Jörg Ganzenmüller

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Jörg Ganzenmüller (born December 8, 1969 in Augsburg ) is a German historian .

Life

Jörg Ganzenmüller studied modern and contemporary history, Eastern European history and scientific politics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg from 1992 to 1999 . He then worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Modern and Eastern European History there until 2004. In 2003 he received his doctorate from Gottfried Schramm with his work The besieged Leningrad: A city in the strategy of attackers and defenders . According to Ganzenmüller's research results, the causes and conditions to which around one million people fell victim in Leningrad, which was besieged by the Wehrmacht, between 1941 and 1944, are to be located in the context of a war of extermination and a hunger plan planned by the German leadership . At that time he called the Leningrad blockade a silent genocide .

From 2004 to 2010 Ganzenmüller was a research assistant at the Chair for Eastern European History at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . As part of a scholarship at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich in 2008/2009, he conducted research on the subject of Russian state power and Polish nobility and completed his habilitation in 2010 with a study on this at the University of Jena. From 2010 to 2014 he represented Joachim von Puttkamer's chair for Eastern European History at the University of Jena. Since December 2014, Jörg Ganzenmüller has been the chairman of the Ettersberg Foundation , which is responsible for scientific research into the emergence, manifestations and overcoming of dictatorships in Europe, especially the SED dictatorship . Since 2017 he has also held the professorship for the comparison of European dictatorships at the University of Jena.

Jörg Ganzenmüller's research focuses on the National Socialist extermination policy in World War II , Stalinism in the Soviet Union , the memory of war and dictatorship in Eastern Europe , European comparison of dictatorships and Russian-Polish relations from the 18th to the 20th century .

Fonts (selection)

  • The besieged Leningrad from 1941 to 1944. The city in the strategies of attackers and defenders. (= War in History . Vol. 22). Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2005, ISBN 3-506-72889-X . 2nd edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-506-72889-0 .
  • Secondary theater of memory. The blockade of Leningrad in the memory of the Germans. In: Eastern Europe. Vol. 55, Issue 4-6, 2005, pp. 135-147.
  • with Beate Fieseler (Ed.): War pictures. Media representations of the Great Patriotic War. Klartext, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0094-3 (= publications on culture and history in Eastern Europe , vol. 35).
  • Russian state power and Polish nobility. Integration of the elite and state development in the west of the Tsarist Empire (1772–1850) (= Contributions to the History of Eastern Europe , Vol. 46). Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-20944-5 .
  • Stalin's genocide? On the limits of the concept of genocide and the chances of a historical comparison. In: Sybille Steinbacher (ed.): Holocaust and genocides. The range of comparison. Campus, Frankfurt a. M., New York 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39748-1 , pp. 145-166.
  • with Raphael Utz (ed.): Soviet crimes and Russian memory. Places - actors - interpretations. De Gruyter / Oldenbourg, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-486-74196-4 .
  • with Raphael Utz (ed.): Places of the Shoah in Poland. Memorial sites between memorial and museum (= European dictatorships and their overcoming, vol. 22), Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-50316-1 .
  • (Ed.): Law and Justice. The criminal investigation of dictatorships in Europe (= European dictatorships and their overcoming, vol. 23), Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50548-6

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vademecum of the historical sciences , 10th edition, 2012/2013, Steiner, Stuttgart 2012, p. 365.
  2. ↑ Jörg Ganzenmüller: A silent genocide . In: The time. No. 4, January 15, 2004.
  3. ↑ Research project at the Historisches Kolleg .
  4. ↑ Representative chair of Joachim von Puttkamer (PDF; 68 kB).
  5. ↑ Dictatorship doesn't just work through violence. Jörg Ganzenmüller is the new head of the Ettersberg Foundation and deals with the aftermath of the GDR . In: Thüringische Landeszeitung , December 2, 2014.
  6. ↑ Historical Institute of the University of Jena: Prof. Dr. Jörg Ganzenmüller .
personal data
SURNAME Ganzenmüller, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg