Heiner Wember
Heiner Wember (* 1959 in Olfen ) is a German historian and journalist .
Life
Wember completed an apprenticeship as a banker from 1975 to 1978. After high school and community service , he studied modern and Eastern European history as well as political science at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster until 1990 . In 1991 he published his dissertation on internment camps for National Socialists in the British zone of occupation and has since made documentaries for WDR, NDR, ZDF ( Guido Knopp ), Deutsche Welle , contributions to the Zeitzeichen program and writes articles in Die Zeit .
Wember has been the regular author of WDR 2 since 1997. In 2007, he was a speaker at the Network Peace Cooperative. Wember is married and has two children.
Fonts
- Heiner Wember: re-education in the camp. Internment and punishment of National Socialists in the British zone of occupation in Germany (= Düsseldorfer Writings on the Modern History of North Rhine-Westphalia. Vol. 30). Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-152-7 (At the same time: Münster, University, dissertation, 1990: Internment and sentencing of National Socialists, "militarists" and "suspect persons" in the British occupation zone of Germany. 3rd edition. ibid 2007, ISBN 978-3-89861-883-0 ).
- Tommies as perpetrators - the specialist historian Heiner Wember comments on the latest information about British torture camps in Germany after World War II. ZEIT online, April 4, 2006
Movies
- Jörg Müllner and Heiner Wember: “The prisoners - part 1: Off to Siberia!” 44 min. Universum-Film, Munich 2004
Web links
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wember, Heiner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Olfen |