Jörg Wollenberg

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Jörg Wollenberg June 2016

Jörg Rüdiger Wollenberg (born January 30, 1937 in Ahrensbök , Ostholstein ) is a German historian , adult educator and author . He was a university lecturer for further education with a focus on political education at the University of Bremen and director of the adult education centers in Bielefeld and Nuremberg .

biography

Jörg Wollenberg grew up in Ahrensbök, where his father, as a master miller , founded a land trade after the war . At the age of eight, on April 12, 1945, he saw around 300 concentration camp prisoners march through Ahrensbök. The small town near Lübeck was at the end of a three-month march ( Fürstengrube death march ) that went from Auschwitz-Fürstengrube via Mauthausen and Nordhausen ( Mittelbau-Dora ) to Ostholstein. "I stood on the street and saw this wretched train", Wollenberg describes the impressions, "emaciated figures dragged themselves away with great effort - they were human skeletons." Based on this experience, he later studied Auschwitz files and pursued individual fates.

Jörg Wollenberg at a lecture at the Ahrensbök Memorial in 2016

He studied history , German , political science and philosophy at the University of Hamburg and the University of Göttingen . In addition, he received a scholarship from the Foreign Office at the Sorbonne in Paris . This was followed by the state examination for the higher teaching post (1965) and the doctorate to Dr. phil. (1975). During and after his studies , he taught at the folk high schools in Mariaspring and Goslar . Since 1965 he has been a pedagogical employee at the state working groups for rural adult education and at work and life in Hanover and Göttingen (1966–1971). He headed the adult education center in Bielefeld from 1971 to 1978 , the Heimvolkshochschule Heinrich Hansen eV in Hörste (Lage) from 1974 to 1975 and the educational center of Nuremberg from 1985 to 1992. Teaching assignments and visiting professorships have taken him to Paris, Cagliari and New York, among others . From 1978 until his retirement in 2001 he was professor for further education with a focus on political education at the University of Bremen . He was one of the founders of the Ahrensbök Memorial . Wollenberg's work produced numerous publications on the history of the labor movement and the resistance to National Socialism , the persecution of the Jews and the Nazi war crimes , the work of memorials, adult education and political culture from the 17th century to the 21st century .

A special aspect of Wollenberg's research was to examine the history of the labor movement and its organizations in Göttingen, Bremen, Bielefeld and Nuremberg and the importance of educational work for the politicization process. In addition to the traditional sources, the memory of worker veterans was used in close cooperation with representatives of the workers ' organizations (Oral History Project). The extensive interview material also formed the basis for recording life stories (worker biographies). Another focus was not only to publish the materials in the form of scientific presentations, but also to look for ways to use these materials to strengthen historical-political memory in the educational work of the trade unions and adult education centers . Together with Peter Alheit, he was one of the founders of the Society for Social History and Biography Research in Bremen in 1983 and of the Abendroth Forum in Nuremberg with Gerd Lobodda in 1985. With Renate Schmidt , Hermann Glaser and Gerd Lobodda, he was editor of the Nuremberg Articles on Adult Education from 1991. For many years in Bremen he was in charge of Peter Weiss reading groups " Aesthetics of Resistance ".

Jörg Wollenberg is also present in daily media, regularly in the daily newspaper Junge Welt and the magazine Ossietzky , occasionally in the taz .

He is distantly related to Erich Wollenberg .

Book publications

  • Richelieu . Church interest and reason of state. Bielefeld 1977, ISBN 3-88024-020-5 ; French edition: Les trois Richelieu. Servir Dieu, le Roi et la Raison. Paris 1995, ISBN 2-86839-378-0 .
  • Workers education. Main tendencies of educational work in their historical development. FU Hagen 1983.
  • with Walter Fabian u. a .: Learning from missed opportunities. Staged documentation and songs on the history of the labor movement. Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-88442-013-5 .
  • with Lore Kleinert, Mechthild Müser and Dieter Pfliegensdörfer: From the crisis to fascism. Bremen labor movement 1929–1933. Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-88442-007-0 .
  • The working group "Weser" between social partnership and class struggle. Labor disputes and political strikes by Bremen shipyard workers. Bremen 1984, ISBN 3-88107-042-7 .
  • May 8, 1945: Reorganized reconstruction or reorganization prevented? University of Bremen 1985.
  • with Peter Alheit and Gerd Lobodda: How we want to live. Labor society crisis. Resistance, Reform and Perspectives . Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-87975-369-5 .
  • with Jörg Friedrich: Light in the shadows of the past. To remove the taboo from the Nuremberg war crimes trials. Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-548-33088-6 .
  • Nobody was there and nobody knew. The German Public and the Persecution of the Jews 1933–1945 . Munich 1989 (USA edition: The German Public and the Persecution of the Jews 1933-1945. New Jersey 1996, ISBN 0-391-03914-8 ).
  • From the hope of all Germans. Like the FRG, it came into being between 1945 and 1949 . Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-89438-016-0 .
  • with Peter Schönlein and Jerzy Wyrozumski: Menetekel. The face of World War II . Krakow 1991, ISBN 83-233-0459-9 .
  • Experience and concrete utopia. Positions - projects - perspectives on political education and regional cultural work. Nuremberg 1992, ISBN 3-87191-172-0 .
  • Sharpen the eye. Against displacement and disposal. Contributions to historical-political enlightenment. Bremen 1998, ISBN 3-931737-48-9 .
  • Reconciliation between peoples or people. Popular and political education in Thuringia in the twenties. Bremen 1998, ISBN 3-931737-51-9 .
  • Ahrensbök, a small town under National Socialism. Concentration Camp - Forced Labor - Death March . Bremen 2000, ISBN 3-86108-767-7 .
  • Our school was a concentration camp. Documents on labor service, concentration camp and school in Ahrensbök from 1930–1945. Bremen 2001, ISBN 3-86108-783-9 .
  • A letter to Debbie. The liberation of the Dachau sub-camp Landsberg-Kaufering. An exhibition by Yardena Donig-Youner. Bremen 2002, ISBN 3-934836-31-3 .
  • Political worker biographies : Käthe Popall . A difficult political life. Bremen 1985, ISBN 3-88132-064-4 .
  • Otto Kraus. An IG Metaller from the very beginning. Bremen 1987, edited with Peter Alheit; In addition to this, numerous exhibitions and worker biographies on video have been created since 1973. Cf. u. a. Booklet for the video film series Bremer Arbeiterbiographien, ed. by Heinz-Gerd Hofschen, Bremen 1991.
  • Selected writings by Theodor Lessing , edited with Helmut Donat: “Education is Beauty” Autobiographical testimonies and writings on educational reform (Volume I, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-924444-84-6 ); “We're not taking part.” Writings against nationalism and on the Jewish question. With a contribution by Walter Grab and drawings by Alfred Hrdlicka , (Volume II, 1997, ISBN 3-931737-16-0 ; “Theaterseele und Tomi milkt die Moralkuh” . Writings on theater and literature. With contributions by Hanjo Kesting and Henning Rischbieter and drawings by Christoph Niess. (Volume III, 2003, ISBN 3-934836-60-7 ).
  • with Arno Klönne and Karl A. Otto : Freedom, prosperity, education for everyone! From the printing association to ver.di. A reading picture book. Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-89965-083-2 .
  • The miracle of Hörste. 50 years of political education in Lage-Hörste. Hamburg 2004, VSA-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89965-084-6 .
  • with Heiner Karuscheit, Jörn Wegner and Klaus Wernecke: Power and War - Hegemony Constellations and First World War , Hamburg 2014, VSA-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89965-621-3 .
  • Pergamon Altar and Workers' Education : " Luxemburg - Gramsci Line - Prerequisite: Clarification of historical errors" (Peter Weiss), Hamburg 2005, VSA-Verlag, Socialism Supplement; [Jg. 32], Suppl. 5, ISBN 3-89965-924-4
  • War of memories - from Ahrensbök via New York to Auschwitz and back. A search for clues. Volume 1, Sujet-Verlag, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-944201-94-8 .
  • The other memory - securing evidence of a resistant cross-border commuter. Volume 2, Sujet-Verlag, Bremen 2017, ISBN 978-3-944201-95-5 .
  • Dare more democracy with culture and education - A critical look at 100 years of adult education centers, published by Jörg Wollenberg, Sept. 2019.

Magazine publications

  • "Waiting for Godot" behind bars , Ossietzky (magazine) , 9/16
  • Spain was her hope , Ossietzky (magazine), 7/2016
  • "Peace" with Ukraine , Ossietzky (magazine), 5/2015
  • From war opponent to "November criminal " , Ossietzky (magazine), 11/2014
  • Wilhelm Dittmann - An Unloved Democratic Socialist , Magazine Z, No. 115, Sept., 2018

literature

  • Reviews of Jörg Wollenberg's 'War of Memories' and 'The Other Memory' /

Exhibitions

  • 80 years of the Spanish Civil War, 2017, Bremen, Lübeck and Göttingen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Article from the "Aufbau" -Deutsch-Jüdische Zeitung, New York, No. 21 from October 19, 2000.
  2. ↑ Jörg Wollenberg: Forgotten Spain fighters, We - senior newspaper, publisher: DGB senior citizens working group, Bremen, No. 27-2016.
  3. ^ Sujet-Verlag Bremen
personal data
SURNAME Wollenberg, Jörg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wollenberg, Jörg Rüdiger (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Ahrensbök