Rainer Orth

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Rainer Jonas Orth is a Swiss historian .

Career

Orth studied history, political science and literature in Konstanz on Lake Constance and Berlin. He was accepted in 2016 at the historical seminar of the Humboldt University in Berlin with a study on the history of the Vice Chancellery under Franz von Papen and a resistance network against the Nazi dictatorship between January 30, 1933 and June 30, 1934 operating from this office with the title "The official seat of the opposition"? Politics and state restructuring plans in the office of the Deputy Chancellor in the years 1933–1934 ".

The work found a positive reception in the professional world as an important new fundamental study on the phase of the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship: In his review in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the historian Daniel Koerfer described the more than 1000-page book as "monumental" and found that the "equally dramatic as it was exciting event" that it had as its content reminded of a detective novel, only with the significant difference that the "brutality that we encounter [here] and the blood that flows here", be real. On the other hand, one point that Koerfer Orth criticized for not discussing the putsch plans he was investigating was the “popularity of Hitler”, which, according to Koerfer, “completely left out”.

Other reviewers such as Benjamin Hett ( The Death of Democracy ), Björn Hofmeister ( New Political Literature ), Larry Eugene Jones ( Central European History ), Peter Steinbach ( Historical Journal ) or Hans-Christof Kraus ( Das Historisch-Politische Buch ) gave their opinion similarly appreciative-positive to Orth's study:

Sun praised Blanchett's work as "brilliantly researched" ( brilliantly researched ) and as one of the knowledge gained from research about the power struggles during the early Nazi dictatorship in "transformative" way umkrempelnde publication while Hofmeister in it "an important study on the early years of the Nazi Regimes ”, which enabled“ a wide range of analysis from 1934 to the plans of July 20, 1944 ”and considerably broadened the perspective of resistance research.

Jones praised the study as an “extraordinary work” that not only closes “a weighty gap in the existing historical literature on resistance to the Nazi regime”, but also that “through the depth of its empirical research, its careful way of arguing and their historical acumen ”, may be viewed as“ benchmark ”for historical research to an extent that“ is unlikely to be easily surpassed ”('It is an extraordinary work that does not merely fill a major gap in the existing body of historical literature on the German resitance, but also sets a standard for empirical research, careful argumentation, and historical acumen that is not likely to be easily surpassed. ').

Steinbach found that the work was convincing "through the breadth of the discussions" and "the density of the developed sources", but that it narrowed its view too much. And Kraus concluded in his review that the work represented “an outstanding scientific achievement”.

Expert opinion on the equalization of burdens in the case of the Hohenzollern family

In the dispute that became public in the media in 2019 about the claims to compensation for burdens demanded by the descendants of the last German emperor for family property expropriated after 1945 in the territory of the GDR and the return of works of art by the German state to the Hohenzollern family , Orth was a co-expert for Wolfram Pyta one of four historians' reports (in addition to Christopher Clark , Stephan Malinowski and Peter Brandt ), with which the question is to be answered whether the former Crown Prince Wilhelm through his actions "made a significant contribution" to National Socialism . His report comes to the conclusion that Crown Prince Wilhelm did not encourage the Nazi system, but rather actively sought to prevent Hitler's chancellorship and was close to resistance networks from the start . In November 2016, the previously kept secret report by Pyta and Orth was published on the Internet together with the other three reports by Jan Böhmermann for his show Neo Magazin Royale . In the context of the subsequent scientific discussion of the reports, several experts expressed themselves critically in various media about the theses formulated in the report. The research controversy resulting from the different results that Pyta / Orth and the other reviewers (Christopher Clark, Stephan Malinowski and Peter Brandt) came to in their reports on the question of the involvement of the Hohenzollern in the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship, and the public The dispute over "the legacy of the Hohenzollern", which sparked this controversy, was considered "the most important historical-political conflict in the country" at the end of 2019 (Der Spiegel).

Report on the Reichstag fire

In 2019 Orth prepared a detailed source-critical elaboration on the affidavit of SA man Hans Martin Lennings from November 1933 on a suggestion from an American colleague, a source newly discovered in spring 2019 about the perpetrators of the Reichstag fire of February 27, 1933. After the Lennings - Declaration in the press in the summer of 2019 for a few weeks when the long-sought proof of the National Socialists' responsibility for the arson in the Reichstag building, which the Hitler government had used as a pretext for the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship, was celebrated A series of documents he had found during archival research on Lennings (such as files on psychiatric reports on Lennings from the 1930s that attested him to be a psychopath), which led him to the conclusion that the credibility of Lennings should be judged “not as very high” and that it is therefore very unlikely was that the allegations made by Lennings in his affidavit regarding the fire in the Reichstag would represent an authentic reproduction of the facts of the event. A first summary of his research results was published in November 2019 in the news magazine Der Spiegel.

