Jörn-Peter Leppien

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Jörn-Peter Leppien (born August 2, 1943 in Sankt Annen, Dithmarschen ; † February 10, 2020 ) was a German historian , political scientist and publicist .

Life

Leppien grew up in Pinneberg and Ulsnis and graduated from the Schleswig Cathedral School in 1964 . He studied history, philosophy and political science in Kiel and became a research assistant at the chair for Schleswig-Holstein regional history under Alexander Scharff . Leppien then went to school at the Auguste Viktoria School in Flensburg as a teacher , and in 1979 he did his doctorate at the same time. From 1981 to 2017 he was editor-in-chief of the quarterly magazine Grenzfriedenshefte . With particular commitment he devoted himself to the establishment of a memorial at the location of the Ladelund concentration camp, a project that emerged from a student project at the Auguste Viktoria School from 1982 to 1984.

In 2004 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his services to research and communication of regional contemporary history.

Publications

  • Martin Rade and the German-Danish relations 1909–1929 , contribution to the histor. Peace research u. to the problem d. Nationalism, Wachholtz, Neumünster 1981, ISBN 3-529-02177-6 .
  • They weren't human anymore ... From the chronicle of the parish ; Pastor Johannes Meyer on the Ladelund concentration camp in 1944; Reprint from Grenzfriedenshefte No. 3/1983, Grenzfriedensbund, Flensburg 1983.
  • Country year for girls in Schleswig-Holstein. Insights into a chapter of National Socialist girls' education 1936–1940 , with Annemarie Leppien, Wachholtz, Neumünster 1989, ISBN 3-529-02693-X .
  • "Operation lion": Henrik V. Ringstedt and the Idstedt lion 1945 , source report; Grenzfriedensbund and Städtisches Museum Flensburg, Grenzfriedensbund, Flensburg 1995.
  • Ed. With Reimer Hansen : Manfred Jessen-Klingenberg : Viewpoints on the recent history of Schleswig-Holstein. Schleswig-Holsteinischer Geschichtsverlag, Malente 1998, ISBN 3-933862-25-4 (Publications of the Advisory Board for History / Society for Politics and Education Schleswig-Holstein eV, Vol. 20).
  • Remembering for the present and the future. The historical documentation in the Ladelund concentration camp memorial and meeting place , in: Grenzfriedenshefte, vol. 53, 2006, issue 4, pp. 277–294 ( online ).
  • The Idstedt lion - a memorial with many faces , in Grenzfriedenshefte, vol. 57, 2010, issue 2, pp. 127–150 ( online ).
  • Slave labor for the “final battle”. The “Grenzstellung” 1944/45 and the Ladelund concentration camp , in: Grenzfriedenshefte, vol. 57, 2010, issue 3, pp. 203–236 ( online ).
  • From number to name. The concentration camp dead in Ladelund in 1944 . In: Grenzfriedenshefte, Vol. 61, 2014, Issue 2, pp. 35–50 ( online ).

literature

  • Manfred Jessen-Klingenberg: Dr. Jörn-Peter Leppien. Researcher, facilitator, stimulator. In: Festschrift for Jörn-Peter Leppien's 65th birthday. Flensburg 2008, pp. 169-174. (Grenzfriedenshefte 55, volume 3.) ( online ; PDF 14.9 MB).
  • Matthias Schartl, Frauke Tengler: For Jörn-Peter Leppien's 75th birthday. In: Grenzfriedenshefte, Vol. 65, 2018, Issue 2, pp. 129-133.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Jörn-Peter Leppien: Obituary notice: Flensburger Tageblatt. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Dr. Jörn-Peter Leppien was awarded the Cross of Merit on ribbon. Press release. State government of Schleswig-Holstein, June 21, 2004, archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; accessed on May 20, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Congratulations on the Cross of Merit, Dr. Leppien! South Schleswig Voters Association, June 21, 2004, archived from the original on March 4, 2017 ; accessed on February 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Leppien, Jörn-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, political scientist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Sankt Annen, Dithmarschen
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 2020