Peter Jahn

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Peter Jahn (* 1941 in Küstrin ) is a German historian . The focus of his work is Eastern Europe , in particular the German war against the Soviet Union 1941–1945 and its position in the collective memory of the peoples involved.

Life

Peter Jahn grew up in Berlin . From 1963 he studied Eastern European history, modern history and Slavic studies at the Free University of Berlin and in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) and received his doctorate in 1974. From 1975 to 1980 he was a research assistant at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin. He then worked on research and exhibition projects at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Mannheim and the Topography of Terror project .

From 1993 he was involved in the design of the permanent exhibition in the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst , whose management he took over when it opened in 1995, until he retired in 2006. He then headed the exhibition project Our Russians - Our Germans , which was on view from December 2007 to March 2008 in Charlottenburg Palace .

Peter Jahn is a member of the Advisory Board of Kontakt-Контакты e. V. - Association for contacts with countries of the former Soviet Union . Together with Daniel Ziemer and Florian Wieler, he is heavily involved in the Memorial Site Initiative for the Victims of National Socialist Habitat Policy .

Publications

  • Russophilia and Conservatism. Russophile literature in the German public, 1831–1852 . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-12-912170-6 .
  • with Detlev Brunner: The trade unions in the final phase of the republic 1930–1933 . Dietz, Bonn 1988, ISBN 3-7663-0904-8 .
  • Peter Jahn and Reinhard Rürup (eds.): Conquer and destroy. The war against the Soviet Union 1941–1945 . Argon, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-87024-189-6 .
  • Peter Jahn (Ed.): Bersarin Nikolaj . Elefanten Press, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88520-753-2 .
  • Peter Jahn (eds.) And Henning Langenheim [Ill.]: Mordfelder: Places of destruction in the war against the Soviet Union = Polja smerti (text in German and Russian, numerous illustrations). Elefanten Press, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88520-732-X .
  • Peter Jahn (Ed.): Remembering Stalingrad - Stalingrad in German and Russian memory . Links, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-86153-309-X .
  • Peter Jahn (Ed.): June 1941: The deep cut . Espresso, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-88520-792-3 .
  • Peter Jahn (Ed.): Blockade of Leningrad 1941–1944. Dossiers . Links, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86153-324-3 .
  • Triumph and Trauma - Soviet and Post-Soviet Memories of the War of 1941–1945 . Links, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86153-356-1 .
  • Peter Jahn / Florian Weiler / Daniel Ziemer (eds.): The German war for "living space in the east" 1939-1945 . Metropol, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-359-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.unsererussen.de/ausstellung.html
  2. ↑ http://www.gedenkort-lebensraumpolitik.de/perspektiven/
  3. ↑ Merciless - Historians call for a memorial for the Eastern European Nazi victims, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 75, Easter 2013, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Jahn, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Eastern European historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Küstrin