Joachim Tauber

Joachim Tauber (born July 28, 1958 in Nuremberg ) is a German historian and director of the Nordost-Institut - Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Northeastern Europe (IKGN).

Life

Tauber studied German , classical philology and history at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and was there in 1989 with a thesis on the subject of the Roman Republic and Russian autocracy in crisis. A comparison of some basic featuresPhD. 1989/1990 Tauber was a research assistant at the chair for Eastern European history and contemporary history at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Karl-Heinz Ruffmann). From 1990 to 2001 he worked as a research assistant at the Institut Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk e. V., where he was head of the Northeast German Archives from 1993 to 2001 and deputy director from March to December 2001. From 2002 Tauber was a research assistant at the IKGN. Since May 2010 he has been its director.

In 2013, Tauber received his habilitation at the University of Hamburg with a thesis on “The Jewish work in Lithuania 1941-1944” (published under the title: “Work as Hope Jewish Ghettos in Lithuania 1941-1944”, Munich 2015). In the same year he was appointed private lecturer for modern history by the University of Hamburg. Since May 2017 professor at the University of Hamburg (§ 17 Hamburg University Act).

Tauber's academic work focuses on the history of Lithuania in the 20th century, German-Lithuanian relations in the 20th century , German occupation policy in Eastern Europe during the First and Second World Wars, and the Holocaust in the Baltic States.

Memberships

Tauber is a member of various national and international bodies u. a .:

• International Commission for Research into National Socialist and Soviet Crimes in Lithuania under the President of the Republic of Lithuania
• Latvijas vēsturnieku komisija [Commission of Historians of Latvia]
• Jury of the Hosenfeld / Szpilman Memorial Prize of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg
• Appointment Committee of the Institute of History of Lithuania
• Chairman of the German-Lithuanian Forum e. V.
• Association of Eastern European Historians (VOH)
• Baltic Historical Commission (BHK)
• Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research?
• Editorial Board or Scientific Advisory Board for the following periodicals: Lithuania Foreign Affairs, Lietuvos Istorijos Metraštis (Yearbook of the History of Lithuania), Genocidas ir Rezistencija (Genocide and Resistance), On the Boundary of Two Worlds

Fonts

monograph

• Work as hope. Jewish ghettos in Lithuania 1941–1944 , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-041476-9
• Together with Ralph Tuchtenhagen: Vilnius. Small history of the city , Cologne a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20204-0

Editorships

• Imke Hansen, Katrin Steffen, Joachim Tauber (eds.): Ghetto life world. Everyday life and social environment during the National Socialist persecution, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-447-06882-6
• Joachim Tauber (Ed.): "Collaboration" in Northeast Europe. Appearances and interpretations in the 20th century, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 978-3-447-05367-9
• Vincas Bartusevicius, Joachim Tauber, Wolfram Wette (eds.): Holocaust in Lithuania, Cologne and Weimar 2003, ISBN 3-412-13902-5

Awards

• 2009: Už nuopelnus Lietuviai ( Order of Merit for Lithuania )

Web links

• Tauber at the Northeast Institute

Individual evidence

1. ^ Joachim Tauber - Coming to terms with the past in Lithuania. Politics, historiography and the Holocaust after 1945 (lecture, November 20, 2013) on Lecture2Go - publicly accessible video recordings of lectures and courses at the University of Hamburg
2. ↑ Lecturer in European History at the University of Hamburg