Ralf Blank

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Ralf Blank (born November 12, 1962 in Schwerte ) is a German historian .

Life

He studied history , prehistory and early history and classical archeology in Münster , Cologne , Bochum , among others with Hans Mommsen and Ferdinand Seibt . After completing his Magister Artium on Albert Hoffmann , Gauleiter of Westphalia-South and Reichsamtsleiter in the party chancellery , he completed his doctorate with a thesis on bombing , armaments and everyday life in Hagen during the Second World War . His main research interests include historical archeology , social and societal history on the home front in the First and Second World War, and commemorative culture in the post-war period, as well as the Westphalian state history and the city ​​and regional history . At the beginning of the 1990s he was one of the first German historians to get involved on the Internet . For several years he was a member of the editorial board of the scientific specialist forums H-Soz-u-Kult and H-Net as well as in the Virtual Library . He headed the history and archeology department at the Hagen Historical Center ; since 2012 he has been Head of Science, Museums and Archives of the City of Hagen and Head of the Historical Museums and the Hagen City Archives. Since 2001 he has been a lecturer in contemporary history at the Ruhr University in Bochum. Since May 2014 he has been a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

Important contributions in edited volumes and specialist journals

  • Mobilization in War. The Gau Westfalen-Süd 1943–1945. In: Oliver Werner (ed.): Mobilization in National Socialism. Institutions and regions in the war economy and the administration of the “Third Reich” 1936 to 1945 (= National Socialist People's Community. Vol. 3). Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-506-77558-0 , pp. 195-213.
  • The Battle of the Ruhr, 1943. Aerial Warfare against an Industrial Region. In: Labor History Review. Vol. 70 (2012), pp. 35-48.
  • with Michael Baales , Eva Cichy and Jörg Orschiedt : Archaeological investigations into a shot down English Lancaster bomber from the Second World War near Hagen. In: Accompanying volume to the state exhibition archeology in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Roman-Germanic Museum in Cologne. Mainz 2010, pp. 308-311.
  • Destroyed and forgotten? Hagen, the Ruhr area and the memory of the war. In: Jörg Arnold, Dietmar Süß , Malte Thießen (eds.): Luftkrieg. Memories in Germany and Europe. Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0541-0 , pp. 162-182.
  • Wartime Daily Life and the Air War on the Home Front. In: Germany and the Second World War. Vol. 9/1, Clarendon, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-928277-7 , pp. 370-476.
  • Energy for "retribution". Accumulatoren Fabrik AG Berlin-Hagen and the German missile program in World War II. In: Military History Journal . Vol. 66 (2007), pp. 101-118.
  • The prosecution of war crimes. In: The new beginning. Germany between 1945 and 1949. With contributions by Axel Schildt , Michael Wildt , Gerd Hardach and others. a. Zeitgut, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-933336-18-7 , pp. 138-145.
  • Everyday warfare and aerial warfare on the "home front". In: The German War Society 1939 to 1945 (= The German Reich and the Second World War . Vol. 9). Teilbd. 1: politicization - annihilation - survival. Edited by Jörg Echternkamp on behalf of the Military History Research Office . DVA, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-421-06236-6 , pp. 357-461.
  • The end of the war on the Rhine and Ruhr in 1944/1945. In: Bernd-A. Rusinek (Ed.): End of the war 1945. Crimes, catastrophes, liberations from a national and international perspective (= Dachau Symposia on Contemporary History. Vol. 4). Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-793-4 .
  • Jörg Friedrich. The fire - Germany in the bombing war. A critical discussion. In: Military History Journal. Vol. 63 (2004), H. 1, pp. 175-186.
  • Albert Hoffmann as Reich Defense Commissioner in Gau Westfalen-Süd, 1943–1945. A biographical sketch. In: Contributions to the history of National Socialism . 17: 189-210 (2001).
  • Modern history and contemporary history. In: Stuart Jenks , Stephanie Marra (Ed.): Internet-Handbuch Geschichte (= UTB . Vol. 2255). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-8252-2255-1 , pp. 91–115.
  • Replacement procurement through "booty". The "M-Actions" - an example of the National Socialist policy of looting. In: Alfons Kenkmann , Bernd-A. Rusinek (Ed.): Persecution and Administration. The economic plunder of the Jews and the Westphalian financial authorities. Villa ten Hompel / Oberfinanzdirektion, Münster 1999, ISBN 3-00-004973-8 , pp. 87-101.
  • The city of Dortmund in the bombing war. In: Gerhard E. Sollbach (Ed.): Dortmund. Bomb warfare and everyday life after the war 1939–1948. With an introduction by Hans Mommsen . Bookmarks, Dortmund 1996, ISBN 3-930217-12-0 , pp. 15-55.

Movies

As a historian, Blank worked on several TV productions, he is best known for several detailed comments in the award-winning NDR documentary:

  • The Quandts' silence . Documentation, 60 min., Production: NDR , first broadcast, ARD , September 30, 2007, 11:30 p.m. On November 22, 2007, a 90-minute long version of the documentary was broadcast on NDR at 9:15 pm.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ End of the silence . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 2007 ( online review).
  2. ↑ Press release , NDR, October 1, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Blank, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Swords