Peter Reichel (political scientist)

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Peter Reichel (born September 19, 1942 in Rendsburg ) is a German political scientist .

Life

Reichel graduated first in Hamburg , a bookseller and spent ten years in Rendsburg worked as a bookseller. At the same time he studied political science, modern history and philosophy in Kiel and Hamburg and received his doctorate in 1972. In the same year he became assistant to the chairman of the board of trustees of the German Society for Peace and Conflict Research in Bonn and a research assistant at the Institute for Political Science at Saarland University .

In 1973 he took on an assistant position in Hamburg and completed his habilitation in 1981 at the Free University of Berlin . There he took on a substitute professorship as a private lecturer and, two years later, in 1983, became professor at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Hamburg . From 1986 to 2007 Reichel held the professorship for historical foundations of politics. Peter Reichel has lived and worked in Berlin since 2007.

research

Reichel's main focus is the history of political symbols and culture . After several preliminary studies, his work was published in 1991: “The beautiful appearance of the Third Reich”. In it he undertakes a comprehensive presentation and analysis of the “aestheticization of politics” ( Walter Benjamin ) in the Third Reich . The book met with wide international and national reception and was translated.

Inspired by the great controversial debates about the Nazi past , in the following decade he mainly devoted himself to the “second story” of National Socialism . This resulted in a three-volume account of the Federal Republic's political and cultural dealings with the Nazi past: “Politics with Memory” (1995), “Coming to terms with the past in Germany” (2001), “Invented memory” (2004).

Peter Reichel's publications are assigned to two closely linked problem areas in recent German history: on the one hand, the Nazi dictatorship and its aftermath and, on the other hand, the liberal-democratic traditions and fractures of Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. "Schwarz-Rot-Gold" (2005), "Robert Blum" (2007) and "Shine and misery of German self-presentation" (2012) were also published. In 2018 he published a political biography about Hermann Müller .

Works (selection)

  • The tragic chancellor. Hermann Müller and the SPD in the Weimar Republic. Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-423-28973-3 .
  • Splendor and misery of German self-expression. National symbols in Empire and Republic , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1163-3 .
  • National Socialism - the second story. Overcoming - interpretation - memory , CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58342-1 (licensed edition of the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Berlin 2009; author and publisher together with Harald Schmid and Peter Steinbach ).
  • Robert Blum . A German revolutionary 1807–1848 , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-36136-8 .
  • The beautiful appearance of the Third Reich. Fascination and violence of German fascism . Hanser, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-446-14846-9 . Various other editions at last with extended picture section. Ellert and Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2006.
  • Black red Gold. A brief history of German national symbols after 1945 . CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-53514-3 .
  • With Harald Schmid: From disaster to stumbling block. Hamburg and National Socialism after 1945 . Dölling & Galitz, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937904-27-1 .
  • Invented memory. World War I and the murder of Jews in film and theater . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-596-16805-8 .
  • Coming to terms with the past in Germany. The confrontation with the Nazi dictatorship from 1945 until today . CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-45956-0 .
  • (Ed.): The memory of the city. Hamburg in dealing with its National Socialist past . Dölling & Galitz, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-930802-51-1 .
  • Politics with memory. Places of remembrance in the dispute about the National Socialist past . Hanser, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-446-18296-9 .
  • Political culture of the Federal Republic . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1981, ISBN 3-8100-0332-8 .
  • Member of the Bundestag in European parliaments. On the sociology of the European parliamentarian (dissertation, University of Hamburg 1974). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1974, ISBN 3-531-11262-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Schmid, Justyna Krzymianowska: Political Science between contemporary history, culture and law. On the work and impact of Peter Reichel . In: Harald Schmid, Justyna Krzymianowska (Ed.): Political memory. History and collective identity (Festschrift for Peter Reichel) . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8260-3656-9 , p. 13-22 .
personal data
SURNAME Reichel, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Rendsburg