Johannes Hürter

Johannes Hürter (born December 17, 1963 in Hamburg ) is a German historian .

Career

After graduating from high school in Hanover, Hürter studied history , German and musicology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz . In 1992 he was at Winfried Baumgart (Korreferat Erwin Oberlander ) with a thesis on Defense Minister Wilhelm Groener doctorate .

In 2005 , Hürter completed his habilitation with the study of Hitler's Heerführer , which was created as part of the IfZ project Wehrmacht under the National Socialist dictatorship . The study was unanimously rated in historical review journals such as H-Soz-u-Kult and Sehepunkte , but also in the national press such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Süddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit as groundbreaking, source-saturated research work.

From 1992 to 1995, Hürter was a postdoctoral fellow of the German Research Foundation and employee of the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . He then worked for two years as a research assistant at the Foreign Office in Bonn. Since August 1998 Hürter has been a research assistant at the Munich Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ). At the beginning of the 2010s he became head of the department for contemporary history up to 1945. He is also the editor of the institute's quarterly periodicals for contemporary history and their series. In addition to his work at the IfZ, Hürter has been teaching as an adjunct professor in the Department of Modern History at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since 2014 .

He is Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the “Landshut” project , which supports the Dornier Museum in Friedrichshafen in developing and implementing the exhibition on the hijacking of the “Landshut” plane .

Head of research projects at the IfZ

• The private under National Socialism
• The Chancellery . Federal German democracy and the Nazi past
• Democratic state and terrorist challenge. The Anti-Terrorism Policy of the 1970s and 1980s in Western Europe
• The SS in German society (ended)
• Continuities and new beginnings after National Socialism. The Federal Ministry of Health

Research areas

• Military, domestic and foreign policy in the imperial era , the Weimar Republic and the time of National Socialism ,
• the international relations of the 19th and 20th centuries and
• the history of the Federal Republic in the 1970s

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Wilhelm Groener. Reichswehr Minister at the end of the Weimar Republic (1928–1932). Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55978-8 .
• (with Christian Hartmann and Ulrike Jureit ) Wehrmacht crimes. Balance of a debate. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-40652-802-3 . ( limited preview in google books ).
• Hitler's military leader. The German commanders-in-chief in the war against the Soviet Union in 1941/42. Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-58341-0 . ( limited preview in google books ).
• (with Christian Hartmann , Peter Lieb , Dieter Pohl ) The German War in the East 1941–1944. Facets of crossing borders (= sources and representations on contemporary history , Volume 76). R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-59138-5 .

Editorships

• A German general on the Eastern Front. Gotthard Heinrici's letters and diaries 1941/42. Sutton, Erfurt 2001, ISBN 3-89702-307-5 .
• (with Christian Hartmann) The last hundred days of the Second World War. Droemer, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-426-27356-X .
• Hans Rothfels and German Contemporary History. Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-486-57714-X ( limited preview in Google books )
• together with Gian Enrico Rusconi: Italy's entry into the war in May 1915. Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58278-9 .
• together with Gian Enrico Rusconi: The leaden years. State and Terrorism in the Federal Republic of Germany and Italy 1969–1982. Oldenbourg, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-59643-4 .
• Notes from the war of extermination: The Eastern Front 1941/42 in General Heinrici's notes . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 978-3-534-26769-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Hürter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Reviews of works by Johannes Hürter at perlentaucher
• Staff website of the University of Mainz
• Staff website of the Institute for Contemporary History

Individual evidence

1. ^ Institute for Contemporary History: Johannes Hürter. November 23, 2011, accessed April 21, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Johannes Hürter | Latest story. April 21, 2019, accessed April 21, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Johannes Hürter: Thanksgiving . In: Ders .: Wilhelm Groener. Reichswehr Minister at the end of the Weimar Republic (1928–1932). Munich 1993, p. XI.
4. ^ Wilhelm Groener. Reichswehr Minister at the end of the Weimar Republic - Technical Information Library (TIB). April 21, 2019, accessed April 21, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Alexander Brakel: Review of: Hürter, Johannes: Hitlers Heerführer . In: H-Soz-u-Kult , October 16, 2006; Jochen Böhler : Review by: Johannes Hürter: Hitler's Heerführer . In: sehepunkte 8 (2008), No. 7/8, July 15, 2008. Furthermore, a compilation of the following reviews by Perlentaucher : Hans-Ulrich Thamer in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 25, 2007; Christian Streit in the time of 8 February 2007 and Knud von Harbou in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of 17 December of 2007.
6. ^ Institute for Contemporary History: Johannes Hürter. September 2, 2010, accessed April 21, 2019 . 
7. ^ Institute for Contemporary History: Johannes Hürter. November 23, 2011, accessed April 21, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Prof. Dr. Johannes Hürter. In: Research group on the history of the interior ministries in Bonn and East Berlin. Accessed April 21, 2019 (German). 
9. ↑ Landshut | The exhibition project. April 10, 2019, accessed April 10, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Wayback Machine. April 21, 2019, accessed April 21, 2019 . 
11. ^ Institute for Contemporary History: single view. April 21, 2019, accessed April 21, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Johannes Hürter | contemporary history | on-line. April 21, 2019, accessed April 21, 2019 . 
13. ↑ www.ifz-muenchen.de: on the context of the book .