Karl-Heinz Janßen
Karl-Heinz Janßen (born November 17, 1930 in Carolinensiel ; † March 26, 2013 in Hamburg ) was a German journalist and from 1963 to 1998 editor of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . He worked as a historian on German contemporary history .
Life
Janßen studied with Gerhard Ritter at the University of Freiburg and received his doctorate in 1957 on the war aims of the German federal states 1914-18. In his journalistic work he took part in many debates on National Socialism , including the fire in the Reichstag . He published studies on German contemporary history, and in 1999 the book appeared on the driving role of the Wehrmacht in triggering World War II .
In the conflict of interests between journalistic and scientific work, Janßen set up this maxim:
"A journalist may, under certain conditions, be allowed to embellish or embellish facts a little so that they can be read more easily and fluently - a scientist, on the other hand, cannot be ignored."
On a personal news site in the 1960s, he documented the course of the Vietnam War week after week .
Plan Otto
Janßen advocated the thesis that the High Command of the Army had been preparing a blitzkrieg for the destruction of the Red Army and the conquest of large parts of Russia in the late summer of 1940 and pushed Hitler to war in the so-called Plan Otto since the beginning of June 1940 without Hitler's orders and knowledge . The military historian Klaus Jochen Arnold rejected this interpretation as not covered by Nazi documents and as a conspiracy theory.
Works (excerpt)
- with Haug von Kuenheim , Theo Sommer (ed.): DIE ZEIT. History of a weekly newspaper from 1946 to the present day. Siedler, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-88680-847-5 .
- “And tomorrow the whole world ...” German history 1871–1945 , Donat Verlag, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-934836-30-5 .
- with Carl Dirks: The war of the generals. Hitler as a tool of the Wehrmacht . Propylaeen, Berlin 1999. ISBN 978-3-549-05590-8 and Ullstein, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-548-36277-X .
- with Fritz Tobias : The fall of the generals , CH Beck Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-406-38109-X .
- with Uwe Backes / Eckhard Jesse / Henning Köhler / Hans Mommsen / Fritz Tobias: Reichstag fire - clearing up a historical legend . Piper, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-492-03027-0 .
literature
- Haug von Kuenheim : Karl-Heinz Janßen for his seventieth . In: Die Zeit , No. 48/2000.
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl-Heinz Janßen in the catalog of the German National Library
- List of 334 from 1,963 to 1,993 in the period published articles by Karl-Heinz Janssen
Individual evidence
- ^ Theo Sommer: Obituary. Our chronicler. In: Die Zeit , No. 15 of April 4, 2013, p. 11.
- ↑ Quoted from Kuenheim, in: Die Zeit , 48/2000.
- ^ Carl Dirks, Karl-Heinz Janßen: The war of the generals. Hitler as a tool of the Wehrmacht. 3. Edition. Propylaea, Berlin 1999, p. 135 f. and more often; Karl Heinz Janßen: "Plan Otto". In: The time. 38/1997.
- ↑ Klaus-Jochen Arnold: Review of the war of the generals. In: Military History Journal . (MGZ) 59 (2000), No. 1, pp. 240-243.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Janßen, Karl-Heinz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Janssen, Karl-Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th November 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carolinensiel |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 2013 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |