Jürgen Matthäus

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Jürgen Matthäus (* 1959 in Dortmund ) is a German historian and head of the research department of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum .

After graduating from high school, Matthäus studied history and philosophy at the University of Bochum , which he completed in 1986 with the academic degree Magister artium . In 1992 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . He then worked as a Senior Historian at the Australian Department of Justice in Sydney .

He has been with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum since 1994, where he currently serves as director of the research department at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. directs. He held various visiting professorships in the USA, Australia and Germany. He belongs u. a. to the International Advisory Board of the Topography of Terror Foundation . Matthäus is the author, editor and editor of specialist publications on the subject of the Holocaust .

Writings, editorships, adaptations (selection)

  • Nation-building in Australia from the beginnings of white settlement up to the First World War (1788–1914) , European university publications : Series 3, history and its auxiliary sciences; Vol. 571, Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / New York / Paris / Vienna 1993 (also dissertation at the University of Bochum 1992)
  • Skull and zebra dress: a Berlin Jew in Auschwitz / Erwin R. Tichauer. Editing and vers. by Jürgen Matthäus, Metropol, Berlin 2000 (belongs to: Library of Remembrance; Vol. 5)
  • Unleashing the "Final Solution": National Socialist Jewish Policy 1939–1942 / Christopher Browning . With a contribution by Jürgen Matthäus, Propylänen, Berlin 2003. (Original title: The origins of the final solution)
  • Training target for murdering Jews? "Philosophical education" of the SS, police and Waffen-SS in the context of the "Final Solution" , Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl., Frankfurt am Main 2003
  • Germans, Jews, Genocide: The Holocaust as Past and Present , WBG, Darmstadt 2006 (Ed. With Klaus-Michael Mallmann )
  • Task Force Groups in Poland: Presentation and Documentation , Volume 12 of the publications of the Ludwigsburg Research Center of the University of Stuttgart, Scientific Book Society, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-21353-5 (with Klaus-Michael Mallmann and Jochen Böhler )
  • Approaching an Auschwitz survivor: Holocaust testimony and its transformations , Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford; New York, NY 2009 (Ed., Belongs to: The Oxford oral history series)
  • The " Event Reports USSR " 1941. Documents of the Einsatzgruppen in the Soviet Union , ed. by Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Andrej Angrick , Jürgen Matthäus and Martin Cüppers . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24468-3
  • Nazi crimes. Perpetrators, deeds, coping attempts , WBG Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2013 (Ed. With Martin Cüppers and Andrej Angrick)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Paul (Ed.): The perpetrators of the Shoah . Fanatic National Socialists or just normal Germans? Wallstein, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-89244-503-6 , p. 274
  2. ^ Yearbook for Research on Antisemitism, Volumes 3–4, Campus Verlag, 1994, p. 349
  3. ↑ http://www.fischerverlage.de/autor/juergen_matthaeus/9914
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Benz : The Place of Terror : History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps , Beck, Munich 2005, p. 392
  5. ↑ http://www.topographie.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung/nc/1/nid/die-berichte-der- Einsatzgruppen-aus-polen-1939/y/2014/m/06/d/03/bp/ 32 /
personal data
SURNAME Matthäus, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mateus, Yurgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund