Jens-Christian Wagner

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Jens-Christian Wagner, 2015

Jens-Christian Wagner (* 1966 in Göttingen ) is a German historian . He has headed the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation since 2014 .

Life

Jens-Christian Wagner grew up in Herzberg am Harz and attended the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Gymnasium there. After graduating from high school, he studied Medieval and Modern History as well as Romance Philology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and at the Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación (UMCE) in Santiago de Chile from 1987 to 1995 . He graduated with a thesis on the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp as a Master of Arts . He then worked in 1996 as a research assistant at the Historical-Technical Museum in Peenemünde . From 1997 to 1999 he carried out research on the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp as part of the “Tat und Bild” project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation at the University of Göttingen at the chair of Professor Bernd Weisbrod and also worked on his doctorate . In 1999 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. at Weisbrod with the study delusions of persecution and death on the history of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp.

In 2000 Wagner was involved as a visiting scholar in the research program “History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism” in Berlin . From 2001 to 2014 he headed the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial . He also worked temporarily as a lecturer at the University of Göttingen. Since 2010, Wagner has been representing the German federal states on the International Committee of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation in Warsaw, following a resolution by the Standing Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs .

On September 1, 2014, Wagner took over the position of managing director of the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation in Celle . Since 2017 he has been part of a group of experts who are to design a memorial on the site of the former Colonia Dignidad in Chile. He is the designated head of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation to succeed Volkhard Knigge in October 2020. The position is coupled with a professorship at the chair for "History in Media and Public" at the University of Jena .

Jens-Christian Wagner is married and has two daughters. He has lived in Celle with his family since 2014.

Research priorities

Wagner's main research interests are the history of National Socialism , in particular forced labor and the concentration camps , as well as the politics of history after 1945. Wagner is the author, co-author and editor of numerous publications on the history of Nazi forced labor and concentration camps as well as on the culture of remembrance after 1945, and he has several Curated exhibitions on this topic.

Awards and honors

Publications

Authorship

  • Ellrich 1944-45. Concentration camp and forced labor in a small German town. Published by the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0438-3 ;
    French-language edition: Ellrich 1944–1945. A camp de la mort lente in the nebuleuse nazie. Translation into French by Jean-Marie Winkler. Edition Tirésias, Paris 2013, ISBN 2-915293-73-2 .
  • State Center for Political Education Thuringia (Hrsg.): Forced labor for the "final victory". The Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp 1943–1945. Erfurt 2006, ISBN 3-931426-98-X .
  • together with Hans Hesse: The early Moringen concentration camp (April – November 1933): “… an interesting psychological experiment”. Published by the camp community and memorial KZ Moringen e. V. BoD, Norderstedt 2003, ISBN 3-8334-0429-9 .
  • Mittelbau-Dora learning and documentation center. The redesign of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp memorial. Published by the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation. Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, Weimar 2003, ISBN 3-935598-09-2 .
  • together with Bernhard Strebel : Forced labor for research institutions of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society 1939–1945. An overview (=  results. Preprints from the research program "History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism" , No. 11). Published by Carola Sachse on behalf of the Presidential Commission of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science e. V. (MPG). Research program “History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism”, Berlin 2003 ( mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de PDF, 620 kB).
  • Production of death. The Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. Published by the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89244-439-0 (also dissertation, University of Göttingen 1999, under the title delusional persecution and death ; review of the book by sehepunkte ).

Editing

  • Regine Heubaum, Jens-Christian Wagner: Between Harz and Heide. Death marches and evacuation transports in April 1945 (=  series of publications by the Lower Saxony Memorial Foundation. Volume 5). Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1713-0 .
  • Rediscovered. Testimonies from the Holzen concentration camp. Accompanying band for the traveling exhibition. Published on behalf of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1350-7 .
  • Johanna Grützbauch, Regine Heubaum, Jens-Christian Wagner: Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp 1943–1945. Accompanying volume for the permanent exhibition at the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial. Published on behalf of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0118-4 .
  • Helmut Kramer , Karsten Uhl , Jens-Christian Wagner: Forced Labor under National Socialism and the Role of the Justice. Offenders, post-war trials and the dispute about compensation payments PDF (= Nordhäuser Hochschultexte , Volume 1). Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences 2007, ISBN 978-3-9809391-9-5 .
  • The Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. Catalog for the historical exhibition at the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial. Published on behalf of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89244-502-8 .
  • Thomas Rahe , Jens-Christian Wagner: People in Bergen-Belsen. Biographical sketches of concentration camp inmates. Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8353-1631-7 .

Web links

Commons : Jens-Christian Wagner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Management. Dr. Jens-Christian Wagner. Short biography. (No longer available online.) In: Website of the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation (www.stiftung-ng.de). Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation, 2015, archived from the original on December 3, 2014 ; accessed on April 16, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b c d New managing director of the "Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation" - Heiligenstadt: "Dr. Jens-Christian Wagner is an outstanding expert in German culture of remembrance ”. Press release. In: Website of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture (www.mk.niedersachsen.de). Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture , May 13, 2014, accessed on April 16, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b Kristin Müller: The critical spirit from Kohnstein: Jens-Christian Wagner never shied away from clear words . In: Thuringian General . September 1, 2014 ( online [accessed April 17, 2015]).
  4. ↑ Hardly any other place is as politically contested as Colonia. In: The Colonia Dignidad Public History Blog, July 23, 2019.
  5. ↑ Regine Heumbaum leaves the memorial in Nordhausen in Thüringer Allgemeine on March 13, 2020
  6. ↑ New boss for Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorials in Thüringer Allgemeine on February 22, 2020
  7. ↑ NN: High distinction for Nordhausen memorial director . In: Thuringian General . March 11, 2012 ( online [accessed April 17, 2015]).
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Jens-Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vagner, Jens-Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and head of the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen