Rainer Sabelleck

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Rainer Sabelleck (* 1953 in Warin / Sternberg district) is a German historian and author .

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Sabelleck completed his studies in German and history at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (minor subjects: Scandinavian studies , politics , philosophy ). He passed his first state examination and then received a doctoral scholarship from the Max Planck Society , where he worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen . He received his doctorate with his thesis on: Jewish life in a north-west German city: Nienburg. with Rudolf Vierhaus . Subsequently, he participated in a research project. Then Sabelleck took over the task of managing director of the regional association of southern Lower Saxony. He started working on his habilitation thesis at the University of Hamburg and held seminars at the University of Hamburg, the Bundeswehr University in Wandsbek and the University of Göttingen. This was followed by a traineeship in Lüneburg at the Lüneburg study seminar, which he completed with the second state examination. Before, during and after his teacher training, he continued to work as part of his habilitation and received teaching assignments at the Universities of Göttingen, Hamburg, Lüneburg and at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg-Wandsbek. Due to the illness and the death of his wife, Sabelleck, as a single father, only did half-hour school work in Lüneburg for many years. He did school service by teaching at high schools in Walsrode, Lüneburg and Bleckede and finally back in Lüneburg (Gymnasium Herderschule).

Research stays took Sabelleck to Switzerland (Flims / Graubünden, 1988), the USA (1989; New York, Washington, lecture in Buffalo), to Israel (1990, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem), to Denmark (Fredericia), to Norway (2007, 2008 ; Lecture in Oslo) and Great Britain (lecture on October 22, 2010 in London; research in London 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016).

Sabelleck is the founder of the "Series of publications of the Landscape Association of Southern Lower Saxony" and organizer and leader of scientific symposia, conferences and exhibitions:

  • Conference "History and Culture of the Jews in Southern Hanover" on November 10, 1990.
  • Living and Writing in the Province. Georg Steinberg. Memorial exhibition on the occasion of the 150th birthday. Goettingen 1990
  • Conference "Hanover's transition from the kingdom to the Prussian province" on November 2, 1991 in Göttingen.
  • International conference "Belsen Trial 1945 Lueneburg" 17./18. September 2010, Lüneburg, Lüneburg Regional Court, Large Criminal Court Room 2, 17. – 18. September 2000.
  • Exhibition: "Headquarters 2nd Army (Waldhaus Haecklingen) and the German Capitulations May 1945". Exhibition and Lecture, German Historical Institute London 2010/2011.
  • Exhibition “Escaped from Destruction”: Saving the Hanseatic City of Hamburg on May 3, 1945 in Häcklingen. Lüneburg, < Waldhaus Häcklingen / "Möllering-Villa" >: Film lecture in the Great Hall of the Lüneburg Chamber of Crafts. Exhibition in the small hall. On the occasion of the Hanseatic Days in Lüneburg, July 3 - 7, 2012.

He is the editor of compilations on the history of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and the Kingdom of Hanover, editor of articles on the history of Jewish Germans, the history of the Jewish school system and the history of religious refugees (Salzburg and Berchtesgaden). He also acts as the editor of works by the Jewish writer Georg Steinberg and as a publicist.

Sabelleck succeeded in having the "Waldhaus Häcklingen (" Möllering "Villa) near Lüneburg listed as a historical monument by the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation and founded the association" Luneburg Capitulation May 4th 1945 "Documentation Center Waldhaus Häcklingen eV. He presides over him as president.The association has the task of the former headquarters of the 2nd British Army (Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey) - scene of the capitulation of Hamburg on May 3rd, 1945 - as one of the last and most important historical monuments that could survive in Lüneburg, protect it, set it up as a documentation center and pass it on to posterity.

In 1993, Sabelleck was awarded the prize of the Neuhoff-Fricke-Foundation and the city of Nienburg for his dissertation "Jewish life in a north-west German city: Nienburg".

Sabelleck now lives in Lübeck and is retired.

Works (selection)

  • Synagogues, schools and cemeteries. About the development and the end of Jewish community institutions in the area of ​​today's Nienburg district (1843–1938). District of Nienburg / Weser, Nienburg / Weser 1988.
  • [as ed.]: Georg Steinberg: Nahharkels. Poems. Edited and with an afterword by Rainer Sabelleck. Alpe, Nienburg (Weser) 1989, ISBN 3-924792-12-7 .
  • Living and Writing in the Province. Georg Steinberg. Memorial exhibition on the occasion of the 150th birthday. Göttingen 1990 (catalog for the exhibition)
  • Jewish life in a north-west German city: Nienburg. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1991.
  • War and peace experiences of a Hanoverian hunter. Georg Steinberg's "At the 3rd Jäger Battalion". 2nd unchanged edition. Edited and with an afterword by Rainer Sabelleck. Mannheim 1991.
  • (as ed. :) Jews in Southern Lower Saxony. History, living conditions, monuments. Contributions to a conference on November 10, 1990 in Göttingen. Hahn, Hanover 1994.
  • (as ed. :) Hanover's transition from the kingdom to the Prussian province. 1866. Contributions to a conference on November 2, 1991 in Göttingen [Exhibition and conference “Southern Lower Saxony 125 Years Ago - Hanover's Transition from Kingdom to Prussian Province”]. Hahn, Hanover 1995.
  • Contributions, etc. a. Jews in Göttingen (1648–1866). In: Ernst Böhme and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): Göttingen. History of a university town. Volume 2: From the Thirty Years War to the Anschluss with Prussia. The resurgence as a university town (1648–1866). Göttingen 2002, pp. 635-657.
  • Handbook article Lüneburg and Nienburg In: Herbert Obenaus (Ed. In collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel): Historical handbook of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Volume 1 and 2 (1668 pages), Göttingen 2005; ISBN 3-89244-753-5 ; Pp. 1006-1024 and pp. 1105-1121.
  • (Contribution) The development of Jewish religious and elementary schools in the 19th century. Illustrated using the example of the situation in the district rabbinate districts of Hanover and Hildesheim , in: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 43, Issue 3, 1991, pp. 215–232.
  • (Contribution) The chronicle of the Israelite elementary school in Bovenden. Text and notes on the history of the Jewish school system in Bovenden , in: Plesse-Archiv 27, 1991, pp. 99–143.
  • (Article) Kurhannover as a transit country and host country for emigrants from Salzburg and Berchtesgaden: expectations, goals and scope for action 1732–1733 , in terms of thought horizons and scope for action. Historical studies for Rudolf Vierhaus on his 70th birthday. Göttingen 1992, pp. 137-168.
  • (Contribution) Social care for members of Jewish families in northern German cities of the late 18th and early 19th centuries , in: Familie und Familienlosen. Case studies from Lower Saxony and Bremen from the 15th to the 20th century. Edited by Jürgen Schlumbohm (Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen; Vol. 34: Sources and studies on the economic and social history of Lower Saxony in modern times; Vol. 17). Hannover 1993, pp. 117-132.
  • (Contribution) stay on demand. On the practice of sharing protective letters in Kurhannover in the 18th and 19th centuries , in: Rainer Sabelleck (ed.), Juden in Süpdniedersachsen. Hannover 1994, pp. 83-99.
  • (Contribution) billeting. On the relationship between civilian population and military , in: Rainer Sabelleck (ed.), Hanover's transition from the kingdom to the Prussian province: 1866. Hanover 1995, pp. 79–99.
  • (Contribution) O Camerad, why do we German brothers have to shoot each other to death? Langensalza in the memories of the Hanoverian hunter Georg Steinberg, in: Rainer Sabelleck (ed.), Hanover's transition from the kingdom to the Prussian province: 1866. Hanover 1995, pp. 79–99.
  • (Contribution) With the Sabbath stands, with the Sabbath the whole thing falls (...) . Liberals and Orthodox in the divine service and harmonium dispute in the synagogue community Nienburg, in: Documentation for the exhibition "Nobody wanted to hear me ..." Magrepha. The organ in the synagogue. Forum of the Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover November 1999 to April 2000. Edited by Andor Izsak with the assistance of Susanne Borchers (series of publications by the European Center for Jewish Music; Vol. V). Hannover 1999, pp. 76-90.
  • (Article) Jewish soldiers in World War I, in: The years 1915 to 1918. Europe - people - tolerance. Perspective from European regions. Collection of articles on the subject of culture and life on European home fronts. (Published in the series of publications Regional Trade Union Papers, Issue 66. Academy Regional Trade Union History for Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt in Braunschweig). Published by Academy Regional Trade Union History for Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, Employers' Association NiedersachsenMetall, German Trade Union Confederation, District Lower Saxony - Bremen-Saxony-Anhalt, Institute Braunschweigische Regionalgeschichte at the TU Braunschweig. Coordination of this edition Gundolf Algermissen. December 2015, pp. 72–85.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rainer Sabelleck in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB), viewed on April 4, 2010

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SURNAME Sabelleck, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Was in