René Rohrkamp

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René Rohrkamp (* 1977 in Aachen ) is a German historian and archivist .

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After graduating from high school pipe Kamp studied the subjects of history, political science and philosophy at the RWTH Aachen and received his doctorate there in 2010 with his thesis: ideologically consolidated fighters - the soldiers of the Waffen-SS 1933-1945. Rohrkamp then took on a traineeship at the Federal Archives and at the archive school in Marburg , before he was taken on as deputy head of the Belgian State Archives in Eupen in May 2012 . Two years later he returned to his hometown, where he succeeded Thomas R. Kraus as head of the Aachen City Archives .

The focus of his work lies in modern and recent history, military history, here in particular that of the Third Reich, and social history.

Rohrkamp is a member of several associations and bodies, including:

For his non-fiction book "Sources on the History of German-speaking Belgians in the Belgian State Archives (1919–1973)", published in Brussels in 2013 , Rohrkamp was awarded the Archival Prize of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community in 2016.

Fonts (selection)

  • With Ingo Deloie: "And Salomon has long since stopped playing". Alemannia Aachen in the Third Reich . Verlag Die Werkstatt GmbH, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-7307-0391-5 .
  • together with Els Herrebout, Christoph Brüll and Peter M. Quadflieg (eds.): Reconstruction after the Second World War in the Belgian-German border region. Annals of the symposium in the Aachen City Archives on November 13 and 14, 2015 (= sources and research on the history of German-speaking Belgians , vol. 10), General State Archives , Brussels 2018, ISBN 978-94-9298-217-9 .
  • with Peter M. Quadflieg, Hans-Joachim Geupel and Martin Borgmann: 70 years of peace and freedom in Aachen. 1944-2014 . Meyer & Meyer, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8403-1091-1
  • Inventory of the archive of the Free Imperial Glory of Lontzen. (1356–1823) , General State Archives , Brussels 2013, ISBN 978-90-5746-575-8 .
  • Sources on the history of German-speaking Belgians in the Belgian state archives (1919–1973). Supplemented by sources from the diplomatic archive of the Federal Public Service for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, from the archives of the Ministry of Defense, the General Directorate for War Victims and the CEGES-SOMA in Brussels . Brussels 2013, ISBN 978-90-5746-632-8 .
  • Archive terminology for the General State Archives and the State Archives in the Provinces . (German, French, Dutch) (= Miscellanea archivistica. Manuale , vol. 65), Brussels 2013, ISBN 978-90-5746-624-3 .
  • with Peter M. Quadflieg and Tobias Albrecht: The "Malmedy Massacre". Perpetrators, victims, research perspectives. A work book . Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8322-9241-6 .
  • “Fighters with a solid ideology” - the soldiers of the Waffen-SS 1933–1945. Organization - personnel - social structures (= war in history , vol. 61). Verlag Schöningh, Paderborn 2010 (also: Dissertation 2010).
  • with Peter M. Quadflieg and Christoph Rass: General Graf von Schwerin and the end of the war in Aachen. Event, myth, analysis . Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8322-6623-3 .
  • with Christoph Rass: German soldiers 1939–1945. Handbook of a biographical database on men and non-commissioned officers in the army, air force and Waffen-SS . RWTH Aachen University Library, 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Margot Gasper: “The City's Memory” should open up more to Aacheners . In: Aachener Nachrichten of November 16, 2014.
  2. ↑ Prizes of the Parliament 2016 to René Rohrkamp and the authors group Mürringen , press release of the German-speaking Community of Belgium.
personal data
SURNAME Rohrkamp, ​​René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen