Heiner Lichtenstein
Heiner Lichtenstein (actually Carl-Heinrich Lichtenstein ; born March 8, 1932 in Chemnitz ; † July 4, 2010 in Cologne ) was a German journalist and publicist .
Life
Lichtenstein was born in Saxony. He graduated from high school Dionysianum in Rheine . He lived in Cologne and since the 1970s has mainly dealt with the history of National Socialism , especially the Holocaust , as well as with current right-wing extremist movements .
For around 50 years he journalistically accompanied Nazi trials at home and abroad. Again and again he devoted himself to the experiences and history of the Jews , Sinti and Roma during the Holocaust and thus contributed to the understanding between Germans and Jews.
Lichtenstein was from 1961 to 1995 political editor at the radio of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk , among other things in the state editorial office . Most recently he published in the information portal Blick nach Rechts (BNR). Lichtenstein was editor of the quarterly periodical Tribüne until his death . Journal for the understanding of Judaism and on the board of the Association Against Forgetting - For Democracy .
Works
- Why Auschwitz wasn't bombed . Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1980. ISBN 3-7663-0428-3
- Raoul Wallenberg, savior of a hundred thousand Jews. A victim of Himmler and Stalin . Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-7663-0547-6
- With the Reichsbahn to death. Mass transports in the Holocaust 1941 to 1945 . Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7663-0809-2
- The Fassbinder Controversy or The End of the Closed Season . Athenaeum, Königstein / Ts. 1989, ISBN 3-7610-8403-X
- Tannenberg company: the cause of the Second World War . (With Alfred Spiess) Ullstein, Frankfurt / Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-548-33118-1
- Himmler's green helpers. The protection and order police in the "Third Reich" . Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-7663-2100-5
- Perpetrators, victims, consequences: the Holocaust past and present . (Ed .: HL and Otto R. Romberg) Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 1995. ISBN 3-89331-231-5
- Adapted and devoted. The Red Cross in the Third Reich. Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1996 ISBN 3-7663-0933-1 ISBN 978-3-7663-0933-4
Honors
- In 1990 Lichtenstein was awarded the Leo Baeck Prize of the Central Council of Jews in Germany .
- In 1999, Lichtenstein was awarded the Josef Neuberger Medal of the Düsseldorf Jewish Community for his years of reporting on trials against Nazi criminals .
- In 2009, the Cologne Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation honored Heiner Lichtenstein with the Giesberts-Lewin Prize for tolerance and understanding .
He also received the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and a Yad Vashem Memorial Medal from the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.
Web links
- Look to the right in December 2009 to receive the Giesberts-Lewin Prize
- Otto R. Romberg: On the death of Heiner Lichtenstein In: Tribüne (PDF file; 201 kB), 49th year, issue 195, 3rd quarter 2010.
- Obituaries for Heiner Lichtenstein by the Jewish internet magazine HaGalil.
Individual evidence
- ^ S. Otto Romberg's obituary in Tribüne 49th year, issue 195, 3rd quarter 2010.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lichtenstein, Heiner |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lichtenstein, Carl-Heinrich (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th July 2010 |
| Place of death | Cologne |