Marcus Weidner

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Marcus Weidner (born October 9, 1964 in Münster ) is a German historian.

Life

Weidner discovered his interest in history, in particular the Nazi era, through his multiple successful participation in the student competition “For the Prize of the Federal President” of the Körber Foundation. As a result, he developed a city tour on the history of National Socialism for his hometown of Münster and initiated the installation of memorial plaques in several places in the city where people were persecuted or murdered (Marcks-Haindorf Foundation, Münster prison on Gartenstrasse, Zwinger an der Promenade). The "rediscovery" of the kennel and today's JVA in Gartenstrasse as a place of execution for slave labor can be traced back to his student work on prisoners of war and forced laborers in Münster, which was revised as a book in 1984. In further dealing with the history of forced labor and the culture of remembrance, using the example of the prisoner-of-war cemetery Haus Spital , he was able to prove, despite an initial denial by the city of Münster, that over 200 prisoners of war or forced laborers of the Second World War are also buried on the edge of the grave site of the First World War had been.

Weidner studied modern and contemporary history, medieval history, Romance philology and classical archeology in Münster. After completing his doctorate with Heinz Duchhardt in 1998 , he worked as a research assistant at the LWL archives office in Westphalia / Association for the History and Antiquity of Westphalia, Department Paderborn. 2000–2002 he completed a museum traineeship at the Historisches Museum Bremerhaven and at the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe in Münster. Weidner has been a research assistant at the LWL Institute for Westphalian Regional History since 2002 .

Weidner is u. a. responsible for the Internet portal "Westphalian History" , which he designed between 2002 and 2004. Since 2007 he has been managing director of the working group of German-language portals for regional history and cultural studies , which he initiated and co-founded - in short: AG Regionalportale Deutschlands .

At the end of the 1980s / beginning of the 1990s, Weidner was involved in the Information Exchange Club eV, an association for computer enthusiasts, and was its chairman.

Weidner has been a member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia since 2009 .

Weidner's interests and research focuses on the history of the nobility, the regional history of Westphalia, the history of National Socialism, digital humanities and the culture of remembrance. A central research project is the historical and archaeological research into the murder of 208 Soviet and Polish forced laborers in March 1945 in the Warsteiner area ( massacre in the Arnsberg Forest ) and their grave at the Fulmecke forest cemetery in Meschede.

In the years 2016–2017 Weidner was a lecturer at the University of Paderborn (Digital Humanities) and in the winter semester 2019/20 at the Ruhr University Bochum (World War II archeology ).

Awards

  • 1977: 5th prize, the changing world of work and technology: the mail delivery service through the ages
  • 1983: 3rd prize, Everyday Life in National Socialism II (War Years): Only Graves as Traces: The life and death of prisoners of war and foreign workers in Münster from 1939–1945
  • 1985: 4th prize, everyday life in post-war Germany: après les misères, après les jours de bagne et d'enfer. Analyzes of the criminal behavior of foreign prisoners of war and foreign workers after the collapse of National Socialist rule. Paradigm Münster 1945–1946
  • 1998: Dissertation award from the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster
  • 2000: Princess von Gallitzin Prize
  • 2000: Working grant for Westphalian regional history from the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe

Works (selection)

author

  • (together with Ralf Blank and Andreas Korthals) Hagen - March 15, 1945. Destroyed city, occupation and war crimes. Food 2020.
  • (together with Ralf Klötzer) The archive of the Association for History and Archeology of Westphalia, Department Paderborn e. V. Codices (Cod. 1–180), Acta I (Acta 1–184) (= inventories of the non-governmental archives of Westphalia, New Series, Vol. 17). Munster 2003.
  • Land nobility in Münster 1600–1760. City constitution, claim of status and prince's court (= sources and research on the history of the city of Münster (new series), 18; 2 volumes). Published by the Münster City Archives, Münster 2000 (dissertation).
  • Only graves as traces. The life and death of prisoners of war and “foreign workers” in Münster during the war 1939–1945. Munster 1984.

editor

  • (together with Julia Paulus) “Home Fronts” in the 19th and 20th centuries (= themed volume of Westphalian research, vol. 68). 2018.
  • (together with Matthias Frese) Negotiated memories. Dealing with honors, monuments and memorial sites after 1945. Paderborn 2018.

Important essays

  • Investigations at shooting sites of the Second World War in the Sauerland, in: Archeology in Westphalia-Lippe, LWL-Archäologie für Westfalen / Altertumskommission für Westfalen (Ed.), Langenweißbach 2019, pp. 193–196 (together with Manuel Zeiler).
  • Murdered, buried, displaced, in: Archäologie in Deutschland 6, 2019, pp. 46–49 (together with Manuel Zeiler).
  • Volkish movements. In: Regina Göschl, Julia Paulus (eds.): Weimar in the west. Republic of opposites. Münster 2019, pp. 61–69.
  • Regional biographical reference works in the Internet age. In: Ágoston Zénó Bernád u. a. (Ed.): Europe builds on biographies. Vienna 2018, pp. 119–138.
  • 10 years "Working Group on Regional History and Regional Studies Internet Portals" in Germany. In: Library Service 2017, pp. 793–796.
  • End-of-war crimes against forced laborers in the Sauerland in 1945. In: 200 years of Westphalia. Now! Münster 2015, pp. 342–347.
  • The Internet portal "Westphalian History". In: Ellen Euler et al. a. (Ed.): Handbuch Kulturportals. Online offers from culture and science. Berlin 2015, pp. 330–337.
  • Nobility in transitions. In: Karl Ditt u. a. (Ed.): Westphalia in der Moderne 1815–2015. History of a region. Münster 2014, pp. 77-100.
  • Online database on street naming practice in Westphalia and Lippe during National Socialism - a workshop report. In: Westfälische Forschungen 63, 2013, pp. 351–359.
  • Past, we are coming! Searching for clues in the archive. Booklet accompanying the DVD (with Markus Köster and Claudia Landwehr). Münster 2012.
  • "We request ... to be renamed immediately". The street naming practice in Westphalia and Lippe under National Socialism. In: Matthias Frese (ed.): Questionable honors !? Street names as an instrument of history politics and remembrance culture. Münster 2012, pp. 41–98.
  • "Murderer names are not street names". Revision and persistence in street naming practice in the post-war period - Westphalia and Lippe 1945–1949. In: Matthias Frese (ed.): Questionable honors !? Street names as an instrument of history politics and remembrance culture. Münster 2012, pp. 99–120.
  • From the slip box to the database. The "Digital Westphalian Document File" (DWUD). In: Archivpflege in Westfalen-Lippe, 66, 2007, pp. 28–32.
  • From 'Landjunker' to 'Cavalier du monde': class education, cultural change and structures of aristocratic existence in the 17th and 18th centuries. Century among the nobility of the Principality of Münster eligible for a donation. In: Rainer Babel , Werner Paravicini (eds.): Grand Tour. Noble travel and European culture from the 14th to the 18th century (= supplement of the Francia). Ostfildern 2005, pp. 455–468.
  • The registers of the houses of the Prince Diocese of Münster that are eligible (and "dubious") from 1704. Cause of origin - test procedures - function - directory (with a list of the members of the knighthood of Munster who were assigned to the state parliament around 1655). In: Westfälische Zeitschrift 147, 1997, pp. 93–178.
  • An Inconvenient Legacy? Selected directory of sites and sources on the history of the NSDAP, the persecution of the Jews and the war in the city of Münster. In: Ulrich Kröll (ed.): Teaching and learning history - using the example of the city of Münster (= Forum Geschichtsdidaktik 4). Münster 1985, pp. 141-178.

Web projects

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten, April 22, 2015. [1]
  2. ↑ Internet portal "Westphalian History" [2]
  3. ^ AG regional portals in Germany [3] , which creates a forum for Internet offers.
  4. ↑ The archive is located in the State Archive of North Rhine-Westphalia, Westphalia department (deposit until 2019). [4]
personal data
SURNAME Weidner, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster