Julien Reitzenstein
Julien Reitzenstein (* 1975 ) is a German historian and author . Reitzenstein is known for his research on the SS science facility “ Ahnenerbe ” and his initiatives for commemorative culture, for example the erection of a stele with Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in front of his service villa.
Career
Reitzenstein is a trained car mechanic and studied historian. As such, he worked as a lecturer at various universities. He currently (2019) teaches at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. Reitzenstein has been publishing articles for various publications since 2007, including Jüdische Allgemeine , Cicero , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Jüdische Rundschau , Finance and Manager Magazin . In addition, he wrote for many years as a regular author of the magazine Immobilienwirtschaft from the Haufe publishing house .
Scientific work
Reitsenstein was in 2014 at the Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf with a thesis on the institute for military scientific research purposes, a facility of the SS -run Ahnenerbe , to Dr. phil. PhD. On the basis of this dissertation and other work, Reitzenstein published the work of Himmler's researcher at Schöningh in the same year . Military science and medical crimes in the "Ahnenerbe" of the SS. The work was repeatedly reviewed both in specialist journals and in the general media. The book was published in its second edition in 2019.
In 2014 Reitzenstein wrote another dissertation entitled Sievers, Rascher, Plötner and the Polygal at the Charité in Berlin.
In 2018, Reitzenstein published a scientific monograph at Duncker & Humblot on the so-called Strasbourg skull collection , for which 86 people were murdered in the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp as part of a National Socialist racial anthropological research project . Among other things, Reitzenstein devotes himself to the criminal proceedings initiated by Fritz Bauer against Bruno Beger , who was involved in the project and who was convicted as an assistant . Reitzenstein presents new sources that allow an expanded perspective on the involvement of the race researcher Begers and his motives, as well as the role of the witness Henry Henrypierre .
The book was judged positively by historian Wolfgang Benz as a "lucid study": "Serious science - as Reitzenstein shows - can open eyes" . Sven Felix Kellerhoff wrote in the DIE WELT: “The example shows that critical historical studies should also question the statements of key witnesses who have been reliable for decades. This is not a relativization, but on the contrary serves to reappraise. ” Werner Renz remarked in the magazine myops Reitzenstein's “ critical attitude towards the established [...] historiography ” and his “ unconventional approach ”, but criticized the concern of the book, Beger afterwards to be convicted as a perpetrator in a fictitious process, as a “peculiar, hardly constitutional procedure. As is well known, the German Code of Criminal Procedure does not recognize any criminal proceedings in the absence of the accused and without a defense. ” Reitzenstein replied in his reply that Renz supported the narrative of the Nazi perpetrators Beger and Henrypierre and had already been of the opinion in 2005 that the accused in the Auschwitz trial did not should have been punished. Nikoline Hansen wrote in the Jüdische Rundschau: “Occasionally it is necessary to ask other questions and also to look at known historical narratives from a different perspective. […] Julien Reitzenstein is continuing an uncomfortable tradition that is characterized by thinking against the establishment. ” This book also received a second edition.
Reitzenstein is co-author of the second edition of the Handbuch der Völkischen Wissenschaften, published in 2017, edited by Michael Fahlbusch , Ingo Haar and Alexander Pinwinkler .
Controversy about the Federal President's service villa
In 2017, the background to a controversy became public. In the book of Himmler's researchers , Reitzenstein discovered the circumstances under which the former Jewish owner of what is now the Federal President's service villa , Hugo Heymann , lost his life and property. In June 2016, the Office of the Federal President commissioned Michael Wildt to investigate Reitzenstein's research results in this regard. Also in June 2016, Wildt, the editor in charge of the H-Soz-Kult platform, posted a review of Reitzenstein's book online. The author was Sören Flachowsky, employee at Michael Wildt's chair. The review was largely positive, but contained problematic statements that were prohibited by the Hamburg district court. H-Soz-Kult publisher Rüdiger Hohls confirmed that “the forbidden clause is actually an inaccurate factual assertion ” A short time later, the review was withdrawn.
Wildt's parallel report on the issues relating to the service villa addressed in the book was rejected by the Federal President and a follow-up was requested. In June 2018, Wildt joined the call for a memorial stele that Reitzenstein had raised in Himmler's researchers in 2014 .
Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier unveiled the stele in June 2018 and thanked Reitzenstein for his commitment.
Life
Reitzenstein is the deputy chairman of the Association History and Future eV in Berlin, which promotes scientific publications dealing with the ethnic sciences under National Socialist rule and holds conferences on this topic. He is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Regimes Museum in Los Angeles .
In 2018 Reitzenstein promoted the renovation of the poor structural condition of the Frankfurt Paulskirche with federal funds and to transform it into a positive place of remembrance of democracy. His initiative received support from Felix Klein , Düzen Tekkal , Andreas Mattner , Rainer Nagel , Otto Fricke and Peter Feldmann, among others . Paulskirche is currently being renovated.
In August 2019 Reitzenstein published an article about the Villa Semmel in Berlin and its previous owner Richard Semmel in the magazine Cicero . The property is now the embassy of Iraq . At the time, Semmel had sold the villa to the manufacturer Wilhelm Kühne ( Carl Kühne KG ) under the pressure of threatened persecution . Reitzenstein suggested a memorial stele modeled on the Federal President's service villa. Stefan Leitz, CEO of Kühne KG, promised the financing. In his contribution, Reitzenstein called for the federal government to set up a central office that would examine all publicly owned properties built before 1945 for Nazi injustice. The Federal Government's anti-Semitism commissioner, Felix Klein , supports this initiative.
Trivia
Reitzenstein is listed in official registers as Ingo Julien Horst Wilhelm Jordan von Reitzenstein, but attaches great importance to being known in public as Julien Reitzenstein. In the past, different compositions of his name were occasionally used.
He supports crowdfunding projects and is involved in a gin and whiskey distillery in Ireland, for example .
Works
- Himmler's researcher. Defense science and medical crime in the "Ahnenerbe" of the SS. Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-76657-1 .
- The SS Ahnenerbe and the “Strasbourg skull collection”. Fritz Bauer's last case. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-428-15313-8 .
Web links
- Website of Julien Reitzensteins
- Short biography and reviews of works by Julien Reitzenstein at perlentaucher.de
- Website for the "Strasbourg skull collection"
- Website in memory of Hugo Heymann
- Film by the French television channel RMC Découverte (2016): Ahnenerbe. Les terribles savants de Hitler (German Ahnenerbe. The terrible scientists of Hitler )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Julien Reitzenstein: Profile of Julien Reitzenstein. In: website. Retrieved August 3, 2019 .
- ↑ a b employee profile on the official homepage of the University of Düsseldorf
- ↑ Julien Reitzenstein: Julien Reitzenstein in the media. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Richard Kühl: Review. In: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 102 (2015), pp. 385–386 (accessed on November 21, 2018).
- ^ Philipp Osten: Julien Reitzenstein, Himmler's researcher. Military science and medical crime in the “Ahnenerbe” of the SS. In: theologie.geschichte, Volume 11 (2016), pp. 1–2 (accessed on November 23, 2018).
- ↑ Thomas Medicus: Institute for Rassenwahn. In: Die Welt vom November 1, 2014 (accessed November 22, 2018).
- ↑ Hannes Schwenger: You researched for the SS. In: Der Tagesspiegel of December 28, 2014 (accessed on November 23, 2018).
- ↑ Otto Langels: Concentration Camp Prisoners as Test Objects, Deutschlandfunk, September 22, 2014 (accessed November 23, 2018).
- ^ Ferdinand Schöningh: Defense science and medical crime in the "Ahnenerbe" of the SS. Revised and updated 2nd edition 2019. In: Schoeningh.de. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Medical Library of the Charité, Campus Virchow-Klinikum: Catalog entry, signature Diss 2016 1p (accessed on November 23, 2018).
- ^ The SS-Ahnenerbe & the Strasbourg skull collection | Reitzenstein. Retrieved September 16, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Wolfgang Benz: The legend of the henchman. Julien Reitzenstein's study on the “Strasbourg skull collection”. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of July 9, 2018 (accessed November 21, 2018).
- ^ Sven Felix Kellerhoff: Nazi collaborator invented 86-headed skull collection. SS "Ahnenerbe". In: Welt.de. December 3, 2018, accessed September 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Werner Renz: Fritz Bauer sells. In: myops. Reports from the world of law, issue 34/2018, pp. 40–51.
- ↑ Julien Reitzenstein: Limits to the subject . Reports from the world of law. Ed .: myops. No. 37 , 2019, pp. 71-77 .
- ↑ Dr. Nikoline Hansen: "The SS-Ahnenerbe and the 'Strasbourg skull collection' - Fritz Bauer's last case". Review of Julien Reitzenstein's new book on skeletal research on behalf of Heinrich Himmler. In: Jüdische Rundschau. January 11, 2019, accessed September 16, 2019 .
- ↑ 2nd edition. In: skull-collection.com. Retrieved September 16, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Michael Wildt, Dr. Julia Hörath: Research report on the couple Hugo Heymann and Maria Heymann / Kaps. In: PDF. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, December 6, 2016, accessed on September 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff: The dark legacy of the presidential villa. In: Welt.de. August 12, 2017. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
- ^ Editing of H-Soz-Kult. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
- ^ J. Reitzenstein: Himmler's researcher. H-Soz-Kult, February 20, 2017 (accessed November 21, 2018).
- ↑ Dr. phil. Sören Flachowsky - Research Associate. In: Institute for History. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, accessed on September 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Kritika Agarwal: Error and Trial: One scholar takes another to court over a book review. https://www.historians.org , October 1, 2017, accessed on September 16, 2019 (English).
- ↑ a b Jochen Zenthöfer: The disappointed author lets his lawyer write. Scientific debate. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine. April 24, 2017. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
- ↑ H-Soz-Kult editorial team: Comment on Julien Reitzenstein's book "Himmler's Researcher" on the occasion of the legal dispute over the review by Sören Flachowsky. In: H-Soz-Kult. February 20, 2017, accessed September 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Julien Reitzenstein: Hugo Heymann - The prehistory. In: hugo-heymann.de. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Ansgar Siemens: Steinmeier moves into the service villa - and keeps promises in the memorial dispute. In: Spiegel Online. November 16, 2017, accessed September 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Michael Wildt: Hugo Heymann and the Federal President's service villa. In: Michael Wildt's blog. August 27, 2017, accessed September 16, 2019 .
- ^ Til Biermann: Federal President unveils plaque on his service villa. In: BZ-Berlin.de. June 4, 2018, accessed September 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Katharina Schmidt-Hirschfelder: Last self-chosen place of residence. In: Jüdische Allgemeine, December 4, 2017 (accessed November 22, 2018).
- ^ History and Future eV In: Website of the association. Retrieved September 16, 2019 (German).
- ^ History and Future eV: 3rd annual conference . The light and the dark of the Paulskirche (October 24th and 25th, 2019). ( gezu.org [PDF]).
- ^ Team of the Regimes Museum Los Angeles. Retrieved September 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Julien Reitzenstein: Paulskirche: closed next year? Haufe.de, November 2018, accessed on September 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Julien Reitzenstein: Paulskirche: closed next year? (PDF) The most important monument. haufe.de/immobilien, November 2018, pp. 10-17 , accessed on September 21, 2019 .
- ^ Julien Reitzenstein: Villa Semmel. In: Cicero. August 2019, accessed on 16 September 2019 .
- ↑ Julien Reitzenstein: Three neighbors, no future. Richard Semmel had to flee from the Nazis. A memorial stele is now to commemorate him - but the Iraqi embassy now resides in the villa. In: Jüdische Allgemeine. August 4, 2019, accessed September 16, 2019 .
- ^ Sven Felix Kellerhoff: Felix Klein: "There can never be enough culture of remembrance" . July 26, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed September 25, 2019]).
- ^ German Patent and Trademark Office: Trademark registration dated August 7, 2003 (accessed November 21, 2018).
- ↑ Julien Reitzenstein: How would you like to be addressed? In: website. Retrieved August 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Julien Reitzenstein: Profile of Julien Reitzenstein. In: website. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
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SURNAME | Reitzenstein, Julien |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian and author |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1975 |