Mr. Fischler

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Hersch Fischler (* 1947 in Steyr , Austria) is a German sociologist and journalist from Düsseldorf.

Life

Fischler studied sociology, philosophy and economics and political science.

Fischler has worked as a freelance publicist and journalist since the 1980s. In 1997, his research on the SS Raubgold revealed documents about the involvement of German banks at the time. That probably led to the establishment of three historians' commissions that confirmed his research.

He also emerged as a co-author of two publications on the Reichstag fire and the history of the Bertelsmann group. His research on the history of the Bertelsmann group led u. a. also to a commission of historians. As a result, Bertelsmann had to correct its official company history regarding its role in the Third Reich .

In research on the Reichstag fire, he became known as a critic of the sole perpetrator thesis, which is essentially based on a series in the magazine Der Spiegel by Fritz Tobias (co-author Paul Schmidt-Carell) in 1959. He found documents in the house archive of the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) that demonstrated irregularities in Hans Mommsen's scientific confirmation of the Spiegel series . Mommsen's confirmation had led to the acceptance of the sole perpetrator thesis. As a result, the Institute for Contemporary History distanced itself from Hans Mommsen in 2001. In 2005 the IfZ published a contribution by Fischler, in which he set out details of the untenability of van der Lubbe's sole perpetrator and demonstrated documentation errors in Spiegel magazine .

resonance

Referring to Fischler , the NZZ caused a stir in 2000 with its criticism of the award of the Ludwig Börne Prize to the long-standing Spiegel publisher Rudolf Augstein , which it justified with the role of Augstein in the history-distorting description of the Reichstag fire by the Spiegel.

Fonts

  • Dieter Deiseroth (ed.): The Reichstag fire and the trial before the Reichsgericht . With contributions by Alexander Bahar, Dieter Deiseroth, Hersch Fischler a. a. Tischler Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 2005
  • Frank Böckelmann / Hersch Fischler: Bertelsmann: behind the facade of the media empire . Eichborn: Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3-8218-5551-7 .
  • Hans Schneider: News from the Reichstag fire? A documentation ; with contributions by Dieter Deiseroth, Hersch Fischler and Wolf-Dieter Narr. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2004
  • Thomas Barth (Ed.): Bertelsmann: A media empire makes politics . With contributions by Hersch Fischler, Eckart Spoo, Martin Bennhold and others. a. Anders-Verlag, Hamburg 2006
  • "The double forward. Do the SPD, the Protection of the Constitution and Spiegel falsify the story of the Reichstag fire?", In: Background 4/2012, pp. 80–85.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NZZ criticizes Börne Prize Winner Augstein ( memento from September 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) and Der Journalist about the FAZ and the Börne Prize award ( memento from August 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (in the Internet Archive).

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personal data
SURNAME Fischler, Hersch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Steyr , Austria