Reinhard Bollmus

Reinhard Bollmus (born February 27, 1933 ; † August 30, 2019 in Trier ) was a German historian who mainly dealt with the history of National Socialism .

His dissertation, published in 1970, The Office Rosenberg and his opponents. Studies on the power struggle in the National Socialist system of rule were among the first scientific papers on the subject of the internal structure of the National Socialist power apparatus. The work has become a classic in Nazi research and was published in its second edition in 2006. In addition, he was one of the first to address the persecution of homosexuals under National Socialism. His contribution on the history of the city of Trier during the Third Reich, which appeared in 1988 in the three-volume city history published on the occasion of the city's 2000th anniversary, was fundamental. Reinhard Bollmus was a research associate in the history department at Trier University for many years ; Before his death, he left part of his private library as well as source copies and interviews with contemporary witnesses to an ongoing research project on the Gestapo Trier.

Fonts

• The office of Rosenberg and its opponents: studies on the power struggle in the National Socialist system of rule . 2nd edition expanded to include a bibliographical essay by Stephan Lehnstaedt. Oldenbourg, Berlin / Boston 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-59554-3 (first edition: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1970). First edition ISBN 3-486-54501-9 .
• Commercial college and National Socialism: the end of the commercial college in Mannheim and the prehistory of the establishment of a political and economic faculty at the University of Heidelberg 1933–34 (=  Mannheim social science studies . Volume 8 ). Hain, Meisenheim am Glan 1973, ISBN 3-445-00983-X .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lutz Raphael: The subject of history mourns Reinhard Bollmus. University of Trier Department of History, September 7, 2019, accessed on March 3, 2020 .