Klaus Jochen Arnold

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Klaus Jochen Arnold (* 1968 in Ibbenbüren ) is a German historian .

Life

Arnold studied Modern History , Political Science and East European History at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and in 2002 when Wolfgang Jacob Meyer with a thesis on the Wehrmacht and the occupation policy in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union to Dr. phil. PhD . In 2004 he received the Werner Hahlweg Prize for Military History and Defense Sciences (3rd prize) for his dissertation .

He then worked as a research assistant at the Freiburg University Archives . In addition, he was responsible for the DFG project of the Brandenburg State Main Archives and the Center for Contemporary History Research (ZZF) in Potsdam: "Dismantling in the Soviet Zone of Occupation and Berlin 1945–1948". From 2006 to 2007 he was a lecturer at the University of Leipzig ; In November 2007 he became deputy project manager at the Academy of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) in Sankt Augustin . In December 2008 he went to the KAS-Bildungswerk Hannover as a research assistant . Since 2012 he has been a research assistant at the Political Education Forum Brandenburg of the KAS in Potsdam .

Arnold wrote technical articles for u. a. Journal of History (ZfG), History in Science and Education (GWU), Military History Messages (MGM) and Military History. Journal of historical education and is a freelance reviewer.

reception

dissertation

His dissertation, published by Duncker & Humblot in 2005 , was The Wehrmacht and Occupation Policy in the Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union. Warfare and radicalization in “Operation Barbarossa” was reviewed in 2006 by the historian Christian Hartmann in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : “The linguistic design of this study does not necessarily make the sometimes very complex events more transparent. Sometimes it encourages, and that's annoying, also misunderstandings. [...] Despite such restrictions, it is nevertheless an important contribution to the history of the German-Soviet war, which will definitely enrich the lively discussion about the crimes of the Wehrmacht. "

Previously, the historian Peter Hoeres said at H-Soz-u-Kult : “The […] dissertation by Klaus Jochen Arnold puts research on the Wehrmacht in the Eastern War on a new basis. On the one hand, this is due to the extremely extensive analysis of the sources, primarily from the Federal Archives-Military Archives in Freiburg. On the other hand, the source criticism, which is carried out with great care, and the multifactorial access to the topic. "

The historian Wigbert Benz concluded his review of Arnold's work in the information for the history and social studies teacher as follows: “Arnold's sovereign scientific examination of his object - the Wehrmacht and its occupation policy in the east - is slipping more and more towards a takeover the perspective of the Wehrmacht and its apologists through the researcher himself. "

In his review of The Wehrmacht and the Occupation Policy in the Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union in the Journal for East Central Europe Research , the historian Christian Gerlach accused Arnold of the following shortcomings: “The minimization or the withholding of the number of victims, the assignment of main responsibility to Hitler, the SS , the OKW, but above all to the Soviets, the reference to unfortunate circumstances, the blurring of responsibility in elaborate substantivations and passive constructions [...]. "

Armin Nolzen wrote in his review in the Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft : “What is also irritating is the extraordinarily high level of understanding that the author has towards the Wehrmacht. Such a degree of empathy with the perpetrators leaves the reviewer stunned. "

Further critical reviews were written by the well-known historians Christoph Dieckmann , Thomas Kühne and Dieter Pohl .

additional

In 2009, the publicist Thomas Medicus commented on the work “Das stille Dieben…”, published with Konrad Jarausch by Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh … “Field post letters from Poland and Russia 1939–1942 in the features section of the daily newspaper Die Welt :“ In contrast to many […] publications, this one is A stroke of luck, because it does without the often-present emotional kitsch. For the sake of the greatest possible scientific return, Jarausch brought in the military historian Klaus Jochen Arnold. The saying is not sentimental here, but rather the historian's craft. "

Publications

monograph

  • The Wehrmacht and the Occupation Policy in the Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union. Warfare and radicalization in "Operation Barbarossa" . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11302-0 (= Univ., Diss., Münster (Westphalia) 2002).

Editorships

  • with Konrad Jarausch : "The silent death ..." Field post letters from Poland and Russia 1939–1942 . With a foreword by Hans-Jochen Vogel . Schöningh, Paderborn 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-76546-8 .
  • with Bernhard Vogel , Melanie Piepenschneider: Places of freedom and democracy in Germany . Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Sankt Augustin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941904-03-3 .
  • with Melanie Piepenschneider: What does July 20, 1944 mean to us? (= Handout on political education, Volume 5). Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Sankt Augustin 2011, ISBN 978-3-941904-96-5 .
  • with Melanie Piepenschneider: What was the wall? The establishment of the inner-German border fortifications by the SED regime and its consequences (= handout on political education, volume 7). 2nd revised edition, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Sankt Augustin 2013, ISBN 978-3-944015-28-6 .

Machining

  • Dismantling in the Soviet occupation zone and in Berlin from 1945 to 1948. Subject-related archive inventory (= publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archives . Vol. 61). On behalf of the Brandenburg State Main Archives and the Center for Contemporary History, ed. by Klaus Neitmann and Jochen Laufer , BWV, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8305-1899-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Hartmann : Mutual radicalization. The use of the Wehrmacht in the Soviet theater of war (review). In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 173, July 28, 2006, p. 9.
  2. ^ Peter Hoeres: Arnold, Klaus Jochen: The Wehrmacht and the occupation policy in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union. Warfare and radicalization in "Operation Barbarossa". Berlin 2004 (review). H-Soz-u-Kult , March 15, 2005.
  3. ↑ Wigbert Benz : Review, in: Informations für den Geschichts- und Gemeinschaftskundelehrer Heft 70 (2005), pp. 132-136.
  4. ↑ Christian Gerlach : Review, in: Journal for East Central Europe Research Vol. 55 (Issue 2), 2006, pp. 295–297, here p. 297.
  5. ↑ Armin Nolzen : Review, in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft Vol. 53 (Issue 7), 2005, p. 668.
  6. ↑ Christoph Dieckmann : Review, in: Sven Reichardt and Armin Nolzen (eds.): Fascism in Italy and Germany. Studies on Transfer and Comparison (= Contributions to the History of National Socialism , Volume 21). Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2005, pp. 253-255.
  7. ^ Thomas Kühne: Ordinary Men, Less Ordinary Men and Genocidal War in the East, 1941–1945 , in: H-German, H-Net Reviews, May 2006.
  8. ↑ Dieter Pohl : Book Review, in: Historische Zeitschrift Vol. 288 (Issue 1), 2009, pp. 261–263.
  9. ↑ Thomas Medicus : Searching for a father without feeling kitsch (review). In: Die Welt , January 17, 2009.
  10. ↑ Martin Seckendorf: Crimes of the Wehrmacht in the Soviet Union in 1941 - the results of a war that became more radical or measures planned long before the German attack on June 22, 1941? A panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Gerhart Hass and Dr. Klaus Jochen Arnold. Berlin Society, October 10, 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Arnold, Klaus Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Ibbenbueren