Raphael Gross

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Raphael Gross (born December 25, 1966 in Zurich ) is a Swiss historian and President of the German Historical Museum .

Life

Raphael Gross studied history, philosophy and literature in Zurich, Berlin, Bielefeld and Cambridge from 1986 to 1990. He was then a Research Fellow at the Franz Rosenzweig Institute of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research . In 1995 he became a lecturer at the Chair of Comparative Literature at the Free University of Berlin . He received his doctorate in May 1997 at the University of Essen with the thesis Carl Schmitt and the Jews. Structures of a German Legal Doctrine . From 1997 to 2001 he was a research assistant at the Chair for Modern and Contemporary History at the Ruhr University in Bochum . From 2001 to 2006 he worked at the University of Sussex , most recently as a reader in history and as head of the Center for German-Jewish Studies there. From 2008 to 2015, Gross was honorary professor at the History Department at the University of Frankfurt . Until 2015 he was director of the Leo Baeck Institute in London (since 2001), from 2006 to the end of 2015 director of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main , where he worked for the exhibitions Jews. Money. An idea , Fritz Bauer - The Public Prosecutor , 1938. Art, artists, politics , robbery and restitution and Ignatz Bubis. A Jewish life in Germany was responsible. From 2007 to 2015 he was also director of the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt am Main. Also until 2015 he was co-editor of the Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook and reader in the history department at Queen Mary, University of London . From 2015 to 2017 he headed the Simon Dubnow Institute (since 2018 Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture - Simon Dubnow) in Leipzig and was a professor at the local university as Professor of Jewish History and Culture. Until 2017 he was editor of the yearbook of the Simon Dubnow Institute .

Gross also emerged with publications on German-Jewish history and the Holocaust .

On November 24, 2016, Raphael Gross was appointed President of the German Historical Museum Foundation and took over the office on April 15, 2017.

On January 30, 2020, the German Book Trade Association will appoint Raphael Gross to the Board of Trustees of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • November 1938. The disaster before the disaster . CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65470-1 .
  • Remained decent. National Socialist Moral (= series of publications by the Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt am Main, study and documentation center on the history and effects of the Holocaust. Vol. 26). S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-10-028713-7 ( a review overview at perlentaucher.de ).
  • Carl Schmitt and the Jews. A German legal theory. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-518-58285-2 (also: Essen, University, dissertation, 1997).

Editorships

  • together with Dorlis Blume, Monika Boll: Hannah Arendt and the 20th century. Piper, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-492-07035-5 .
  • together with Felix Semmelroth: memorial at the Frankfurt wholesale market hall. The deportation of the Jews 1941–1945. Prestel, Munich, London, New York 2016, ISBN 978-3-7913-5531-3 .
  • together with Fritz Backhaus, Sabine Kößling, Mirjam Wenzel: Die Frankfurter Judengasse. Catalog for the permanent exhibition of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt. CH Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-68987-1 .
  • together with Werner Renz: The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1963–1965). Annotated source edition . With essays by Sybille Steinbacher and Devin O. Pendas , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-39960-7
  • together with Monika Boll: "I am amazed that you can breathe in this air". Jewish intellectuals in Germany after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013.
  • together with Fritz Backhaus and Dmitrij Belkin: Picture yourself your people! Axel Springer and the Jews. Wallstein, Göttingen 2012.
  • together with Fritz Backhaus and Dmitrij Belkin: Germany of all places ! Jewish-Russian immigration to the Federal Republic. Nicolai, Berlin 2010.
  • together with Werner Konitzer: Morality of Evil. Ethics and National Socialist Crimes (= 2009 yearbook on the history and effects of the Holocaust ). Published on behalf of the Fritz Bauer Institute. Campus, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-39021-5 .
  • together with Monika Boll: The Frankfurt School and Frankfurt. A return to Germany. Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0566-3 .
  • as publisher: history, stories: for the 20th anniversary of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt . Sozietäts Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-7973-1145-0 .
  • together with Ben Barkow and Michael Lenarz: November pogrom 1938. The eyewitness reports of the Wiener Library, London. Jewish publishing house in Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-633-54233-8 .
  • together with Fritz Backhaus and Michael Lenarz: Ignatz Bubis. A Jewish life in Germany. Jewish publishing house in Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-633-54224-6 .
  • together with Yfaat Weiss : Jewish history as general history. Festschrift for Dan Diner 's 60th birthday. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-36288-9 .
  • together with Eva Lezzi and Marc Richter: "A world that has lost its reality ...". Jewish survivors of the Holocaust in Switzerland. Limmat, Zurich 1999.
  • Authors: Deborah Schultz and Erik Riedel: Memory - Image - Word. Arnold Daghani and Charlotte Salomon . Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name in the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt am Main in 2012.
  • together with Moritz Epple , Johannes Fried and Janus Gudian: “Politicization of Science.” Jewish scientists and their opponents at the University of Frankfurt am Main before and after 1933. Wallstein, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-1438-2 .

Prizes and awards

  • 2012: Robert Goldmann scholarship from the city of Reinheim for the Fritz Bauer Institute
  • 2013: Ignatz Bubis Prize for the Fritz Bauer Institute
  • 2013: Buber Rosenzweig Medal for the Fritz Bauer Institute together with Mirjam Pressier
  • 2013: Wilhelm Leuschner Medal
  • 2016: Museum award of the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen for the new permanent exhibition of the Museum Judengasse in Frankfurt am Main
  • 2018: Moses Mendelssohn Award from the Leo Baeck Institute New York

Memberships and advisory board activities

  • The Rothschild Archive, Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (since 2016)
  • Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Research eV at the Technical University of Dresden , member of the sponsoring association (2015-2017)
  • Herder Institute eV Marburg , member of the sponsoring association (2015–2017)
  • Council "Hesse for Europe" of the Hessian Ministry of Justice (2013-2015)
  • Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk , member of the Scientific Advisory Board (since 2010)
  • Federal Foundation for Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation , Scientific Advisory Board (2009-2015)
  • Yearbook of the Simon Dubnow Institute, Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (since 2009)
  • Jürg Breuninger Foundation , Frankfurt a. M., Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board (2008–2015)
  • ILABLIS yearbook for European press, member of the advisory board (since 2008)
  • Center for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex , Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (2006–2011)
  • Revue d'histoire de la Shoah, Frankfurt a. M., foreign editor (since 2005)
  • Board of Trustees Leo Baeck Institute (since 2015)
  • Advisory commission in connection with the return of cultural assets seized as a result of Nazi persecution ( Limbach Commission ) (since 2016)
  • Board of Trustees of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (since 2020).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Leclerc: Raphael Gross leaves Frankfurt , in: Frankfurter Rundschau , March 28, 2015, p. D8 (also available online)
  2. ^ Yearbook: Yearbook of the Simon Dubnow Institute (JBDI). Accessed August 7, 2018 (English).
  3. ^ Deutsches Historisches Museum: Historian Raphael Gross appointed new President (accessed November 24, 2016)
  4. ^ Peace Prize of the German Book Trade: Raphael Gross and Moritz Helmstaedter complete the board of trustees. January 30, 2020, accessed on May 7, 2020 (German).
  5. ^ Prime Minister Volker Bouffier awards the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal
  6. ^ Moses Mendelssohn Award for Raphael Gross after Lecture on Anne Frank. Retrieved May 28, 2020 (American English).
  7. ^ Peace Prize of the German Book Trade: Raphael Gross and ... Accessed on May 28, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Gross, Raphael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich