Roland Flade

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Roland Flade (born September 10, 1951 in Aschaffenburg ) is a German historian , author and journalist .

Life

Flade comes from an apolitical petty bourgeois family in Aschaffenburg. His father's family comes from Lower Silesia . Willy Brandt's visit to Erfurt on March 19, 1970 aroused his political interest. After graduating from the Friedrich-Dessauer-Gymnasium in 1971, he studied English and history at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg , the University of East Anglia in Norwich and the State University of New York in Oswego until 1977 . He wrote his admission thesis on the Vietnam War as a media phenomenon.

He then worked for the Main-Post , first as a volunteer and later as a newspaper editor in Bad Kissingen before at the University of Würzburg with a thesis on the history of Würzburg Jews to Dr. phil. received his doctorate . During this time, from 1980 to 1984, he was a freelancer at Main-Post. Subsequently, until his retirement in 2017, he was employed again as a newspaper editor in the Würzburg editorial team of the Main-Post, for which he continues to write occasionally.

In 1983, Pupille-Verlag published his first book with the title “It may be that we need a dictatorship. Right-wing radicalism and anti-democracy in the Weimar Republic using the example of Würzburg ”. He has published several books on Würzburg contemporary history. Around 40,000 copies of his books on the history of Würzburg and Lower Franconia had been sold by 2018.

Flade has two grown sons and lives in the old town of Würzburg .

Awards

  • Bavarian Constitutional Medal
  • Carl Gottfried Scharold Prize of the Friends of Mainfränkischer Kunst und Geschichte eV 2010
  • Culture Medal of the City of Würzburg 2014

