Rolf Rietzler

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Rolf Rietzler (* 1941 in Lindau (Bodensee) ) is a German journalist and non-fiction author .

Rietzler was born as the son of a trained blacksmith and SS man and grew up in Lindau. He tells of his Catholic childhood and youth in the epilogue of his book Mensch, Adolf (2016). He broke off his law studies at the University of Munich in order to study history at the University of Hamburg . In 1965 he received an invitation to the doctoral seminar from Fritz Fischer . In the 1970s he worked as a taxi driver in Hamburg. In 1979 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. After that he was editor of the magazine Der Spiegel for over 20 years .

Publications

  • Man, Adolf. Hitler's image of the Germans since 1945. Views of a contemporary. Munich 2016.
  • Collaboration on the Spiegel book Flick - The Bought Republic (1984)
  • The Bloody Night of Wöhrden. On the National Socialist Propaganda of Violence, in: Journal Geschichte 1983, Issue 1, pp. 4–7, 58f.
  • (under the name Rudolf Rietzler): "Kampf in der Nordmark". The rise of National Socialism in Schleswig-Holstein (1919–1928) . Neumünster 1982.
  • Collaboration on the Spiegel book The misunderstood danger. Right-wing radicalism in the Federal Republic (1981)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Rietzler: Mensch, Adolf. Munich 2016. P. 512f.
  2. ^ Rolf Rietzler: Mensch, Adolf. Munich 2016. p. 531.
  3. ^ Rolf Rietzler: Mensch, Adolf. Munich 2016. p. 532.
personal data
SURNAME Rietzler, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Lindau (Lake Constance)