Heinz Wewer

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Heinz Wewer (* 1935 in Cologne ) is a German journalist , political scientist and historian . His main focus is the history of persecution under National Socialism .

Life

Wewer completed his Abitur in Emden , followed by a degree in law , history and political science in Tübingen, Berlin, at Amherst College and in Princeton ( MA ).

As a journalist, Wewer published articles in the Frankfurter Hefte , the trade union monthly magazines and for the WDR . As a correspondent for RIAS Berlin, he reported on the trial against Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. In the 1960s, Wewer played a key role in bringing the human experiments in the Ravensbrück concentration camp into the public eye and initiated a debate about reparations for the victims.

Wewer worked as a research assistant at the Berlin Document Center , the Association of German Scientists and the Hochschul-Informations-System GmbH (HIS). He also worked in cultural and educational administration, most recently as head of the international relations department at the Berlin University of the Arts .

Heinz Wewer lives in Berlin.

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In 2017 the Hentrich & Hentrich publishing house published Wewer's book “Abgereist, ohne Indic der Adresse”, in which he deals with persecution and terror in the Nazi era based on postal certificates. In the Süddeutsche Zeitung it says about the work: “It is this terrifying simultaneity of horror and ordinaryness that adheres to the evidence of contemporary postal history. […] All of this can be read in this unusual history book, which combines the diligence of collectors and the interest to educate in a vivid way. ”The Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung speaks of a“ remarkable, overwhelmingly material-rich ”book.

A year later, the follow-up volume “Postal certificates on German occupation in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ” was published. In his review of the work in the historical journal , Detlef Brandes states that Wewer “made an impressive contribution to the history of the prisons and camps in the Protectorate with his meticulous investigation”.

The volume “Traces of Terror”, published in 2020, is dedicated to the concentration camp system . The Süddeutsche Zeitung writes about the book: “Its strength lies in giving back their names to the people named, who only existed as numbers in the concentration camp. [...] Wewer's compilation is also a contribution to the memory of the victims. "The Tagesspiegel describes Wewer as an" internationally respected representative of a 'Social Philately' oriented towards the years of the Nazi dictatorship ".

Fonts

  • as ed. with Rainer Mackensen : Dynamics of population development: structures, conditions, consequences. Carl Hanser, Munich 1973.
  • as publisher: May 1995 - Remembrance and Future. On the representation of the unrepresentable in the arts. German and English, Glasgow 1997.
  • "Left without giving the address ..." Postal evidence of persecution and terror under National Socialism. Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95565-241-8
  • Postal evidence of German occupation in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95565-245-6
  • Traces of Terror. Postal evidence of the German concentration camp system. Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin / Leipzig 2020, ISBN 978-3-95565-350-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b What prisoners from the concentration camp were allowed to write. Retrieved January 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Stefanie Michaela Baumann: Human attempts and reparation. The long dispute over compensation and recognition of the victims of National Socialist human experiments . Ouldenburg, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-58951-1 , p. 132-139 .
  3. ^ Verlag Hentrich & Hentrich. Retrieved January 28, 2020 .
  4. ^ Christiane Schlötzer: Gray in small format. Retrieved January 28, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Michael Schreiner: How letters from the Nazi era testify to terror and persecution. Retrieved January 28, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Detlef Brandes: Review of Heinz Wewer, "Postal evidence of German occupation in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia". In: Historical magazine. Volume 309, 2019, pp. 239-241
  7. ↑ Robert Probst: I am alive and well. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. January 20, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Wewer, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, political scientist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne