Olaf Rose

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Olaf Volker Bernhard Rose (* 1958 in Arnsberg ) is a German historian and politician ( NPD ) who primarily appears as an author and speaker in the history revisionist and right-wing extremist spectrum. He has been a board member of the Society for Free Journalism since 1991 and has been working for the NPD since 2006. From May 2008 to March 2009 he was a member of the national executive and is responsible for his party since 2009 member of the City Council of Pirna . On March 5, 2012, Rose was nominated by the NPD for the election of the German Federal President 2012 , in which he received three votes. Since November 2015 he has been a member of the NPD party executive again.

Life

Olaf Rose was born in Arnsberg in 1958. After his community service he studied history and German at the Ruhr University in Bochum . As a student and young graduate, Rose belonged to the political left. He published z. B. 1986 an article about the Soviet Union in an anthology of the West Berlin Elefanten Press , to which prominent left-wing authors such as Jürgen Kuczynski , Georg Fülberth , Stephan Hermlin and others. a. contributed. After completing his studies, Rose worked from 1987 to 1996 as a part-time archivist for the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Herdecke . Rose received his doctorate in 1992 with funding from the Clausewitz Society at Frank Golczewski at the Helmut Schmidt University of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg Dr. phil. His dissertation was a military history work on Carl von Clausewitz and the history of his influence in Russia and the Soviet Union. In 1994 he was awarded the Werner Hahlweg Prize for Military History and Defense Sciences .

Since 1991 Rose has been a member of the board of the right-wing extremist cultural association, the Society for Free Journalism . From 1996 Rose worked for a number of years as an editor for Dietmar Munier 's publishing group . He also edited the magazine Opposition together with Alain de Benoist , Reinhold Oberlercher and Franz Schönhuber and was an author and member of the editorial board of the magazine Deutsche Geschichte, which is also published by the Berg publishing company .

From 2001 to 2003 Rose worked as an ABM force at the Ruhr area city ​​of Herne . There he was supposed to create a documentation for the city on the subject of " Forced Labor and Prisoners of War in Herne and Wanne-Eickel between 1940 and 1945", which after it became known - through articles in the taz ruhr  , among other things - of Rose's political activities and after being involved in this work Number of forced laborers in the region was "downscaled" from 30,000 to 9,000, but was not used. Rose's contract with the city of Herne was not extended. The main committee of the council of the city of Herdecke, in which he had been active years earlier, decided on July 17, 2003, accompanying and at the request of the citizens, that the city would no longer work with the former archivist in the future. In 2006 the Saxon NPD parliamentary group hired Rose as a "parliamentary advisor".

His book Der Große Wendig - Correction to Contemporary History , written together with Rolf Kosiek , was published by right-wing extremist Grabert Verlag , which, according to the protection of the Constitution, is “in great demand in the right-wing extremist intellectual scene”. "Der Große Wendig 'was advertised as a' milestone in revisionism 'in a review by the right-wing extremist theory organ Nation & Europa - Deutsche Monatshefte ." He became particularly well known for his film, Hess Hess , published in 2004 together with Michael Vogt , and with the translations the books of the British conspiracy theorist Martin Allen .

Rose gives lectures a. a. at the Society for Free Journalism , the HNG , the State and Economic Political Society , in the Collegium Humanum , at the 4th "Freedom Congress" of the German Voice Publishing House in 2006, at the invitation of the Domus Marcel Lefebvre in 2011 and at numerous other right-wing extremists or revanchists Organizations. Rose was in charge of the panel discussion at a lecture organized by the extreme right-wing Sudholt mail - order bookstore on the topic: "Did Adolf Hitler want war?", Which took place in Munich on May 6, 2006. Rose has been a member of the Pirna City Council for the NPD since August 2009 . In 2012 he was nominated as a candidate for the office of Federal President by his party, which was represented by three delegates in the Federal Assembly. Rose received three of the 1,228 valid votes cast in the election for Federal President.

Publications

Books

Translations

  • Martin Allen : The Himmler plot. The secret peace negotiations between the Reichsführer SS and the British and the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death in 1945. Translated by Olaf Rose. Druffel & Vowinckel, Stegen am Ammersee 2005, ISBN 3-8061-1175-8 .
  • Martin Allen: Churchill's Peace Trap. The secret of the Hess flight in 1941. Translated by Olaf Rose. Druffel & Vowinckel, Stegen am Ammersee 2003, ISBN 3-8061-1153-7 .
  • Martin Allen: "Dear Herr Hitler ..." 1939/1940. This is how the Duke of Windsor wanted to save the peace. Translated by Olaf Rose. Druffel & Vowinckel, Inning am Ammersee 2001, ISBN 3-8061-1143-X (Original title: Hidden Agenda. How the Duke of Windsor Betrayed the Allies. ).

Videos

Web links

Commons : Olaf Rose  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Rose, Olaf in the lexicon of netz-gegen-nazis.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bundestag election 2009: direct applicants from constituency 159 Saxon Switzerland - Eastern Ore Mountains. Website of the State Statistical Office of Saxony, accessed on March 19, 2012.
  2. ↑ Arnsberger shocks with NPD success in Saxony. In: Derwesten.de , June 10, 2008
  3. ↑ With “national socialism” to the “Western Front”. ( Memento from June 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: redok.de , May 25, 2006
  4. ^ Elisabeth Semme: Candidate from the right wing. In: DerWesten .de , March 13, 2012
  5. ↑ https://npd.de/haben/ .
  6. ↑ (with Gerhard Duda): "Wake up, damned of this earth ...". The Soviet Union 1917 to 1930. In: Irene Lusk (ed.): The wild twenties. Weimar and the world 1919–33. Berlin (West): Elefanten Press 1986, pp. 92-99
  7. ↑ a b c Tomas Sager, Jan Spreuk: The end for Dr. Rose. A "sincere, honest and intelligent German" historian has to go. ( Memento from January 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: Lotta No. 13, summer 2003 (PDF; 42 kB).
  8. ^ Olaf Rose: Carl von Clausewitz , R. Oldenbourg, p. Viii.
  9. ↑ Rose's dissertation: Carl von Clausewitz: History of the impact of his work in Russia and the Soviet Union 1836–1991 ( online )
  10. ↑ Defense Science June 18, 2012. In: german-foreign-policy.com , accessed on June 21, 2012
  11. ↑ a b Kevin Londer: Between local history and the extreme right. The city archivist of Herne, Dr. Olaf Rose. ( Memento of May 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) In: Lotta No. 12, spring 2003 (PDF; 270 kB).
  12. ^ Albrecht Kolthoff: Brown Merchandising. The TV broadcast for the DVD for the book about the Nazi demo. In: Telepolis , edition of September 30, 2004.
  13. ↑ History revisionist becomes NPD employee. ( Memento from December 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: redok.de , October 6, 2006.
  14. ↑ a b Report on the Protection of the Constitution 2006 ( Memento of August 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), p. 140 (PDF).
  15. ↑ Right wing publisher should go outside the door. ( Memento from January 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: redok .de , January 13, 2008.
  16. ↑ NPD nominates historian Rose as a candidate. In: Spiegel Online , March 5, 2012.
  17. ↑ https://www.endstation-rechts.de/news/keine-ueberraschung-npd-kandidat-rose-erhaelt-drei-stimmen-bei-bundespraesidentswahl.html
personal data
SURNAME Rose, Olaf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rose, Olaf Volker Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and politician (NPD)
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnsberg