Jürgen Klöckler

Jürgen Klöckler (* 1965 in Rielasingen ) is a German archivist and historian . Since 2001 he has been head of the Konstanz City Archives . In 2014 he was appointed adjunct professor of modern and contemporary history.

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Jürgen Klöckler studied Middle and Modern History, Philosophy and Italian Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from 1988 to 1990 . He then studied history, philosophy and Italian linguistics at the University of Konstanz from 1990 to 1992 . At the same time he worked as a student assistant on the six-volume history of the city of Konstanz (20th century). In 1992 the Magister Artium followed. The master's thesis dealt with the history of the city of Constance under French occupation from 1945–1949. From 1993 to 1995 he wrote his dissertation at the University of Konstanz. With Lothar Burchardt , he received his doctorate in the 1995/96 winter semester with a thesis on the restructuring question in southwest Germany immediately after 1945. In 1996 the work was awarded the Prize of the District of Constance for the Promotion of Young Scientists at the University of Constance. From 1996 to 1998 he was a research assistant and editor at the Bonn branch of the Institute for Contemporary History in the Political Archive of the Foreign Office (“Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany”, annual volumes 1966–1968). In 1999 he became a lecturer and habilitation candidate at the University of Konstanz. Klöckler has been director of the Konstanz City Archives since 2001, succeeding Helmut Maurer . In 2011 he completed his habilitation at the University of Konstanz with a thesis on the Konstanz city administration under National Socialism . Since 2014 he has been an adjunct professor for modern and contemporary history at the University of Konstanz. Klöckler is a member of the Alemannic Institute in Freiburg / Breisgau (since 1995) and of the Konstanz working group for medieval history (since 2002). He is a member of the board of directors of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , whose association publications he has been in charge of as editor since 2004.

His main research interests are the history of the city of Constance with a focus on the late Middle Ages and the 19th and 20th centuries. Century, the history of the Lake Constance area, the south-west German state history, the historiography and cultural history of the 19th century, international relations in the 20th century, National Socialism and the Holocaust , the French occupation policy after 1945 and the history of the Federal Republic of Germany . In his dissertation he devoted himself to the reorganization concepts in the early post-war period for the German south-west. According to Klöckler, the German projects can be divided into three groups. The mayor of Singen am Hohentwiel , Bernhard Dietrich, had the idea of ​​an alpine confederation of southern German and Austrian regions ("Alpenland"). The Konstanz city archivist Otto Feger advocated a largely autonomous Swabian-Alemannic state structure with the amalgamation of southern Baden, southern Württemberg, Hohenzollern and the district of Lindau ("Alemannia"). Catholic circles, on the other hand, represented the idea of ​​a federalist Europe oriented towards Western values.

In his habilitation, Klöckler wants to analyze “relations of domination, networks, rules, patterns and concrete problem-solving strategies” in the Konstanz city administration during the Nazi era. In doing so, he made a valuable contribution not only to research into National Socialism, but also to local administrative history. Using numerous examples, Klöckler was able to show that there were continuities not only from the Weimar Republic to dictatorship, but also during the transition from the Nazi regime to the Federal Republic. After this work, there was no turning point in administrative staff, especially in management positions, in 1933 or 1945. Numerous administrative employees who had supported the Nazi regime got away with the denazification .

Klöckler researched Willi Hermann , the composer of Konstanz carnival hits, in several French and German archives on the occasion of a commemorative publication on his 111th birthday. In the process, he discovered numerous documents and evidence that prove an early entry into the NSDAP and a career as a Nazi functionary in the Karlsruhe Gauleitung from 1933. According to Klöckler's research, he was a staunch National Socialist and anti-Semite. There are also clear indications that he was involved in the 1943 massacre on Kefalonia , one of the most serious war crimes committed by the Wehrmacht in Greece.

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Monographs

• Self-assertion through self-alignment. The Konstanz city administration under National Socialism (= Konstanz historical and legal sources. Vol. 43). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7995-6843-2 (also: Konstanz, University, habilitation thesis, 2011 under the title: Klöckler, Jürgen: The Konstanzer Stadtverwaltung im Nationalozialismus ).
• with Norbert Fromm: Lake Constance in early pictures. Photographs from the Wolf Collection 1860–1930 (= Konstanz historical and legal sources. Vol. 39). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3-7995-6839-5 .
• "The land of the Alemanni ..." Plans for a home state in the Lake Constance area after 1945 (= White Library. Vol. 18). UVK, Konstanz 1999, ISBN 3-7995-6843-3 .
• Occident - Alpine country - Alemannia. France and the reorganization discussion in southwest Germany 1945–1947 (= Studies on Contemporary History. Vol. 55). Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56345-9 .

Editorships

• with Harald Derschka : Lake Constance. Nature and history from 150 perspectives. Anniversary volume of the international association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings 1868–2018. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2018, ISBN 978-3-7995-1724-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Klöckler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Jürgen Klöckler in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Page from Klöckler at the University of Konstanz

Remarks

1. ↑ Harald Derschka: The association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings. A look back at one hundred and fifty years of club history 1868–2018. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings 136, 2018, pp. 1–303, here: p. 219.
2. ↑ See the review by Stefan Grüner in: Zeitschrift für bayerische Landesgeschichte 67, 2004, pp. 187–188.
3. ↑ Jürgen Klöckler: Self-assertion through self-alignment. The Konstanz city administration under National Socialism. Ostfildern 2012, p. 18.
4. ↑ See the discussions by Michael Bock in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 163, 2005, p. 463 f. ( online ); Armin Nolzen in: Historische Zeitschrift 303, 2016, pp. 913–915.
5. ↑ Jürgen Klöckler: An icon of the Konstanzer Fasnacht. From folk Nazi propaganda speaker to folk carnival composer. Ostfildern 2018 ( online ).