Roland Thimme

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Roland Thimme (born May 30, 1931 in Potsdam , † February 20, 2014 in Meckenheim ) was a German historian .

Life

Roland Thimme received his doctorate in 1959 and was on the International Commission of Historians from 1984 to 1996 for the publication of files on German foreign policy from 1918 to 1945. He and co-authors later published the multi-volume work Files on German Foreign Policy 1918–1945 . For many years he was a consultant in the Political Archives of the Federal Foreign Office .

Thimme researched - together with Martin Kröger - the National Socialist past of German scientists such as Karl Dietrich Erdmann and Carl Arthur Scheunert .

Honors

Thimme was an officer dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques .

Work (excerpt)

  • Stresemann and the German People's Party 1923–1925 . In: Historical Studies , Issue 382, ​​Matthiesen Verlag, 1961, ISBN 978-3-7868-1382-8 , 147 pp.
  • Red flags over Potsdam 1933–1989: life paths and diaries . Hentrich & Hentrich, 2007, ISBN 978-3-938485-40-8 , 466 pp.
  • Black moon night: authentic diaries report 1933–1953 . Hentrich & Hentrich, 2009, ISBN 978-3-938485-96-5 , 359 pp.
  • (with Martin Kröger) The historical pictures of the historian Karl Dietrich Erdmann. From the Third Reich to the Federal Republic . Oldenbourg, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-486-56154-5 .
  • Files on German foreign policy. Supplementary volume to series A – E: complete directory of persons, portrait photos and data on service use; Appendices: 1918–1945 . In: files on German foreign policy / supplementary volume to the series A – E, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1995, 598 pp.
  • (with Peter Grupp, Harald Schinkel) Files on German foreign policy: [from the archive of the Foreign Office]. Series B, 1925-1933. Volume XIII, September 3 to December 31, 1929 . Vandenhœck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1979, 539 pp.
  • (with Hans-Georg Fleck, Peter Grupp, Harald Schinkel) Files on German Foreign Policy 1918-1945 / Series A, 1918–1925. Volume 12, January 1 to April 25, 1925 . Vandenhœck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994
  • (with Martin Kröger, Peter Grupp, Harald Schinkel) Files on German Foreign Policy 1918–1945 / Series A, 1918–1925. Volume 14, August 14th to November 30th, 1925 . Vandenhœck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1995
  • The Political Archive of the Federal Foreign Office in World War II . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 2/1999 . Institute for Contemporary History, Munich 1999

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homeland Potsdam. FAZ, February 6, 2008, accessed on February 22, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Thimme, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, archivist
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH 20th February 2014
Place of death Meckenheim