bibliography

  • The people died, the memory lives. Recent research on Jews in Würzburg. In: Würzburg-today. Magazine for culture and economy. No. 32, 1981, pp. 48-49.
  • “It may be that we need a dictatorship”. Right-wing radicalism and anti-democracy in the Weimar Republic using the example of Würzburg. Pupille-Verlag, Würzburg 1983.
  • Jewish students at the secondary school. In: From the Royal High School to the Siebold High School in Würzburg. Festschrift and annual report for the 120th year 1983/84. Würzburg 1984, pp. 71-73.
  • Jews in Würzburg, 1918–1933 (= Mainfränkische Studien. Vol. 34), Friends of Mainfränkischer Kunst und Geschichte, Würzburg 1985; 2nd edition ibid 1986.
  • The Würzburg Jews. Your story from the Middle Ages to the present. With a contribution by Ursula Gehring-Münzel. Stürtz, Würzburg 1987; 2nd, extended edition Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1997.
  • Jews and Christians in rural communities in Lower Franconia in the 19th century, depicted on the basis of personal testimonies from a Jewish pen. In: Jewish rural communities in Franconia. Contributions to the culture and history of a minority. Bayreuth 1987, pp. 43-46.
  • Rural Judaism in Lower Franconia in the 20th century. In: Jewish rural communities in Franconia. Contributions to the culture and history of a minority. Bayreuth 1987, pp. 47-50.
  • Life and death of Felix Fechenbach. In: Roland Flade, Barbara Rott (Ed.): The Puppeteer. A novel from old Würzburg. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1988, pp. 7-30.
  • The November pogrom of 1938 in Lower Franconia. Prehistory, course, eyewitness reports (= writings of the Würzburg City Archives. Volume 6), Ferdinand Schöningh, Würzburg 1988.
  • Felix Freudenberger (1874–1927), social democratic mayor and pacifist. In: Manfred Treml, Wolf Weigand (ed.): History and culture of the Jews in Bavaria. CVs (= publications on Bavarian history and culture. No. 18/88), House of Bavarian History, Munich 1988, pp. 269–272.
  • “That church compared to a vine-rich vine”. On the history of the Jews in medieval Würzburg. In: Manfred Treml, Josef Kirmeier (Hrsg.): History and culture of the Jews in Bavaria. Essays (= publications on Bavarian history and culture. No. 17/88), House of Bavarian History, Munich 1988, pp. 173–180.
  • Felix Fechenbach and the reform of the penal system in the Weimar Republic. In: Roland Flade (ed.): Felix Fechenbach, In the house of the joyless. As a justice victim in Ebrach prison. Könighausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1993, pp. 129–140.
  • "Facial expression: friendly". Photos and documents on Felix Fechenbach's imprisonment in Ebrach prison. In: Roland Flade (ed.): Felix Fechenbach, In the house of the joyless. As a justice victim in Ebrach prison. Könighausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1993, pp. 141–167.
  • Chronicle of the Jewish Loeb family from Simmern under Dhaun. In: Matthias Molitor, Hans-Eberhard Berkemann (Hrsg.): Contributions to Jewish history in Rhineland-Palatinate. Volume 3, issue 1/1993, issue No. 4, pp. 61–69.
  • Life and death of Felix Fechenbach (in Hebrew). In: The Puppeteer (Hebrew Edition). Rubin Mass publishing house, Jerusalem 1995.
  • The Lehmans: From Rimpar to the New World. A family history. With greetings from US President Bill Clinton and Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1996; 2nd, expanded edition, ibid. 1999. Unchanged reprint 2002.
  • The Lehmanns and the Rimpar Jews. To the permanent exhibition in the Rimpar town hall. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1996.
  • The ritual murder of Manau and its instrumentalization by the Lower Franconian NSDAP. In: Ullrich Wagner (Hrsg.): "Because human dying never stops ...". Aspects of Jewish life in the past and present (= writings of the Würzburg City Archives. Volume 11), Ferdinand Schöningh, Würzburg 1997, pp. 169–182.
  • Teachers, athletes, newspaper founders. The Höchberg Jews and the Israelite Preparatory School (= writings of the Würzburg City Archives. Volume 12), Ferdinand Schöningh, Würzburg 1998.
  • Max Mohr, a forgotten writer from Würzburg. In: Max Mohr: Ramper, program for staging in the Chambinzky theater. February 2002.
  • The Immigrant's Progress. An account of the travels of Henry Lehman from his home in Bavaria to New York in 1844, then by boat down the coast to Mobile, eventually settling in Montgomery. In: Montgomery County Historical Society Herald. Volume 13, No. 2, Spring 2005, pp. 1-7 and 16.
  • as ed. with Christoph Daxelmüller and Klaus M. Höynck: Ruth played on a black flute. History, everyday life and culture of the Jews in Würzburg. Echter, Würzburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-429-02666-0 .
  • Family History and its Meaning Today: The Case of the Lehman Family. In: family tree. Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research, published by the Leo Baeck Institute. No. 29, Summer 2006, pp. 34-38.
  • The man who stood up to Bismarck. The publicist and politician Leopold Sonnemann from Höchberg. In: Festschrift of the Leonhard Frank Society on the 80th birthday of Werner Dettelbacher. Echter, Würzburg 2006.
  • Forced sterilizations and abortions at the University Women's Clinic in Würzburg during the “Third Reich”. In: Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Kunst. Vol. 58, Friends of Mainfränkischer Art and History, Würzburg 2006, pp. 171–182.
  • "Lower Franconian American emigrants in the middle of the 19th century". In: Andreas Mettenleiter (Ed.): Tempora mutantur - et nos? Festschrift Walter M. Brod. Akamedon, Pfaffenhofen 2007.
  • The Würzburg Jews from 1919 to the present. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. Volume III / 1 ( From the transition to Bavaria in 1814 to the 21st century ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, pp. 529-545.
  • Spotlight: Ruschkewitz - a family from Würzburg. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. Volume III / 1 ( From the transition to Bavaria in 1814 to the 21st century ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, pp. 546-548.
  • Same eyes, same soul. Theresia Winterstein and the persecution of a Würzburg Sinti family in the “Third Reich”. Ferdinand Schöningh, Würzburg 2008.
  • Hope that grew out of ruins. 1945 to 1948: Würzburg's most dramatic years. Main-Post media group, Würzburg 2008; 3rd edition ibid 2009.
  • Jewish life in Höchberg. In: Martin Eisen (ed.): Church leader Matthäuskirche Höchberg. Höchberg 2008, pp. 4–10.
  • The colossus over the Main. Gustav Adolf of Sweden resided in Aschaffenburg Castle Johannisburg for one year. In: Castles and palaces in Lower Franconia. Main-Post media group, Würzburg 2008.
  • Future that grew out of ruins. 1944 to 1960: Würzburgers experience war, destruction, reconstruction and the economic miracle. Main-Post media group, Würzburg 2009.
  • with Rotraut Ries: David Schuster - A look at a Franconian-Jewish life in the 20th century (= special publications of the Würzburg City Archives. Volume 7). Wuerzburg 2010.
  • Commitment of the Rita Sisters for the Würzburg Jews (1912–1942 and 1945–1960). In: With heart and hand for a good reason. 100 years of Rita sisters. Edited by Sister M. Theresa Reulbach OSA, Würzburg 2011.
  • Würzburg's new Hubland district. Its history from the 18th to the 21st century (Writings of the Würzburg City Archives, Issue 20), 223 pages, 100 figs., Würzburg (Ferdinand Schöningh) 2014.
  • Jewish family stories from Lower Franconia, 304 pp., 138 ills., Würzburg (Main-Post) 2015.
  • Forgotten sorrow. How Würzburgers experienced the First World War. 284 p., Numerous Fig., Würzburg (Main-Post) 2018
  • “Rich past. Lower Franconia had an unusual number of Jewish communities and institutions ”, in: Jewish Museum Munich, Museum for Franconia in Würzburg (ed.), Catalog for the exhibition“ Seven boxes of Jewish material ”- From robbery and rediscovery from 1938 to today, Berlin. Leipzig 2018, pp. 14–23.
  • “Jehuda Amichai's novel 'Not from now, not from here': Poetry and Reality”, in: Eric Hilgendorf, Daniel Osthoff (ed.), Memory as a way out. Contributions to Jehuda Amichai's novel 'Not from now, not from here', Würzburg (Königshausen & Neumann) 2019, pp. 9–36.
  • “The Rita sister Elisabeth Wenzel in Jehuda Amichai's novel 'Not from now, not from here”, in: Hilgendorff, Osthoff (ed.), Pp. 37–60.
  • "Max Mohr (1891-1937) - a biographical sketch", in: Max Mohr, Frau ohne Reue, new edition of the novel, which first appeared in 1933, on the occasion of the campaign "Würzburg reads a book" 2020, Bonn (Weidle Verlag) 2019 , Pp. 189-214.
  • “Desperation and Need: A Würzburg Family in the First World War”, in: Revolution! The transition from monarchy to republic in the Würzburg area in 1918/19. Accompanying volume to the exhibition and lecture series in the anniversary year, ed. from Würzburg City Archives, Würzburg (Spurbuchverlag) 2019, pp. 89–98.

Web links

  • Flades Youtube channel [1]
  • Roland Flade on Twitter [2]
  • Roland Flade on Facebook [3]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Roland Flade - WürzburgWiki. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
  2. ^ A b Roland Flade, historian and journalist | by Wolfgang Jung. In: Wolfgang Jung. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Roland Flade in portrait: The power of chance. January 2, 2012, accessed March 1, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Roland Flade. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Roland Flade, Würzburg in Das Telefonbuch - Find Now! Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
  6. ^ Roland Flades Bibliography. In: Wolfgang Jung. Accessed March 1, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Flat, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschaffenburg