Jan Erik Schulte

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Jan Erik Schulte (* 1966 in Letmathe , City of Iserlohn ) is a German historian who specializes in the history of National Socialism and the Holocaust , international history and contemporary Canadian history, and the culture of remembrance after 1945.

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Jan Erik Schulte studied history, economics and modern German studies from 1987 to 1993 at the Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Liverpool ( Erasmus program ). In 1999 he received his doctorate from the University of Bochum with a thesis on "Management of Terror" supervised by Hans Mommsen . Development and activity of the administrative and economic offices of the SS 1933–1945 ”. He was scientifically responsible for the exhibition area “General History of the SS” in the redesign of the permanent exhibition “Ideology and Terror of the SS” in the Wewelsburg Memorial and Memorial 1933–1945 in the Wewelsburg District Museum . After receiving his doctorate, he worked as a contract historian for the Canadian Ministry of Justice in the "Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Section" based in Ottawa , as secretary of the International Committee of Memorial Museums in Remembrance of the Victims of Public Crimes (IC MEMO ) and as a lecturer at the University of Bochum. From 2010 to 2014 he worked at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism in Dresden . He has been the director of the Hadamar Memorial since April 2014 .

Schulte is the author and editor of several articles on the history of National Socialism , in particular on the Schutzstaffel (SS). He did research on the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office (WVHA), on which he wrote several essays and a monograph.

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Monographs

  • Forced Labor and Extermination: The Economic Empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS Economic Administration Main Office 1933–1945. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2001, ISBN 3-506-78245-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. "New Head of the Hadamar Memorial" nnp.de, accessed on August 28, 2014.
  2. Topography of Terror Foundation ; Retrieved December 9, 2012.
  3. Articles: Jan Erik Schulte: The convergence of norms and measures state: The example of SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt, 1925-1945. In: Wolf Gruner , Armin Nolzen (Hrsg.): Bureaucracies, initiative and efficiency. Berlin 2001, pp. 151–188 (= Contributions to the History of National Socialism , Volume 17); Jan Erik Schulte: The SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt - headquarters of the forced labor of concentration camp inmates. In: Ulrike Winkler (Ed.): Going to pencils. Nazi forced labor and the debate on compensation. Cologne 2000, pp. 85-107.
  4. Klaus Hildebrand : No self-destruction in black . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 9, 2001.