 86 victimes d'un crime nazi. Une inquete. Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg 2018 | ISBN = 979-10-344-0012-6 (extended new edition of the German original from 2004)

Web links

Commons : Hans-Joachim Lang  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Hans-Joachim Lang on the pages of hoffmann-und-campe.de
  • The names of the numbers . Website of Hans-Joachim Lang on his research on the background of the "Ahnenerbe" murders in the Natzweiler concentration camp.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hon. Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Lang. Honorary professorships at the University of Tübingen. In: uni-tuebingen.de. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Otto Kohler: A very brave person looking for a profile. In: The time . No. 16, dated April 14, 1989.
  3. ↑ Bernd C. Hesslein: Study of a Genocide. In: The time. No. 43, dated October 14, 2004.
  4. ^ A b Julien Reitzenstein: The SS Ahnenerbe and the "Strasbourg skull collection" - Fritz Bauer's last case. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-428-15313-8 , pp. 281 ff .
  5. ↑ Comparison of skulls after beheading - Nazi crimes solved after 75 years . In: Bildzeitung . ( bild.de [accessed on May 14, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Des noms derrière des numéros. Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, December 2018, accessed on June 18, 2020 (French).
  7. ^ Sven Felix Kellerhoff: Nazi collaborator invented 86-headed skull collection. SS-Ahnenerbe. In: Welt.de. December 3, 2018, accessed September 11, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Raphaël Toledano already pointed this out. Raphaël Toledano: Henri Henrypierre: de Lièpvre à Nuremberg, itinéraire d'un témoin des crimes du Struthof. In: 35e Cahier de la Société d'histoire du Val de Lièpvre, 2013, pp. 87–110.
  9. ↑ Hans-Joachim Lang: A skull of modern research . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from February 20, 2019 . S. N3 .
  10. ↑ Julien Reitzenstein: The cruel history of the Strasbourg skull collection. In: Jüdische Rundschau. June 6, 2019, accessed September 11, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Hans-Joachim Lang receives research award “Medicine after the Holocaust”. Honorary professor of the Ludwig Uhland Institute honored at workshop in Israel. In: uni-tuebingen.de. Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, May 15, 2017, accessed on September 11, 2019 .
  12. ^ Announcement of the awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Announcement from September 1, 2019. In: http://www.bundespraesident.de . Office of the Federal President, September 1, 2019, accessed on September 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lang, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist, journalist and honorary professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Speyer