Herbert Ammon

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Herbert Ammon (* 1943 in Brieg , Silesia ) is a German publicist , historian and senior teacher . D., who was best known for the book Die Linke und die nationalefrage , which he published in 1981 together with Peter Brandt .

Life

Ammon attended the humanistic New High School in Nuremberg from 1953 to 1962 . He studied as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, as a Fulbright scholarship holder at Tulane University in New Orleans, and at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen. In 1966/67 he taught at Dillard University in New Orleans, a college attended mainly by African-Americans . After the state exams (history, English, social studies), he first taught at a Bavarian grammar school. From 1975 to 2003 Ammon worked as a lecturer in history and sociology at the preparatory college for foreign students at the Free University of Berlin .

In the 1980s he was involved in the peace movement of that time, u. a. as a representative of the "open letter" of the GDR regime critic Robert Havemann to the Soviet state and party leader Leonid Brezhnev . In his publications, e.g. Partly in cooperation with Peter Brandt and Theodor Schweisfurth , he emphasized the relevance of the “German question” preserved in the block structures for peace in Europe in the debate about the stationing of new medium-range nuclear missiles (“retrofitting”) and the military-strategic deterrent doctrines. His contacts with the independent peace movement in the GDR earned him an entry ban until the fall of the Berlin Wall. Nonetheless, the connection to activists such as Christian Dietrich , Edelbert Richter and Stephan Bickhardt - mediated through the Canadian peace researcher Hans Sinn ( Peace Brigades International [PBI] ) - remained . Until its dissolution in the early 1990s, Ammon belonged to the Political Club Berlin (Working Group for European Cooperation eV).

Ammon published numerous articles and reviews on contemporary history, on the “Left and the National Question”, on the culture of remembrance , on the history of the expulsion of Germans after the Second World War, as well as essays on European and American history. Essays on the history of the German resistance to National Socialism deserve special mention. His contributions appeared a. a. in the Germany Archive , in the Neue Gesellschaft , in: Das Argument , in Merkur , in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , in Die Welt and in the magazines We ourselves and Commune . He is the author of the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit . Since 2006, his essays and reviews have been published primarily in the online journal Iablis: Yearbook for European Processes . Ammon is a permanent author of the online magazine Globkult, which was founded by his long-term partner and co-author Peter Brandt and has been published by Gunter Weißgerber since January 2020, and is a guest author of the Axis des Guteness . His publications appear regularly on The European .

Ammon is a co-founder and member of the board of trustees of the Deutsche Gesellschaft e. V. to promote political, cultural and social relations in Europe . He is a member of the Kondylis Institute for Cultural Analysis and Alteration Research (Kondiaf). Ammon lives in Berlin .

Publications (selection)

  • Peter Brandt, Herbert Ammon (Ed.): The Left and the National Question. Documents on German Unity since 1945 . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-499-14740-8 (= rororo currently 4740)
  • Peter Brandt, Herbert Ammon: The Topicality of the German Question for Peace in Europe . In: Working group Atomwaffenfreies Europa (Ed.): Alternatives of European peace policy . Atomic Weapons-Free Europe Working Group, Berlin 1981
  • Herbert Ammon, Peter Brandt: The German Question , in: Telos (March 1982).
  • Herbert Ammon, Theodor Schweisfurth : Peace treaty, German confederation, European security system. Memorandum for the realization of a European peace order with 50 pages of documents . ibf, Starnberg 1985, ISBN 3-924011-07-9 .
  • Herbert Ammon: Methodological questions in the introduction to sociology at the preparatory college , in materials German as a foreign language, Vol. 31, Regensburg 1991.
  • Herbert Ammon: Friedrich Georg Friedmann - The Experience of American Culture . In: Rector of the University of Augsburg (ed.): Life and work of Friedrich G. Friedmann. Three lectures as part of a symposium of the Jewish Culture Weeks 1995 on November 16, 1995 . University of Augsburg, 1997 (= Augsburger Universitätsreden, Vol. 30).
  • Herbert Ammon: The expulsion of the Germans. Deficits in German contemporary history , Munich 1999.
  • Herbert Ammon: Humanity in the inner circle of crime. On the historical source value of Friedrich Linhart's self-testimony.
  • Herbert Ammon: The era of populism in the USA - historical outlines of a term.
  • Herbert Ammon: The Fall of the Berlin Wall. Its causes and consequences.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Hans-Sinn/66095418
  2. ↑ http://www.academia.edu/3345526/Vor_der_epochalen_Wende_1989_Neues_Denken_
  3. ↑ Helmut Müller-Enbergs: Ludwig Mehlhorn, archive link ( Memento from October 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Herbert Ammon: Annus mirabilis 1989: On the pre- and post-history of an encounter, http://www.globkult.de/herbert-ammon/877-annus-mirabilis-1989-zur-vor-und-nachgeschichte-einer-begegnung
  5. ↑ http://www.globkult.de/herbert-ammon/621-zum-tod-von-jiri-dienstbier-1937-2011
  6. ^ Herbert Ammon: Partition et réunification de l´Allemagne, in: Le grand guide de l´Allemagne, http://www.decitre.fr/livres/le-grand-guide-de-l-allemagne-9782070568871.html
  7. ↑ http://www.globkult.de/herbert-ammon/567-eine-kritik-der-deutschen-zivilreligion-aus-dem-geist-der-tragoedie
  8. ↑ Herbert Ammon: From George's Spirit to Stauffenberg's Action - Manfred Riedel's Rescue of the Reich, http://iablis.de/iablis_t/2007/ammonrez07.html
  9. ↑ https://www.academia.edu/3195505/Versailles_Gedenkort_deutscher_Geschichte
  10. ↑ Herbert Ammon: Missing the Opportune as a sign of the revolution: America before 1775/1776 and France until 1791/1792, http://iablis.de/iablis_t/2010/ammon10.html
  11. ↑ Herbert Ammon: Geopolitics - On the return of a lost concept in the 21st century, http://iablis.de/iablis_t/2009/ammon09.html
  12. ↑ Herbert Ammon: Charles Beard: American “progressive” and protagonist of an economic interpretation of history, http://www.iablis.de/iablis_t/2014/ammon14.html
  13. ↑ http://www.globkult.de/herbert-ammon/607-koeniggraetz-koblenz-kreisau-orte-der-moltkes-
  14. ↑ http://www.globkult.de/herbert-ammon/592-ein-signal-an-seydlitz-ueber-madame-kollontai-
  15. ↑ https://www.academia.edu/3225716/Widerstand_-_mehr_als_nur_ideologische_Verf%C3%BCgungsmasse._Zur_Geschichte_der_deutschen_Arbeiterbewendung
  16. ↑ http://www.globkult.de/herbert-ammon/566-die-geschichtliche-tragik-der-rweissen-rosel-und-die-politische-moral-der-nachgeboren-
  17. ↑ http://www.globkult.de/herbert-ammon/631-dietrich-bonhoeffer-christlicher-abendlaender-und-deutscher-patriot-
  18. ↑ http://www.globkult.de/herbert-ammon/759-die-politische-theologie-dietrich-bonhoeffers
  19. ↑ http://www.globkult.de/geschichte/zeitgeschichte/1268-die-rote-kapelle-im-schatten-der-deutschen-widerstandsgeschichte
  20. ↑ List of authors , accessed on December 20, 2014.
  21. ↑ Portrait of Herbert Ammon , accessed on December 20, 2014.
  22. ^ Author profile and articles by Herbert Ammon on the axis of the good .
personal data
SURNAME Ammon, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Brieg, Silesia