Publications

As an author:

  • Werner von Rheinbaben and German foreign policy between 1925/1926 and 1933 , ebook, Bedey Media GmbH, 2009
  • The SD man Johannes Schmidt. The murderer of Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher? , Tectum, Marburg 2012.
  • "Beaten to an intellectual cripple by an irresponsible comrade." The case of the Hitler putschist Heinrich Trambauer , in: Historische Mitteilungen der Ranke-Gesellschaft 25 (2012), pp. 208-236
  • "The official seat of the opposition"? Politics and state restructuring plans in the office of the Deputy Chancellor in the years 1933–1934 , Cologne / Weimar / Vienna, Böhlau Verlag, 2016.
  • together with Wolfram Pyta : Expert opinion on the political stance and behavior of Wilhelm Prinz von Preußen (1882–1951), last Crown Prince of the German Empire and of Prussia, in the years 1923 to 1945 , made public in 2019 (digitally available at: http : //www.hohenzollern.lol/gutachten/pyta.pdf )

As editor:

  • together with Dr. André Postert: "Franz von Papen to Adolf Hitler. Letters in Summer 1934", in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, vol. 63 (2015) H. 2, pp. 259–288.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sven Felix Kellerhoff: Reichstag fire: The key witness against the Nazis was a "lying person". In: The world. Welt.de, November 29, 2019, accessed on December 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Dr. Rainer Orth "The SD man Johannes Schmidt - the murderer of Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher?" In: press release. Gotha.de, June 27, 2019, accessed December 11, 2019 .
  3. ^ Book author Rainer Orth. From Perlentaucher.de, accessed on December 11, 2019.
  4. ^ Rainer Orth: "The official seat of the opposition"? Politics and state restructuring plans in the office of the Deputy Chancellor in the years 1933–1934. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-50555-4 , ( content as PDF; 208 KB).
  5. ^ Daniel Koerfer: Franz von Papen 1933/34: Vice Chancellery Group against Hitler. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. April 10, 2017. From FAZ.net, accessed December 11, 2019.
  6. ^ The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic. Henry Holt, New York 2018, ISBN 978-1-25016-250-2 , p. 239.
  7. ↑ Björn Hofmeister: Review, in: Neue Politische Literatur Vol. 63, pp. 303–305.
  8. ↑ Larry Eugene Jones: Review of “The Official Residence of the Opposition”? Politics and state restructuring plans in the office of the Deputy Chancellor in the years 1933–1934. In: Central European History. Vol. 50 (2017), issue 2, pp. 285–286. From Cambridge.org, accessed December 11, 2019.
  9. ↑ Peter Steinbach: Review. In: Journal of History. Vol. 67 (2019), Issue 5, pp. 482-484. At HSozKult.de, accessed on December 11, 2019.
  10. ↑ Hans-Christof Kraus: Book Review No. 350. In: Das Historisch-Politische Buch. Vol. 66 (2018), Issue 3, pp. 403-404. From eLibrary.Duncker-Humblot.com, accessed December 11, 2019.
  11. ↑ hohenzollern.lol , accessed on the day of publication.
  12. ↑ Andreas Kilb : Everything to light. In: FAZ , November 19, 2019, accessed on the same day.
  13. ↑ Interview by Eva-Maria Schnurr with Karina Urbach: "The Crown Prince went to bed with every opponent of the Weimar Republic". November 26, 2019, accessed November 30, 2019 .
  14. ^ Ulrich Herbert: Debate about Hohenzollern: Four experts, a crown prince and the national dictatorship . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed December 1, 2019]).
  15. ↑ Klaus Wiegrefe : Hohenzollern dispute: Was Crown Prince Wilhelm a Nazi sympathizer - or did he want to prevent Hitler? In: Spiegel Online . November 1, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 9, 2019]).
  16. ^ "Secret negotiations or trial. The federal government and the Hohenzollern dilemma", in: Der Spiegel from December 6, 2019
  17. ^ Klaus Wiegrefe : New research on the Reichstag fire in 1933: The key witness was a psychopath. In: Der Spiegel. November 29, 2019. From Spiegel.de, accessed on December 13, 2019.
  18. ↑ Werner von Rheinbaben and German Foreign Policy between 1925/1926 and 1933. Accessed December 9, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Factory entry in the KVK
personal data
SURNAME Orth, Rainer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orth, Rainer Jonas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century