Herbert Diercks

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Herbert Diercks (born February 7, 1953 in Homfeld ) is a German historian and archivist who was a research assistant at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial .

Career

He grew up in a small village in Aukrug . Dierck's parents had a mini-farm there that they later had to give up. The family moved to Nortorf and he went to school in Neumünster . There he attended grammar school until he graduated from high school in 1973. As a teenager he met the resistance fighter Fritz Bringmann in Aukrug . This encounter had a strong influence on his later career. He became a conscientious objector and founded a group of the Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime in Nortorf - Bund der Antifaschisteninnen und Antifaschisten (VVN) and began studying history in Hamburg in 1975 . In 1983 he started as a student assistant at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial and was employed there in 1994 as an archivist and later as a research assistant. He has created a large number of publications and exhibitions on the city history of Hamburg under National Socialism , most recently the permanent exhibition in the Hamburg city courtyards on the history of the police from 1933 to 1945, completed in 2020. From 1994 to 2019 he was part of the editorial team of the magazine " Contributions to the History of National Socialist Persecution in Northern Germany ". Since 1889 he has accompanied the alternative harbor tours of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial and, for many years, the Alster Canal tours, bicycle tours through the Ohlsdorf cemetery and literary tours. He has been retired since 2019. He is a member of the ver.di union .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2003: Fuhlsbüttel Concentration Camps and Prisons 1933–1945 (permanent exhibition in the Fuhlsbüttel Concentration Camps and Prisons Memorial 1933–1945).
  • 2006: The Invisible Helpers. Hiltgunt Zassenhaus from Hamburg and the Norwegian seaman's mission on duty for the Norwegians imprisoned in Fuhlsbüttel from 1940–1945.
  • 2008: The Port of Hamburg under National Socialism. Economy, Forced Labor, and Resistance .
  • 2010: Freedom lives. Resistance and persecution in Hamburg 1933–1945.
  • 2012: Documentation town house . The Hamburg police under National Socialism.
  • 2014: " Euthanasia " The murders of people with disabilities and mental illnesses in Hamburg during National Socialism.
  • 2016: Hamburg football under National Socialism.
  • 2018: Around the Alster. Hamburg history under National Socialism.
  • 2020: The town house under National Socialism. A headquarters of terror (permanent exhibition on the history of the police under National Socialism in the city courtyards, Hamburg)

Publications (selection)

  • with Edith Burgard and Rose-Marie Zahrndt: Rudolf Klug - A teacher does not adapt. Antifascist series, issue 2, VVN, Hamburg 1982
  • with Fritz Bringmann: Freedom lives! Anti-fascist resistance and Nazi terror in Elmshorn and the surrounding area 1933–1945. 702 years imprisonment for anti-fascists, Frankfurt am Main 1983 (Röderberg Verlag ISBN 978-3-87682-040-8 ).
  • " Kola-Fu " memorial book . For the victims from the concentration camp, Gestapo prison and Fuhlsbüttel subcamp. Ed .: Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. Hamburg 1987.
  • Ohlsdorf cemetery. On the trail of Nazi rule and resistance. Ed .: Willi-Bredel-Gesellschaft Geschichtswerkstatt eV Hamburg 1992 (Results-Verlag; ISBN 3-87916-012-0 ).
  • Fuhlsbüttel - the concentration camp in the judicial prison. In: The early concentration camps in Germany. Exchange on the state of research and educational practice in memorials. Ed .: Karl Giebeler, Thomas Lutz , Silvester Lechner. OA (Bad Boll 1996), pp. 101-129.
  • The guards of the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp in court from 1948. In: The early post-war processes. Contributions to the history of the National Socialist persecution in Northern Germany. Issue 3. Bremen 1997, pp. 75-92. (Edition Temmen; ISBN 3-86108-322-1 ).
  • Deported to Germany! Young inmates of Neuengamme concentration camp from the Soviet Union remember. Published on behalf of the Friends of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial eV and the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. Bremen 2000 (Edition Temmen; ISBN 3-86108-762-6 ).
  • This book was also published in Russian under the title: Угнали в Германию! Бывшие малолетние узники концлагеря Нойенгамме из Советского Союза вспоминают. Издание по заказу общественного союза "Кругдрузей мемориала концлагеря Нойенгамме“ ио мемориально. Ио мемориально. Bremen 2000 (Edition Temmen; ISBN 3-86108-763-4 ).
  • Fuhlsbüttel - the concentration camp in the responsibility of the Hamburg judiciary. In: Terror without a system. The first concentration camps under National Socialism 1933–1935. Ed .: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel . Berlin 2001, pp. 261-308. (Metropol Verlag; ISBN 3-932482-61-1 )
  • Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel. In: The Place of Terror. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps, Volume II Early camps Dachau Emslandlager . Ed .: Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel, Munich 2005, pp. 112–119.
  • Walther, Lina and Axel Lüders: "What is the world doing in which we are at home?" Letters 1942–1945. Ed .: Elsa Maria Lüders and Herbert Diercks. Bremen 2010 (Donat Verlag; ISBN 978-3-938275-67-2 ).
  • The Hamburg Ordnungs- und Schutzpolizei 1933 to 1945. In: Police, persecution and society under National Socialism. Contributions to the history of National Socialist persecution in northern Germany, issue 15, Bremen 2013, pp. 24–39 (Edition Temmen; ISBN 978-3-8378-4045-2 ).
  • The use of informants in the subject " Communism " of the Hamburg Gestapo 1943 to 1945. In: Police, persecution and society under National Socialism. Contributions to the history of National Socialist persecution in Northern Germany, issue 15, Bremen 2013, pp. 119–135 (Edition Temmen; ISBN 978-3-8378-4045-2 ).
  • “Euthanasia” crimes in Hamburg - an overview. In: "Euthanasia" crimes. Research on National Socialist health and social policy. Contributions to the history of Nazi persecution in Northern Germany, issue 17, Bremen 2016, pp. 11–26 (Edition Temmen; ISBN 978-3-8378-4053-7 ).
  • Tadeusz Brzeski - a forced laborer playing football in Hamburg. In: Football in National Socialist Society: Between Adjustment, Exclusion and Persecution. Contributions to the history of National Socialist persecution in Northern Germany, issue 18, Bremen 2017, pp. 118-131 (Edition Temmen; ISBN 978-3-8378-4056-8 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Diercks on Nazi history: History didn't interest me. In: /www.taz.de. May 19, 2019, accessed March 30, 2020 .
  2. ^ Annette Stiekele: Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial - No retirement for Herbert Dierks, Hamburger Abendblatt, supplement Museumworld Spring 2019, p. 11
personal data
SURNAME Diercks, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH 7th February 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Homfeld