Lothar Kettenacker

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Lothar Kettenacker (* 1939 ) is a German historian .

Career

Kettenacker received his doctorate in 1968 from the University of Frankfurt with a thesis on the National Socialist occupation policy in Alsace . 1971 followed a Bachelor of Letters at the University of Oxford . From 1973 onwards, Kettenmacher was office manager of the German-British Historians' Circle in London, from which the German Historical Institute London developed, to which he belonged from July 1974 until his retirement in June 2004 as a scientist and for many years as deputy director. In 1983 , Kettenmacher completed his habilitation in Frankfurt on the subject of war for peacekeeping. The British government's planning for Germany during the Second World War .

Paul Doerr assessed on the basis of Kettenacker's book Germany since 1945 that he was a historian who had a “comprehensive understanding of public opinion in Germany” and that the book was interesting for academics and specialists. Nobody with an interest in recent German history should ignore Kettenacker's contributions.

In the course of the debate about Jörg Friedrich's book Der Brand , in 2003 Kettenacker published the volume Ein Volk von Vpfern? , which contains reactions from Ralph Giordano , Hans Mommsen , Richard Overy and Martin Walser , among others . Joachim Käppner praised the book as "exciting", it contained the "most important contributions" and replies to Friedrich's book and gave a good overview of the discussion.

Publications (selection)

  • National Socialist Volkstumsppolitik in Alsace . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-421-01621-6 (also: Diss. University of Frankfurt, 1968).
  • (Ed.): The "Other Germany" in World War II. Emigration and Resistance from an International Perspective . Klett, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-12-910490-9 .
  • with Wolfgang J. Mommsen (Ed.): The Fascist Challenge and the Policy of Appeasement . Allen & Unwin, London 1983, ISBN 0-04-940068-1 .
  • Peacekeeping War. The British government's planning for Germany during the Second World War . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989, ISBN 3-525-36307-9 (also habilitation thesis, University of Frankfurt, 1983).
  • with Günther Heydemann (Ed.): Churches in the dictatorship. Third Reich and SED state. Fifteen posts . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-36307-9 .
  • Germany Since 1945 . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1997, ISBN 0-19-289242-8 .
  • (Ed.): A people of victims? The new debate about the bombing war 1940–45 . Rowohlt, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-87134-482-6 .
  • Germany 1989: In the Aftermath of the Cold War . Longman, Harlow 2009, ISBN 978-0-582-41897-4 .
  • with Torsten Riotte (Ed.): The Legacies of Two World Wars. European Societies in The Twentieth Century . Berghahn Books, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-85745-180-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Marc Segesser: Review of: The Legacies of Two World Wars. European Societies in the Twentieth Century . In: Historical magazine . Volume 296, pp. 543-544 and website of the DHI London .
  2. ^ Paul Doerr: Review of Kettenacker, Lothar, Germany Since 1945 . H-Net Reviews, May 1998.
  3. ^ Review in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 7, 2003.
personal data
SURNAME Kettenacker, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1939