Karl Huser

Karl Hüser (born September 24, 1930 in Emsdetten ) is a German historian , teacher and author .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1951, he studied history and classical philology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and became an active member of the Ravensberg Catholic Student Association in the Cartel Association of Catholic German Student Associations . In 1959, during the clerkship and several years as a teacher , he worked at the school Dionysianum in Rheine . In 1963 he switched to the Johann-Conrad-Schlaun-Gymnasium in Münster and became a senior teacher .

After a few years as a grammar school teacher , he turned to teacher training , was from 1969 senior teacher in higher education at the PH Aachen and in 1973 became a university professor for didactics of history and Westphalian regional history at the comprehensive university , today Paderborn University in Paderborn . He gained national recognition through the documentation Wewelsburg 1933–1945 - Cult and Terror Site of the SS . Since his retirement in 1995 he has been working as a book author on local history topics.

Fonts (selection)

• Franz von Löher (1818-1892) . Volume 13 of the series Studies and Sources on Westphalian History . Paderborn 1973. (Biography of the Paderborn "revolutionary" of the 1848 revolution. A very exciting story of the Paderborn butcher's son, whose election as Paderborn mayor was not accepted by the Prussian government.), ISBN 3-87088-284-0 .
• With God for our rights. Contribution to the history of the trade union movement in Münsterland. 75 years of the Textile Clothing Union. Administration office Emsdetten-Borghorst . Emsdetten, 1978.
• Wewelsburg 1933-1945. Cult and terror site of the SS . Bonifatius-Druckerei, Paderborn 1982, ISBN 3-87088-305-7 .
• together with Willi Beckers and Ferdinand Küpper: Political Education in Germany in the Twentieth Century. Conditions and elements of selected concepts . Neuwied / Darmstadt 1976, ISBN 3-472-55512-2 .
• together with Wulff E. Brebeck: Wewelsburg 1933–1945. Cult and terror site of the SS . Bonifatius-Druckerei, Paderborn 1999, ISBN 978-3-87088-534-2 .
• "Innocent" in British camp custody? The detention center no. 5 Staumühle 1945-1948 . Paderborn Historical Researches 10, ISBN 3-89498-076-1 .
• The main camp 326 (VI K) Senne , 1941–1945. Soviet prisoners of war as victims of the National Socialist Weltanschauung . Paderborn 1992, ISBN 3-927085-50-2 .
• together with Jörg Jarnut and Frank Göttmann : Paderborn. History of the city in its region . Three volumes. Paderborn 1999, ISBN 3-506-75690-7 .
• Paderborn, history in pictures, documents, certificates. From the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich or a center stronghold is brought into line . Paderborn, ISBN 3-87387-221-8 .
• Between the cross and the swastika. The Kirchborchen office and its communities in the »Third Reich« 1933-1945 . Paderborn, ISBN 3-89498-039-7 .

literature

• Ludger Grevelhörster, Wolfgang Maron (ed.): Region and society in Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries, studies of German history and the history of the Westphalian region. Karl Hüser on his 65th birthday . Paderborn Historical Research, Volume 6. Paderborn 1995.