Rainer Blasius
Rainer Achim Blasius (born May 16, 1952 in Langenfeld (Rhineland) ) is a German diplomat , historian and journalist .
Life
After his military service with the mountain troops (rank: lieutenant of the reserve), the son of a civil engineer studied history, German and philosophy at the University of Cologne . There he started working for Andreas Hillgruber in 1980 with a thesis on State Secretary Ernst Frhr. von Weizsäcker in the crises around Czechoslovakia and Poland in 1938/39 as Dr. phil. PhD . In this investigation he came to the conclusion that one could not consider Ernst von Weizsäcker as a “man of resistance”.
Then Blasius worked as a historian in the federal administration for twenty years. Since 1990 he has worked as head of the branch office of the Munich Institute for Contemporary History at the Foreign Office in Bonn and was the scientific director of the edition of the "Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany".
At the end of April 2000 he left the federal service as a lecturer in the Legation Council . Since then he has been a member of the political editorship of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . There he is responsible for the “Political Books” department, and because of his own experience with authorities and intensive observation, he deals with the German civil service . Since October 2003 he has been honorary professor of history at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .
In the debate about the book The Office and the Past (2010), Blasius acted as a sharp critic of the Independent Commission of Historians , which had carried out this study on behalf of the Federal Foreign Office.
"Today's opportunists write about yesterday's opportunists and firmly believe that if they had lived yesterday, they would not have been opportunists."
Fonts (selection)
- Monographs
- For Greater Germany - against the great war. State Secretary Ernst Frhr. von Weizsäcker in the crises around Czechoslovakia and Poland in 1938/39 . Böhlau, Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-412-00781-1 .
- Editorships
- Hasso von Etzdorf . A German diplomat in the 20th century. Haumesser, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-9520313-1-3 .
- From Adenauer to Erhard. Studies on the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1963 (= series of the quarterly books for contemporary history , volume 68). Oldenbourg, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-486-64568-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Rainer Blasius in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Rainer Blasius in the German Digital Library
- Search for "Rainer Blasius" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief CV in faz.net ( Memento from March 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blasius, Rainer |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blasius, Rainer Achim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat, historian and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Langenfeld (Rhineland) |